Senior Functional Consultant

Are you passionate about helping organisations unlock the full potential of digital transformation? We are looking for an experienced Microsoft Business Applications professional to lead the end to delivery of innovative Dynamics 365 and Power Platform solutions. In this pivotal role, you will translate complex business needs into scalable designs, guide customers through every stage of their transformation journey, and champion best practice adoption of the wider Microsoft ecosystem. If you thrive on solving challenges, inspiring stakeholders, and shaping meaningful change, we would love to hear from you.

About the Role

In this pivotal role, you will support customers across their digital transformation journey, leading the end to end delivery of Microsoft Business Applications solutions, particularly Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform, ensuring that business needs are fully understood, translated into solution designs, and successfully implemented to deliver measurable value.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead stakeholder engagement to gather requirements, analyse business processes, and define solution roadmaps aligned with strategic priorities.
• Provide functional leadership in the design, architecture, and implementation of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform solutions.
• Translate complex business needs into clear, realistic and scalable solution designs.
• Facilitate workshops, demonstrations, and UAT to ensure successful adoption across diverse stakeholder groups.
• Lead cross functional teams from project inception to delivery while maintaining strong communication channels and governance.
• Provide guidance to consultants and support continuous improvement of delivery practices and methodology.
• Ensure that implemented solutions exploit the wider Microsoft ecosystem to maximise business value.

Knowledge and Experience

• 5+ years of experience in customer facing delivery roles within a Microsoft Partner organisation.
• 3-5 years hands on experience delivering Dynamics 365 and Power Platform solutions (including Dataverse and Azure integrations).
• Deep understanding of Dynamics 365 modules such as Sales, Customer Service, and Marketing.
• Strong stakeholder engagement background including requirements definition, high level solution design and functional architecture.
• Ability to assess requirements vs. standard product capabilities and recommend optimal configuration/extension approaches.

Personal Characteristics

• Entrepreneurial and proactive, with a commitment to delivering high quality outcomes on time.
• Exceptional communication and relationship building skills across all levels of the organisation.
• Organised, self managing, and detail driven with the ability to lead others effectively.
• Curious and committed to continuous personal and professional development, staying ahead of product and industry change.

Personal Abilities

• Strong facilitation skills; able to unlock understanding and drive consensus between business and technical stakeholders.
• Excellent analytical and problem solving capability to craft practical solutions from complex challenges.
• Skilled in project leadership; managing multiple initiatives with clarity, prioritisation and accountability.
• Commercially aware and customer centric; spotting opportunities for added value and long term partnership growth.

Technical Abilities

• Strong functional knowledge of Dynamics 365 CE modules (Sales, Customer Service, Marketing).
• Practical experience with Power Platform components:
• Model driven and Canvas Apps
• Dataverse
• Power Pages
• Power BI
• Integrations with Azure services
• Awareness of extension frameworks: plugins, custom workflows, JavaScript.
• Ability to design scalable and future proof solutions leveraging the wider Microsoft ecosystem.
• Understanding of security and compliance within Microsoft cloud environments.

What We Offer

• Industry aligned competitive salary.
• 33 days annual leave, including bank holidays.
• Continuous professional development.
• Access to learning resources to support study to achieve Microsoft certifications.
• Bonus paid on passing agreed exams to gain specific Microsoft certifications.
• Auto enrolment pension scheme with options to increase your contributions.
• Employee wellbeing strategy.
• Free flu jabs.
• EyeCare vouchers.
• Company events.
• Free on site parking.

About Us

We believe in our culture, values and staff successes. We invest in developing our staff and we support our employees with their professional development goals. We strive to offer an environment that provides our staff with the right work/life balance. We offer genuine career prospects: you will have a clear career progression path with the opportunity to become stakeholders within the business as it transitions to an employee owned company.

This role is UK based but we particularly welcome applications from candidates within commuting distance of our Northampton HQ, as on site collaboration and client engagement form part of the role. Candidates must have full entitlement to work and reside in the UK.

Strictly Personal Applicants Only

Please apply here to upload your CV and cover letter, describing why you feel you are right for this position, together with details of your current and minimum salary expectations, current benefits and notice period. Ref: 2514. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis; we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Please note we cannot sponsor applicants for a visa. Please only apply if you have the right to work in the UK and are resident in the UK. Ashton Court is committed to supporting individuals with the desire and capacity for long term career growth and development to achieve their full potential. Because the limitations of a time bound visa do not align with our long term career development plans, we regret we cannot accept applications from candidates whose right to work in the UK relies on a temporary, time limited or dependency visa.

Interview Process

Ashton Court Group is an equal opportunities employer. Interviews are conducted in a two stage process. Successful applicants will be invited to an initial 30 minute Teams meeting with a senior member of staff in the same discipline as the role for which you have applied. If successful, we will be inviting candidates to a second interview of up to one hour, including an assessment of your skills and experience and may include a technical test. Final interview and offer of employment is held in person at our offices. Full details will be provided at a later date for those who are selected.

Recruitment Agencies

Strictly no agency contact in response to this vacancy. We have a strict company policy to recruit directly. We therefore do not accept speculative CVs and/or cold calls to our Recruitment Team or Hiring Manager.

Ashton Court Group is an experienced client focused information systems consultancy providing on premise, cloud, and hybrid solutions to the public, private, and not for profit sectors. As a Microsoft Business Solutions Partner, we maintain comprehensive knowledge of Microsoft's software tools and applications, and the expertise to deliver successful projects on time and on budget.

Ashton Court Group Ltd
Thorpewood Management Centre
Blisworth Road
Courteenhall
Northampton
NN7 2QB