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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. Solution Architects must have a passion for our customers and partners which is demonstrated through professionalism and striving for excellence in all aspects of the customer experience to become a valuable part of our WW Field and Partner Center Of Excellence team in Industry Solutions Delivery. 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.
You will have responsibility for delivering high quality architectural solutions and business outcomes based on the Microsoft Business Applications Dynamics Customer Experience and AI platforms. Demonstrating deep knowledge of Microsoft Solutions and offerings across the entire life cycle, together with a critical focus on opportunity management, leadership and technical governance, this is your chance to drive transformational results and enable the realization of business strategy for Microsoft partners and customers.
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
Intellectual Property and Practice Development
* 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.
Trusted Advisor
* Develop a network of internal/external relationships to build influence in addressing problems/blockers and facilitating additional views on the matter of interest. Stays up to date on Microsoft’s technologies, products, and services in order to communicate Microsoft\'s mission, strategy, and capabilities.
* Understand competitor solutions and identify how customer business value can be driven through Microsoft\'s offerings. Steers the customer/partner conversations to the benefits of the solution rather than the features and functionalities.
Thought Leadership
* Share ideas, insight, and strategic, technical input with technical teams, internal communities across the field, and the larger virtual team across Microsoft using a thorough knowledge of specific Microsoft products and their context in the competitive landscape.
* Participate in external architect community events and share learnings with internal teams. Mentor junior colleagues on technical and non-technical concepts.
Qualifications
Skills Required
* 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 Solution Architect Should Have The Following Core Competencies
* Solid functional and technical understanding of D365 line of business applications including D365 Service, Sales and Customer Insights.
* Advanced Customization & Configuration: tailoring Business Central using Power Platform tools like Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power BI.
* Integration Expertise: integrating Business Central with Microsoft 365, Azure services, and third-party systems using APIs and connectors
* AI-Driven Process Automation: design AI-powered automation workflows using Power Automate
* Experience in complex migration projects from on-premises to cloud for small/medium enterprises
* Ability to lead a multidisciplinary technical team and deliver technical project outcomes
* Advanced technical selling and customer management skills
* At least 5 years of implementation experience and broad industry knowledge
* Proven experience selling product and consulting engagements in competitive situations
* Experience estimating, scoping, and writing statements of work
* Ability to articulate architectural differences between solution methods and integration approaches across platforms
* Working knowledge of tools and solution providers including Microsoft partners or competitors
* Knowledge of full application life cycle design tools and methodologies
* Exceptional consulting skills and large enterprise deployment experience
* Ability to move between high-level architectural review and hands-on delivery
Additional Qualifications
* Domain experience with Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure, and understanding of how Microsoft Security, compliance, and identity solutions span across these areas
* Experience writing/designing design documentation, using Azure DevOps, and designing wireframes for custom apps
* Experience presenting complex topics to executive and technical audiences
* Deep knowledge of cloud/hybrid solution architecture and deployment
* Ability to identify business needs and determine solutions to business problems and process improvements
* Relationship building with senior IT executives in large accounts; stakeholder management
* Collaborative decision-making and strong verbal/written communication; strong presentation skills
Technical Qualifications
* Understanding of cloud architectural patterns, managed/SaaS/PaaS offerings, cloud-native rearchitecture, related databases, and DevOps/DevSecOps
* Experience with competitive application development services across public cloud (e.g., SAP, Salesforce, AWS, GCP, Oracle) is a plus
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, or any other characteristic protected by local laws. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.
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