RahrBSG is looking for an ERP Solutions Architect in Shakopee, Minnesota. The ERP Solutions Architect is responsible for the long-term health, scalability, integration, and modernization of the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management platform operating within a Microsoft Azure environment. As the technical authority for the D365 product team and technical counterpart to IT Product Owners, the Solution Architect owns technical architecture, technical solution design, architecture standards, and technical design approval across manufacturing, supply chain, warehousing, logistics, commercial, and finance capabilities. The role translates approved business outcomes and functional requirements into sustainable technical designs, provides technical delivery oversight, and guides developers, analysts, QA, Integration and Data teams, and external partners. The Solution Architect is accountable for technical quality, architecture compliance, and technical release readiness, while Product Owners retain ownership of business priority, functional requirements, business acceptance, readiness, and adoption.
WE ARE PROUD TO OFFER:
- Competitive Starting Pay between $140,000 - $175,000 annually
- Annual Bonus
- Medical benefits with coverage paid for at 90%
- Dental and Vision Programs
- Generous Annual 401(k) Company Contribution of 15%
- Employee Assistance Program
- Paid Life Insurance
- Short Term Disability
- Long Term Disability
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Generous PTO
- Sick Time
- 12 Paid Company Holidays
- Parental Leave
- Career Growth and Progression Paths
ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Technical Solution Architecture and Decision Authority
- Lead D365 technical architecture and technical solution design across manufacturing, supply chain, warehousing, logistics, commercial, and finance capabilities.
- Translate approved business outcomes and functional requirements into end-to-end technical solution designs, system responsibilities, integration patterns, data flows, security considerations, and operational requirements.
- Establish and maintain architecture principles, solution patterns, development standards, and extensibility guardrails that promote scalability, performance, resiliency, security, maintainability, and supportability.
- Determine the appropriate technical approach using standard functionality, configuration, extensions, integrations, independent software vendor solutions, or custom development.
- Review and approve technical designs from internal teams and external implementation partners for alignment with business objectives, architecture standards, Microsoft best practices, and long-term platform direction.
- Serve as the technical authority for D365 solution architecture, providing technical direction and approving solution designs for alignment with established architecture standards, Microsoft best practices, security requirements, and long-term platform health.
- Advise business and technology leaders on solution options, technical tradeoffs, delivery risks, and platform investments.
Product Partnership and Functional Handoff
- Partner with IT Product Owners to evaluate solution options after the business problem, desired outcome, functional requirements, and priority have been defined.
- Confirm that functional requirements are sufficiently clear to support technical design and identify unresolved assumptions, dependencies, constraints, or nonfunctional requirements.
- Challenge unnecessary customization and recommend standard D365 functionality or business process change when it provides a more sustainable outcome.
- Provide technical feasibility, complexity, dependency, risk, and sizing input to backlog refinement and prioritization without assuming ownership of business priority.
- Document significant architecture decisions and ensure Product Owners understand technical implications, tradeoffs, and required business decisions.
- Support Product Owners in assessing cross-functional impacts while maintaining clear separation between functional design ownership and technical architecture ownership.
Platform Health, Governance, and Modernization
- Guide long-term platform health by assessing customizations, technical debt, performance, support trends, and architecture risks and recommending solutions to simplify, modernize, retire, or replace.
- Lead D365 environment strategy, application lifecycle management, release architecture, and platform administration practices.
- Own technical readiness for platform updates, upgrades, feature adoption, and deprecation management in alignment with the Business Technology roadmap.
- Evaluate new Microsoft capabilities, Azure services, Power Platform components, ISV solutions, and technology opportunities for alignment with business objectives and platform strategy.
- Define technical governance for security design, access architecture, data retention, archiving, monitoring, and platform optimization in collaboration with accountable teams.
- Maintain architecture documentation and technical standards that enable consistent implementation and support.
Cross-Platform Architecture and Integration
- Design end-to-end technical solutions across D365 and connected platforms, defining application boundaries, system interactions, nonfunctional requirements, failure handling, and operational support needs.
