Responsibilities :

- Solution Design & Review : Review business and functional requirements and help shape D365 F&O solution designs prior to build, ensuring alignment with architectural standards and best practices.

- Functional-to-Technical Translation : Apply functional knowledge of D365 F&O to guide technical designs that accurately support business processes across Supply Chain Management and Finance.

- Technical Guidance : Provide hands-on guidance and consultation to engineers and contractors, helping teams evaluate multiple solution approaches and understand tradeoffs.

- Design & Code Quality Oversight : Review solution designs, pull requests, and implementations in GitHub to ensure quality, performance, security, and maintainability.

- Best Practices Enablement : Help reinforce and evolve D365 development, customization, integration, and source-control best practices in collaboration with engineering leadership.

- Estimation & Planning Support : Assist with technical scoping, effort estimation, dependency identification, and risk assessment for new requirements and user stories.

- Integration Consulting : Advise internal and partner teams on best practices for integrating with D365 F&O, including OData, DMF, Business Events, Dataverse, and Synapse-based patterns.

- Data & Reporting Guidance : Support reporting and analytics teams in understanding D365 table structures, relationships, and data access patterns across Dataverse and Synapse.

- Operational Considerations : Ensure solution designs account for deployment, monitoring, supportability, and long-term operational impact.

- Continuous Improvement : Partner closely with the D365 engineering manager to identify gaps, recommend improvements, and help introduce new technical practices or standards.

- Cross-Team Collaboration : Act as a trusted technical advisor to adjacent platform, integration, and data teams.

Required Skills :

- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

- 8- 10+ years of experience working with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations (or Dynamics AX).

- Strong functional knowledge of D365 F&O, with the ability to understand and reason about business processes in Supply Chain Management and Finance.

- Deep understanding of D365 F&O architecture, extensibility patterns, and platform limitations.

- Proven experience providing technical leadership and architectural guidance in a non-people-manager capacity.

- Expertise in D365 integration patterns, including OData, DMF, Business Events, Dataverse, and Synapse Link.

- Strong understanding of D365 data models, table relationships, and reporting considerations.

- Experience using GitHub for source control, including reviewing pull requests and guiding branching and code review practices.

- Ability to evaluate multiple solution approaches and clearly articulate tradeoffs to technical and business stakeholders.

- Experience supporting estimation, planning, and technical decision-making in Agile delivery environments.

- Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence without authority.

Preferred :

- Prior experience in a D365 Technical Architect or Senior Technical Lead role.

- Experience working with teams that include both full-time engineers and contract resources.

- Familiarity with Power Platform extensibility and integration patterns.

- Experience guiding teams using Synapse analytics, data lake architectures, or nearreal-time data replication.

- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and release processes for D365 F&O.

- Relevant Microsoft certifications (e.g., MB-300, MB-500, MB-700, or architecture-focused credentials).