An exciting Solutions Architect role with a competitive salary plus bonus and career progression opportunities for a permanent role based in 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)

Interested?
If you feel you have the skills and qualities to undertake this role, please click apply.
We are an equal opportunities employer.

We're looking for an enthusiastic Senior Delivery Manager to join our Bristol team. Delivery Managers are the backbone of project success here at Great State. We pride ourselves on delivering beautiful websites, apps, and technology solutions with inspired content and elegant user experience at the core. We work with clients such as Honda, The Royal Navy and Longleat to transform their digital offerings and capabilities. You’ll be responsible for the successful delivery of projects, from a quality, timing and commercial perspective, and work closely with the client, the Great State client relationship owner (Client Partner or Delivery Lead) and the wider internal teams. 

Reporting to one of our Delivery Leads, you will ensure that your projects are on track, utilising the most effective mix of skills and the most appropriate process and tools. As the day-to-day contact with our clients, the Delivery Manager needs to exercise tact and diplomacy, and understand the clients’ issues and needs – while at the same time protecting the interests of the business. 

With a natural interest in technological innovation, a highly skilled team of experts around you and a healthy training plan, you will succeed in keeping our client brands relevant in a connected world. In addition to an excellent salary, Great State offers a wide range of benefits and a fantastic team of people to work, learn and play with. 

Key responsibilities:

• Support the day-to-day delivery of digital projects, ensuring they run smoothly, stay on time, and meet quality standards
• Put the appropriate plans and measures in place to properly initiate your projects
• Plan and run clear, detailed internal and external project kick-offs, forming part of strong project initiation
• Collaborate with project teams and client stakeholders to plan and deliver against agreed roadmaps and project milestones
• Help define project scopes, schedules, budgets, and resource needs, escalating any risks early
• Create Statements of Work, estimates and project plans with guidance from senior delivery or client teams
• Identify and manage change using change control process
• Work with the resourcing team to make sure the right skills and capacity are in place for successful delivery
• Provide clear briefs for everyone working on your projects
• Support the translation of requirements into user stories which are clear and actionable to the team
• Lead key team ceremonies such as stand-ups, sprint planning, demos, and retrospectives, promoting an agile and collaborative environment
• Proactively track project progress against timelines and budgets (using a budget tracker and updating an overrun/burn report), ensuring updates and issues are flagged early, and overruns are mitigated and managed
• Identify and manage project risks, issues and dependencies, escalating when needed
• Create and maintain appropriate project governance for the size of project
• Ensure delivery outputs meet agreed quality standards and that delivery processes are followed and are ISO 9001 compliant
• Input to financial forecasting
• Work closely with delivery leads, project teams, and clients to keep communication clear, focused and productive
• Gain an understanding of your clients, their industry and the competitor landscape
• Build positive relationships with clients, internal teams, and partners to support smooth delivery
• Coordinate with third parties or vendors if required, under the guidance of a Delivery Lead
• Contribute to improving delivery processes by sharing ideas, identifying blockers, and suggesting ways of working better

Skills/experience:

• Experience managing digital projects with budgets of £100k+, including website builds and/or app development
• Proven track record in delivering to different project management methods
• Experience in client management
• Good understanding of commercial management of project budgets including estimating/planning resources, developing/managing budgets, and writing relevant project documentation
• Able to manage internal and client stakeholders to achieve optimal outcomes – agency experience is essential
• Strong all-round communication skills – written and verbal
• Ability to think calmly, clearly and objectively to resolve challenges
• Expertise in Microsoft Office 365 and solid experience of project management software and tools such as MS Project or
• Experience using AI tools would be nice to have
• SC cleared preferred but not essential, although need to be clearable

Behaviours:

• Charismatic and open personality
• Ability to work well under pressure with an objective focused and positive approach
• Curious, passion for digital and the application of technology
• A team player with the ability to coach and support to facilitate decision making
• Excellent communication skills across all mediums – presentation, written, verbal
• Good commercial acumen
• Problem-solving skills, analytical, fair and objective
• Strong client management skills
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail
• Have a collaborative, supportive and team-based approach
• A commitment to quality, accuracy and driving improvements
• Calm and considered
• Resilient, with a strong sense of ownership and accountability

There will be travel required to the client's location occasionally and a requirement to work in the Bristol office for a minimum of two days a week. The remainder of the time can be remote. 

DIVERSITY STATEMENT 

Building diversity into our team isn’t just important to us as people, it is business critical.  

We design digital products and services for a diverse world, and so we want a diverse team who enable us to produce the best work for our clients.  

We don’t just celebrate differences; we want a team that is built upon them. A team that represents all sexual orientations, ethnicities, faiths, and gender expressions. Every person is welcome at Great State and we offer the appropriate support throughout anyone’s journey with us.  

Equally if you have a disability or a special need that requires accommodation or our attention, then we want you on our team, and we actively encourage you to apply. 

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