Mobile - Android Architect Contract

Ranked Fortune 500 and one of the fastest growing companies in the world, our client is looking for someone that's excited to be a part of a major digital transformation for a top airline.

Role Expectations:

• The primary roles of the Android Mobility Architect are to provide hands-on architecture leadership, guidance and mentoring to the company’s software development and design teams, be a close collaborator and trusted advisor to the CIO and CTO.
• You will ensure the delivery of robust, high-quality, and scalable mobile solution.
• Maintain existing native Android code adding new features and monitor app usage and performance Work alongside other native developers and web teams to deliver on assigned deliverables.
• Suggest improvements to existing process and contribute in adding value to the client in terms of innovation & new ideas.
• Follow implemented code standards as well as participate in code reviews and GIT Flow process reviews.

Team working with:

• Work with cross functional teams at all levels
• Work collaboratively with Team Lead, Architect & Scrum Master to understand customer’s requirements and priorities, adapt to changing needs of the project and excel in delivery. 

Top skills required:

• Should have 7+ years of Android Application development.
• Should understand Full life-cycle native Android development, enhancement, and maintenance
• Design, build, and maintain high performance, reusable, and reliable Java code.
• Should have good understanding of on different components like Google Maps, FCM, Bluetooth, Location Services, etc. along with the basic android application components. 
• Should have worked with dependency injection Framework like Dagger 2.0.
• Experience with Git or similar version control system
• Should have worked with junit and functional testing, with frameworks like Mockito and Espresso.
• Understand & implement latest technologies like Android Instant Apps, Wear 2.0 Standalone apps on Android Platform.
• Good understanding of the client/server architecture and web services (SOAP/REST). Good understanding of XML and JSON.
• Good Knowledge working with tools like POSTMAN and REST Service client.
• Knowledge in working with JERSY restful web services.
• Java application server experience required (Websphere or Tomcat experience)
• Good exposure working of various build environments (dev, qa, prod) and working experience on supporting multiple brands with the same code base. 
• Implementing various architectures like MVC, MVP and MVVM.
• Familiarity with the Android Material Design is a must.
• TDD implementation (Knowledge of Agile execution using TDD)
• Good Presentation skills, problem solving skills and learning attitude
• Excellent knowledge of software development methodologies and processes.
• Experience with Test Driven Development in Mobility and CI and CD  in implementing  of a flagship  Mobile Project in the B2C space . 
• Track record that includes the design and release of high-quality, high-performance enterprise software products / applications and/or mobile apps.
• Native iOS( Swift ) and Native Android(Java) product development experience.
• Experience in Mobile Backend as Service creation  in Java  , .NET or Node.js 
• Experience Mobile Analytics, Mobile Testing and the entire SDLC around Mobility . 

Nice to have:

• Android Wear development is a plus.
• JAVA 7 annotations is a plus