Microsoft D365 F&SCM Solutions Architect

** This role can be based anywhere in the UK - we have a Hybrid working model so depending on location we would expect 2-3 days in office** Office locations: Aberdeen, Glasgow, Manchester, Belfast, London, Farnham This role requires a passion for innovation and a commitment to delivering cutting-edge solutions for our clients with a focus on ERP and F&SCM.  Your expertise and insights will shape the future of our Business Applications (AI Business Solutions) vision, contributing to our growth while enjoying the freedom to make key decisions in a dynamic setting.   We hold ourselves to high standards while fostering a flexible work environment and a healthy work-life balance.  Your responsibilities will include:  • Perform an assessment of the customer’s existing business and technology imperatives, goals and challenges.  • Lead or support Dynamics 365 F&SCM workshops directly with stakeholders as part of the pre-sales, sales and delivery processes.  • Use a design-led thinking approach in identifying customer needs and accelerating customer digital transformation.  • Participate in, and are accountable for, every aspect of the Dynamics 365 F&SCM solution implementation from start up, analysis, design, and cut over to production.  • Collaborate with client and project stakeholders and subject matter experts to ensure a comprehensive set of requirements are aligned to business objectives, gaining a full understanding of current business processes.  • Provide high level knowledge of the Dynamics 365 F&SCM cloud platform, supported where required by suitable more technology focused resources.  • Lead and conduct proof of concepts for first of a kind, unknown, or complex situations to help drive innovation for business value solutions for our clients.  • Work with design, development and/or testing teams from a functional and technical perspective to coordinate expectations, deliverables, milestones, quality, and other items.  • Participate in business development activities, from opportunity identification, qualification, scoping, solutioning and proposal writing to oral presentations and demonstrations.  • Coach and Mentor internal team members to develop and acquire additional functional and technical knowledge.  • Support Project Managers in defining project plan activities and providing effort estimates and guidance on ways of working for specific clients.  • Support Project Managers in tracking deliverables to success and with high standards.  • Accountable and responsible for driving and ensuring compliance with internal and external design authorities and solutions for clients.  Qualifications  You will have excellent analytical, problem solving and communication skills as well as the ability to work both autonomously and as part of a team, delivering a wide range of services to our customers.  Desired Skills and Experience:  • Extensive experience with Pre-sales demonstrations, presentations and proposal writing.  • Extensive expertise in the configuration, customization and implementation of Dynamics 365 F&SCM Solutions.  • Extensive Analysis / requirements gathering, solution design and implementation of Dynamics 365 F&SCM Solutions.  • Extensive experience in developing integrations of Dynamics 365 Platform to various types of external systems and can recommend an approach and technology.  • Awareness of working with MS technical stack and build deployment automation/ALM processes.  • Awareness of Microsoft FastTrack and Success by Design principals.  • Awareness of wider Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Azure technology stack.  • Experience of dealing with digital transformation within Retail, Manufacturing or Professional services.   • Experience of leading and managing teams delivering ERP solutions.  •