Mobile Technical Lead

SS&C is a leading provider of mission-critical, AI-powered technology and services empowering financial services and healthcare organizations to work smarter, faster, and securely. Founded in 1986, SS&C is headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, and has offices worldwide. More than 23,000 financial services and healthcare organizations, from the world's largest companies to small and mid-market firms, rely on SS&C for expertise, scale, and technology.

Job Description

Mobile Technical Lead

Locations: Bucharest, Romania | Hybrid

Role Overview

SS&C Digital is seeking an experienced Mobile Technical Lead to provide technical leadership for the design, development and operation of secure, high-quality mobile applications built primarily with React Native.

You will lead the technical direction of cross-platform iOS and Android solutions used by customers, advisers and employers across SS&C’s financial-services businesses, combining hands-on development with architecture, engineering governance, mentoring and delivery leadership.

What You Will Get To Do

Technical leadership

• Define and maintain the technical architecture for React Native applications across iOS and Android.
• Establish mobile engineering standards, reusable patterns and development guardrails.
• Provide technical direction to mobile developers and support teams in resolving complex engineering challenges.
• Lead technical design discussions, document key decisions and communicate trade-offs to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ensure effective integration with APIs, identity platforms and backend systems.
• Balance feature delivery with security, quality, performance and maintainability, addressing technical debt and platform risks.
• Maintain alignment between mobile engineering, enterprise architecture and product strategy.

Engineering and delivery

• Contribute directly to React Native and TypeScript development, particularly for complex or strategically important changes.
• Review pull requests and provide constructive technical guidance.
• Guide component design, state management, navigation, error handling and offline behaviour.
• Oversee native-platform integrations and releases to the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
• Support backlog refinement, technical estimation and delivery planning.
• Lead the resolution of complex production incidents and ensure corrective actions inform engineering priorities.

Security and compliance

• Embed secure development practices appropriate to regulated financial services.
• Oversee authentication, authorisation, biometrics, token management and secure storage to protect personal and financial data.
• Apply relevant mobile security standards, including OWASP MASVS, and work with security teams to resolve vulnerabilities and penetration-test findings.

• Govern third-party dependencies and support audit, risk and client-assurance activities with clear technical evidence.

Quality and operational excellence

• Define an effective mobile-testing strategy covering unit, component, integration, accessibility and end-to-end testing.

• Promote test automation using tools such as Jest, React Native Testing Library, Detox or Appium, and establish appropriate quality gates within CI/CD pipelines.
• Ensure effective monitoring, analytics and crash reporting to improve application stability and performance.
• Establish reliable release practices, including feature flags, phased rollouts and recovery arrangements.
• Ensure applications meet WCAG 2.2 AA and relevant native-platform accessibility expectations.

Leadership and collaboration

• Mentor mobile engineers, set clear technical expectations and provide constructive feedback.
• Build shared understanding across engineering, product, design and delivery teams.
• Encourage team ownership, accountability and continuous improvement.
• Support technical recruitment and contribute reusable approaches to the wider engineering community.

What You Will Bring

• Strong commercial experience developing and supporting production React Native applications for iOS and Android.
• Previous experience as a Technical Lead, Lead Developer or Senior Mobile Engineer with technical-leadership responsibilities.
• Advanced JavaScript, TypeScript and React skills, including hooks, navigation and state management.
• Experience making architectural decisions and integrating REST or GraphQL APIs.
• Ability to diagnose complex mobile performance, memory, rendering and platform-specific issues.
• Strong understanding of mobile authentication, secure storage, encryption and session management.

• Experience with automated testing, CI/CD, Git workflows and app-store releases.
• Working knowledge of Xcode, Android Studio, CocoaPods and Gradle.
• Understanding of accessible mobile design.
• Clear communication skills and experience mentoring engineers within distributed Agile teams.

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Native iOS or Android development using Swift, Kotlin or Java.
• Experience with Expo, Fastlane or equivalent mobile delivery tools.
• Familiarity with OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, MFA and identity platforms such as Keycloak.
• Knowledge of advanced mobile security controls and software supply-chain practices.
• Experience with mobile observability, remote configuration or shared design systems.
• Experience in financial services or another regulated industry.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools within enterprise security and code-review standards.

Leadership Approach

We are looking for a collaborative, pragmatic leader who remains close to the code while enabling others to deliver. You should be comfortable making risk-aware decisions, constructively challenging unclear requirements, and communicating clearly with stakeholders. A customer-focused mindset and a calm, methodical approach to technical challenges are essential.

EEO Statement / Non-agency Disclosure

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and particularly welcome applications from under-represented groups, to enable us to bring a diversity of perspectives to our thinking and conversation. It's important to us that we strive to have a workforce that is diverse in the widest sense.

Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.

SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.