Cognizant - Dynamics 365 CE and Power Apps Pre-Sales Consultant

Join a team of passionate thought leaders in a dynamic and collaborative environment Cognizant Microsoft Business Groups Business Applications team is hiring now and were looking for our next Dynamics 365 CE and Power Apps Pre-Sales Consultant to join us. The role has an immediate start and would be on a permanent contract.

The Microsoft Business Group is a cloud-first, full-service Microsoft partner committed to delivering innovative technology solutions that solve human challenges. We are compelled by our core values to drive transformational results for clients across all company sizes, geographies and industries. The Cognizant Microsoft Business Group team delivers full lifecycle solutionsfrom project inception and planning, through deployment to ongoing support and maintenance.

Why should you work at Microsoft Business Group?

Multi Award Winning Business

Official and Award-Winning Microsoft Partner

Award Winning Databricks Partner

Official GitHub Partner

Cloud Native Organisation

Growing International and Diverse teams

Hugely collaborative environment, where ideas and knowledge sharing are actively encouraged

Private Medical Insurance

Employee Assistance Programme

Income Protection Cover

Death in Service Cover

Group Personal Pension Plan with enhanced employee contributions

Flexible Working and Working from Home

Enhanced annual leave allowance

We are committed to diversity, inclusion and belonging and welcome applicants from all backgrounds

What impact will you have in this role?

The ideal candidate will be an ambitious and enthusiastic consultant who will nurture needs and deliver Microsoft Business Applications solutions for existing and prospective clients. Working with the Business Analysis, sales professionals practice and client teams to design, build, oversee, and implement solutions using the Power Platform and Dynamics 365 customer engagement first-party applications. You should be experience in articulating architectural designs in written form, with the ability to explain complex concepts in clear. concise form that can be understood by Business stakeholders.

What will the Dynamics 365 CE and Power Apps Pre-Sales Consultant be doing day to day in their role?

Supporting Microsoft Business Group sellers, Cognizant sellers, client partners and customer relationship managers and Microsoft co-selling to win Dynamics 365 F&O work with existing and new customers, both proactive outgoing initiatives and responding to incoming requests, RFPs, ITTs and Frameworks.

As the Dynamics F&O sales expert, leading initial engagement with customers to establish their needs, outcomes and how these can best be supported through Dynamics F&O and as needed wider Microsoft solutions

Identifying and creating with MBG Offering Team Industry and cross industry go to market solutions, supporting as the subject matter expert marketing and other promotional campaigns.

Advising customers on the fit of Microsoft Dynamics CE and the wider Power Platform to their environment, infrastructure, functional and non-functional needs, and their compliance requirements

Work on and support the completion of response to customer demand. These could be a simple and straight forward PoC that requires architectural review, or a complex enterprise architecture

Have excellent interpersonal skill and be able to work in a wide, diverse group of stakeholders.

Have experience of taking a concept at enterprise level, create the scope (temporal, financial, resource) and translate this into an executable design that competitive positions us well in the market, using the appropriate levers to deliver a compelling bid.

What type of experience does the Dynamics 365 CE and Power Apps Pre-Sales Consultant need to be successful in this role?

Must have over 10+ years of experience in Microsoft stack with strong experience working as a Technical Consultant or Architect in Microsoft Dynamics 365 CE (CRM)

Strong understanding of Microsoft Dynamics 365 CE and experience of working on full life cycle implementations across multiple versions of Dynamics CRM/365 CE ( 2011, 2013, 2016, 365)

Understand customers environment and advise on fit of Dynamics to their needs including integration with third party systems.

Understanding of high level solution architecture and fit of Dynamics CE solutions within customers target environment

Ability to lead response to clients such as RFPs etc.

Ability to take an aspiration design and turn it into an executable design

Experienced in data integration and data migration

Experience with onsite/offshore delivery models

Experience with defined frameworks (MVC, Entity Framework and Enterprise Library)

Strong client facing communication skills

Experienced providing Pre-Sales demonstrations.

Good experience and knowledge of

Microsoft Azure

Power Apps and Portal

Field Services

Customer Insights

Gen AI and Co-Pilot

What education and certification credentials are needed for this role?

Educated to degree level or equivalent

TOGAF certified ideally

Certified in an Agile methodology

Microsoft Dynamics 365 CE/CRM certification (preferably Dynamics 365 Customer Service and Sales MB-210) is highly desirable