Our client a global solutions provider with more than 100000 employees are seeking to recruit a Dynamics CE Cloud Solution Architect and you will be fluent in English and Spanish or French to business level.
Cloud Solution Architect provide technical leadership for customers around the world to help ensure their IT environments are kept optimized and healthy. The focus is to do this in a proactive and consultative manner to avoid future issues. This includes guidance on best practices, risk assessments, migrations, and onsite, remote and dedicated support services.
Cloud Solution Architects provide various services to our Enterprise customers to increase systems availability, resolve critical issues, and ultimately improve the health of our customers' environments. We consult with experienced technical staff to ensure they have the skills to troubleshoot and maintain their solution in line with best practices. When things do go wrong we provide rapid on site expertise to resolve critical situations.
Cloud Solution Architects deliver onsite and dedicated services for customers.
We need individuals that:
* Possess deep technical expertise in at least one technical specialty and can solve complex technical problems through sound, creative troubleshooting. You will also need to be able to examine possible workarounds and escalations as required.
* Set an example of excellence as a representative, enhancing the company's image and reputation through your credibility, preparation, commitment, and first-class delivery.
* Demonstrate strong communication skills; ability to develop strategic on-going customer relationships, gain trust and respect for the company. Cloud Solution Architects must also possess strong technical writing, presentation and training skills.
* Enjoy team work, and actively contribute to their peer group as well as our customer account teams.
* Communicate at all levels from CIO to the technical staff on the ground.
* Experience in the enterprise customer arena
* Face-to-face customer engagement skills
* Excellent written, oral and presentation skills
* Troubleshooting knowledge & skills
* Degree qualification or equivalent experience
* Good understanding of ITIL/Service Management
* Passion for new innovative technology and drive customer transformation
* Demonstrate effective balance between business and technical acumen
* Ability to effectively recognize and adapt to change
* Ability to deliver presentations and discuss complimentary products at a solutions level
* Ability to handle customer critical issues and work in difficult situations
Technical Expertise Required
* Dynamics CE Cloud Solution Architects should be experienced in implementing, operating, tuning and troubleshooting Dynamics CE/CRM systems, ideally in multiple industries.
* Ideal candidate would have 3+ years' experience with Microsoft Dynamics CE/CRM, preferably with multiple versions (2013 - v9.1 on-premises).
* Candidate would have worked as a system administrator or Level 2/3 Help Desk for Dynamics CE/CRM on-premises.
* Dynamics experience should include investigations narrowing down general issues to specific root causes.
* Familiarity with Dynamics deployment installation and configuration; including planning, technology prerequisites and installation steps.
* Microsoft accreditation or proven experience with SQL query syntax, SQL query tuning and optimizations in addition to SQL configurations at instance and database level
* Experience with Dynamics CE on-premises stack components, including SQL, IIS, Windows.
* Experience with advance Dynamics deployment topologies including multiple server environments; network load balanced deployments; claims and IFD configurations with ADFS a plus.
* Experience with advanced Dynamics 365 CE modules configuration and management (Customer Service, Sales Hub are must have. Other modules experience is nice-to-have)
* Knowledge of other Power Platform components is appreciated (Canvas Apps, PVA, Power BI, Power Automate, etc.)
* Knowledge of ALM and CI/CD strategies related to Dynamics development and deployment a plus.
* Knowledge of ADFS, Exchange, Exchange Online and setting up Server-based authentication with D365 CRM.
* Knowledge of SharePoint a plus.
* Knowledge of Application Insights and its dataverse integration is a good-to-have
Skills currently not covered in depth in SMC Biz-App:
* D365 On-premises deployments
* ADFS, Exchange, Exchange Online
* CI/DC and DevOps integration
* D365 modules
o Field service
o Customer insights
o Customer Voice
* Power Platform
o Power BI
o Canvas apps
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