Solution Architect, Contract

Role Overview

• Own solutions across one or more customers.
• Work as part of a virtual team of architects, sharing ideas and breaking down internal walls.
• Functionally and technically knowledgeable of the Power Platform and the Microsoft technology stack.
• Quickly adapt to and understand unfamiliar industry sectors and business processes.
• Involvement in designing solutions from scratch and in the pre-sales process.
• Be a customer’s trusted advisor while understanding commercial considerations affecting project delivery.

Requirements

• Deep understanding of Dynamics 365 CRM architecture, customisation and development.
• Go-to expert in two or more of the following: Power Platform, PowerApps, Power Automate, Power Pages, Licensing, Pre-Sales, Integration Architecture, Microsoft Azure, Power BI, .NET Development, Data Migration Strategies and Approaches.
• Provides expert advice and weighs in on complex decisions and problems that impact other teams or the company at large.
• Solution envisioning and design in agile and waterfall methodologies, primarily with Dynamics 365 as a platform, but introducing other elements of the Microsoft technology stack where necessary (Dynamics 365, ASP.NET, SharePoint, SQL Server, SSIS, SSRS, SSAS).
• Hands-On skills with the ability to get involved in delivery when needed.
• Expertise in ALM practices, including solution lifecycle, environment strategy, and CI/CD automation.
• Proficient in developing structured design documentation aligned with enterprise delivery methodologies and governance frameworks.
• Customer requirements gathering alongside systems analysis and design skills.
• Good understanding of core project management principles and the overall software development lifecycle.
• Presentation and proposal writing.
• Sets direction at a project level to ensure complete ownership of a project.
• Provides feedback on projects outside of their core area.
• Identifies and proposes strategies to problems affecting their team and gets buy-in on solution.
• Makes others better through mentorship or guidance on specific areas related to their functional knowledge.
• Communicate with business stakeholders and business analysts to ensure the solution design meets requirements.
• Take part in the pre-sales process, providing input to tenders and bids when necessary and prototyping and demoing solutions to potential customers.
• Provide strategic guidance on platform capabilities, extensibility, and best practices for solution implementation.
• Work closely with developers to ensure implementations are in line with the proposed design and overall standards.
• Works under broad direction from Practice lead, Enterprise architect lead and Business applications lead.
• Work is self-initiated, solution focused and commercially focused.
• Is fully responsible for meeting allocated technical and/or project/supervisory objectives.
• Has a significant role in the assignment of tasks and/or responsibilities.
• Influences decisions that impact on the success of work streams.
• Influence over the allocation of resources and budgets to particular assignments.
• Builds effective relationships with customers and internal Codec staff, taking a ‘One Codec’ view.
• Leads on project deliveries.
• Performs an extensive range of complex technical and professional work activities, with experience of complex enterprise architecture, integrations and functional considerations.
• Manages projects in fast paced unpredictable environments.
• Understands when and where to leverage their expertise for the benefit of the organisation.

Tech Stack

• ASP.NET
• Azure
• SQL
• SSIS
• Go
• .NET