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# Solution Architect

- **Company:** Mitchells & Butlers plc
- **Location:** Birmingham, United Kingdom
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Service Design, Legacy Systems
- **Published:** November 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.mbcareersandjobs.com/Workflow?workflowId=e90383e0-d6c4-480a-8cf8-ecd66f61d8f9&vacancyId=1301461

## About the 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., * Five years of experience in an architecture role.
 * Demonstrable understanding of architecture methodologies.
 * ITIL foundation - Appreciation of ITIL and Service Design techniques

## Description

* 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.