Microsoft D365 F&O Finance Functional Solution Architect

As a D365 F&O Functional Solution Architect you can expect to…

• Serve as the lead Functional Solution Architect (Sr. FSA) on complex, enterprise-scale D365 F&O implementations, owning overall functional architecture across multiple modules and workstreams
• Act as a trusted advisor to client executives, translating business strategy into scalable, compliant, and future-ready D365 F&O solutions
• Own and validate end-to-end functional solution design, ensuring alignment across finance, operations, integrations, data, security, and reporting
• Lead and contribute to enterprise-level project estimation, including scope definition, delivery approach, resourcing strategy, risk identification, and commercial assumptions
• Perform the Solution Advisory / Lead Architect role during the analysis and envisioning phases of D365 F&O programs
• Direct and oversee Business Process Analysis (BPA), Solution Blueprint creation, and Fit/Gap analysis, ensuring recommendations align to industry best practices and Microsoft standards
• Serve as the functional design authority throughout design, build, test, and deployment phases, guiding teams through complex decision-making and trade-offs
• Establish and govern testing strategy and issue resolution processes, particularly across functional architecture, integrations, and cross-module dependencies
• Review, validate, and formally sign off on functional specifications, test scripts, data migration strategies, and deployment plans
• Ensure training and knowledge transfer strategies are comprehensive and position clients for long-term success, adoption, and self-sufficiency
• Act as the senior escalation point for functional and solution-related issues during and after go-live, including hypercare and stabilization
• Contribute to the evolution of HSO’s implementation methodology, standards, and accelerators as business paradigms and Microsoft capabilities evolve
• Share best practices, lessons learned, and architectural guidance across projects and delivery teams
• Mentor and guide FSAs, Senior Consultants, and Functional Consultants, raising overall delivery quality and consistency
• Travel as client and business needs dictate (typically up to ~30%)

You’re great at…

• Mentoring junior technical resources both on-shore and off-shore
• Articulating architectural options, trade-offs, and risks between different solution approaches