Manager – Digital Transformation – Solutions Architecture

**Key Responsibilities: **
**Solution Architecture and Strategy **
•                    Define and own end-to-end solution architectures for complex change initiatives spanning multiple workstreams, systems, and delivery partners.
•                    Establish and maintain target, transitional, and solution architectures aligned to enterprise strategy and Microsoft reference architectures.
•                    Act as the architectural design authority, ensuring consistency, reusability, scalability, and long-term sustainability of solutions.

**Microsoft Dynamics & Platform Strategy **
•                    Lead architecture for Microsoft Dynamics 365 as the primary enterprise platform, ensuring alignment with business processes, data models, and integration patterns.
•                    Champion low-code/no-code approaches (Power Platform) while maintaining appropriate governance, security, and lifecycle management.
•                    Balance platform configuration with extensibility, minimising custom code and avoiding future lock-in or technical debt.

**Integration & Systems Decommissioning **
•                    Design and assure complex integration architectures enabling secure, resilient data flow across enterprise and third-party systems.
•                    Lead legacy system and custom code decommissioning strategies, ensuring continuity of service, data integrity, and controlled risk reduction.
•                    Define integration patterns using APIs, microservices, event -driven architectures, and Azure-native services.

**Technical Leadership & Delivery Enablement **
•                    Provide hands-on technical leadership and mentorship to development teams across internal and supplier organisations.
•                    Guide teams on Azure DevOps (ADO) usage, including architectural alignment with CI/CD pipelines, branching strategies, environments, and release management.
•                    Ensure architectural intent is translated into buildable, testable, and operable solutions.

**Multi-Supplier & MSP Governance **
•                    Operate effectively within complex multi-MSP delivery models, ensuring architectural clarity across suppliers.

•                    Mediate between vendors, internal teams, and stakeholders to resolve design conflicts and delivery risks.
•                    Define architectural guardrails, standards, and decision frameworks to enable autonomy without fragmentation.
**Security, Risk & Compliance **
•                    Embed security-by-design and privacy-by-design principles across all solution architectures.
•                    Ensure compliance with regulatory, data protection, and Institute security standards.
•                    Collaborate with cyber security and risk functions to address threats, vulnerabilities, and assurance requirements.

**Stakeholder Engagement & Communication **
•                    Communicate complex technical concepts clearly to non -technical audiences, including senior leaders and business stakeholders.
•                    Facilitate architectural decision-making forums, presenting options, trade-offs, and recommendations.
•                    Act as a trusted mediator and problem solver in high -pressure, high-visibility situations.

**Innovation **
•                    Shapes and drives innovative solution designs by leveraging Microsoft -first platforms, low-code/no-code capabilities, and emerging technologies to deliver scalable, future - ready architectures that balance experimentation with enterprise -grade governance.
•                    Translates strategic innovation objectives into actionable, buildable architectures, enabling rapid prototyping, accelerated delivery, and measurable business value across complex, multi-year change portfolios.
•                    Acts as a trusted architectural authority and catalyst for innovation, influencing senior stakeholders, guiding delivery teams, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement through clear decision-making and pragmatic problem solving 

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