Contract Tech Lead (React Native)

Our client is a digital consultancy.

Contract Tech Lead, 2 months, London/Hybrid

Requirements

We help organisations navigate the future of technology, combining human expertise, emerging tech and AI to deliver better outcomes, faster.

Since 2014, we've worked side-by-side with clients to solve complex challenges, build high-performing teams, and create lasting capability.

About you:

• You care deeply about producing high-quality work that delivers real value
• You're comfortable navigating ambiguity and solving complex problems collaboratively
• You bring strong expertise in your craft, alongside a willingness to keep learning
• You communicate clearly and build trust quickly with clients and teammates
• You're pragmatic, adaptable and outcome-focused
• You value low-ego collaboration and enjoy working as part of multidisciplinary teams

What you'll bring to the table:

• Assess native mobile development versus cross-platform solutions, including React Native, against product strategy and future business goals.
• Evaluate options based on performance, scalability, maintainability, skills adoption, reusability, cost and industry benchmarks, recommending a preferred approach.
• Deliver a POC to validate feasibility, performance, platform constraints, integration complexity and architectural assumptions.
• Involve existing engineers in the POC to assess the learning curve, skills requirements and practical adoption challenges.
• Identify technical risks, unknowns, dependencies and capability gaps, documenting POC findings and the agreed route forward.
• Define and document the recommended architecture and core technology stack, including shared and platform-specific capabilities across web and mobile.
• Map shared and platform-specific components, covering APIs, business rules, identity, design systems, component libraries, release processes, quality engineering and observability.
• Produce a prioritised, high-level technical backlog outlining implementation tasks, dependencies, prerequisite work and capability gap resolutions required to deliver the target architecture.

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Equal Opportunities Statement

Diversity and inclusion are hugely important to us, and we're committed to providing equal opportunities for all. We're actively recruiting for a diverse and inclusive workforce so want to ensure we do everything we can to support your application.

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