Solutions Architect, Central London

An exciting Solutions Architect role with a salary of 100,000 plus bonus and career progression opportunities for a permanent role based in our Marylebone, London office.

We are offering a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Solutions Architect at a market leading, dynamic and renowned property, technology and innovative, technology-based car parking company. Our client is a market leading, renowned UK business, established over 50 years ago. The company operates over 3500 sites across the UK and Ireland providing specialist services to a wide range of blue-chip clients.

The role

We are seeking technical polyglots who enjoy both technical architectural design, hands-on coding and peer reviews, though also like the idea of the equally important social/client-facing aspect of the role.

The role is responsible for defining the development architecture across a blend of in-house bespoke solutions and 3rd party products and helping to shape the longer-term strategic development architecture for the organisation. It will also involve understanding key business processes and consider approaches to delivering the required capabilities, including identifying and assessing new technologies. You will be involved in designing, developing, and deploying AI-powered automation solutions that can transform operational processes at scale.

You will be assisting the head of business solutions and other architects on developing architecture strategy and target architecture model. You will be working closely with delivery team members to coach and promote best-practice solution development architecture as well as supporting business analysts and product owners in planning and story-mapping for new development. You will act as technical design authority (TDA) for delivery of technical stories and produce technical documentation artefacts to support the delivery process.

Main Responsibilities

Duties will include:

The design and implementation of best-in-class software architecture

Produce and communicate clear technical designs to guide and contextualise solution development across products, services, projects, and systems, including applications, technologies, processes, and information which meet the business strategic needs.

• Create and maintain the architecture models and related reference data in our enterprise repository as part of your normal project tasks.
• Provide solution architecture deliverables, including current and target state architecture, standard definitions, reference models, architecture designs and patterns

Ensure that all work undertaken by you and your colleagues is of the highest quality and meets the agreed standards for software delivery.

• Support product managers in product decisions to maintain, refresh or retire services, or systems, including applications, technologies, processes, and information.

Participate actively in all team ceremonies (daily stand-up, team retros, sprint reviews, story-mapping, backlog refinement) helping the entire delivery team be the best that they can.

Essential Skills:

C# .NET Core, REST API Design and Development, API Management

Document or No-SQL database solutions (particularly Elasticsearch)

Messaging and microservices based architecture (Azure Service Bus, Azure Functions)

Formal architecture documentation and diagramming techniques (BPMN, UML, Wireframing)

Experience with AI tools and frameworks such as Claude code.

Test and behaviour driven development strategies (TDD, BDD, Gopher)

Agile Delivery Methodologies, SCRUM, SCRUMBAN

Working in an agile environment using JIRA and Confluence

Experience working in a data-centric organisation

Desirable Skills

React front-end development

React. Native cross-platform mobile application development

Android development (Java/Kotlin/Dagger2)

Image Processing, ANPR (automated number plate recognition) and OCR library implementations

Exposure to process modelling, for example in BPMN

IoT relay control systems

Networking security (firewalls and network traffic control)

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