Head of Mobile Engineering
Why Valtech? We’re the experience innovation company - a trusted partner to the world’s most recognized brands. To our people we offer growth opportunities, a values-driven culture, international careers and the chance to shape the future of experience.
The Opportunity:
At Valtech, you'll find an environment designed for continuous learning, meaningful impact and professional growth. We're looking for a senior mobile leader to define and evolve our mobile capability in the UK, partnering with clients and multidisciplinary teams to deliver exceptional digital experiences at scale.
This role combines technical leadership, consulting, capability development and commercial impact. You will work with some of the world's leading brands to shape mobile strategies, modernise platforms and drive innovation across native and cross-platform ecosystems.
The Role:
You'll work alongside multidisciplinary teams of architects, engineers, strategists, designers and consultants, helping clients define and deliver world-class mobile experiences.
This is both a leadership and hands-on consulting role. You'll provide technical direction, advise clients on platform strategy, support business growth and help build a thriving mobile capability across Valtech.
You will operate across strategy, architecture and delivery, bringing together engineering excellence, customer experience and commercial thinking. We operate across sectors including financial services, retail, automotive, healthcare, media and consumer brands. Each presents different technology landscapes, constraints and transformation ambitions.
Mobile experiences increasingly sit at the centre of customer engagement. We design scalable, secure and high-performing platforms that enable organisations to deliver connected and intelligent digital experiences. This role will be 60% client strategy & delivery, 40% operational & capability leadership and growth.
What Success Looks Like:
- A thriving and scalable mobile capability.
- Strong technical communities and engineering standards.
- Trusted client relationships and strategic influence.
- Growth in mobile opportunities and revenue.
- High-performing teams delivering exceptional experiences.
- Continued innovation across mobile and emerging technologies.
Role Responsibilities:
Client Delivery Leadership
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders.
- Provide senior oversight on complex deliveries. Have the awareness to step in early to protect outcomes, people and client relationships.
- Be a bridge across disciplines to solve end-to-end problems and create coherent ways of working.
- Track and report on the health of the practice. This might include capability coverage (aligned to demand), community engagement, delivery quality, and act on the signals.
- Lead workshops and shape mobile transformation roadmaps.
- Guide platform modernisation and architecture decisions.
- Partner with Product, Design, Data and Engineering teams to deliver integrated solutions.
- Influence strategic technology investments.
Capability Leadership
- Define and evolve Valtech's mobile vision and strategy, and grow our mobile engineering capability.
- Have accountability for line management in the practice and line managers will report to you. You will ensure standards and cadence for 1:1s and growth conversations, calibrate performance, manage succession, lead difficult conversations, and coach managers so the whole system gets better.
- Coach new leaders. Give them real opportunities and feedback so they lead with consistency, confidence, and care.
- Influence our career pathways and skills framework. You will make progression transparent and support through coaching, mentoring, and effective management.
- Establish engineering standards and best practices.
- Foster communities of practice and mentor engineers and architects.
- Sponsor innovation with purpose from small practice experiments to thought leadership (talks, blogs, whitepapers) that help evolve our capability, win new work and influence our clients’ strategy.
Technical Leadership
- Provide architectural oversight across complex mobile programmes.
- Drive approaches across iOS, Android and cross-platform technologies.
- Ensure solutions are scalable, secure and resilient.
- Champion modern engineering practices including CI/CD, observability and automation.
- Explore emerging technologies including AI-enabled experiences and intelligent assistants.
Commercial Impact & Growth
- Partner with UK Growth teams on pitches and pre-sales work bringing an authentic and credible craft perspective to exec-level conversations backed by real-world experience.
- Support UK strategic initiatives, ensuring the practice’s work aligns with wider business priority.
- Contribute to proposals and solutioning efforts.
- Identify growth opportunities to expand client engagements.
- Represent Valtech externally through thought leadership and industry engagement.
- Help strengthen Valtech's position as a leader in digital experience and mobile innovation.
Must have Qualifications:
Leadership
- Experience leading mobile engineering teams, practices or capabilities.
- Strong consulting and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to influence senior business and technology leaders.
- Passion for coaching and developing talent.
Technical Expertise
Experience across:
- Native mobile development (iOS and/or Android)
- Cross-platform technologies such as Flutter or React Native
- Mobile architecture and platform strategy
- API-driven ecosystems
- CI/CD and DevOps practices
- Security, identity and authentication
- Analytics and observability
- Cloud-native platforms and backend integration
Consulting Experience
- Experience delivering within consulting, agency or digital transformation environments.
- Comfortable operating across strategy, architecture and delivery.
- Experience leading client engagements and workshops.
- Strong communication and presentation skills.
- Commercial awareness and experience supporting growth initiatives.
Nice to have Qualifications:
- Experience with AI-powered mobile experiences and agentic AI.
- Knowledge of modern data and personalisation platforms.
- Experience leading globally distributed teams.
- Public speaking, thought leadership or contributions to the wider technology community.
Commitment to reaching all kinds of people
We design experiences that work for all kinds of people - and that starts with our own teams. At Valtech, we’re intentional about building an inclusive culture where everyone feels supported to grow, thrive and achieve their goals. No matter your background, you belong here. Explore our Diversity & Inclusion site to see how we’re creating a more equitable Valtech for all.
