Manning Global, an Internationally renowned staffing and managed services organization specializing in providing staffing solutions for leading corporations in AI, IT & Telecoms, Engineering, Digital Media, Automotive and Renewable Energy is hiring for its own expanding team a Application Architect – Mobile App to join its managed services project in Germany.
Employment:
Full time
Contract Type:
Fixed-Term (12 Months)
Start Date:
October/2026
Salary Framework:
100 000.00 EUR min per year - 120 000.00 EUR per year max dependent upon experience
Key Responsibilities:
- Define and evolve the target architecture for the mobile app solution
- Define architectural principles, patterns and guardrails across React Native, native capabilities, WebViews, App BFF and integrations
- Define clear responsibilities and boundaries between app components and technology layers
- Own architectural decisions for major cross-component topics and integration patterns
- Define and govern architectural principles and non-functional requirements related to performance, stability, scalability, security, resilience, observability and maintainability
- Evaluate emerging AI use cases for the app and define the required architectural patterns, integrations and guardrails in collaboration with relevant architecture, security and engineering teams
- Review major technical designs and ensure alignment with the target architecture
- Collaborate closely with Solution Architects and Domain Architects to ensure alignment with broader platform, integration and enterprise architecture principles
- Coordinate architectural dependencies and interfaces between the app solution and surrounding domains
- Identify architectural risks, dependencies and technical debt and drive appropriate mitigation
- Ensure architectural consistency across multiple brands and product teams
- Support technology evaluations and architectural decisions for the evolution of the app platform
- Collaborate closely with Technical Leads, Product Owners, Developers, Security, Platform and backend engineering teams
Experience/Qualifications:
- 8+ years of professional experience in software engineering or application/solution architecture, including 3+ years in an architecture role for large-scale digital or mobile applications
- Strong experience designing architectures for large-scale mobile or digital customer applications
- Experience in digital industries with complex customer journeys such as telecommunications, banking, insurance, utilities or e-commerce
- Strong understanding of mobile application architectures, including React Native, native iOS/Android and hybrid/WebView approaches
- Strong understanding of Backend-for-Frontend, API and integration architectures
- Experience defining architecture for multi-brand, white-label or highly configurable applications
- Strong knowledge of non-functional requirements including performance, scalability, stability, security and observability
- Good understanding of authentication and authorization concepts such as OAuth2 and OIDC
- Experience working with complex backend landscapes and distributed systems
- Experience collaborating with Solution Architects, Domain Architects and other architecture stakeholders in complex enterprise environments
- Experience designing or evaluating architectures for AI-enabled digital products and use cases, including integration of AI services into mobile applications and backend platforms, is a plus
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to make and communicate architectural trade- offs
- Experience working across multiple teams and stakeholder groups in complex engineering organizations
- Ability to communicate architecture clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Proficiency in English; German is a plus