Mobile Development Lead

Accenture; Toronto; On-site; CAD 91,000 - 141,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Song is seeking a Mobile Development Lead to own a mobile workstream from design to production in Toronto. You will lead iOS/Android and cross-platform teams, shape architecture, and collaborate with product, security, and API stakeholders to deliver scalable mobile solutions.

The role requires hands-on leadership, strong delivery discipline, and experience with CI/CD and AI-assisted development tools. Role location is Toronto with a focus on client-ready, secure mobile products.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including significant mobile application development.
• 2+ years of experience leading developers and managing delivery commitments for client or enterprise programs.
• 3+ years of hands-on experience in native iOS with Swift or Android with Kotlin, or strong delivery experience with React Native, Flutter, or Kotlin Multiplatform.
• Experience defining mobile architecture and integrating applications with RESTful APIs, identity platforms, analytics, notifications, and backend services.
• Experience with mobile CI/CD, automated testing, application signing, release management, and production support.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools within the software development lifecycle, with sound judgment for review, testing, security, and quality.

Responsibilities

• Lead mobile engineering teams across iOS, Android, and cross-platform delivery.
• Own technical design, engineering quality, and delivery outcomes for mobile workstreams.
• Define and evolve mobile architecture, development standards, reusable patterns, and engineering guardrails.
• Translate product, experience, security, and business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Partner with product managers, designers, architects, API teams, quality engineers, security teams, and client stakeholders.
• Plan and manage engineering delivery, including estimates, scope, dependencies, risks, release readiness, and technical issue resolution.
• Lead design reviews and code reviews to ensure security, accessibility, performance, testability, maintainability, and platform compliance.
• Coach developers, delegate effectively, provide actionable feedback, and create a high-performing engineering environment.
• Drive CI/CD, automated testing, observability, DevSecOps, and responsible use of AI-assisted engineering tools.
• Support client workshops, technical proposals, staffing plans, estimates, and pursuit solutioning.

Skills

Mobile engineering leadership

Team leadership

Delivery management

Client communication

Software engineering

Coaching and mentorship

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

Tools

Swift

Kotlin

React Native

Flutter

Kotlin Multiplatform

RESTful APIs

Job description

Mobile Development Lead

Product Engineering Associate Manager | Mid-Level | Full time

Job No. R00357125 | Toronto, Ontario

We are

Accenture Song accelerates growth and value for our clients through sustained customer relevance. Our capabilities span ideation to execution: growth, product and experience design; technology and experience platforms; creative, media and marketing strategy; and campaign, content and channel orchestration. With strong client relationships and deep industry expertise, we help our clients operate at the speed of life through the unlimited potential of imagination, technology, and intelligence.

Design & Digital Products creates value for our clients, their employees, and their customers by designing and building impactful experiences fueled by technology that change the way people work and live. We bring together product management, design, and engineering capabilities to help clients define what to build and how to deliver it through the right operating model, talent, governance, and ways of working.

You are

A hands-on mobile engineering leader who can own a mobile workstream from technical design through production delivery. You combine deep engineering judgment with team leadership, client communication, and practical delivery management across native and cross-platform ecosystems. You make sound technical decisions when there is no obvious answer and help the engineers around you deliver at a consistently high standard.

The work

• Lead mobile engineering teams across iOS, Android, and cross-platform delivery while remaining hands-on where needed.
• Own technical design, engineering quality, and delivery outcomes for one or more mobile workstreams.
• Define and evolve mobile architecture, development standards, reusable patterns, and engineering guardrails.
• Translate product, experience, security, and business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Partner with product managers, designers, architects, API teams, quality engineers, security teams, and client stakeholders.
• Plan and manage engineering delivery, including estimates, scope, dependencies, risks, release readiness, and technical issue resolution.
• Lead design reviews and code reviews to ensure security, accessibility, performance, testability, maintainability, and platform compliance.
• Coach developers, delegate effectively, provide actionable feedback, and create a high-performing engineering environment.
• Drive CI/CD, automated testing, observability, DevSecOps, and responsible use of AI-assisted engineering tools.
• Support client workshops, technical proposals, staffing plans, estimates, and pursuit solutioning.

Here’s what you’ll need

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including significant mobile application development experience.
• 2+ years of experience leading developers and managing delivery commitments for client or enterprise programs.
• 3+ years of hands‑on experience in native iOS with Swift or Android with Kotlin, or strong delivery experience with React Native, Flutter, or Kotlin Multiplatform.
• Experience defining mobile architecture and integrating applications with RESTful APIs, identity platforms, analytics, notifications, and backend services.
• Experience with mobile CI/CD, automated testing, application signing, release management, and production support.
• Experience using AI‑assisted development tools within the software development lifecycle, with sound judgment for review, testing, security, and quality.

Bonus points if

• Experience delivering mobile products in regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, utilities, or public sector.
• Experience with SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose, mobile security, secure storage, authentication, privacy, accessibility, or application performance monitoring.
• Experience with Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud and modern API or event‑driven architectures.
• Experience leading distributed or global delivery teams.
• Experience estimating work, shaping solutions, and supporting client proposals or pursuits.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.

Professional skill requirements

• Proven success leading a team‑oriented environment.
• Clear, credible communication with developers, executives, and client stakeholders.
• Ability to make pragmatic technical decisions, explain trade‑offs, and resolve ambiguity.
• Strong coaching, collaboration, organization, and problem‑solving skills.

Information on benefits is here.

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Role Location Annual Salary Range

British Columbia/Ontario/New Brunswick $90,850 to $140,850

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