Dynamics 365 Functional Solution Architect

Company Overview:

Job Description:

Dynamics 365 Functional Solution Architect (Finance and Supply Chain)

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the primary day-to-day functional contact for client business stakeholders, product owners, and project sponsors.

• Build trusted relationships with client teams through proactive communication, strong domain understanding, and reliable delivery.

• Lead functional discovery sessions, workshops, backlog refinement sessions, and solution-design discussions.

• Advise clients on D365 F&SCM standard capabilities, leading practices, process improvements, and solution trade-offs.

• Own the functional direction of the engagement, ensuring solutions remain aligned with business priorities, project scope, and long-term supportability.

• Communicate risks, dependencies, decisions, scope impacts, and recommendations clearly to both business and technical audiences.

• Requirements, User Stories & Functional Design

• Elicit, analyze, challenge, and elaborate business requirements with client stakeholders.

• Convert business requirements into well-defined user stories, including acceptance criteria, business rules, process flows, assumptions, dependencies, and priority.

• Facilitate backlog grooming and prioritization with client product owners and delivery teams.

• Lead fit-gap analysis to determine whether requirements can be met through standard configuration, process changes, integrations, extensions, or custom development.

• Produce high-quality functional design documentation, including process maps, functional design documents, configuration workbooks, data requirements, and test scenarios.

• Ensure user stories and functional designs are complete, unambiguous, testable, and ready for development.

• Techno-Functional Solution Design

• Translate functional requirements and user stories into clear technical approaches for developers, integration teams, data teams, and solution architects.

• Partner with technical leads to define solution designs for extensions, reports, workflows, integrations, security, data migration, and automation.

• Provide functional input into Technical Design Documents, ensuring technical solutions meet business intent and are maintainable.

• Evaluate and recommend the appropriate approach between standard configuration, extension, integration, reporting, Power Platform capability, or process redesign.

• Collaborate on integration requirements involving APIs, OData, data entities, EDI, middleware, and third-party applications.

• Support the definition of data migration requirements, including source-to-target mapping, data validation, reconciliation, and business sign-off.

• Participate in design reviews and challenge solutions that create unnecessary customization, technical debt, performance risk, or support complexity.

• Maintain awareness of D365 F&SCM architecture, extensibility principles, security roles, data entities, batch processing, and release-management considerations.

Delivery, Testing & Quality Assurance

• Lead functional workstreams and coordinate activities across functional consultants, developers, testers, and client subject matter experts.

• Support sprint planning, daily delivery coordination, backlog management, and functional issue resolution.

• Review delivered functionality against user stories, acceptance criteria, and functional designs.

• Define and support functional unit testing, system integration testing, user acceptance testing, regression testing, and defect triage.

• Assist client stakeholders with UAT planning, test-script development, test execution, and sign-off.

• Support deployment readiness, cutover planning, release communications, and post-deployment stabilization.

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