Senior React Native Architect & Technical Leader

AND Digital Limited; Reading; On-site; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Pension: 6% + 2% employer/employee

Healthcare (Aviva)

Flexibenefit £1000

Life Assurance

Income Protection

Eye test & glasses

Enhanced Parental Leave

Job summary

AND Digital Limited in Reading seeks a senior technical architect to shape mobile strategy across web and native platforms. You will evaluate approaches, lead POC work, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate product goals into scalable solutions.

You will define the core technology stack and architecture, guide engineers, and balance performance, cost, and future business needs in a dynamic client environment.

Qualifications

• 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

Mobile architecture

React Native

Architectural design

Cross-platform strategy

Technical backlog

Job description

AND Digital Limited in Reading seeks a senior technical architect to shape mobile strategy across web and native platforms. You will evaluate approaches, lead POC work, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate product goals into scalable solutions.

You will define the core technology stack and architecture, guide engineers, and balance performance, cost, and future business needs in a dynamic client environment.