ERP SME / Senior Technical Architect – D365 Finance & Operations

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Role Summary

We are seeking a senior Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations ERP SME / Technical Lead to provide solution leadership for strategic enterprise programs. The role will define the target technical architecture, guide critical design decisions, assure solution quality, and advise client and delivery leadership on D365 platform strategy, integration, data, security, extensibility, and operational readiness.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and govern the overall D365 F&O technical architecture and ensure alignment with business objectives and enterprise architecture principles.
• Act as the senior subject-matter expert for complex technical decisions across D365 F&O, Power Platform, Azure services, enterprise integrations, data, security, reporting, and application lifecycle management.
• Lead architecture discovery, fit-gap analysis, solution-option evaluation, and technical-design authority reviews.
• Create and maintain architecture artefacts, including solution context, integration architecture, data architecture, security design, environment strategy, deployment approach, and non-functional requirements.
• Identify opportunities to use standard product capabilities and minimize unnecessary customization and technical debt.
• Review high-risk extensions, integrations, migration designs, performance-sensitive processes, and production-readiness plans.
• Provide design assurance and independent challenge across functional and technical workstreams.
• Advise on platform roadmap, release strategy, upgrade readiness, support model, and long-term maintainability.
• Partner with client architects, business leaders, program leadership, Microsoft, and delivery teams to resolve cross-platform dependencies and architecture risks.
• Support estimation, solutioning, proposals, due diligence, and executive-level architecture presentations where required.
• Coach ERP Leads, technical architects, and development teams and establish reusable standards and patterns.
• Support cutover governance, go-live readiness, stabilization, and resolution of critical technical issues.

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Mandatory Skills and Experience

• Deep expertise in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations, with a strong track record in enterprise ERP transformation programs.
• Proven experience as a D365 F&O Technical Architect, Solution Architect, or equivalent senior ERP architecture role.
• Strong knowledge of D365 F&O architecture, extensibility, X++, data framework, reporting, security, workflow, batch processing, integration patterns, and environment strategy.
• Expertise in enterprise integration design using Azure integration services, APIs, OData, business events, messaging, or comparable patterns.
• Strong understanding of master data, data migration, reconciliation, archival, and reporting considerations in ERP programs.
• Experience defining and governing non-functional requirements, including performance, resilience, security, scalability, service management, and supportability.
• Ability to evaluate solution trade-offs, identify architecture risks, and provide clear recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Strong consulting, facilitation, documentation, and executive-communication skills.
• Ability to lead architecture across multiple teams, vendors, and geographically distributed stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Microsoft certification relevant to Dynamics 365 Finance, Supply Chain Management, Power Platform, Azure, or Solution Architecture.
• Experience with global or multi-country D365 deployments and complex enterprise landscapes.
• Experience working with Microsoft FastTrack, implementation partners, or formal architecture-governance forums.
• Experience shaping transformation roadmaps, presales solutions, technical estimates, and delivery approaches.

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