Dynamics and Power Platform Solution Architect

Reporting to: Director of Data, Analytics and Digital Engineering

Location: Cape Town or Port Elizabeth, South Africa

Working Hours: 40 hours per week

Purpose of the role

The focus of this role is to deliver and contribute to the growth of our Business Applications group by helping organisations adopt Microsoft Power Platform at an SME level with a focus on Power Apps, Power BI, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents as well as Dynamics 365. Working within a highly progressive and collaborative team consisting of technical and commercial colleagues to deliver services and projects for our clients.

The role will include both internal and external power platform work to mature ourselves into a digitally mature organisation as well as create lasting impact and business value for our clients. The role will work directly with the Director of Data Analytics and Digital Engineering to scope work and deliver true lasting change.

We are seeking passionate and enthusiastic solution architects at all levels who are excited by digital transformation and keen to take an active part in the growth of the company. 

Primary Duties:

Work with business and technical stakeholders to lead future product direction and technology capability. Design and deliver end-to-end technical solutions using Power Platform as well as Dynamics. Communicate with Business Analysts to understand business requirements and challenges. Working as part of consultancy projects and within high-performing, collaborative teams. Learn and utilise exciting new technologies and how they integrate with the Microsoft Power Platform

Client Delivery

• Drive innovation and collaboration with the newest advancements and features within the Power Platform. Guiding customers in the end-to-end project lifecycle and to ensuring the success of key projects.

• Defining or assisting the team with best practice integration approach for data from different data sources.

• Creating high-level solution design diagrams for customers and the delivery team including presenting these designs back to customers.

Typical projects and services include:

• Designing and developing automated and digital processes using power platform

• Solve business process challenges through the use of cloud solutions

• Design and implement new digital pipelines to enable the unification of multiple data sources and build business logic to enable reporting across an organisation

• Performing maturity assessments across our clients’ digital capability, providing guidance on how to better utilise and leverage technology, using your experience and industry best-practices to form recommendations

• Appling advanced Power Platform techniques to solve complex business challenges and answer questions such as how a client could generate more revenue or how they could increase customer satisfaction

We do not expect you to be an expert in all areas and we understand that experiences vary based on the background and years of experience.

Below we list some of the skills we are looking for:

• Be inquisitive about how technology can be used to solve business problems and better understand the world around us

• Expertise in process design and solution architecture

• Experience in working across all of MS Power Platform

• Experience creating ETL pipelines in tools such as SQL

• Knowledge of optimal design of digital processes and models to enable end-to-end reporting

• Strong interpersonal skills and able to develop great relationships with stakeholders

• Comfortable capturing business requirements and understanding their value

• A desire to use technology to drive transformation in our clients, whether that be improving operational performance, reducing risk, growing their customer base or improving service levels

• Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to develop clear requirements and specifications and communicate complex technical information to both technical and non-technical colleagues.

Growth and development

• Promotion is solely based on your own performance, and we give you every opportunity to progress though our Personal Development and Personal Review Plans

• You decide on the training you need. We invest in you, to ensure you remain the best in the business, through formal training, coaching, and mentoring. We have a training points system to give you the flexibility to either use days off or a set budget for further education.

What can Zenzero offer you?

• Our projects offer you the ability to deliver tangible benefits for clients whilst developing both your softer skills (i.e., through exposure to senior stakeholders across a wide range of industries) and technical capacities (i.e., through hands on experience on several leading products and tools in the data space).

• Lastly, we recognise the importance of work-life balance and we know that the ‘ideal’ balance will vary from person to person and will change at different stages of our working lives. If you require flexible working, please talk to one of our recruiters about the flexibility you may need.

Role Specification

Knowledge

Experience

Essential Skills

• Ability to communicate effectively and manage expectations of clients

• Ability to lead a project and work as part of a team

• Ability to converse at ease with customers and colleagues as well as provide advice

• Ability to keep learning from others and through specified training

Essential Leadership Competencies

Ability to take the initiative - Seeing something that needs to be done and stepping up to complete and finish the task, with minimal direction from others.

Ability to make decisions - Forming sound, evidence-based judgements, making choices, assessing risks, and taking accountability for results.

Resilience - Being flexible and adapting positively, to sustain performance when the situation changes, workload increases, tensions rise or priorities shift.

A stakeholder focus - Consulting with, listening to, and understanding the needs of those who your work impacts, and using this knowledge to shape what we do and to manage others’ expectations.

A commitment to excellence - Setting high standards for oneself and others, guiding, motivating, and developing them, to achieve high performance.

How to apply

If this sounds of interest, please follow the ‘Apply now’ button below, where you will be asked to fill in an application form and attach your CV.

Please note: Whilst we try and provide feedback, unfortunately we are unable to respond individually to each applicant. If you do not hear from us within 14 days of submitting your details you may assume you have not been selected on this occasion. We have an approved supplier process so no recruitment agencies please.