frog design is looking for a talented Application Architect to run offshore application development for a mobile application that's part of a larger development effort of a suite of mobile applications.

Candidate will act as the application owner for implementation of specific applications.  Responsibilities include:

- Link the local design team with the offshore development team

- Lead tasks throughout the project lifecycle

- Serve as the primary technical contact for relevant application(s)

- Participate in project scoping and estimation tasks

- Provide architecture/service/solution recommendations

- Collect design specifications and transmit data to offshore teams

- Provide architectural design and documentation for offshore team and client

- Work with offshore leads and technical teams to manage application development

- Manage requirements and schedule for application development

- Verify application output

- Track and report bugs

- Walk application code through QA, client review, etc

- Ensuring architectural alignment with other applications in suite

Offshore resources are in India.  Candidate must be available to handle some level of weekly video/phone/IM meetings considering the time-zone shift.

Qualifications/Requirements:

- Experience translating design/requirements into mobile applications

- 2+ years professional experience with mobile

- Experience with successfully shipped applications

- Experience with modeling tools

- Experience with distributed teams

- Experience and training in Agile software development methodologies

- Strong written/oral communication skills

- Key technologies used: Qualcomm uiOne, BREW, Symbian (UIQ or Nokia Series 60), Microsoft Windows Mobile, C programming

- Related technologies: Palm OS, iPhone, J2ME, Android

Candidates MUST be able to work on-site in our San Francisco studio.  This position is a 3-6 month contract with possibility to convert to fulltime in the future.