Mobile Development Lead

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

Job summary

Accenture Song is seeking a hands-on mobile engineering leader to own a mobile workstream from design to delivery. You will lead iOS, Android, and cross-platform delivery, balancing architecture decisions with practical team leadership.

You will collaborate with product, design, API, security and client stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable solutions, drive CI/CD and AI-assisted tooling, and ensure high-quality, secure, and performant mobile apps.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Lead mobile engineering teams across iOS, Android, and cross-platform delivery.
• Own design, engineering quality, and delivery outcomes for one or more mobile workstreams.
• Define and evolve mobile architecture, development standards, reusable patterns, and guardrails.
• Translate product, experience, security, and business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Partner with product managers, designers, architects, API teams, QA, security, and client stakeholders.
• Plan and manage engineering delivery, including estimates, scope, dependencies, risks, release readiness, and 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 foster a high-performing environment.
• Drive CI/CD, automated testing, observability, DevSecOps, and AI-assisted tooling.
• Support client workshops, technical proposals, staffing plans, estimates, and pursuit solutioning.

Skills

Mobile development

Team leadership

iOS (Swift)

Android (Kotlin)

React Native

Flutter

Kotlin Multiplatform

Mobile architecture

REST APIs

Identity platforms

Analytics

CI/CD

Automated testing

AI tooling

Bachelor's degree

Azure

AWS

Google Cloud

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Azure

AWS

Google Cloud

Job description

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.

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location,
role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation, based on full-time employment, for roles that may be hired as set forth below.

The recruiting efforts for this position are intended to fill a brand new position.
The base pay range shown below is intended as a guideline to reflect the majority of offers for this role.

It does not represent a maximum limit — in some cases, actual compensation may exceed the range where appropriate.

Information on benefits is here.

Role Location Annual Salary Range
British Columbia/Ontario/New Brunswick $90,850 to $140,850