Senior Solution Architect - Remote & Multi-Stream Delivery

Codec Azure; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Codec Azure is seeking a senior Solution Architect based in the UK with strong hands-on capability to shape solution strategy while steering multi-team delivery. The role offers excellent flexibility to work remotely, with a primary focus on Power Platform, D365 CE, and Azure-led architectures.

You will lead architecture ownership, define roadmaps, and ensure secure, scalable solutions across client engagements, mentoring consultants and driving best-practice standards.

Qualifications

• 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).

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Consulting experience

Enterprise delivery

Executive communication

Licensing knowledge

Architecture design

Governance & ALM

Security patterns

Data & BI awareness

AI opportunities awareness

Tools

Azure

Power Platform

D365 CE

Logic Apps

Functions

Service Bus

API Management

AAD/OAuth

Job description

Codec Azure is seeking a senior Solution Architect based in the UK with strong hands-on capability to shape solution strategy while steering multi-team delivery. The role offers excellent flexibility to work remotely, with a primary focus on Power Platform, D365 CE, and Azure-led architectures.

You will lead architecture ownership, define roadmaps, and ensure secure, scalable solutions across client engagements, mentoring consultants and driving best-practice standards.