D365 and Power Platform Solution Architect

As a D365 and Power Platform Solution Architect, you will be responsible for translating the needs of the business into technical designs which can be moulded into high performing, highly available, extensible, and efficient software systems.

The D365 and Power Platform Solution Architect will provide domain expertise across the D365 suite of applications and the Power Platform and will support all technical implementations of the D365 and Power Platform suite of applications and related integrations, especially focussing on the Vista & other company wide initiatives.

The role will demonstrate core competency in the processes and provide guidance and knowledge to the internal team as well as the 3rd Party SI team on all technical aspects.

What You'll Do:

• Have responsibility for designing solutions that may involve a combination of in-house enterprise-grade solutions and related products across one or more teams and/or third parties. This will involve working with other functions in ETS (Architecture, Infrastructure, Service Delivery, Security, Business Analysis, etc), stakeholder functions 3rd parties who will all be engaged to develop high-level designs.
• Be responsible for identifying, assessing, and selecting the most appropriate technologies, architectural styles and patterns needed to deliver a software solution, in conjunction with other functions in ETS.
• Assist in diagnosing key constraints and issues within core back-office systems and help drive resolution through a collaborative working approach.
• Have an ‘AI first' approach in considering the existing D365 Co Pilots, their application and licensing and how they could simplify or augment business processes.
• Work closely with architects, ETS functions, business analysts and partners to ensure that solutions can be translated into working, high quality solutions and be clearly articulated to the team.
• Work closely with third parties/vendors involved to ensure fitment of the end-to-end solutions.
• Develop strong relationships with Business stakeholders, Product Owners and other Teams; both within ETS and across the organization to guarantee that solution designs map to the requirements of the business and are aligned to the roadmap of partner teams and the wider strategic roadmap of the company.
• Support project and programme management to understand, communicate and manage technical dependencies across platforms and projects.
• Ensure that any non-functional requirements, environmental or technology constraints are captured, considered, and addressed as part of the solution design.
• Assure that Architectural standards are met and that key artefacts are produced and maintained.
• Work with Architects to ensure the continual improvement of the architecture and engineering practices.
• Guide and mentor within the teams you work with, and provide feedback to the line managers around performance and reviews; and seek out and actively promote ideas and techniques in the community - both internally and externally.
• Review, feedback and validate all technical designs and implementation plans of the 3rd party SI / vendors.
• Provide technical knowledge and understanding of existing applications, data & integration configuration.
• Own collation and delivery of Control Risks' Non-Functional Requirements to the project.
• Accountable for the assurance of the technical design, system configuration, data structures, projected performance, security, integration, resilience of D365 and Power Platform solutions.
• Accountable for ensuring appropriate resilience is built into the technical design of the solution to maximise availability of platform in accordance with business need.
• Accountable for the identification of all integrations with other systems/services and work with 3rd party SI to accommodate in the D365 solutions.
• Work with the test managers for the assurance of the test strategy and execution to ensure all technical defects are identified and remediated ahead of release into production.
• Proactively identify and highlight all risks and issues with technical transitions. Ensure risks and issues are raised to project leadership team through the appropriate governance and work with 3rd party SI to mitigate.
• Work with the Delivery Managers concerned to support and resolve post-implementation defects/issues.
• Engage with the design authority on all solution designs, technical specifications and detailed low-level architecture discussions.
• Troubleshoot technical issues encountered during development and/or deployment.
• Ensure Information Security have reviewed and signed off all technical solution designs.
• Support the Service Design and Transition activities to ensure all technical, operations and lifecycle implications of the D365 and Power Platform solutions are considered.
• Review technical and operational documentation associated with the D365 and Power Platform solutions.
• Provide support to the service transition activities to ensure smooth transition of technical platforms from development into production.
• Power Platform: Ensure existing Power Platform projects are supported (Power Automate, Power BI, Power Apps), engage in understanding new requirements and impact on the business flows, focused on the D365 solutions overall architecture.
• Data and Reporting: Represent D365 reporting holistically from all platforms, working with the data engineers and architects to ensure application reporting is delivered as required for the business.
• Provide understanding for the transition of existing legacy platforms as required.
• Work with support teams to deliver timely feature releases and hotfix updates, work with the teams to design and test and schedule CAB releases for the platforms as designed for LCS.