Digital Architect

We are actively seeking a professional specialist to join and support our IT Architecture team. We have an opportunity for a Digital Architect to join the business and be at forefront of expanding and enhancing our guests digital experience across multiple online channels. Responsible for supporting multiple diverse initiatives across our business and portfolios, as Digital Architect you will be producing high quality designs, balancing business needs and cost of ownership while advancing the architecture.

As our Digital subject matter expert, you will be the go-to person for day-to-day technical guidance for our extended internal teams helping projects from inception to delivery. Delivering in your role by working a mix of remotely and from within our Retail Support Centre in Birmingham city centre, this opportunity offers up the chance to work in a greatly collaborative environment and to have a real impact on our guest experience.

Why not join us at Mitchells & Butlers, the heart of hospitality. With over 1,600 sites we're the home of some of the nation's favourite restaurants, bustling bars, cosy country pubs and the local you didn't know we owned. We have been working in the background post pandemic to make sure we come back stronger than ever, so if you'd like to combine your love of food, with the love of your job, then look no further.

What's in it for me?

• Flexible working - to fit around the other important things in life
• Annual Bonus Scheme - We're all about rewarding the hard work everybody puts in.?
• Buy up to an extra 2 weeks holiday - life is for living after all!
• You will be part of something much bigger. At Mitchells & Butlers, we are a 44,000 strong team with over 13 brands, the opportunities are endless.
• Private medical plan- to help keep you safe and secure?

On top of all this, we offer; a pension, 26 days paid holiday, high-street shopping discounts, an online wellbeing hub; and we even give you free shares!

What will I be doing?

• Working in partnership with our Product Owners to shape the art of the possible and translating it into designs and sequences that our Delivery Managers, Development teams and Scrum Masters can work with
• Developing and maintaining the architecture roadmap across all digital channels whilst working with business leaders to deliver best in class solutions
• Presenting findings & recommendations to an IT Architecture Forum while minimising technical debt
• Ensuring all licensing implications are understood and documented in support of the detailed solution design
• Working with third party solution providers to produce roadmaps for architecture components
• Building market & sector knowledge to ensure awareness of potential solutions / solution providers and share knowledge with other IT teams to enable engagement with the business

What do I need?

• Strong experience building Great Digital Experiences for end customers, particularly across Web and Mobile
• Experience designing and overseeing the implementation of APIs, distributed architectures, and scalable environments
• Understanding of designing for resilience and reliability
• Knowledge of modern Web practices
• Knowledge of modern API standards and associated Security (REST/JSON/OAuth)
• Experience in cloud computing (Azure preferable)
• Experience building Mobile Apps
• An understanding of Customer Identity Management

Please note interviews will also be held during the advertisement period, and please submit your application at your earliest convenience as this role may close earlier than the stated close date.

Current closing date is 29th October 2021