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# Solution Architect

- **Company:** Codec
- **Location:** Manchester, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £100,219.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft Azure, Continuous Integration, Data Governance, OAuth, Scrum Methodology, Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft Power Automate, Cloud Integration, Powerapps
- **Published:** October 31, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5947807450

## About the Role

* Experience: ~10+ years across consulting/enterprise delivery with proven ownership of multi-workstream programmes; prior architect title or clear equivalent.
 * Consulting & Communication: Excellent facilitation, executive comms, conflict resolution, and decision papers.
 * Commercial & Licensing: Estimation, SoWs, margin awareness, and practical knowledge of D365/Power Platform licensing impacts.
 * Architecture: Strong Dataverse modelling, integration/security patterns, and non-functional design (performance, availability, accessibility).
 * Governance & ALM: Environment strategy, DLP, layered solutions, release governance.
 * Desirable: Power Pages governance; BI for operational reporting; regulated industry experience; modern delivery (Scrum/Scaled Agile).

## Description

* Solution Strategy & Roadmapping: Define target architectures on Power Platform/D365 CE; produce option papers with cost/benefit/licensing impacts and a pragmatic adoption path.
 * Scope & Delivery Governance: Own technical scope, estimates, and assumptions; run change control; set quality gates and NFRs; orchestrate partner/offshore teams.
 * Stakeholder Leadership: Lead C-suite and business workshops; align competing technical priorities; communicate risk and trade-offs clearly.
 * Commercial Awareness: Shape bids/SoWs, delivery plans, and commercials; support account growth with value cases and phased roadmaps.
 * Integration & Security Patterns: Approve patterns for Azure integration (Functions, Logic Apps, API-M, Service Bus), identity (AAD/OAuth), and data governance.
 * ALM at Scale: Design environment topology, DLP, solution layering; enforce CI/CD standards and release cadence.
 * Data, Insights & Copilot: Partner with data teams on reporting; assess Copilot/AI opportunities and responsible-use guidelines.
 * Enablement & Handover: Ensure team produce and adhere to standards for admin guides, runbooks, support models, and operational KPIs.
 * Leadership & Coaching: Mentor Senior consultants; build standards; turn lessons learned into reusable assets., * 90 days: You've taken architecture ownership of a complex delivery, stabilised delivery, and completely gained the customer's and team's trust.
 * 6 months: You've delivered a project successfully into production for a large enterprise customer. You've taken the learning and contributed them back to the company so we benefit other customers with the knowledge gained.
 * 12 months: You are helping define and shape standards and best practices across the company for new technologies we delivery - AI, Power Platform and Azure.