Entity description
At Digital & IT, we harness the power of the latest technological advances and our history of industrial excellence to foster innovation and enable Air Liquide's talents to thrive.
How will you CONTRIBUTE and GROW at Air Liquide?
Within the Enterprise Apps team, the Product Architect Microsoft D365 is the guarantor of the functional, technical and applicative coherence of the FiCoPro Core solution ("Core Solution D365/G365"). Working across the entire lifecycle of the platform (governance, roadmap, build, maintenance and deployment), this person bridges strategic business needs and internal or external technical delivery teams.
What is the role of the Enterprise Applications department within Air Liquide?
The goal of Enterprise Applications is to improve the performance and competitiveness level of the Group's digital products and services. To do this, Enterprise Apps relies on greater product convergence and a streamlined deployment approach that capitalizes on global skills and synergies, offering end-to-end delivery, accelerated implementation and good cost-effectiveness.
Missions and Responsibilities
A. Governance, Facilitation & Microsoft Relationship
•Actively lead the governance and steering of the FiCoPro Core solution
•Participate and actively contribute to operational instances with the publisher (e.g. Fast Track)
B. Definition of the Core Model & Roadmap
•Scoping and Workshops: Support the BPOs (Business Process Owners) of the group during Core Model definition workshops.
•Innovation & Monitoring: Analyze Microsoft's evolutions and new releases to propose new high-value features to BPOs.
•Core Roadmap Management: Collect and qualify requirements for the Core MSD365 solution, and propose corresponding delivery batch breakdowns.
•Arbitration & Decisions: Be consulted during governance decision/arbitration of the Core solution roadmap as well as for validation of DDS roadmap proposals.
Enrichment & Evolutions of the Core Model
•Validation of Specifications: Ensure validation of Functional Design Documents (FDD) for the Core Model. Be consulted for validation of FDDs related to local DDS evolutions.
•Validation of Estimates: Be consulted for the analysis and validation of cost/time estimates provided by the system integrator.
Support for D365 Deployments & Projects
•Deployment Support: Provide direct support during the operational deployment of the D365 CORE solution to the various entities.
•Project Methodology: Be consulted to provide expertise on project management methodology and its execution.
Maintenance, Support & Technical Foundations
Although technical execution and operational resolution are handled by Technical Experts or the Integrator, the Product Architect retains a macro-architectural view. This person is kept informed of:
•activities related to technical foundations (global D365 tenant/LCS architecture, Azure components) handled by the Technical Expert,
•implementation processes (configurations/developments) and the delivery of releases to DDS,
•analysis/resolution of critical incidents, follow-up of incident fixes on Microsoft's side, as well as non-regression phases during major Microsoft updates.
Interfaces and Ecosystem
The Product Architect works in a multi-stakeholder environment:
•Business / Strategy: Works closely with Product Managers and Product Experts to qualify the roadmap and validate estimates.
•Technical: Works together with the Technical Expert (notably on Azure infrastructure architecture).
•External Partners: Supervises and validates the integrator's deliverables and interacts directly with Microsoft.
•Deployment entities: Aligned with the DDS SPOC to account for local specificities in the global roadmap.
Are you a MATCH?
Profile and Skills
•Excellent knowledge of the Microsoft Dynamics 365 ecosystem (F&O / CRM depending on the scope of the Core Solution).
•Proven ability to design, structure and validate a global, scalable enterprise Core Model.
•Solid experience leading application governance instances and managing / prioritizing roadmaps.
•Good understanding of the Microsoft update cycle (Evergreen), Azure DevOps usage rules and environment management (LCS).
•Good facilitation skills for workshops and decision committees with BPOs, integrators, publishers, Product Experts, Product Managers.
•Ability to challenge business requirements and rigorously validate integrators' proposals.
•Ability to arbitrate between a standard central model ("Core") and local needs (DDS) while taking into account regional and/or business-related specificities and localizations.
Our recruitment process
You will first be contacted by our Recruiter, then you will meet the Manager for this position, followed by the HR Manager of this team.
Joining our teams also means…
•Joining a Group that places societal, economic and environmental issues at the heart of its strategy.
•Growing and developing within the Group through an important internal mobility policy and continuous training.
•Joining an inclusive environment (a Disability agreement, an advantageous parenthood policy, the possibility of working 2 days/year for an association during work time and getting involved in our Diversity and Inclusion actions…).
•Organizing one's work schedule and work/life balance with the possibility of working remotely up to 3 days per week and over 7 weeks of leave per year without seniority conditions.
•Enjoying several benefits: Meal vouchers, 80% reimbursement of the Navigo Pass or sustainable mobility benefit, vacation bonus, profit-sharing, incentive and participation schemes… and many other benefits.
If you want to grow within a stimulating, authentic and international environment, apply!
Our Differences make our Performance
At Air Liquide, we are committed to build a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.
We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their background. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.
