FGH Business Centre 66-70 Vicar Ln, Bradford BD1 5AJ
Hybrid flexibility: 2 office days per week
About The Role
The Solution Architect for Dynamics 365 plays a key role in shaping, designing, and governing solutions across D365 Finance & Operations and Supply Chain. The role focuses on improving how we manage suppliers, product data, purchasing, landed cost, and import processes, ensuring we maximise standard D365 capability and reduce dependency on legacy systems.
Working closely with delivery teams, partners, and business stakeholders, the architect provides clear direction on solution design, integration patterns, and data flows, using Azure services where appropriate. They help steer process redesign, assure partner outputs, and support our transition away from mainframe and group systems.
- Design end‑to‑end Dynamics 365 F&O/SCM solutions, focusing on supplier management, product data, purchasing, landed cost, and import processes.
- Ensure solution alignment with FGH architectural standards, using standard D365 capabilities and minimising customisation.
- Define robust integration patterns using Azure Integration Services and support the retirement of legacy OIS/mainframe feeds.
- Lead solution governance, including design reviews, architecture documentation, and engagement with ARB/TDA.
- Translate business needs into scalable technical designs, driving automation and reducing manual effort.
- Oversee partner/vendor solution outputs, ensuring quality, consistency, and adherence to architectural principles.
- Shape and support data migration, security design, and testing approaches, including SIT/UAT alignment and ALM considerations.
- Collaborate with stakeholders and delivery teams to guide process redesign and maintain solution integrity across workstreams.
- Identify risks and improvement opportunities to support legacy system decommissioning and platform modernisation.
The role also provides strong stakeholder leadership, ensuring solutions are aligned across multiple delivery workstreams and that implementation partners adhere to FGH’s design standards. The architect will guide business process redesign, balancing architectural principles with delivery timelines, and ensuring consistent progress toward the decommissioning of legacy systems.
Accountabilities
Solution Delivery
- Design end-to-end D365 F&O/SCM solutions that follow FGH standards and make best use of out-of-the-box capability.
- Lead design for supplier, product, procurement, landed cost, and import processes.
- Produce clear, high-quality architectural documentation.
- Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and maintainable, including oversight of D365 security role design.
- Provide guidance across workstreams to ensure alignment and coherent process design.
Application & Integration Architecture
- Define and govern integrations between D365, Fabric, Azure services, stock systems, and legacy applications.
- Implement integration patterns using Azure Integration Services (Logic Apps, APIM, Service Bus).
- Lead data migration design, including mapping, transformation, and load planning.
- Ensure data flows are reliable, performant, and fit for future phased decommissioning of legacy systems.
Standards, Governance & Assurance
- Define and govern integrations between D365, Fabric, Azure services, stock systems, and legacy applications.
- Implement integration patterns using Azure Integration Services (Logic Apps, APIM, Service Bus).
- Lead data migration design, including mapping, transformation, and load planning.
- Ensure data flows are reliable, performant, and fit for future phased decommissioning of legacy systems.
Collaboration & Stakeholder Leadership
- Work with business teams, BAs, engineers, and partners to shape requirements and maintain solution integrity.
- Facilitate workshops and drive clear decisions on D365 design choices.
- Communicate risks, issues, and trade‑offs in a clear and constructive way.
- Manage design‑related escalations and support coordination across multiple workstreams.
Continuous Improvement & Modernisation
- Identify opportunities to automate processes and remove manual or duplicate effort.
- Support the roadmap to retire mainframe, OIS, group systems, and other legacy platforms.
- Ensure successful handover to BAU through documentation, knowledge transfer, and operational readiness.
- Help develop architectural capability across the wider Technology function.
About You
Dynamics 365 Architecture
- Proven experience designing and delivering D365 Finance & Operations / Supply Chain solutions across procurement, product information, purchasing, landed cost, and imports.
- Strong understanding of standard D365 capabilities, with the ability to challenge unnecessary customisations.
- Track record of leading end‑to‑end D365 implementations, including solution design, configuration oversight, and vendor/SI management.
