Solutions Architect

Euro Car Parks; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Euro Car Parks in London (Marylebone office) is seeking an experienced Solutions Architect to define development architecture across in-house and third-party solutions, shaping long-term strategy and driving AI-powered automation at scale.

You will coach delivery teams, produce technical artefacts, and partner with product managers to plan and map stories in a fast-paced, agile environment.

Qualifications

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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 meets the highest quality and standards for software delivery.
• Support product managers in decisions to maintain or refresh services and systems.
• Participate in team ceremonies (daily stand-ups, retros, sprint reviews, story-mapping, backlog refinement).
• Work with C# .NET Core, REST API Design and Development, API Management.
• Document No-SQL database solutions (Elasticsearch).
• Use messaging and microservices architectures (Azure Service Bus, Azure Functions).
• Employ BPMN, UML, and wireframing techniques for architecture diagrams.
• Experience with AI tools and frameworks such as Claude code.
• Apply TDD/BDD in development and agile delivery practices (SCRUM/SCRUMBAN).
• Participate in agile tools (JIRA, Confluence) and data-centric workflows.
• Involve in React front-end development and related integrations.
• Work with Image Processing, OCR, ANPR libraries and IoT plumbing.
• Model business processes and architecture using BPMN.
• Contribute to network security considerations.

Skills

Agile methodologies

Story mapping

TDD/BDD

AI tooling

React development

Tools

C# .NET Core

REST API Design

API Management

Elasticsearch

Azure Service Bus

Azure Functions

React

JIRA

Confluence

BPMN

UML

Wireframing

Claude code

Job description

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. Euro Car Parks is a market leading, renowned UK business, established over 50 years ago. The company operates over 4000 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.
• 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
• React front-end development
• 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)