Solutions Architect - #147257
Arrive
Date: 3 weeks ago
City: Poole
Contract type: Full time

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As Arrive, we guide customers and communities towards brighter futures and more livable cities, it isn’t a challenge just anyone could take on. Luckily, we have something to help us make it happen. Our people and our values. We Arrive Curious, Focused and Together. Just as our entire brand is inspired by the North Star, the shining light leading travelers to their destinations since time began, our values guide us. They help us be at our best. For our customers. For the cities and communities we serve. For ourselves. As a global team, we are transforming urban mobility. Let’s grow better, together.
Solutions Architect
The role requires a self-driven Systems Engineering professional with experience in UK rail ticketing systems, capable of leading technical delivery for bespoke projects. The candidate will deeply understand customer requirements, produce specifications and designs, and become an expert in system components to support reuse and modification. Working with Project and Bid Managers, they’ll ensure solutions are effectively designed and delivered, while also collaborating with software teams to align with technical roadmaps.
How to make an impact
About Us
Arrive, including brands like EasyPark, Flowbird, RingGo, ParkMobile and Parkopedia, is a leading global mobility platform. Present in over 90 countries and 20,000 cities, the company helps people and decision-makers make smarter decisions about urban mobility and ease the experience of travel worldwide. Arrive delivers a unique combination of the core ingredients to make cities more livable: from smart payments and optimized car parks to data-driven traffic reduction and support for reinvestment in public transport and green space. It’s about more than function, it’s about saving time and simplifying the experience of travel for everyone. Travel is more than a journey, it’s how you Arrive.
Arrive, including brands like EasyPark, Flowbird, RingGo, ParkMobile and Parkopedia, is a leading global mobility platform. Present in over 90 countries and 20,000 cities, the company helps people and decision-makers make smarter decisions about urban mobility and ease the experience of travel worldwide. Arrive delivers a unique combination of the core ingredients to make cities more livable: from smart payments and optimized car parks to data-driven traffic reduction and support for reinvestment in public transport and green space. It’s about more than function, it’s about saving time and simplifying the experience of travel for everyone. Travel is more than a journey, it’s how you Arrive.
As Arrive, we guide customers and communities towards brighter futures and more livable cities, it isn’t a challenge just anyone could take on. Luckily, we have something to help us make it happen. Our people and our values. We Arrive Curious, Focused and Together. Just as our entire brand is inspired by the North Star, the shining light leading travelers to their destinations since time began, our values guide us. They help us be at our best. For our customers. For the cities and communities we serve. For ourselves. As a global team, we are transforming urban mobility. Let’s grow better, together.
Solutions Architect
The role requires a self-driven Systems Engineering professional with experience in UK rail ticketing systems, capable of leading technical delivery for bespoke projects. The candidate will deeply understand customer requirements, produce specifications and designs, and become an expert in system components to support reuse and modification. Working with Project and Bid Managers, they’ll ensure solutions are effectively designed and delivered, while also collaborating with software teams to align with technical roadmaps.
How to make an impact
- Maintain a “systems view” to coordinate the activities of teams working on individual system components
- Produce system documentation, both functional and technical
- Liaise with customers to fully understand their business needs
- Prepare high level design documentation
- Oversee the delivery of technical solutions to clients
- Investigate and support the resolution of technical issues arising during the project lifecycle
- Identify technical issues and risks and associated mitigation strategies
- Contribute to system design reviews
- Contribute to product strategy reviews
- Production of effort and timescale estimates for system development / deployment activities
- Support the sales team, as required, with technical content for proposals
- Support the commercial team, as required with the definition of technical constraints, clauses and caveats
- Degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science or other engineering or scientific field (or equivalent experience)
- Proven experience in all aspects of the Systems Engineering lifecycle
- Working in waterfall, and agile development environments
- Proven experience as a “systems thinker”
- Experienced in successful requirements engineering activities
- Experienced in producing high quality technical documentation, outlining solutions to requirements
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Experience of successful project delivery
- Experience of working with software teams developing integrated cloud and embedded solutions
- Experience of UK rail ticketing technology and standards
- Cloud systems and technologies
- Embedded software technologies
- Agile development ceremonies and backlog management
- Experience defining user stories and acceptance criteria
- Team management / mentoring
- Strong time management, supporting a deadline-based approach
- Sales support
- Capable of developing close working relationships with clients
- PCI-DSS / Payments solutions
- Contemporary software design patterns and principles
About Us
Arrive, including brands like EasyPark, Flowbird, RingGo, ParkMobile and Parkopedia, is a leading global mobility platform. Present in over 90 countries and 20,000 cities, the company helps people and decision-makers make smarter decisions about urban mobility and ease the experience of travel worldwide. Arrive delivers a unique combination of the core ingredients to make cities more livable: from smart payments and optimized car parks to data-driven traffic reduction and support for reinvestment in public transport and green space. It’s about more than function, it’s about saving time and simplifying the experience of travel for everyone. Travel is more than a journey, it’s how you Arrive.
Arrive, including brands like EasyPark, Flowbird, RingGo, ParkMobile and Parkopedia, is a leading global mobility platform. Present in over 90 countries and 20,000 cities, the company helps people and decision-makers make smarter decisions about urban mobility and ease the experience of travel worldwide. Arrive delivers a unique combination of the core ingredients to make cities more livable: from smart payments and optimized car parks to data-driven traffic reduction and support for reinvestment in public transport and green space. It’s about more than function, it’s about saving time and simplifying the experience of travel for everyone. Travel is more than a journey, it’s how you Arrive.
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