D365 Architect/Dynamics 365 CE - Solution Architect

Role: D365 Architect/Dynamics 365 CE - Solution Architect /Senior Consultant (aspiring architect)

Full time

Remote- Preferred from DC areas

Salary: Market/Negotiable

Job Description

Supporting the Sales Cycle - D365 CE product knowledge

• Partnering during Sales - Collaborates with internal stakeholders in the pre-sale process by understanding business requirements and providing industry and technical input and/or solution offerings to help shape the deal. Supports drafting proposals (estimations) and/or statement of work (SOW)
• Understanding Customer environment - ability to assess customer environment and business outcomes desired to support "outcome" based conversations. Development of demos to support sales conversations.
• Contributing to Offering Development - Drives the re-use of intellectual property and recommends practices in both pre-sales and delivery.
• Communicating Effectively - Experience giving presentations to executive audiences and linking technical solutions to business outcomes
• Providing value - Guide business and technical decision makers on creating business value

Trusted Advisor/Thought Leadership

• Ability to be seen as a trusted advisor to the customer - does this through providing thought leadership, building influence through addressing problems/blockers and facilitating additional views to drive clarity
• Understand competitor solutions and identify how customer business value can be driven through Microsoft's offerings. Steers the customer/partner conversations to the benefits of the solution rather than the features and functionalities.
• Share ideas, insight, and strategic, technical input with internal teams and leverages those inputs to inform IP development
• Authentic in how she/he leads

Technical Oversight Delivery - D365 CE product knowledge

• As a technical leader you will provide technical oversight on engagements to provide consistency from sales to delivery
• Provides quality reviews on technical architecture and designIdentifies technical and business risks in programs and proposes mitigations.
• Aligns solutions with the intent of the architecture.
• Lead technical assessments and strategy related engagements
• Proactively manages executive-level customer/partner/stakeholder relationships to identify and contribute to the drivers of satisfaction and dissatisfaction, determine the root cause, and establish recovery actions to improve the experience. Shares lessons learned with workgroup and consultant community.

Skills

• 10+ years' experience in technology solutions, practice development, architecture, consulting, and/or technology domain around CRM
• Strong Microsoft Power Apps and Dynamics 365 CE product and industry knowledge
• Expertise in Custom Workflow Activity, Plugin (C#), Power Automate, JavaScript, HTML, PowerApps Portals, Canvas Apps and Power Platform development
• Leverages a structured approach to Projects using existing methodologies (e.g., Waterfall, Agile, Iterative)
• Excellent presentation, communication, leadership and client development skills to effectively present information to company leadership. Ability to translate the technical into business language.
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills to build positive relationships.
• Ability to lead others
• Curiosity & desire to grow and learn