Dynamics 365- Solution Architect

Hybrid role with 2 to 3 days at the office per week based in either London, Birmingham or Leeds
Join a team of passionate thought leaders in a dynamic and collaborative environment! Cognizant Microsoft Business Group’s
Business Applications
team is hiring now and we’re looking for our next
Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM Solution Architect
to join us.
The Microsoft Business Group is a cloud-first, full-service Microsoft partner committed to delivering innovative technology solutions that solve human challenges. We are compelled by our core values to drive transformational results for clients across all company sizes, geographies and industries. The Cognizant Microsoft Business Group team delivers full lifecycle solutions—from project inception and planning, through deployment to ongoing support and maintenance.
What can you expect from this role?
In this role you will nurture needs and deliver Microsoft Business Applications solutions for existing and prospective clients. Working with the Business Analysis practice and client teams to design, build, oversee, and implement solutions using the Power Platform and Dynamics 365 customer engagement first-party applications.
What will you be doing?
Your responsibilities include the below – not are not restricted to it:
Advise customers on the fit of Microsoft Dynamics to their environment, infrastructure, functional and non-functional needs, and their compliance requirements
Lead the architecture and technical design of Dynamics 365 CE Sales, Service and Marketing solutions, Power Platform and Field Services
Interface with BAs, SME end-users and functional leads to ensure architecture and design meets their needs including integration with third party systems
Guide the design of the Dynamics functional and technical teams on the project
Support the Delivery Lead planning delivery of solutions and their implementation
What skills and experience do you need to be considered for this opportunity?
You are a seasoned Technical Consultant or Architect in Microsoft Dynamics 365 CE (CRM) with successful implementation experience on complex Field Service and Customer Service engagements.
You have a solid understanding of Microsoft Dynamics 365 CE and experience of working on full life cycle implementations across multiple versions of Dynamics CRM/365 CE (4.0, 2011, 2013, 2016, 365)
You have excellent stakeholder management skills and communication skills with experience in client facing engagements and pre-sales demonstration, and experience working across different teams based in different geographies
You can write high level solution architecture and detailed Technical Design documentation
You gave experience in data integration and data migration
You have experience with defined frameworks (MVC, Entity Framework and Enterprise Library)
You should have a hands-on experience of programming and coding, most specifically in the following:
.NET Framework Version 4.5, or above, including strong WCF\ Web API experience and C#
OOPS concepts
Knowledge of Web development in HTML, CSS, JSON, XML, JavaScript and SQL
You will have experience of working with SQL Server 2008, or above, with custom report experience through SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) and FetchXML
It will be a bonus if you have experience in the following as well:
Microsoft Azure
Power Apps and Portal
Field Services
Customer Insight