Contract Tech Lead- React Native Architect (Hybrid, London)

AND Digital Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 52,000 - 104,000; Full time

Job summary

AND Digital Limited is seeking a Contract Tech Lead in London on a hybrid basis for a two-month period. The role focuses on evaluating native mobile development against cross-platform approaches, and delivering a high-impact POC to validate feasibility and architecture across web and mobile contexts.

You will map components, define the stack, and work with engineers to align strategic decisions with product goals while managing risks and dependencies.

Qualifications

• You care deeply about producing high-quality work that delivers real value.
• You’re comfortable navigating ambiguity and solving complex problems collaboratively.
• You bring strong expertise in your craft, alongside a willingness to keep learning.
• You communicate clearly and build trust quickly with clients and teammates.
• You’re pragmatic, adaptable and outcome-focused.
• You value low-ego collaboration and enjoy working as part of multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Assess native mobile development versus cross-platform solutions, including React Native, against product strategy and future business goals.
• Evaluate options based on performance, scalability, maintainability, skills adoption, reusability, cost and industry benchmarks, recommending a preferred approach.
• Deliver a POC to validate feasibility, performance, platform constraints, integration complexity and architectural assumptions.
• Involve existing engineers in the POC to assess the learning curve, skills requirements and practical adoption challenges.
• Identify technical risks, unknowns, dependencies and capability gaps, documenting POC findings and the agreed route forward.
• Define and document the recommended architecture and core technology stack, including shared and platform-specific capabilities across web and mobile.
• Map shared and platform-specific components, covering APIs, business rules, identity, design systems, component libraries, release processes, quality engineering and observability.
• Produce a prioritised, high-level technical backlog outlining implementation tasks, dependencies, prerequisite work and capability gap resolutions required to deliver the target architecture.

Skills

Strong communication

Ambiguity navigation

Team collaboration

Continuous learning

Mobile cross-platform

Backlog prioritization

Job description

AND Digital Limited is seeking a Contract Tech Lead in London on a hybrid basis for a two-month period. The role focuses on evaluating native mobile development against cross-platform approaches, and delivering a high-impact POC to validate feasibility and architecture across web and mobile contexts.

You will map components, define the stack, and work with engineers to align strategic decisions with product goals while managing risks and dependencies.