Business Central Technical Architect
A senior technical leadership role designing and delivering Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central ERP solutions for clients. The architect owns end-to-end solution architecture, integration strategy (Azure Integration Services, Power Platform, REST APIs) and development standards, while advising clients from presales through go-live and mentoring the delivery team.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- UK
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Not specified
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 2+ years
- Category
- Architecture
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 5+ years' experience delivering Microsoft Dynamics NAV and/or Dynamics 365 Business Central solutions
- 2+ years in a Solution Architect or Technical Architect capacity
- Strong expertise in Dynamics 365 Business Central
- Strong expertise in AL Development
- Strong expertise in extensions and customisation
- Strong expertise in Business Central administration
- Strong expertise in release management
- Experience delivering large-scale ERP implementation programmes
- Experience designing integrations using REST APIs
- Experience designing integrations using Web Services
- Experience designing integrations using Azure Integration Services
- Experience designing integrations using Power Platform
- Strong understanding of security architecture
- Strong understanding of environment strategy
- Strong understanding of performance optimisation
- Strong understanding of disaster recovery
- Strong understanding of governance
- Experience working directly with senior stakeholders and decision-makers
- Strong consulting and client-facing skills
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities
Nice to have
- Experience with Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement
- Experience with Azure Services
- Experience with Microsoft Fabric
- Experience with Copilot technologies
- Experience within a Microsoft Partner or consultancy environment
- TOGAF or comparable architecture framework experience
- Exposure to enterprise architecture governance processes
Full description
Job Overview:
This is a senior technical leadership role for an experienced Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Architect who thrives on designing and delivering complex ERP solutions.
You will be responsible for defining the technical architecture, solution design, integration strategy and development standards across Business Central programmes while working closely with customers, consultants, project managers and delivery teams.
The role combines technical leadership, client engagement and hands-on architectural ownership. You will influence solution direction from presales through implementation and ongoing optimisation, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, supportable and aligned to business objectives.
You will act as a trusted advisor to clients and play a key role in developing Codec's Business Central capability and architecture standards.
Solution Architecture
- Own end-to-end technical architecture for Dynamics 365 Business Central implementations.
- Design scalable, secure and maintainable Business Central solutions across finance, operations, manufacturing, distribution and service management.
- Define architecture standards, governance processes and best practices.
- Develop high-level and detailed technical solution designs.
- Lead technical design authority and architecture review sessions.
- Ensure solutions align with Microsoft's recommended architecture patterns.
- Delivering development tasks within agreed budgets and timelines
- Development of interfaces to/from Business Central with external applications.
- Development of workflow and reports
Technical Leadership
- Provide technical leadership across implementation and upgrade projects.
- Guide development teams on AL extensions, integrations and customisations.
- Review solution designs, code quality and development standards.
- Mentor consultants and developers within the Business Applications Practice.
- Support capability development and technical community initiatives.
- Integration & Data Architecture
- Define integration strategies between Business Central and:
- Dynamics 365 CE
- Power Platform
- Azure Integration Services
- Third-party business applications
- Data and reporting platforms
- Design API, middleware and event-driven integration architectures.
Client Engagement
- Facilitate customer workshops and architecture sessions.
- Involved in all stages of the projects from pre-sales to requirements gathering, fit-gap analysis, solution design, build, testing, go-live and support.