Dynamics365 Technical Architect

We are looking to recruit Dynamics365 Technical Consultant who will be responsible for taking business problems and designing appropriate technical solution to meet their needs. Responsible for the design, development, implementation and service support of our Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations system and associated services. You will share your knowledge and experience with the team and advise on best practice, supporting the lead technical consultants and functional consultants. With their assistance you will deliver high quality solutions. This is a hands-on technical delivery role. The Dynamics Finance & Operations Architect must be capable of implementing the system they design themselves., Taking a lead role in creating solution architecture designs to provide a secure, stable, performant platform for our customers. Working with the other architects and the business to gather a holistic picture of the end-to-end solution.

Ensure designs are simple, using out of the box functionality first, allowing for easy adoption, support and upgrades.

Creating architectural principles and ensuring consistency with departmental principles.

Maintain architectural documentation in line with changes, to ensure the information is relevant and up to date.

Ensure solutions are implemented using best practice and include error tracking and monitoring.

Responsible for management and development of a functional consultant, ensuring work packages are agreed in line with the business priorities.

Responsible for overseeing implementations, and technically reviewing output from the technical and functional consultants, ensuring designs are in line with the architectural and departmental principles.

Use your knowledge and experience to guide and mentor the technical and functional consultants.

Taking the lead when working with functional consultants, technical consultants, Microsoft and third-party vendors to investigate and resolve complex issues.

Consult on and deliver change activity (lifecycle, project or continuous service improvements) safely and seamlessly.

Facilitating demos and customer playbacks to demonstrate functionality.

Perform detailed impact analysis across a number of areas (e.g. system function, business process, integrations, security) working with colleagues to understand the impact of proposed changes.

Ensure new features are evaluated and implemented providing value and replacing customisation with out of the box features where possible.

Proactively keep up to date with specialist knowledge and skills.

The candidate should have sound knowledge in SDLC. You should be a quick learner and self-motivated personnel having good communications skills. Degree level qualification or an NVQ Level 6 qualification with experience. Nice to have UK master’s degree and will be an added advantage., Substantial experience designing, implementing and supporting Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations solutions (AX).

Dynamics 365: Finance and Operations Apps Solution Architect Expert certification or equivalent experience.

Methodical and well-organized approach to challenges and solutions, ensuring efficient and effective outcomes.

Ability to understand business problems and translate them into appropriate technical solutions.

Excellent analytical, problem solving, stakeholder engagement and communication skills.

1. Experience with: Defining/implementing teams, roles & security groups.
2. Designing and implementing business process within Dynamics.
3. Designing and implementing integrations.
4. Customising and configuring D365 Finance and Operations.
5. C# or X++ languages.
6. T-SQL/SSIS.
7. Microsoft Power Platform services.
8. Delivering change in a highly integrated complex technical environment.
9. D365 Common data model / Data lake.
10. Version control systems (e.g. TFS or Git).
11. Life Cycle Services (LCS).

Experience with: Architectural frameworks and practices e.g. (TOGAF, Zachman)

Agile methodologies

Azure DevOps

Synchronous and asynchronous integration patterns

Data import tools

Knowledge of Microsoft Azure principles and security

A degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or Physical Chemistry

ITIL foundation certification

Housing sector experience

Renaissance, an equal opportunity employer, recognizes that our success in our mission is due to the remarkable talent and dedication of our employees. We offer competitive salaries and benefit packages in a casual and fast-paced work environment. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.