Solution Architect for MS Dynamics 365 ERP

As a Solution Architect for MS Dynamics 365 ERP, your role involves the following key responsibilities: - Gather requirements: - Identify operational and organizational challenges that impact a business. - Identify existing business processes and opportunities to optimize them. - Categorize business requirements and perform gap fit analyses. - Review and validate business requirements throughout the solution lifecycle. - Define the solution architecture: - Map business requirements to functional components. - Evaluate whether to build versus buy for selected business requirements. - Select solution design patterns. - Describe and document the solution blueprint: - Define an organization and organization locations, including intercompany information. - Document the implementation timeline, including roll-out strategies. - Define the business process catalog and document solution gaps. - Define instances, environments, and solution components. - Develop a disaster recovery strategy. - Identify required integration and interface details. - Define required business intelligence and reporting components. - Identify required security roles. - Select a deployment strategy: - Select a deployment model and identify instances and environments required for the selected deployment mode. - Segment solution development and delivery into logical phases. - Provide alternative methodologies and approaches for deploying modifications. - Determine solution maintenance cadence and timelines. - Define an application lifecycle management (ALM) strategy: - Define a code management and data flow strategy. - Determine which build automation capabilities to implement. - Determine a data management strategy: - Define data quality and data validation processes. - Define data cleansing and transformation strategies. - Develop a data migration strategy for master, transactional, reference, parameter, and document data entities. - Develop data cut-over and data retention plans. - Define the security architecture. - Manage implementations: - Describe Lifecycle Services (LCS) tools. - Understand the use cases and capabilities of different LCS tools. - Understand the use cases and capabilities of Business Process Modeler (BPM). - Understand the use cases and capabilities LCS Methodologies. - Determine licensing requirements: - Determine the types of licenses required. - Estimate the number of licenses required by using the License Sizing estimator. - Describe the process for estimating ongoing software licensing costs. - Define a testing strategy: - Define a regression testing strategy. - Identify opportunities for automated testing. - Review use cases and test coverage for all scenarios. - Determine when to use RSAT versus SysTest framework versus Postman versus ATL and other tools. - Define a performance testing strategy: - Define performance goals and requirements. - Identify performance monitoring and testing tools. - Define performance benchmarks and success criteria. - Design a performance and load testing strategy. - Troubleshoot performance issues.,