Solutions Architect

• We design and implement best-in-class software architecture.
• We produce and communicate clear technical designs to guide and contextualise solution development across products, services, projects, and systems.
• We create and maintain architecture models and related reference data in our enterprise repository.
• We provide solution architecture deliverables, including current and target state architecture, standard definitions, reference models, architecture designs, and patterns.
• We ensure all work undertaken by us and our colleagues meets the highest quality standards and agreed software delivery standards.
• We support product managers in decisions to maintain, refresh, or retire services and systems.
• We participate actively in team ceremonies, including daily stand-ups, retros, sprint reviews, story-mapping, and backlog refinement.
• We define the development architecture across in-house bespoke solutions and third-party products.
• We help shape the long-term strategic development architecture for the organisation.
• We understand key business processes and assess approaches to delivering required capabilities.
• We identify and assess new technologies.
• We design, develop, and deploy AI-powered automation solutions that transform operational processes at scale.
• We assist the head of business solutions and other architects in developing architecture strategy and the target architecture model.
• We work closely with delivery team members to coach and promote best-practice solution development architecture.
• We support business analysts and product owners in planning and story-mapping for new development.
• We act as technical design authority for delivery of technical stories.
• We produce technical documentation artefacts to support the delivery process.

Technologies:

• AI
• API
• Android
• Architect
• Azure
• BPMN
• C#
• Claude Code
• Confluence
• ElasticSearch
• IoT
• Support
• JIRA
• Java
• Kotlin
• Mobile
• Network
• NoSQL
• REST
• React
• React Native
• Security
• TDD
• UML
• microservices
• ASP.NET
• Cloud
• SQL

• We need experience with C# .NET Core.
• We need experience in REST API design and development, and API management.
• We need experience with document or NoSQL database solutions, particularly Elasticsearch.
• We need experience with messaging and microservices-based architecture, including Azure Service Bus and Azure Functions.
• We need experience in formal architecture documentation and diagramming techniques such as BPMN, UML, and wireframing.
• We need experience using AI tools and frameworks such as Claude code.
• We need experience with test and behaviour driven development strategies, including TDD and BDD.
• We need experience working with Agile delivery methodologies, SCRUM, and Scrumban.
• We need experience working in an agile environment using JIRA and Confluence.
• We need experience in a data-centric organisation.
• Desirable: React front-end development.
• Desirable: React Native cross-platform mobile application development.
• Desirable: Android development using Java, Kotlin, and Dagger2.
• Desirable: Experience with image processing, ANPR, and OCR library implementations.
• Desirable: Exposure to process modelling, for example in BPMN.
• Desirable: Experience with IoT relay control systems.
• Desirable: Experience with networking security, including firewalls and network traffic control.

We are Euro Car Parks, a market-leading and renowned UK business established over 50 years ago, operating over 3,500 sites across the UK and Ireland and serving a wide range of blue-chip clients. This is a permanent Solutions Architect role based in our Marylebone, Central London office, offering a salary of £100,000 plus bonus and career progression opportunities. We are a dynamic, innovative, technology-based car parking company and an equal opportunities employer.