Solutions Architect (Dynamics 365)

at  Andersen Software

Summary
The IT company Andersen invites an experienced Solutions Architect (Dynamics 365) to join its team for working with our customer from Ireland.
The customer is a technology company that offers managed IT solutions and more for their business to clients across Ireland, the UK and the US. They work with clients to help them improve and grow their business and ensure that all their technology needs are met in an efficient and timely manner.
The project is to provide strategic assistance to clients in assessing their business needs, aligning them with system and technical requirements, and implementing them in Dynamics 365.
The task is to be responsible for the overall development of business applications on the Microsoft Power Platform using Dynamics 365, the Common Data Service, and Azure components.
Technology stack on the project: Dynamics 365 (CRM), Power Platform, ASP.NET MVC, SharePoint, MS SQL Server, SSIS, SSRS, SSAS.

Responsibilities

• Solution envisioning and design in an Agile development environment, primarily using the Microsoft technology stack.
• Communicate with business stakeholders and business analysts to ensure the solution design meets requirements.
• Work closely with developers to ensure the approach is in line with the proposed design and overall standards.
• Work with project management resources in the agile planning process - estimating development effort and allocation of development tasks.
• Make recommendations on the allocation of resources into sprint teams according to skills and capacity and provide mentoring support to developer resources.
• Identify project risks and participate in defining risk mitigation and control activities.
• Maintain lean documentation, ensuring it is kept relevant and useful.
• Assist with providing inputs to the project plans, estimates and scope for sales proposals and statements of work.
• Participate in implementation customisation and configuration for D365 & Power Platform solutions.

Requirements

• Experience as a Solution Architect (or comparable role) within enterprise scale systems development projects for 3+ years.
• Extensive experience with the Microsoft Dynamics 365 platform.
• Expertise in leveraging technology solution accelerators (reusable components, standardized workflows and recommended configurations – deployment guidelines and toolsets).
• Ability to demonstrate a sound and detailed understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the various Microsoft technologies and how they piece together to build an overall solution.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills – ability to present technical solutions in easy to understand business language.
• Equally comfortable talking to technical and business audiences and able to get their message across using a variety of tools - whiteboard, screen mock-ups, prototypes, flowcharts, etc.
• Strong self-management skills able to manage own workload to complete assigned tasks to time and quality.
• Experience working within a consultancy environment is desirable.
• Entrepreneurial – proactively seeks out opportunities to grow their technology practice area and expand into emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence.
• Level of English – from Intermediate+ and above.

Reasons to join us

• Experience in teamwork with leaders in FinTech, Healthcare, Retail, Telecom, and others. Andersen cooperates with such businesses as Samsung, Siemens, Johnson & Johnson, BNP Paribas, Ryanair, Mercedes, TUI, Verivox, Allianz, T-Systems, etc..
• The opportunity to change the project and/or develop expertise in an interesting business domain.
• Job conditions – you can work both fully remotely and from the office or can choose a hybrid variant.
• Guarantee of professional, financial, and career growth! The company has introduced systems of mentoring and adaptation for each new employee.
• The opportunity to earn additional up to 1,700 EUR per month by participating in the company’s activities.
• Access to the corporate training portal, where the entire knowledge base of the company is collected and which is constantly updated.
• Bright corporate life (parties / pizza days / PlayStation / fruits / coffee / snacks / movies).
• Certification compensation (AWS, PMP, etc).
• Referral program.
• English courses.
• Private health insurance and compensation for sports activities.

Join us

• Solution envisioning and design in an Agile development environment, primarily using the Microsoft technology stack.
• Communicate with business stakeholders and business analysts to ensure the solution design meets requirements.
• Work closely with developers to ensure the approach is in line with the proposed design and overall standards.
• Work with project management resources in the agile planning process - estimating development effort and allocation of development tasks.
• Make recommendations on the allocation of resources into sprint teams according to skills and capacity and provide mentoring support to developer resources.
• Identify project risks and participate in defining risk mitigation and control activities.
• Maintain lean documentation, ensuring it is kept relevant and useful.
• Assist with providing inputs to the project plans, estimates and scope for sales proposals and statements of work.
• Participate in implementation customisation and configuration for D365 & Power Platform solutions