The Microsoft Dynamics, Solution Architect SCM is responsible for supporting projects that design, implement, modify, troubleshoot, test, and debug Microsoft Dynamics software. In addition to being a leader for the team, this position is expected to serve as a mentor and advisor to other team members.
Excellent communication skills are necessary to be successful in this role. This role is customer-facing regarding, project management, requirements gathering, and solution architecting. This ideal candidate for this role has a solid business foundation with the ability to collaborate with other individuals that have varying levels of technical understanding.The incumbent in this position is expected to model the following practices daily: 1) Demonstrate alignment with the company's mission and core business values; 2) Collaborate with key internal/external resources; 3) Participate in ongoing self- development.Essential Functions:
- Model, promote, reinforce, and reward the consistent use of HOLT’s Values Based Leadership (VBL) tools, models, and processes to ensure alignment with our Vision, Values, and Mission
- Provide proven experience leading requirement gathering and discovery with users and stakeholders
- Participate in FIT/GAP process and ability to write complete functional design specifications
- Demonstrate knowledge and experience in ERP implementation principles, practices, and methodologies
- Provide experience and strong working knowledge across key SCM modules and Microsoft products such as
- Products and Inventory
- Procure to pay
- Order to cash
- Warehouse management
- Transportation management
- Master planning, demand, and supply forecasting
- Intercompany trade
- Enterprise Asset Management
- Data migration, data management and FastTrack go-live assessment.
- Use Lifecycle Services to design and plan a project.
- Manage the project resource.
- Gather and provide solution architecting.
- Demonstrate experience with performance tuning of customized code and monitoring practices to ensure ongoing performance
- Manage the research of technical solutions to meet strategic business objectives
- Demonstrate the ability to work systematically and logically to analyze situations, resolve problems, identify causes, and anticipate implications
- Participate in peer code reviews, design meetings, and interact with peer developers to work towards a common solution
- Break down functional requirements into technical designs, and development tasks and execute to completion
- Organize and execute Analysis, Design/configuration, Implementation & delivery phases of Dynamics 365 implementation
- Analyze and document current ERP systems and associated business processes
- Prepare process documentation and perform gap/fit analysis to create design specifications for the new D365 Finance project
- Provide best practices and solution alternatives within functional/technical design documents
- Execute project tasks designed to implement the full suite of Dynamics modules in close coordination with key department stakeholders
- Work safely always and adheres to all applicable safety policies; complies with all company policies, procedures, and standards.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Strategic Business Development
- Work with Business Development Manager (BDM) (Salesperson) to identify new opportunities.
- Develop relationships with key client leadership
- Engage in multiple short-term strategic consulting engagements and develop new opportunities
- Responsible for solution approaches, defining scope, and estimating the effort for proposals
Service Offering Delivery
- Provide advisory assistance to projects and engagements to ensure successful delivery.
- Advise Talent Management on the client’s culture and identify any high-risk deliverable-based assignments
- Provide screening of prospective candidates (both internal and external)
- Manage the development of case studies and project summaries of each project delivered related to the service offering(s)
- Develop and maintain service offering collateral (templates) that promote the repeatability and quality of deliverables
- Support development and evolution of delivery methodologies
- Be an expert for your competency
- Be a leader in our industry, be involved in business community involvement
- Volunteer to speak at conferences,
- The main point of contact in the escalation process from consultant leads and consultants
- Onboard new consultants to best practice processes and approaches
- Help grow the Service Offering by being available for Business Development
- Working knowledge of programming methodologies, structures, and concepts
- Problem-solving and issue-resolution skills
- Excellent communication and prioritization skills with attention to detail and quality
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computing, Accounting, Finance, or related field required
- Experience with Supply Chain/Operations required
- 5+ years’ experience as a Dynamics architect required
- 5+ years’ experience as a software developer working with Microsoft Dynamics platforms AX/F&O preferred
- Minimum of 4 years’ experience with full life-cycle implementation of D365FO/ Dynamics AX SCM experience (prefer at minimum AX 2012 R3) required
- 3+ years of experience using X++ to implement extended Dynamics features and enhancements required
- A minimum of two full life cycle Dynamics 365/AX implementations are required
- F&O/AX module experience required
Travel
- Up to 20% with occasionally overnight stay
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