Principal Mobile Architect & AI Platform Leader

Jobs Paloaltonetworks; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Palo Alto Networks in the United Kingdom seeks a senior Mobile Engineering Architect to lead the architectural vision for the Mobile Engineering group, driving strategy for enterprise mobile platforms, AI-native engineering, cloud-native backend services, and developer platforms.

You will serve as the highest technical authority for mobile engineering, partnering with executive leadership to define long-term technology strategy across products, and mentor engineers.

Qualifications

• 18+ years of software engineering experience with at least 8 years in architecture leadership.
• Deep expertise in Android and iOS native development and enterprise mobile platform architecture.
• Extensive experience with cloud-native distributed systems, microservices and API ecosystems.
• Proven success leading cross-functional architecture initiatives across global organizations.
• Excellent communication, executive stakeholder management and technical mentorship skills.

Responsibilities

• Define the multi-year architecture roadmap for the Mobile engineering group and govern architecture across all mobile initiatives.
• Architect reusable mobile platform capabilities including Authentication SDKs, Identity SDKs, Security SDKs, Shared UI Components, Design System, Analytics, Telemetry, Feature Flags, Offline Sync and Release Frameworks.
• Drive the evolution of enterprise mobile applications into modular, scalable platforms backed by cloud-native microservices.
• Lead AI-native engineering adoption including AI-assisted design, coding, testing, code reviews, documentation and Agentic SDLC practices.
• Partner with Platform Engineering to establish Internal Developer Platforms (IDP), golden paths, reusable CI/CD pipelines and developer experience standards.

Skills

Android & iOS architecture

Enterprise mobile platforms

Cloud-native microservices

Technical mentorship

Executive stakeholder management

Job description

Palo Alto Networks in the United Kingdom seeks a senior Mobile Engineering Architect to lead the architectural vision for the Mobile Engineering group, driving strategy for enterprise mobile platforms, AI-native engineering, cloud-native backend services, and developer platforms.

You will serve as the highest technical authority for mobile engineering, partnering with executive leadership to define long-term technology strategy across products, and mentor engineers.