Lead Android Architect: Wallets, Maps & Proximity

Tata Consultancy Services; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual incentive

Medical coverage

Dental & Vision

Disability insurance

Pet insurance

Auto & Home insurance

Identity theft protection

Commuter benefits

Certification reimbursement

Vacation & holidays

Legal assistance

401(k) plan

Performance bonus

College fund

Student loan refinancing

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services is seeking an accomplished Android Engineer to drive the design, development, and delivery of enterprise-grade Android applications. You will define architecture standards, mentor teams, and lead security-conscious, scalable mobile solutions across projects.

Role emphasizes modern Android tech (Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Hilt), Payments, mapping, proximity features, and strong CI/CD practices. On-site position in Washington, DC with comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of Android development experience.
• Strong proficiency in Kotlin, Jetpack components, Google Wallet, Google Pay, Maps, UWB, NFC.
• Experience with secure networking, offline patterns, and testing.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, and delivery of enterprise-grade Android applications and mobile platform initiatives.
• Define and enforce Android architecture standards, coding guidelines, and development best practices.
• Drive technical decision‑making for mobile solutions, ensuring scalability, maintainability, security, and performance.
• Conduct architecture reviews, design discussions, and technical feasibility assessments for new features and initiatives.
• Mentor and guide Android developers through code reviews, pair programming, and technical coaching.
• Support team members in resolving complex technical challenges and improving engineering practices.
• Promote a culture of quality, innovation, continuous learning, and engineering excellence.
• Drive adoption of modern Android technologies including Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Coroutines, Flow, Hilt, and Android Architecture Components.
• Establish reusable frameworks, shared libraries, and common components to improve development efficiency.
• Ensure compliance with Android platform guidelines, accessibility standards, and mobile security best practices.
• Lead implementation of secure mobile payment solutions, tokenization strategies, authentication mechanisms, and PCI‑compliant payment flows.
• Ensure adherence to Android security best practices, including secure storage, encryption, certificate pinning, biometric authentication, and device integrity validation.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, UX teams, Architects, Backend teams, and Business Stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Drive CI/CD adoption, automated testing strategies, release management, and Play Store deployment processes.
• Monitor application health through analytics, crash reporting, performance monitoring, and observability tools.
• Stakeholder Management: Act as the primary technical point of contact for Android‑related discussions with client stakeholders and cross‑functional teams.
• Participate in sprint planning, estimation, backlog refinement, and release planning activities. Provide technical leadership in troubleshooting production issues and driving root‑cause analysis.

Skills

Android development

Kotlin

Jetpack components

Google Wallet

Google Pay

Maps

UWB

NFC

secure networking

offline patterns

testing

Tools

Jetpack Compose

Coroutines

Flow

Hilt/Dagger

ViewModel

Navigation Component

Room

WorkManager

Retrofit

OkHttp

REST APIs

Job description

Tata Consultancy Services is seeking an accomplished Android Engineer to drive the design, development, and delivery of enterprise-grade Android applications. You will define architecture standards, mentor teams, and lead security-conscious, scalable mobile solutions across projects.

Role emphasizes modern Android tech (Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Hilt), Payments, mapping, proximity features, and strong CI/CD practices. On-site position in Washington, DC with comprehensive benefits.