Solutions Architect (MS Dynamics)

Our client is an established professional not for profit organisation undergoing a significant programme of digital transformation. With a strong focus on enhancing customer experience, improving operational efficiency and delivering long-term business value, the organisation is investing in modern technology platforms and scalable digital solutions.

Solutions Architecture (MS Dynamics)

Location: City of London

Position: Permanent

Working Environment: Microsoft-centric technology landscape

The Client

Our client is an established professional not for profit organisation undergoing a significant programme of digital transformation. With a strong focus on enhancing customer experience, improving operational efficiency and delivering long-term business value, the organisation is investing in modern technology platforms and scalable digital solutions.

Your Role

As Solutions Architecture, you will provide architectural leadership across complex technology programmes, ensuring consistency, integration and long-term sustainability across the organisation's technology landscape.

You will act as a senior technical authority, translating business objectives into practical, future-ready technology solutions while balancing strategic ambition with delivery requirements.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Solution Architecture & Strategy: Define and own end-to-end solution architectures across multiple projects, systems, workstreams and delivery partners.
• Enterprise Architecture: Establish and maintain target, transitional and solution architectures aligned with business strategy and recognised Microsoft architectural principles.
• Microsoft Dynamics 365 & Power Platform: Lead architectural design across Dynamics 365 and Power Platform, ensuring solutions align with business processes, data models, governance and security requirements.
• Cloud & Integration: Design secure, resilient integration architectures using Microsoft Azure, APIs, microservices, event-driven architecture and Azure-native integration services.
• Legacy Modernisation: Lead the architectural approach to legacy system decommissioning, reducing technical debt while protecting service continuity and data integrity.
• Technical Leadership: Provide hands-on architectural guidance, mentorship and technical direction to internal development teams and external suppliers.
• DevOps & Delivery: Support effective use of Azure DevOps, including CI/CD pipelines, branching strategies, environment management and release processes.
• Supplier & Stakeholder Management: Work across multiple technology suppliers and managed service providers, resolving design conflicts, managing delivery risks and maintaining architectural consistency.
• Security & Compliance: Embed security-by-design and privacy-by-design principles, working closely with cyber security, risk and compliance teams to ensure solutions meet relevant standards.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Communicate complex technical concepts to senior business stakeholders, facilitating architectural decisions and presenting options, risks, trade-offs and recommendations.
• Innovation & Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to leverage emerging technologies and low-code/no-code solutions, supporting rapid delivery while maintaining appropriate enterprise governance.

What You Need to Be Successful

You will be an experienced Solutions Architect, Software Architect or Technical Architect who can operate confidently at both strategic and detailed technical levels. You will have a strong software development background and the credibility to influence senior stakeholders while providing practical guidance to technical delivery teams.

You should bring:

• Approximately 5-10 years' experience in Solutions Architecture, Software Architecture or Technical Architecture.
• A strong background in software design, development and system integration.
• Proven experience designing and delivering solutions using Microsoft Azure and Dynamics 365 .
• Experience with Microsoft Power Platform, including Power Apps and Power Automate, alongside appropriate governance and lifecycle management.
• Strong knowledge of Azure Integration Services, APIs, microservices, event-driven architectures and enterprise data integration.
• Experience with enterprise, solution and integration architecture, including the development of architectural standards, roadmaps and design principles.
• Practical understanding of Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, environment strategies and release management.
• Experience reducing technical debt, modernising legacy platforms and planning system decommissioning.
• A strong understanding of security best practices, identity and access management, data protection and regulatory compliance.
• Experience working with multiple suppliers, managed service providers and internal technical teams.
• The ability to influence senior stakeholders, manage competing priorities and make sound architectural decisions in complex environments.
• Excellent communication, problem-solving and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts in clear business terms.
• Experience working across the full project lifecycle, with familiarity with Agile delivery methodologies and traditional delivery approaches.
• A proactive approach to innovation, continuous improvement, mentoring and technical leadership.

What You Get in Return

• £90,000-£95,000
• Flexible working

About the job

Contract Type: Permanent

Specialism: Technology & Digital

Focus: Architecture

Industry: IT

Salary: £90,000 - £95,000 per annum

Workplace Type: Hybrid

Experience Level: Senior Management

Location: City of London