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Microsoft is on a mission to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and managers to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world. You can help us to achieve our mission.
We are looking for a highly motivated and passionate Solution Architect, D365 Business Central who has a mix of hands-on experience in selling business value solutions in highly competitive situations, business applications implementation for CE suite, architectural design and strategic business acumen.
This position empowers customers and partners on their digital journey, from envisioning new possibilities to delivering solutions that result in targeted business outcomes and a great customer experience. The role requires delivering high quality architectural solutions and business outcomes based on the Microsoft Business Applications Dynamics Customer Experience and AI platforms.
This team works closely with the Microsoft product engineering and marketing teams for Modern Work, Business Applications, and Security to develop assets that help Microsoft develop partner capacity and scale towards accelerating usage of Microsoft Solutions.
Responsibilities
* Partner Program Support: COE Technical Pre-Sales and readiness - Work directly with partners to help drive technical pre-sales motions with Microsoft Business Applications / Power Platform Workshop Materials
* Understanding Customer/Partner Technical Environment
* Architecture Design and Deployment - Technical Solution Development: Developing technical solutions and ability to design, customize, or reapply technical solutions based on customer/partner needs or demands
* Generate new and/or improvements to existing intellectual property. Identifies which ideas should be culled and curate content to align with messaging and intent from the partner marketing team
* Creates new intellectual property based on requirements from our stakeholders
* Drives the re-use of intellectual property and recommends practices in both pre-sales and delivery
* Participates and contributes to internal/external communities
* Develop a network of internal/external relationships to build influence in addressing problems/blockers and facilitating additional views. Stays up to date on Microsoft’s technologies, products, and services
* Understand competitor solutions and identify how customer business value can be driven through Microsoft's offerings
* Share ideas, insight, and strategic, technical input with technical teams, internal communities across the field, and the larger virtual team across Microsoft
* Participate in external architect community events and mentor junior colleagues
* Collaborate on design documentation, wireframes for custom apps, and architecture reviews
Qualifications
* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND extensive experience in cloud, applications, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or cloud technology domain (Dynamics / Power Platform / Azure/ GCP/ AWS)
* OR Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field AND solid experience in cloud, applications, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or technology domain (Azure/ GCP/ AWS)
* OR equivalent experience
* Extensive experience in enterprise environments, with a strong background in solution architecture
* Proven expertise in Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform, particularly focused on Business Central implementations and transformations
* The role requires core competencies including: understanding D365 applications, customization with Power Platform, integration with Microsoft 365/Azure/third-party systems, AI-driven process automation, and leading multidisciplinary technical teams
Core Competencies
* Functional and technical understanding of D365 line of business applications (including D365 Service, Sales and Customer Insights)
* Advanced Customization & Configuration of Business Central using Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power BI
* Integration with Microsoft 365, Azure, and third-party systems via APIs/connectors
* AI-Driven Process Automation and complex migration experience (on-premises to cloud) for SMBs
* Leadership of multidisciplinary technical teams and capable of both high-level design and hands-on delivery
* Strong technical selling and customer management skills; broad industry knowledge and at least 5 years of implementation experience
* Experience selling product and consulting engagements in competitive situations
* Ability to estimate, scope, and write effective statements of work; architecture trade-offs across platforms
* Knowledge of full application life cycle design tools and methodologies
* Excellent consulting, collaboration, and communication skills; large enterprise deployment experience
Additional Qualifications
* Domain experience with Microsoft 365 and Azure; understanding of Security, compliance, and identity solutions
* Experience documenting designs and using Azure DevOps; familiarity with wireframes for custom apps
* Ability to present complex topics to executive and technical audiences
* End-to-end solution knowledge for Cloud and hybrid environments
* Relationship-building with senior IT executives in large or strategic accounts
* Collaborative decision-making and strong verbal/written communication; strong presentation skills
Technical Qualifications
* Cloud architectural patterns across managed, SaaS, and PaaS; experience with cloud-native re-architecture
* Experience with competitive application development services across public cloud platforms
Additional Job Details
* Employment type: Full-time
* Job function: Consulting
* Industries: Software Development
Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. Consistent with applicable law, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
Equivalents and References
* Seniority level: Not Applicable
* Senior Solutions Architect, Financial Services, Banking - Payments - FinTech (notified positions in Scotland, UK)
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