Technical Specialist - Mobile

Royal London Group; Alderley Edge; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal London Group is seeking a Technical Specialist to shape customer-facing technology across mobile apps, web portals, IAM and adviser platforms. You’ll join the Digital Engineering function as a mobile specialist, guiding best practices and influencing technology direction across multiple teams.

This permanent, hybrid role requires Kotlin or Swift expertise (with the other), and optional React Native experience, plus strong collaboration and the ability to translate technical concepts for

Qualifications

• Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work independently and quickly understand unfamiliar codebases.
• Experience explaining technical concepts clearly to different audiences.
• Knowledge of relevant architectural patterns within your technical domain.
• Experience applying accessibility standards.
• Confidence working across multiple teams and managing changing priorities.
• A relationship-led approach, with the ability to influence and support colleagues across Digital.

Responsibilities

• Provide deep technical expertise in your specialist area.
• Support multiple engineering teams across Digital.
• Help shape technology strategy, standards and roadmap decisions.
• Promote best practice, reusable patterns and consistent approaches.
• Provide consultancy and design support for complex technical challenges.
• Coach and upskill colleagues to build technical capability.
• Stay close to emerging technology trends, standards and industry developments.

Skills

Mobile: Kotlin/Swift

React Native

Tools

React Native

Job description

Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Alderley Park (Wilmslow) or Glasgow
Working Style: Hybrid - 50% from home / 50% office based

We’re investing in our Digital Engineering capability and are looking for a Technical Specialists to help shape the future of our customer and colleague-facing technology. This newly created role will provide deep technical expertise across multiple teams, helping solve complex challenges, guide best practice and influence future technology direction. You’ll join as a specialist within Mobile and you will work across a broad portfolio of services, including mobile applications, web portals, Identity and Access Management, Contact Centre services and emerging adviser experience platforms.

About you:

We’re looking for collaborative technical experts who enjoy working across teams, building relationships and helping others solve complex engineering problems. You’ll be comfortable providing consultancy and guidance, influencing stakeholders and translating technical concepts for different audiences. You may already be operating at this level, or you may be ready to step into a broader role where you can have more influence across platforms, standards and engineering practices.

What you’ll be doing:

As a Technical Specialist, you’ll use your expertise to support teams across Digital Engineering, helping shape technical decisions and strengthen capability across the function.

• Provide deep technical expertise in your specialist area.
• Support multiple engineering teams across Digital.
• Help shape technology strategy, standards and roadmap decisions.
• Promote best practice, reusable patterns and consistent approaches.
• Provide consultancy and design support for complex technical challenges.
• Coach and upskill colleagues to build technical capability.
• Stay close to emerging technology trends, standards and industry developments.

What we’re looking for

• Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work independently and quickly understand unfamiliar codebases.
• Experience explaining technical concepts clearly to different audiences.
• Knowledge of relevant architectural patterns within your technical domain.
• Experience applying accessibility standards.
• Confidence working across multiple teams and managing changing priorities.
• A relationship-led approach, with the ability to influence and support colleagues across Digital.

Specialist experience:

• Mobile: Essential: Expert in Kotlin or Swift (with experience in the other). Highly desirable: Experience with related technologies such as React Native.

What’s in it for you?

This is an opportunity to move into a high-impact technical role where your expertise will influence multiple teams, platforms and future technology decisions. You’ll help shape engineering standards, support business-critical services and play an important part in our continued investment in Digital Engineering. Financial services experience is not essential. We’re more interested in your technical depth, curiosity and ability to collaborate across teams.

About Royal London

We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.

Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.

We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance.

Inclusion, diversity and belonging

We’re an inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected – whatever their background.