MS Dynamics Architect at Konvergent Ltd, Remote, 3 Months, £Contract Rate

MS Dynamics Architect required for a three-month planning assignment with a client preparing to move off multiple Salesforce instances onto Microsoft Dynamics. Outside IR35, £700 per day. Mainly remote with some UK travel. Start ASAP.

THE ASSIGNMENT

The client runs several separate Salesforce instances and has taken the decision to consolidate onto MS Dynamics. What they do not yet have is a credible view of how that happens, what it means for the way the business works, or what order any of it should happen in.

There is a team of Business Analysts already in place doing the process mapping. You are not there to do that work. You are there to guide it, to be the person who knows what Dynamics can and cannot do, and who steers the BAs towards a target process design that will actually work on the platform.

Usefully, there are no integrations between Salesforce and any third-party applications. So the complexity here is not interfaces. It is process, data and people, spread across multiple instances.

WHAT YOU WILL DELIVER

• Assessment. A clear view of each Salesforce instance: what it is used for, where the instances overlap, and where they have diverged.
• Advisory support to the BA team. Working alongside the analysts as they map, bringing the Dynamics view into their sessions: what is standard, what is configuration, what is customisation and what simply is not worth doing.
• Target process direction. A steer on what moves across as-is, what gets reshaped to suit Dynamics, and what should be retired rather than carried forward.
• Alignment of ways of working. A single agreed way of working across the business units, rather than three or four versions of the same process wearing different hats.
• Technology differences. A plain English view of where Dynamics genuinely works differently to Salesforce, and what that means for users, data and the target design.
• Migration strategy and plan. The sequencing, the approach, the risks and the decisions that need making, in a form the client can execute against once the delivery phase starts.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

• An architect with real MS Dynamics depth. You need to be able to say with authority what the platform will and will not support, and be right.
• Ideally you have taken a migration onto Dynamics all the way through, not just planned one. We want the scar tissue: someone who knows which decisions taken at this stage cause pain later.
• Enough Salesforce knowledge to know what you are looking at, and to be knowledgeable about where the two platforms diverge.
• The confidence to tell the business that lifting and shifting a bad process into Dynamics simply gives them a bad process in Dynamics.
• Pragmatic and quick. Three months, focused on a plan that stands up, not on perfect documentation.