Hybrid Enterprise AI Solution Architect (6-Month Contract)

Mitchells & Butlers; Park Central; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Brand discounts

Friends & Family discount

Additional holiday weeks

Pension matching

Private healthcare

Cycle to Work

Annual leave 26 days

Hybrid working

Job summary

Mitchells & Butlers in the United Kingdom is seeking an AI Solution Architect on a 6-month fixed-term contract to lead the technical discovery and architectural definition of a new enterprise AI capability.

You will translate prioritised use cases into target architecture, evaluate data and integration landscapes, and define reusable patterns for AI ingestion, retrieval and agent orchestration, with governance built-in by design. This role is hybrid and based at our Birmingham head office.

Qualifications

• At least five years' experience in architecture roles is essential.
• Strong solution architecture experience and credible depth in data and integration.
• Recent experience defining or delivering enterprise generative AI, AI assistant, agent-based or AI platform capabilities is required.
• An understanding of LLMs, RAG, knowledge retrieval and grounding, agent and tool-calling patterns, APIs, cloud, identity, security and monitoring
• Experience with MCP or comparable interoperability patterns is desirable

Responsibilities

• Translate prioritised business use cases into architecture options, data flows, trust boundaries and non-functional requirements.
• Assess the knowledge, data, API, system and workflow landscape, including quality, ownership, permissions and technical constraints.
• Define reusable patterns for knowledge ingestion, retrieval, RAG, MCP or equivalent tool integration, model access and agent orchestration.
• Design identity, security, privacy, governance, monitoring, audit, human oversight and operational controls with relevant specialist teams.
• Lead technical build, buy and partner assessment, covering interoperability, residency, licensing, cost, scalability, supportability and lock-in.
• Define and assure proof-of-concept architecture and success criteria, present recommendations through M&B architecture governance and jointly develop the phased implementation roadmap.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to deliver phased implementation roadmap (knowledge transfer to Architecture, Engineering, Data, Cyber Security and IT Operations teams).

Skills

Five+ years of architecture experience

Solution architecture

Data & integration depth

LLMs & RAG

Knowledge retrieval & grounding

Agent patterns & tool-calling

APIs & Cloud

Security & monitoring

Job description

Mitchells & Butlers in the United Kingdom is seeking an AI Solution Architect on a 6-month fixed-term contract to lead the technical discovery and architectural definition of a new enterprise AI capability.

You will translate prioritised use cases into target architecture, evaluate data and integration landscapes, and define reusable patterns for AI ingestion, retrieval and agent orchestration, with governance built-in by design. This role is hybrid and based at our Birmingham head office.