D365 F&O Architect

The D365 F&O Architect - SCM - Sales & Commercial is the IT domain leader for the Sales & Commercial Project Management our Microsoft D365 SCM global program.

The primary responsibility of this role is the evaluation of our business requirements and the development of solutions and services to meet those needs. A fundamental part of this role is to govern the design of standard processes and systems associated with our Sales & Commercial domain, ensuring that the Client applies industry standard best practices in the delivery of secure, robust, effective, and scalable solutions.

The Architect plays a highly collaborative role, leading the systems architecture and design for their assigned domain while partnering closely with Solution Analysts and fellow Domain Architects to define, develop, and implement BW's future-state business systems. As a key member of the company's newly established ERP Center of Excellence (CoE), this position drives architectural standards, promotes cross-functional alignment, and ensures scalable, integrated technology solutions that support the organization's long-term business strategy.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities (Essential Functions):

• Lead the IT Sales & Commercial domain.
• Analyze, research, plan, and design for the environment within the Sales & Commercial domain ensuring that business needs are met, coordinating within the broader group of Solutions Architects to ensure an integrated, coherent approach to the whole systems design.
• Work closely with your counterparts within the business to provide architectural and application expertise and guidance applied to the entire spectrum of the Sales & Commercial systems implementation.
• Govern the design standards for the domain ensuring that we reuse standard systems setup and processes, evaluate requests for modification working closely with Solutions Analysts, business leaders to approve, modify or reject changes.
• Collaborate closely with our external partners to ensure that we optimize the technical landscape and that we are fully aware of external changes and developments that we need to work with to secure an ongoing robust landscape.
• Ensure that design processes are established, followed, that the design is appropriately documented, and that test plans are developed.
• Assist users in testing and adoption of process improvements, working closely with Business Partners and Solutions Analysts.
• Assemble appropriate documentation to support process change. Where needed originate training aids or standard operating procedures.
• Provide project support where required for new implementations/rollouts.
• Support for continuous process improvements.
• Provide support to the systems architecture team when needed, especially regarding the installation of significant upgrades from our software solution suppliers.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree required in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field.

Knowledge and Experience

• Must have 6+ years direct experience leading the architecture, configuration, and development for the Sales & Commercial domain of D365 Finance & Operations in a multi-national company. It is preferred that the person fulfilling this role has strong experience in the following areas:
  • New equipment, Aftermarket, and Service Parts sales.
  • Experience in both the Engineer and Configure to order sales processes.
  • Project-based manufacturing, work breakdown structures.
  • Capable-to-promise (CTP) and Available-to-promise (ATP)
  • Logistics planning - Factory Acceptance Testing, teardown, and installations.
  • Customer invoicing, in particular management of a progress billing cycle.
• Must have direct experience of the full ERP implementation cycle, from initial needs analysis, through rollout and stabilization.
• Must have direct experience of leveraging and integrating enterprise level systems, inclusive of ERP, Business Intelligence, and Consolidation Systems.
• Experience in systems governance for the domain and the ability to work with others to establish the development process and controls.
• Experience of leveraging SAAS based systems to deliver value
• Experience working with the following D365 ISV or equivalent tools is preferred:
  • Bluestar Product Life Cycle Management
  • Axtension Project Control
  • SK Global
• Certified Microsoft Dynamics 365 Manufacturing professionals are preferred, however not mandatory.
• Fluent in all Microsoft Office365 applications, including Power BI.

Personal Attributes

• Ability to research and select appropriate technologies and partners, working with commercial, legal, and technical teams.
  • Excellent ability to collaborate and engage with IT leadership, business customers and external third parties.
  • Strong commercial acumen to support the assessment of options and vendors.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to explain technical concepts to a non-technical audience.
• Must be able to work across all IT technical platforms to coordinate joint resolution of business problems.
• Experience influencing cross-functional teams without formal authority and maintaining strong working relationships.
• Experience coaching, mentoring, and developing others.

Supervisory/Responsibility:
No direct employees initially, but indirect responsibility for coordination of the Domain development with the Architects group and Business Leadership.
Work Environment:

Work is typically performed in a standard office setting working at a desk or table on a level surface.

Position Type:
This is a regular, full-time position with the understanding that a regular workweek will require extended days and hours as needed to meet business needs.

This is a regular, full-time position with frequent overtime. Must be able, available, and willing to work more than 40 hours per week, including scheduled and unscheduled overtime.

Travel:
Moderate domestic (vendors, user, and customer site visits) and occasional international travel required as part of this role.