Job
Description
As a Lead Functional Consultant, you will play a crucial role in guiding the design, development, and deployment of innovative mobile applications and CMS integrations. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, lead technical innovations, and mentor team members to ensure the delivery of exceptional user experiences in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. **Key Responsibilities:** - Lead collaboration with various stakeholders to elicit and translate complex needs into comprehensive requirements for mobile apps and CMS integrations. - Author high-fidelity documentation, including epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, API specifications, mobile wireframes, and CMS content models. - Perform in-depth gap analyses, recommending optimizations for leveraging native mobile features and CMS reusability. - Guide UX/UI teams in defining intuitive mobile navigation, responsive content delivery, and authoring interfaces aligned with CMS workflows. - Champion Agile/Scrum processes by leading backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, and retrospectives. - Orchestrate user acceptance testing, craft detailed test cases for app stores and CMS deployments, and ensure go-live readiness. - Deliver client-facing demos, prototypes, and progress showcases to foster buy-in and iterative feedback. - Define robust content strategies, including models, metadata schemas, personalization rules, and asset management for CMS-driven mobile experiences. - Mentor content teams on CMS authoring best practices, multi-channel publishing, permissions, and integration with mobile SDKs for dynamic content. - Serve as a subject matter expert advising on mobile-first strategies and CMS enhancements, including integrations with emerging technologies. - Proactively identify risks, provide executive-level delivery insights, and align initiatives with broader digital transformation roadmaps. - Coordinate, lead, and mentor cross-functional teams of 5-10 members across onshore/offshore centers. **Qualifications Required:** - 10+ years of IT experience, with 7+ years in Business Analysis, Product Management, or Consulting focused on mobile and CMS projects. - 5+ years delivering Android/iOS applications end-to-end, including native/hybrid frameworks like React Native or Flutter. - 4+ years of experience with CMS platforms such as AEM (Sites/Assets/Forms), Sitecore, Liferay, or modern headless CMS options like Contentful/Contentstack. - Knowledge of cloud-native deployments (e.g., AEM as a Cloud Service) and on-prem setups (e.g., AEM 6.5+). - Experience integrating mobile/CMS with solutions like Adobe Experience Cloud or Salesforce, including personalization tools and CDP data flows. - Strong expertise in mobile app development ecosystems: Android (Kotlin/Java, Jetpack) and iOS (Swift, UIKit/SwiftUI). - Proficiency in CMS platforms, covering templates, components, content fragments, headless delivery, workflows, and multi-site management. - Skills in debugging tools such as Chrome DevTools, Android Studio Profiler, Xcode, Postman, Charles Proxy, or Fiddler for integration and performance monitoring. - Advanced experience with collaboration tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps (ADO) for requirement tracking, and design tools like Figma, Adobe XD, or Miro. - Competency in web/mobile development fundamentals including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, REST/GraphQL APIs, and CMS backends. - Flexibility to lead all SDLC phases, from discovery to deployment, for hybrid mobile-CMS projects. - Understanding of digital standards such as SEO/SEM, GEO, WCAG accessibility, app performance metrics, and security protocols. - Proven leadership of 5-7+ team members, strong stakeholder influence, and negotiation skills to align technical and business objectives. - Exceptional communication and facilitation skills for workshops, UAT walkthroughs, and agile meetings. - Collaborative mindset with proactive problem-solving abilities and a strong emphasis on continuous improvement in team environments.,
