Strategic Solution Architect – Power Platform & Azure

• Shape solution strategy, manage scope and risks, and be the primary technical counterpart to clients.

• Remain hands-on where it counts (spikes, POCs, critical flows and where tight deadlines mean helping out), while steering multi-team delivery, commercials, and roadmap.

• Define target architectures on Power Platform/D365 CE; produce option papers with cost/benefit/licensing impacts and a pragmatic adoption path.

• Own technical scope, estimates, and assumptions; run change control; set quality gates and NFRs; orchestrate partner/offshore teams.

• Lead C-suite and business workshops; align competing technical priorities; communicate risk and trade-offs clearly.

• Shape bids/SoWs, delivery plans, and commercials; support account growth with value cases and phased roadmaps.

• Approve patterns for Azure integration (Functions, Logic Apps, API-M, Service Bus), identity (AAD/OAuth), and data governance.

• Design environment topology, DLP, solution layering; enforce CI/CD standards and release cadence.

• Partner with data teams on reporting; assess Copilot/AI opportunities and responsible-use guidelines.

• Ensure team produce and adhere to standards for admin guides, runbooks, support models, and operational KPIs.

• Mentor Senior consultants; build standards; turn lessons learned into reusable assets.

Requirements

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

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Hard Skills

• solution strategy
• target architectures
• Azure integration
• Dataverse modelling
• non-functional design
• CI/CD standards
• reporting
• Power Platform
• D365 CE
• change control

Soft Skills

• facilitation
• executive communication
• conflict resolution
• decision making
• mentoring
• risk communication
• stakeholder alignment
• team leadership
• commercial awareness
• problem solving