Dynamics Solutions Architect

Job Posted: 16th June 2022

Key Responsibilities

• Architect solutions that deliver results for clients on the D365 Finance and Operations platform
• Elicit business and functional requirements by communicating with c-level management, directors, and customer project stakeholders
• Develop functional specification designs
• Application design, feature optimization, availability, scalability, user experience, visualization, and data integrity
• Drive the effective transition of requirements to delivery, ensuring a clear and complete understanding
• Lead and participate in quality management reviews including designs, prototypes and other stages of the project to ensure requirements are fulfilled and successfully delivered to the end customer
• Integrate and/or improve methodologies and end customer experience
• Liaise with planning/scheduling/production colleagues to understand what planning and scheduling best practice will look like for the business
• Deliver hands on training and support to others for all bill of material formulas, planning and scheduling activity in line with Dynamics 365 roll out plan
• Design and deliver user acceptance testing for each phase of the business in line with the Dynamics 365 roll out plan
• Be part of the Dynamics 365 team to provide frontline support to the operational teams as systems go live

 

Experience Desired

• Degree or higher in Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Information Management or
• Statistics 
• Proven working experience in a similar role
• Knowledge of statistics and experience using statistical packages for analyzing datasets (Excel, and Minitab etc)
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy
• Able to collate business requirements and translate these into technical specifications
• Use business knowledge and information gathered to design reporting and operational tools for the business, project managing this work and the related tasks assigned to our support partners.
• Produce professional documentation to support all elements, such as business cases, technical specifications, implementation and testing plans and training manuals.
• Excellent presentation and communications skills – ability to translate functional requirements for technical stakeholders and vice-versa
• Assist with support issues and minor development requirements as well as responding to requests for data
• The ability to take a lead role in managing projects, utilising data from business systems and third-party sources
• Knowledge of the whole business process from order, through production dispatch and invoicing.
• Experience of lean and six sigma programmes within manufacturing environment, and how data has a key role within them.
• Knowledge of ERP systems in manufacturing, and data requirements therein

 

Key Competencies Required

Being Organised

• Achieve results by prioritising workload, effective time management and showing efficiency with resources available and monitoring progress

Role Model     

• Being an exemplary role model and taking the lead in promoting and living our values

Attention to Detail      

• Your work is complete and accurate

Customers      

• Concern for external and internal customers

Initiative                     

• Doing it before being asked

Innovation                  

• Creating new and improved products / ways of getting the job done

Communication

• Keeping everyone who needs to know in the loop                

Problem Solving

• Recognises where problems may arise and suggests preventative measures

Thinking ahead

• Anticipating what might happen

 

Key Relationships

• Senior Data Analyst
• IT Team
• Operations Director
• Production Managers
• Directors and Heads of Department