Power Platform Solution Architect

About HSO   

HSO is a business transformation partner with deep industry expertise and global reach. HSO leverages the full power of the Microsoft Cloud to transform the way in which people work and engage customers, ultimately accelerating the impact of cloud transformation and improving overall business performance. By leveraging the power of Dynamics 365, Generative AI, Data, AI, Copilot capabilities and the full Microsoft Cloud; HSO helps companies innovate faster by modernising business operations, adopting data-driven intelligent automation, delivering real-time insights and connecting the enterprise. Founded in 1987, HSO has more than 2,500 professionals throughout Europe, North America, and Asia and is one of the world’s top business solution and implementation partners and a member of Microsoft’s elite Inner Circle, representing the top 1 percent of partners worldwide.   

HSO UK has grown to more than 400 people in the region and we expect over 100% organic growth in the next 5 years - with this comes an opportunity to create, deliver and evaluate our evolving business.     

HSO specialises in industry sectors such as Retail, Manufacturing, Professional Services, Financial Services and Public Sector.  As an award-winning partner, HSO has been recognized as the global winner of the 2023 Partner of the Year Award for D365 Finance and as a Finalist for D365 Sales and Marketing. In addition to Best Tech Company 2021 to Work For and the 6th Best Large Company to Work For in 2022.     

At HSO we take pride in being large enough to serve, but small enough to care. We are uniquely positioned to empower you to transform your career without compromising your life and we take pride in investing as much in our people as we do in our clients.   

At HSO we transform the way in which people work and how businesses operate to get results for our clients. This takes exceptional cutting-edge technology, knowledge, talent, determination and entrepreneurial spirit. Our culture and values support entrepreneurial mindsets and attitudes where your voice will always be heard. 

Job Purpose:  

Serve as technical leader of Power Platform adoption, solution development of beautiful and useful things, and otherwise deliver technically excellent Power Application Platform engagements to HSO clients. 

Key Responsibilities 

As a Power Platform Solution Architect, you will: 

• Be a technical generalist in your area of expertise (e.g. Power Platform and Azure), serving as the technical leader in client-facing engagements; this is in contrast to the “Solution Specialist” role which focuses on providing deep technical knowledge in specific areas (e.g. Power Apps or Azure Data Services) across many client engagements, but does not generally lead client engagements themselves 
   
• Take responsibility for the delivery of technical capabilities to clients at the project level across multiple deliverables, solutions, or workstreams 
   
• Serve as the most senior technical consultants to one or several clients at any given time, facilitating discovery and delivering in-depth technical expertise with the client or prospect, and leading organizations through Microsoft cloud adoption best practices 
   
• Facilitate client-facing consulting services such as cloud assessments, workshops, and co-design sessions 
   
• Architect solutions across a range of Microsoft cloud technologies—working with the other departments within HSO to create the best solution possible. 

• Provide design guidance to Lead, Senior, Analysts and Developers 

• Work with the HSO Departments to provide the project teams with proper guidelines for development standards, execution plans, disaster recovery, performance optimization and integrations 
   
• Ensure project team understands the technical architecture of the project and adheres to proper development and execution of the plan (code review, code QA, security review, deployment plan review, integration review) 
   
• Ensure a formal process is in place for testing and issues resolution, specifically around the technical architecture and integration points of the implementation 
   
• Take responsibility for risk assessment, solution presentation, AS-IS & TO BE processes, sizing and topology finalization, defining solution quality, defining technical quality criteria, etc. 
   
• Further develop and maintain your own technical expertise, share that expertise with your colleagues as a mentor or producer of best practices and intellectual property, provide technical and thought leadership in chosen technical areas, and create knowledge capital that can be leveraged to accelerate project delivery, improve quality and to secure new engagements 
   
• Provide technical pre-sales support to HSO sellers and their clients when needed (e.g. technical presentations to clients, development and presentation of demos, preparation of design and proposal documentation, etc.); note this is not the primary job function, and pre-sales assignments will be made based on technical expertise required by the pursuit 

Requirements

• A strong sense of ownership, autonomy, and personal responsibility for your work 

• The drive and self-sufficiency to work independently, translate goals into action, own the success of your area of work, support and seek support from colleagues when needed 

• A passion for Microsoft cloud technologies including Power Platform, Azure, and Microsoft 365 

• Strong client-facing skills, empathy, and ability to guide clients through challenging problems 

• 5+ years of technical and architecting experience working with Microsoft Cloud and related technologies such as Power Platform and Dynamics 365 CE, Azure, and Microsoft 365 

• 5+ years of experience in consulting or customer settings delivering Power Platform or Dynamics 365 CE, Azure, or Microsoft 365 application, integration, and / or infrastructure solutions 

• Direct experience designing, building, and delivering Microsoft Dataverse solutions including, but not limited to, forms, workflows, business rules, record security, business process flows Ability to translate requirements into technical architecture for the solution that is scalable, flexible and complies with industry standards 
   
• Experience in customer-facing consulting roles interacting with IT-leaders, product owners, and business users 
   
• Experience leading teams of brilliant, passionate, and culturally diverse technologists 

Location:  

This role is remote based role but you will be expected to be onsite at your closest office at least once a month and on client site as and when required. 

Benefits

Parking and close to Public transport at Office locations

Holidays

Pension

Healthcare

Dental

Life Insurance

Tonic Wellbeing

HSO Perkz

Culture and many more