Essential Behaviours
- Demonstrates care with every interaction.
- Demonstrates a sense of ownership, autonomy, and personal responsibility in work execution.
- Self-driven and capable of working independently while aligning actions with high-level goals; seek support and collaboration when necessary.
- Strong affinity for Microsoft Power platform and good overall appreciation of other Azure technologies like AIS, Data & AI and Microsoft 365.
- Excellent client-facing skills; empathy and adeptness in guiding clients through complex challenges.
- Analytical, planning, and process-oriented approach with a focus on meeting deadlines and delivering quality results.
- Excellent presentation and demonstration skills.
- Project Management awareness.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Uses relevant business acumen to make informed choices.
- Ability to work in an entrepreneurial business.
- Lateral thinker, who will actively listen and contribute to broader topics.
Key Responsibilities
As a Power Platform Solution Architect, you will:
· Be a technical generalist in your area of expertise serving as the technical leader in client-facing engagements.
· Take responsibility for the delivery of technical capabilities to clients at the project level across multiple deliverables, solutions, or workstreams.
· Serve as the most or one of the most senior technical consultants to one or several clients at any given time, facilitating discovery and delivering in-depth technical expertise with the client or prospect, and leading organizations through Microsoft cloud adoption best practices.
· Facilitate client-facing consulting services such as cloud assessments, workshops, and co-design sessions
Own the Cloud Adoption Platform (Power Platform, Azure, or Microsoft 365) portion of joint engagements across other HSO service lines (e.g., Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement, Unified Operations, Data and Analytics, etc.)
· Architect solutions across a range of Microsoft cloud technologies—including, with assistance, those that are not your core expertise—and provide design guidance to Lead, Senior, and other more junior consultants.
· Provide the project teams with proper guidelines for development standards, execution plans, disaster recovery, performance optimization and integrations.
· Ensure project team understands the technical architecture of the project and adheres to proper development and execution of the plan (code review, code QA, security review, deployment plan review, integration review)
· Ensure a formal process is in place for testing and issues resolution, specifically around the technical architecture and integration points of the implementation
· Take responsibility for risk assessment, solution presentation, AS-IS & TO BE processes, sizing and topology finalization, defining solution quality, defining technical quality criteria, etc.
· Further develop and maintain your own technical expertise, share that expertise with your colleagues as a mentor or producer of best practices and intellectual property, provide technical and thought leadership in chosen technical areas, and create knowledge capital that can be leveraged to accelerate project delivery, improve quality and to secure new engagements
· Provide technical pre-sales support to HSO sellers and their clients when needed (e.g. technical presentations to clients, development and presentation of demos, preparation of design and proposal documentation, etc.); note this is not the primary job function, and pre-sales assignments will be made based on technical expertise required by the pursuit
Experience and Skills
Essential
· A strong sense of ownership, autonomy, and personal responsibility for your work
· The drive and self-sufficiency to work independently, translate goals into action, own the success of your area of work, support and seek support from colleagues when needed
· A passion for Microsoft cloud technologies including Power Platform, Azure, and Microsoft 365
· Strong client-facing skills, empathy, and ability to guide clients through challenging problems
· 5+ years of technical and architecting experience working with Microsoft Cloud and related technologies such as Power Platform and Dynamics 365 CE, Azure, and Microsoft 365.
· 5+ years of experience in consulting or customer settings delivering Power Platform or Dynamics 365 CE, Azure, or Microsoft 365 application, integration, and / or infrastructure solutions
· Direct experience designing, building, and delivering Microsoft Dataverse solutions including, but not limited to, forms, workflows, business rules, record security, business process flows Ability to translate requirements into technical architecture for the solution that is scalable, flexible and complies with industry standards
· Experience in customer-facing consulting roles interacting with IT-leaders, product owners, and business users
·Experience leading teams of brilliant, passionate, and culturally diverse technologists
Location
This is a hybrid role and can be based either from our Reading, Glasgow or Manchester offices, or home. Please expect a large amount of planned travel which will involve overnight stays near customers, our offices and other UK locations for meetings, events and training.