D365 F&SCM Solution Architect - Finance & Supply Chain
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Job Description:
Dynamics 365 Functional Solution Architect (Finance and Supply Chain)
Key Responsibilities
Client Engagement & Solution Leadership
• 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, a
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nd 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.
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement in business processes, solution design, team delivery practices, and client adoption.
Team Leadership & Engagement Management
• Provide functional leadership, direction, mentoring,