D365 Solution Architect

Codec; Belfast City District; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Codec is hiring a Solution Architect to shape strategy, manage scope and risks, and serve as the primary technical counterpart to clients. This role remains hands-on for spikes, POCs, and critical flows while guiding multi-team delivery, commercials, and roadmaps.

We value diverse backgrounds and perspectives, and Codec is committed to an inclusive, supportive environment for your best work. Strong leadership and mentoring skills are essential.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in consulting or enterprise delivery with ownership of multi-workstream programmes.
• Excellent facilitation and executive communications; ability to produce decision papers.
• Practical knowledge of D365/Power Platform licensing impacts and commercial awareness.
• Strong Dataverse modelling, integration/security patterns, and non-functional design.

Responsibilities

• Define target architectures on Power Platform/D365 CE and produce cost/benefit papers.
• Own technical scope, estimates, changes, quality gates and non-functional requirements.
• Lead workshops with C-suite and business stakeholders; manage priorities and trade-offs.
• Shape bids, statements of work, delivery plans, and commercials; support account growth.
• Agree patterns for Azure integration (Functions, Logic Apps, API-M) and data governance.
• Design environment topology, CI/CD and release cadence; enforce governance.

Skills

Senior delivery ownership

Consulting & communication

Commercial & licensing

Architecture

Governance & ALM

Power Platform & Azure

Tools

Dataverse

Power Platform

Azure

Job description

We're hiring a Solution Architect to shape solution strategy, manage scope and risks, and be the primary technical counterpart to our clients. You'll remain hands-on where it counts (spikes, POCs, critical flows and where tight deadlines mean helping out), while steering multi-team delivery, commercials, and roadmap.

We strongly encourage candidates of all different backgrounds and identities to apply. Each new member of our team brings a fresh perspective, and we're always eager to further diversify our company. Codec is committed to building an inclusive, supportive place for you to do the best and most rewarding work of your career.

Key Responsibilities

• Solution Strategy & Roadmapping: Define target architectures on Power Platform/D365 CE; produce option papers with cost/benefit/licensing impacts and a pragmatic adoption path.
• Scope & Delivery Governance: Own technical scope, estimates, and assumptions; run change control; set quality gates and NFRs; orchestrate partner/offshore teams.
• Stakeholder Leadership: Lead C-suite and business workshops; align competing technical priorities; communicate risk and trade-offs clearly.
• Commercial Awareness: Shape bids/SoWs, delivery plans, and commercials; support account growth with value cases and phased roadmaps.
• Integration & Security Patterns: Approve patterns for Azure integration (Functions, Logic Apps, API-M, Service Bus), identity (AAD/OAuth), and data governance.
• ALM at Scale: Design environment topology, DLP, solution layering; enforce CI/CD standards and release cadence.
• Data, Insights & Copilot: Partner with data teams on reporting; assess Copilot/AI opportunities and responsible-use guidelines.
• Enablement & Handover: Ensure team produce and adhere to standards for admin guides, runbooks, support models, and operational KPIs.
• Leadership & Coaching: Mentor Senior consultants; build standards; turn lessons learned into reusable assets.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

• Experience: ~10+ years across consulting/enterprise delivery with proven ownership of multi-workstream programmes; prior architect title or clear equivalent.
• Consulting & Communication: Excellent facilitation, executive comms, conflict resolution, and decision papers.
• Commercial & Licensing: Estimation, SoWs, margin awareness, and practical knowledge of D365/Power Platform licensing impacts.
• Architecture: Strong Dataverse modelling, integration/security patterns, and non-functional design (performance, availability, accessibility).
• Governance & ALM: Environment strategy, DLP, layered solutions, release governance.
• Desirable: Power Pages governance; BI for operational reporting; regulated industry experience; modern delivery (Scrum/Scaled Agile).

What success looks like

• 90 days: You've taken architecture ownership of a complex delivery, stabilised delivery, and completely gained the customer's and team's trust.
• 6 months: You've delivered a project successfully into production for a large enterprise customer. You've taken the learning and contributed them back to the company so we benefit other customers with the knowledge gained.
• 12 months: You are helping define and shape standards and best practices across the company for new technologies we delivery - AI, Power Platform and Azure.