Senior Solution Architect - D365 Business Central

uniphar; Ireland; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Uniphar are seeking a Senior Solution Architect to own the architecture of Dynamics 365 Business Central, the ERP platform underpinning our Medtech division. Live in production, the role leads architectural decisions and drives design towards scalable, secure systems across geographies.

You will partner with business teams to uncover opportunities, challenge designs from partners, and ensure alignment with enterprise standards in an agile, product-driven delivery model.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience with Dynamics 365 Business Central.
• Expertise in AL extension development and customization.
• Strong architectural judgement for scalable ERP platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end ERP architecture for Business Central across Medtech.
• Define target architecture, principles and standards for the platform.
• Act as design authority; review and approve solution designs.
• Manage technical debt; drive upgrade-safe, maintainable designs.
• Collaborate with partners and internal teams to deliver value.

Skills

D365 Business Central

AL extensions

Solution architecture

ERP integration

Job description

Senior Solution Architect - D365 Business Central

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 the design supports medical device distribution, including lot and serial traceability, expiry control, UDI and consignment / field inventory models.

  Work with process owners to standardise ways of working across legal entities and geographies, minimising divergence and one‑off design.

  Design for master data integrity across items, customers, suppliers and the chart of accounts, and define how master data is governed across the estate.

• Designing for Resiliency & Non‑Functional Requirements

  Design for resiliency, scalability, performance, availability and disaster recovery, ensuring non‑functional requirements are captured and baked into every design.

  Ensure the platform performs at scale under high transaction volumes across order capture, picking, invoicing and period‑end processing.

  Embed security, data protection and governance by design, implementing appropriate access controls, segregation of duties and governance policies across the platform.

  Conduct architectural assessments of the existing solution and proactively drive improvements to performance, reliability and efficiency.

  Own the approach to Microsoft's continuous relea