Technical Architect - D365 F&O

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Job title: Technical Architect - D365

Reporting to: F&O Practice Director

Location: Hybrid - homeworking with travel to client sites and our offices.

Salary: Competitive + Bonus Scheme

OR

Day Rate - Up to £800 (Outside IR35)

Role Purpose:

We are growing rapidly and are looking for a highly experienced Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations Technical Architect to join our expanding Finance & Operations Practice. This is a senior leadership role within the division, responsible for driving technical excellence, ensuring solution quality, and guiding our clients on their digital journey with Microsoft technologies.

What You'll Be Doing:

The Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations Technical Architect will serve as our senior technical authority across all Finance & Operations engagements. This individual will be responsible for defining and enforcing architectural standards, ensuring alignment with Microsoft best practices, and enabling seamless integration across Dynamics 365, Dataverse, Power Platform, and Azure services.

You will collaborate closely with solution architects, developers, functional consultants, and client stakeholders to design and deliver scalable, secure, and high-performing enterprise solutions - anchored in governance, innovation, and delivery excellence.

Key Responsibilities:

Technical Leadership & Architecture

• Own the end-to-end technical architecture for all D365 Finance & Operations projects
• Lead solution design workshops and establish reusable technical standards, patterns, and governance frameworks
• Ensure architectural alignment across Dataverse, Power Platform, and Azure integration layers
• Oversee the design, performance, and maintainability of all integrations, extensions, and customisations
• Review and approve technical deliverables to ensure compliance with best practice and long-term supportability.

Delivery Oversight

• Provide hands-on technical oversight across multiple concurrent F&O implementations
• Identify, mitigate, and escalate technical risks throughout the project life cycle
• Partner with the Practice Director to drive consistency, quality, and velocity in technical delivery
• Guide development teams in adopting DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines within Azure environments.

Innovation & Continuous Improvement

• Stay abreast of Microsoft's Dynamics 365 roadmap, Azure innovations, and Power Platform capabilities
• Champion emerging technologies, tools, and delivery models that enhance solution quality and speed
• Mentor and upskill technical team members, fostering a high-performance culture across the F&O practice.

Client & Stakeholder Engagement

• Engage directly with clients to translate complex business requirements into robust technical solutions
• Communicate architectural decisions and technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders
• Act as a trusted advisor, ensuring technical strategies align with business goals and commercial outcomes.

Experience Essential:

• Proven experience as a Technical Architect or Lead Developer across multiple end-to-end Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations implementations
• Deep expertise in F&O architecture: data entities, extensibility, integrations, performance optimisation
• Strong background in integrating F&O with Dataverse, Power Platform (Power BI, Power Automate, Power Apps), and Azure services (Logic Apps, Service Bus, Azure Functions, API Management)
• Proficiency in X , C#, .NET, DevOps pipelines, and Lifecycle Services (LCS)
• Solid grasp of enterprise integration patterns, cloud architecture principles, and security models
• Exceptional communication, leadership, and mentoring capabilities
• Microsoft certifications in Dynamics 365 F&O and/or Azure (preferred).

Desirable:

• Demonstrated success in large-scale, multi-industry business transformations.
• Leadership experience in building and scaling teams.