- Collaborate with the Integration team to define interface architecture, service boundaries, data flows, integration patterns, monitoring, and ownership between D365 and connected applications.
- Partner with the Data team to define technical requirements supporting enterprise reporting, analytics, master data, governance, and downstream data consumption.
- Coordinate with cybersecurity, infrastructure, and identity teams to ensure solutions meet applicable security, access, resiliency, and compliance expectations.
- Coordinate with third-party vendors, implementation partners, and software providers to resolve cross-platform technical challenges and deliver integrated business capabilities.
Technical Delivery, Quality, and Release Readiness
- Guide backlog refinement and solution planning to identify architecture impacts, technical dependencies, nonfunctional requirements, risks, sequencing constraints, and design decisions.
- Confirm that work is technically ready for development by ensuring approved technical designs, integration requirements, data requirements, security considerations, and development standards are defined.
- Partner with developers, analysts, QA, Integration and Data teams throughout development, testing, deployment, and transition to support.
- Define code quality expectations, technical documentation requirements, design review checkpoints, and technical release readiness criteria.
- Own technical design approval and confirm architecture compliance and technical readiness before production release. The Product Owner remains accountable for business acceptance and business readiness.
- Support technical test strategy, performance validation, integration testing, deployment planning, rollback considerations, monitoring, and post-release stabilization.
- Lead technical root-cause analysis of complex issues and recommend code, configuration, integration, process, or architecture improvements that strengthen stability and supportability.
Technical Guidance and Mentoring
- Provide technical direction for ERP development efforts, aligning solution decisions with Business Technology objectives and roadmap priorities.
- Coach developers and analysts through architecture reviews, design discussions, and solution guidance, reinforcing standards, quality, accountability, and professional growth.
- Promote consistent engineering practices and an environment focused on learning, ownership, maintainability, and delivery excellence.
- Provide technical oversight to external delivery resources and hold partners accountable for approved designs and standards.
DECISION RIGHTS AND ROLE BOUNDARIES:
- Technical architecture, solution patterns, system boundaries, integration approach, extensibility, and technical design approval: ERP Solution Architect.
- Request for customization: ERP Solution Architect determines the compliant technical approach and may recommend standard functionality or process change.
- Technical quality, architecture compliance, and technical release readiness: ERP Solution Architect.
MINIMUM EDUCATION AND WORK REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- Seven or more years of experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Supply Chain Management or Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations.
- Experience designing and implementing enterprise-scale solutions across multiple functional areas, including manufacturing, supply chain, warehousing, logistics, procurement, commercial operations, or finance.
- Experience leading solution architecture, technical governance, and technical design approval and providing technical direction to software delivery teams.
- Experience working within Microsoft Azure-based environments and cloud application architectures.
- Experience defining integration and data requirements and partnering with Integration, Data, security, infrastructure, and business teams.
- Strong understanding of application lifecycle management, software development practices, nonfunctional requirements, and enterprise solution design.
- Proven ability to influence stakeholders and explain technical tradeoffs at technical, business, and leadership levels.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:
- Deep knowledge of D365 F&SCM architecture, extensibility, application lifecycle management, environment strategy, performance, and supportability.
- Ability to translate functional requirements into end-to-end technical designs and distinguish technical architecture authority from business and product ownership.
- Experience with third-party implementation partners, consultants, software vendors, and ISV solutions.
- Experience with D365 security role design, access governance, master data governance, data archiving, retention strategies, and platform optimization.
- Experience with Microsoft Power Platform, Azure services, cloud integration patterns, monitoring, and enterprise data solutions.
- Strong technical judgment and ability to balance business value, risk, cost, maintainability, delivery speed, and long-term platform health.
- Strong communication, facilitation, documentation, and influencing skills, including the ability to make and explain architecture decisions.
- Experience in manufacturing, distribution, supply chain, warehousing, logistics, agriculture, or food and beverage industries preferred.
- Microsoft certifications related to D365 Finance and Supply Chain Management, Azure, Power Platform, or Solution Architecture preferred.