Solution Architect

The Marchmont Arms; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discounts across M&B brands

Private healthcare

Cycle to Work

26 days annual leave

Job summary

Mitchells & Butlers plc is seeking an experienced Solution Architect to join our Technology team on a 12-month fixed term contract. You will translate business requirements into high-level designs, act as Design Authority, and lead architecture governance across a diverse project portfolio from our Birmingham base.

Role requires strong stakeholder engagement, architecture discipline, and ability to balance innovation with risk and cost, while aligning to our long-term technology strategy.

Qualifications

• Five years of experience in an architecture role.
• Demonstrable understanding of architecture methodologies.
• ITIL foundation – Appreciation of ITIL and Service Design techniques.

Responsibilities

• Lead identification of potential solutions fulfilling business requirements and present to IT Architectural Forum.
• Ensure licensing implications are understood and documented in the detailed solution design.
• Build market and sector knowledge and share with IT teams for engagement with the business.
• Maintain documentation on current architecture across Application, Data, Infrastructure and Licensing.

Skills

Architecture leadership

Stakeholder communication

Architectural principles

Education

ITIL foundation

Job description

We're looking for an experienced Solution Architect to join our award-winning Technology team on a 12-month fixed term contract and play a pivotal role in shaping and governing the technology solutions that support business change across Mitchells & Butlers. Working at the heart of our transformation and delivery programmes, you'll ensure technology initiatives are aligned to our strategic vision while delivering practical, secure and scalable solutions that meet the needs of the business.

As a trusted technology advisor, you'll work closely with stakeholders across both Technology and the wider business to translate requirements into high-level solution designs, coordinating design activity throughout the project lifecycle. You'll bring clarity, challenge and direction to complex initiatives, ensuring solutions are aligned to architecture standards, business objectives and long-term technology strategy.

Acting as the Design Authority for technology delivery, you'll provide architectural leadership across a diverse portfolio of projects, balancing innovation with risk, cost, supportability and operational excellence. This is an exciting opportunity to influence the future technology landscape of one of the UK's largest hospitality businesses while playing a key role in delivering our technology roadmap.

Based at our Birmingham City Centre Head Office, this role offers a flexible hybrid working approach.

You’ll be rewarded with:

• 33% discount across all M&B brands.
• 20% Friends & Family discount for up to five people.
• Option to buy up to two additional weeks of holiday.
• Matched pension contributions (up to 1.5x your contribution).
• Private healthcare and dental plan.
• Cycle to Work and wellbeing schemes.
• 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
• Hybrid working and flexible approach.

What you’ll be doing in this Solution Architect role

• Use MAB architecture method to lead the identification of potential solutions able to fulfil business requirements and make recommendations to the business based on architecture principles & guidelines
• Where possible, avoid hard dependencies between projects.
• Present findings & recommendations to IT Architectural Forum, identifying where the proposed solution does not adhere to architecture principles and why.
• Ensure that all licensing implications are understood and documented in support of the detailed solution design.
• Build market & sector knowledge to ensure awareness of potential solutions / solution providers. Share knowledge with other IT teams to enable engagement with the business.
• Work with 3rd party solution providers to produce roadmaps for all architecture components
• Identify opportunities for decommissioning legacy systems and document licensing implications.
• Maintain documentation on the current architecture (Application, Data, Infrastructure and Licensing) ensuring changes are reflected in a timely manner.

What you’ll need to bring to this Solution Architect role

• Excellent written and oral communication skills with a demonstrated ability to communicate and influence at all levels.
• Knowledge and understanding of corporate policy and business strategy.
• The ability to produce, manipulate, implement or enhance all architecture concepts, roadmaps, principles or effective strategies.
• The ability to think laterally and constructively question established process.

Qualifications

• Five years of experience in an architecture role.
• Demonstrable understanding of architecture methodologies.
• ITIL foundation – Appreciation of ITIL and Service Design techniques

What makes Mitchells & Butlers a great place to work?

At M&B we value the unique perspectives each person brings. We believe that by fostering a culture of inclusion, respect, and allyship, we create a sense of belonging, engagement and teamwork which are essential to delivering great guest experiences.

Join us and be a part of a great team!

Closing Date: Friday 20th November 2026 - 11:59pm