Dynamics 365 & Power BI Architecture Lead

Southernirrigation; Chilliwack; On-site; CAD 160,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% employer-paid health benefits

RRSP matching

Culture & community events

Bonus opportunities

Job summary

Southern Irrigation seeks a Business Systems Architect & Development Lead for its Chilliwack, BC location. The role owns Dynamics 365 BC, Power BI, the webstore, and integrations to other business apps, guiding internal and external developers and setting technical direction for scalable, maintainable solutions.

The candidate will design, develop, and maintain extensions using AL, ensure robust testing and deployment practices, and balance immediate needs with long-term system health and growth.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and AL development.
• Strong understanding of BC architecture, extensions, APIs, data structures, and integrations.
• Proven ability to design and deliver production-grade Business Central solutions.
• Experience with REST APIs and modern integration methods.

Responsibilities

• Own Business Central architecture and development standards.
• Design, develop, test, deploy, troubleshoot, and maintain extensions and applications using AL.
• Assess business requirements and determine the right technical solution.
• Review existing customizations, extensions, and processes for performance, maintainability, and technical debt.
• Refactor or redesign weak or overly complex solutions.
• Troubleshoot issues and address root causes.
• Ensure custom development remains compatible with Microsoft updates.
• Maintain appropriate testing, version control, deployment, and documentation practices.
• Set technical standards across Southern’s business systems.
• Direct and review work completed by employees, contractors, consultants, and third-party developers.
• Review significant solutions before development begins.
• Assess work for architecture, code quality, performance, security, reliability, and maintainability.
• Hold external development partners accountable for the quality of their work.
• Determine when work should be completed internally or externally.
• Prevent unnecessary customization, duplication, and short-term solutions that create long-term problems.
• Maintain a clear understanding of major applications, integrations, and data flows.
• Anticipate system needs and recommend improvements before growth creates problems.
• Own the architecture and reliability of Southern’s Power BI environment.
• Design and maintain efficient data models, datasets, connections, and reporting structures.
• Ensure reporting is accurate and consistent.
• Establish clear definitions for key business metrics.
• Troubleshoot data discrepancies, failed refreshes, performance issues, and reporting errors.
• Reduce duplication and inefficient reporting structures.
• Ensure reporting scales with company growth and increasing data volumes.
• Build reports directly where appropriate and guide others completing Power BI development.
• Own the design and reliability of integrations between Business Central and other systems.
• Design and maintain appropriate API and data-integration architecture.
• Oversee integrations involving Clover, the webstore, Power Platform, third-party applications, and future systems.
• Ensure integrations include appropriate logging, monitoring, error handling, authentication, and recovery.
• Troubleshoot failed or inconsistent data flows.
• Evaluate new applications based on how well they fit Southern’s existing environment.
• Establish clear system ownership and authoritative data sources.
• Reduce unnecessary manual entry and duplication through appropriate automation.
• Provide technical ownership and architectural direction for Southern’s webstore.
• Ensure product, pricing, inventory, customer, order, payment, and related data flows are reliable.
• Work with internal stakeholders and external developers on new functionality.
• Review proposed architecture and third-party development before implementation.
• Ensure webstore development considers performance, security, maintainability, dependencies, and growth.
• Work with employees across Southern to understand business processes and system needs.
• Translate business requirements into practical technical solutions.
• Prioritize permanent improvements over repeated manual fixes.
• Maintain documentation of systems, integrations, development, and key technical decisions.
• Stay current with Business Central, Power BI, Power Platform, Azure, and related technologies.
• Recommend improvements where they provide clear business value.
• Complete other related duties as required.

Skills

Dynamics 365 BC

AL development

Power BI

REST APIs

Software architecture

Git / source control

System integration

Technical leadership

Clear communication

Tools

Azure Functions

Logic Apps

Service Bus

Power Platform

Dataverse

.NET/C#

Job description

Southern Irrigation seeks a Business Systems Architect & Development Lead for its Chilliwack, BC location. The role owns Dynamics 365 BC, Power BI, the webstore, and integrations to other business apps, guiding internal and external developers and setting technical direction for scalable, maintainable solutions.

The candidate will design, develop, and maintain extensions using AL, ensure robust testing and deployment practices, and balance immediate needs with long-term system health and growth.