Lead Dynamics 365 Consultant at Active Travel England, York/Remote, 6 Months, £Contract Rate

Job summary

Active Travel England is seeking an experienced Lead Microsoft Dynamics 365 Consultant to provide expert leadership and assurance across our Dynamics 365 estate. This is a critical role, focused on stabilising our current implementation, resolving technical and configuration issues and ensuring the platform is well-structured, robust and scalable to support future digital services.

Working in close partnership with service owners, delivery teams and external suppliers, you will review, improve and optimise both the technical and functional configuration of Dynamics 365, offering clear, pragmatic advice and leading targeted enhancements where needed. You will also play a key role in shaping ATE's longer-term approach to Dynamics and the Power Platform, helping ensure our digital services are built on robust foundations and are able to evolve as the Agency matures. This role combines strong technical expertise with an advisory approach, with hands-on involvement where required.

As a Lead Dynamics 365 Consultant your main responsibilities will be to:

• Provide expert technical leadership and assurance across Active Travel England's Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform estate, ensuring solutions are robust, scalable and aligned to best practice.
• Review the current Dynamics 365 implementation to identify configuration issues, technical debt, opportunities for improvement and guide the resolution of priority issues.
• Design and oversee the implementation of technical and functional enhancements to Dynamics 365, ensuring solutions meet service needs and are maintainable over time.
• Work collaboratively with service owners, delivery teams, super users and external suppliers to translate requirements into effective solutions.
• Support capability building within internal teams through knowledge sharing, guidance and best-practice approaches to Dynamics and Power Platform delivery.
• Provide clear, pragmatic advice on Dynamics 365 architecture, licensing, configuration, integration and data model design.
• Advise on appropriate use of Power Platform components (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, Dataverse) to help shape ATE's longer-term Dynamics and Power Platform strategy.
• Lead or contribute to technical design reviews, ensuring solutions are well-documented and meet security, performance and accessibility requirements.
• Own the relationship with Department for Transport (DfT) Cloud Engineering team, ensuring our development and cloud approach is aligned with wider priorities, whilst overcoming any technical blockers or challenges.

Essential:

• Significant experience and expertise in Microsoft Dynamics 365.
• Demonstrable experience leading the configuration, improvement and assurance of Microsoft Dynamics 365 solutions, including diagnosing and resolving complex issues in live environments.
• Strong technical leadership and architectural judgement, with experience reviewing implementations, identifying technical debt and defining scalable, maintainable solutions.
• Experience advising on Dynamics 365 architecture, data models and integrations.
• Ability to work collaboratively and influence across organisational boundaries, working effectively with service owners, delivery teams, super users and external suppliers.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to translate business needs into practical technical solutions and support informed decision-making in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.

Desirable:

• Experience with Salesforce or platform migration/consolidation work (e.g. Salesforce to Dynamics)
• Experience working with or managing third-party suppliers or system integrators

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident 

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, ATE guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

Armed Forces Commitment

ATE guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.