Job Description
🚨 Contract Opportunity: Infrastructure Architect – D365 Implementation
📍 Hybrid (2-3 days/week in Gloucestershire / Somerset/ Worcestershire area) | 🗓️ 6 Months Initially | 💷 Outside IR35 | 🧠 Full-Lifecycle Role
We’re supporting a major business transformation and are looking for a seasoned Infrastructure Architect to lead the end-to-end infrastructure workstream of a complex Microsoft Dynamics 365 (D365) deployment across multiple business units.
This is not just a design role, we need someone who can take ownership across the full architectural lifecycle, from discovery through to cutover and transition.
🔧 Key Responsibilities:
- Own the infrastructure architecture lifecycle: discovery, requirements, HLD/LLD, build oversight, test, and transition
- Produce high-quality architecture documentation across environments, networks, security, identity, and DR
- Engage with business units, internal IT, and external vendors to define and validate infrastructure needs
- Support governance, planning, and design assurance throughout the delivery lifecycle
- Guide infrastructure teams during implementation to ensure delivery aligns to the intended design
- Contribute to testing and go-live readiness; support knowledge transfer to operational teams
✅ Ideal Experience:
- Extensive experience as an Infrastructure Architect on large-scale D365 programmes
- Strong track record delivering architecture in multi-entity, complex environments
- Broad technical knowledge: hybrid cloud, identity (Azure AD), security, integrations, performance, scalability
- Comfortable working across multiple business units and delivery partners
- Excellent communication and documentation skills; confident in planning and governance conversations
📅 Start: ASAP
📍 Location: Hybrid - 2-3 days per week in Gloucestershire / Somerset/ Worcestershire area
🧾 Duration: 6 months initially
💷 Rate: Outside IR35 - Competitive