Senior Solution Architect - D365 Business Central

Uniphar Group; Dublin; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Uniphar Group in Dublin (Citywest) and London is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to own the architecture of Dynamics 365 Business Central across the Medtech division, guiding end-to-end design as the ERP platform scales for growth and acquisitions.

You will balance performance, security, and integration within a regulated medical device environment, partnering with business teams and external partners in an Agile, product-based delivery model to drive architectural decisions.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end architecture of Dynamics 365 Business Central as the ERP platform for Uniphar's Medtech division, from target state through to delivered design.
• Define and maintain the target architecture, design principles and standards that govern how Business Central is configured, extended and integrated.
• Act as the design authority for the ERP platform, making the key design decisions and reviewing and approving solution designs to ensure architectural integrity.
• Own the technical debt agenda, moving the platform away from customisation-heavy patterns towards supportable, upgrade-safe design.
• Balance business need, cost, time-to-value and long-term maintainability in every architectural decision.
• Operate comfortably at both altitudes: setting enterprise-level direction one day and getting into the detail of a posting routine, page extension or permission set the next.
• Review, robustly challenge and approve solution designs produced by implementation partners, ISVs and third-party developers, rather than accepting them at face value.
• Hold vendors to account on design quality, cost, effort estimates and supportability, ensuring proposed solutions are proportionate, upgrade-safe and genuinely fit for Uniphar's needs.
• Ensure partner-delivered work meets Uniphar architecture, security, ALM and coding standards before it is accepted into the estate.
• Build open, constructive relationships with partners while retaining design authority and architectural ownership in-house.
• Get close to how the business actually operates, spending time with finance, supply chain, warehouse and commercial teams to understand their processes and pain points.
• Proactively uncover opportunities where Business Central and the wider Microsoft stack can remove manual effort, reduce cost, improve control or unlock new capability.
• Translate those opportunities into practical, well-sized proposals with a clear articulation of the value, effort and risk involved.
• Challenge stated requirements to get to the underlying business need, and steer the business away from solutions that create long-term cost or complexity.
• Own the solution design across the core ERP process areas: finance, purchasing, inventory and warehouse management, distribution and order‑to‑cash.
• Ensure

Job description

Key Responsibilities

ERP Solution Architecture (Ownership)

Full Time Permanent Role

Citywest office, Dublin Ireland /Stockley Park office, London, England

The Role

Uniphar are embarking on an ambitious, multi-year transformation program and are seeking a Senior Solution Architect to own the architecture of Dynamics 365 Business Central, the ERP platform underpinning our Medtech division. Business Central is live and running the division's core finance, supply chain and distribution operations; this senior role holds accountability for the end-to-end technical design of the platform as it scales to support growth, new entities and acquisitions across multiple geographies. The ideal candidate combines deep, hands-on Business Central and AL extension expertise with the architectural judgement to design for resiliency, performance, integration and security in a regulated, medical device environment. This is a role for someone who is equally comfortable holding an implementation partner to account on a solution design, sitting with the business to uncover the next opportunity, and getting into the detail to make a change themselves. Working within an Agile, product-based delivery model, the Architect will set the technical direction, own the key design decisions, drive down technical debt, and lead a high-performing development team - ensuring we build the right things, in the right way.

Key Responsibilities

ERP Solution Architecture (Ownership)

• Own the end-to-end architecture of Dynamics 365 Business Central as the ERP platform for Uniphar's Medtech division, from target state through to delivered design.
• Define and maintain the target architecture, design principles and standards that govern how Business Central is configured, extended and integrated.
• Act as the design authority for the ERP platform, making the key design decisions and reviewing and approving solution designs to ensure architectural integrity.
• Own the technical debt agenda, moving the platform away from customisation-heavy patterns towards supportable, upgrade-safe design.
• Balance business need, cost, time-to-value and long-term maintainability in every architectural decision.
• Operate comfortably at both altitudes: setting enterprise-level direction one day and getting into the detail of a posting routine, page extension or permission set the next.

Vendor & Partner Design Assurance

• Review, robustly challenge and approve solution designs produced by implementation partners, ISVs and third-party developers, rather than accepting them at face value.
• Hold vendors to account on design quality, cost, effort estimates and supportability, ensuring proposed solutions are proportionate, upgrade-safe and genuinely fit for Uniphar's needs.
• Ensure partner-delivered work meets Uniphar architecture, security, ALM and coding standards before it is accepted into the estate.
• Build open, constructive relationships with partners while retaining design authority and architectural ownership in-house.

Business Partnering & Opportunity Identification

• Get close to how the business actually operates, spending time with finance, supply chain, warehouse and commercial teams to understand their processes and pain points.
• Proactively uncover opportunities where Business Central and the wider Microsoft stack can remove manual effort, reduce cost, improve control or unlock new capability.
• Translate those opportunities into practical, well-sized proposals with a clear articulation of the value, effort and risk involved.
• Challenge stated requirements to get to the underlying business need, and steer the business away from solutions that create long-term cost or complexity.

Core ERP Process Architecture

• Own the solution design across the core ERP process areas: finance, purchasing, inventory and warehouse management, distribution and order‑to‑cash.
• Ensure