- Experience leading multiple parallel workstreams, ensuring alignment, dependency management, and coherent end‑to‑end design.
- Strong workshop facilitation skills for requirements definition, process redesign, and solution walkthroughs.
- Knowledge of the D365 security model (roles, duties, privileges, SoD).
- Experience defining or overseeing data migration strategy, including entity usage, mapping, and cutover planning.
- Awareness of D365 ALM, including environment strategy, code promotion, and regression impact.
- Demonstrated ability to direct partners/SIs to maintain quality and alignment with architectural standards.
Integration & Data Architecture
- Deep knowledge of Azure Integration Services (Logic Apps, APIM, Service Bus, Event Grid) and integration best practices.
- Experience integrating D365 with legacy systems (e.g., mainframe) and modern platforms (Fabric, Dataverse, stock systems).
- Strong understanding of master data management, data modelling, data quality, and cross‑system data flows.
Supply Chain & Finance Domain Knowledge
- Hands‑on experience with relevant D365 modules, including:
- Procurement & Sourcing
- Product Information Management
- Landed Cost
- Inventory & Logistics
- Vendor Management
- Ability to map complex business processes (imports, supplier onboarding, cost calculations) into scalable D365 solutions.
Architecture Governance & Documentation
- Experience producing high‑quality solution designs, data flows, integration diagrams, and architectural decision records.
- Strong understanding of architectural frameworks (e.g., TOGAF) and experience enforcing architectural principles through ARB/TDA or similar governance forums.
- Proven ability to lead solution reviews, challenge design decisions, and maintain integrity across workstreams.
Collaboration & Leadership
- Ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders, BAs, engineers, product teams, and vendors to translate business needs into technical designs.
- Experience guiding and assuring partner/SI deliverables against FGH’s architecture vision and standards.
- Effective communication skills with the ability to articulate technical concepts clearly and constructively.
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 Solution Architect Expert (MB600) or equivalent experience.
- D365 F&O certification (e.g., MB300 or relevant Supply Chain/Finance modules).
- Azure Fundamentals (AZ900) or equivalent cloud architecture understanding.
- Knowledge of an EA framework (TOGAF, SAFe, or similar).
- Evidenced continuous professional development in Microsoft Business Applications or cloud technologies.
ABOUT US: FGH
For over 100 years, Freemans has been at the forefront of home shopping, delivering quality products and exceptional service. We’ve accepted the challenge to transform our business into a modern, digital‑first retailer.
With a rich heritage and an eye on the future, we are a forward‑thinking, tech‑driven online retail business, making fabulous fashion and stylish homewares accessible and affordable for everyone.
Based in West Yorkshire and part of the OTTO group one of the world’s largest online retail organisations, Freemans Grattan Holdings (FGH) is the home of familiar brands such as Freemans, Grattan, Kaleidoscope, and Curvissa.
What We Offer You
FLEXIBILITY
We offer hybrid working to help you achieve a healthy work life balance. Our full time head office colleagues work a minimum of 2 days per week in the office, allowing the perfect balance between collaborative in‑person team work and the flexibility to work from home.
TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT
Turning your job into a career is a real passion for us and our development programmes will enable you to grow in role.
We offer clear career pathways that will show you the way, outlining the skills, behaviours and knowledge needed to perform at the next step.
We invest in our colleagues, giving them all the opportunity to progress. Our inspired leadership programme is aimed at equipping our future leaders to coach, develop, manage change and maintain situational awareness.
INCLUSIVITY
As a business, we depend on a fusion of identities, characteristics, backgrounds, and cultures to fully appreciate our people and our customers. Freemans has a long‑standing commitment to ensuring fairness and balance.
Our company is an inclusive organisation where everybody can make the most of their talent and abilities. Our pay, reward, and progression approach is based solely on fairness and merit.
Benefits
- Competitive salaries and annual bonus scheme
- 37 days holiday
- Healthcare cash plan
- Competitive pension scheme
- Life assurance
- Paid paternity and maternity leave
- Incredible staff discounts
- Subsidised canteen
Ready to apply?
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