Job Description

ERP Functional Architect – D365 Finance & Project Operations Location: Global / Virtual Talent Community: Business Applications – ERP Role Family: Solution Architecture Level: Manager

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🌟 About the Role

As an ERP Functional Architect in Avanade’s Global Integrated Center of Excellence (ICOE), you will play a central role in designing, shaping, and enabling Microsoft Dynamics 365 F&SCM solutions that deliver measurable business impact. You will be the functional expert partnering closely with clients, solution architects, and global delivery teams to translate financial and project-centric business needs into intelligent, scalable, and future-ready D365 solutions.

You will be part of Avanade’s most senior global talent community—helping standardize solution approaches, guide delivery excellence, and accelerate transformation programs that increasingly leverage AI-powered capabilities, predictive insights, and automation across finance and project domains.

This is a high-impact architecture role for someone who is passionate about ERP, financial transformation, and the future of intelligent business operations.

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🔑 Key Responsibilities

Solution Architecture & Design

• Lead the functional architecture of D365 F&SCM across global ERP programs.

• Own end-to-end functional design including process mapping, solution blueprinting, fit-gap analysis, and integration considerations.

• Design intelligent, future-ready solutions that embed AI-powered insights, workflow automation, and predictive analytics in finance and project processes.

• Collaborate with technical and data architects to shape cross-platform roadmaps and ensure solution integrity.

• Participate in Avanade Communities of Practice (COP).

Client Engagement & Advisory

• Serve as a trusted advisor to CFO, PMO, and Finance leadership—advising on process optimization, best practice adoption, and ERP modernization.

• Lead client workshops across Finance, Accounting, Tax, Projects, Costing, Fixed Assets, and Financial Reporting.

• Guide clients through transformation roadmaps using D365 capabilities, including new and emerging features such as Copilot, predictive cash flow modelling, anomaly detection, and intelligent approvals.

Delivery Quality & Governance

• Work with global delivery teams to ensure consistent implementation quality aligned to Avanade’s Method One standards.

• Support estimation, solution assurance, functional governance, and design reviews across multi-phase deliveries.

• Partner with Delivery Leads to mitigate risks, ensure alignment on scope, and maintain functional coherence across releases.

Thought Leadership & ICOE Contribution

• Contribute to global standards, templates, accelerators, and architectural patterns for ERP Finance & Project Operations.

• Provide subject-matter leadership on new AI-enabled Finance capabilities and help scale them across regions and industry offerings.

• Mentor consultants globally, helping build Avanade’s next generation of ERP capability.

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