Introduction
A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe.

You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your Role and Responsibilities
We are seeking an experienced Senior Android Development Lead to join our team. As a senior development lead, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining high-quality Android applications using native Android Development. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the success of our products.

• Lead development team of senior and junior developers through native Android development.
• Design and develop high-quality Android applications using native Android Development (with proficiencies in Kotlin, Coroutines, and Rx Java).
• Demonstrate knowledge in Android application architecture and integration with backend systems.
• Refactor code to keep up to date with the latest technologies and best practices.
• Experience on large codebases with attention to detail and adherence to best practices.
• Collaborate with the team to identify, lead conversations, prioritize, document and communicate technical requirements.
• Work closely with the design and product teams to understand requirements and implement features.
• Review and provide feedback on code submissions from team members to ensure adherence to coding standards and best practices.
• Mentor junior developers to ensure knowledge sharing and growth while maintaining your own workload.
• Debug and troubleshoot complex problems in large codebases and provide solutions along with recommendations.
• Develop unit tests and ensure proper testing of code.
• Collaborate with QA engineers to ensure thorough testing and debugging.
• Experience with Git and version control best practices including branching strategies, merging and release processes.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 3+ years leading development teams.
• 5+ years of experience with native Android Development.
• Strong understanding of MVVM and Clean architecture to ensure scalable and maintainable code.
• User interface frameworks (XML and mainly Jetpack Compose UI).
• Excellent coding skills in Kotlin, Coroutines, and Dependency injection.
• Experience working on large codebases with the ability to migrate and refactor to modern best practices.
• Knowledge of white-label applications.
• Ability to triage API integration issues through native applications and API tools such as Postman.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Experience with unit testing.
• Proficiency in Git and version control best practices.
• Knowledge of automated testing and CI/CD pipelines.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Familiarity with other architectures beyond MVVM.
• Knowledge of accessibility guidelines.
• Declarative programming skills.
• Functional programming skills.
• Familiarity with app modularization.
• Familiarity with data binding with user interface frameworks (XML, jetpack compose UI)
• Experience with code scanning tools (such as Sonarqube)

About Business Unit IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

Your Life @ IBMIn a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.
Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.
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About IBMIBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

Location Statement Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.

For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.

Being You @ IBMIBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.