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Keller is the world leader in geotechnical construction and deep foundations. With a North American presence of over 100 years, we operate as the market leader with over 50 offices throughout the US and Canada. By connecting global resources and local experience, Keller develops innovative, practical, and cost-effective solutions to geotechnical challenges. Our values of integrity, collaboration, and excellence enable us to lead the industry in providing the optimal solution for our clients.
Keller is looking for an experienced IT Solution Architect D365 CRM/Customer Engagement based out of the US.
The IT Solution Architect D365 CRM/Customer Engagement is responsible for the end-to-end architecture, design, and governance of Keller’s Microsoft Dynamics 365 CE platform. This role ensures that customer, commercial, sales, marketing, service, and field engagement capabilities are standardized, scalable, secure, integrated, and aligned to Keller’s global business processes. The CE Solution Architect acts as the key bridge between business stakeholders, IT delivery teams, solution partners, enterprise architecture, and Microsoft platform teams, ensuring that D365 CE solutions support Keller’s commercial operating model while integrating effectively with D365 Finance & Operations, Power Platform, Azure, and other enterprise systems.
Responsibilities
Solution Architecture & Design:
- Own the end-to-end solution architecture for D365 CE across Sales, Customer Service, Field Service, Marketing/Journeys, and related Power Platform capabilities.
- Define and maintain Keller’s global CRM solution blueprint, architecture principles, configuration standards, and design patterns.
- Lead fit-gap analysis and recommend standard D365 CE capabilities before custom development.
- Ensure solution design supports Keller’s global operating model, regional requirements, and long-term scalability.
- Provide architecture oversight for customizations, plugins, workflows, Power Automate flows, Dataverse configuration, security roles, and integrations.
Global CRM/CE Governance:
- Establish and enforce CE architecture governance, design review standards, and solution approval processes.
- Participate in or lead the CRM Design Authority / Architecture Review Board.
- Maintain solution consistency across global regions and business units.
- Govern customization decisions to minimize technical debt and improve maintainability.
- Ensure CE solutions comply with Keller’s internal IT standards, enterprise architecture principles, security controls, and audit requirements.
Delivery Leadership:
- Partner with Keller ERP delivery teams, IT services, and third-party partners to operate, maintain, and support D365 CRM/CE systems.
- Review and approval:
- Functional design documents
- Technical design documents
- Integration designs
- Security models
- Data migration approach
- Test strategy and deployment plans
- Provide guidance across the full delivery lifecycle, including discovery, design, build, test, deploy, hypercare, and transition to BAU support.
- Act as final design authority for critical CE solution decisions.
Integration & Enterprise Application Alignment:
- Partner with Keller IT D365 CE, Cloud, Security, Data Service to define and govern CE integration architecture with:
- D365 Finance & Operations
- Power Platform
- Microsoft Fabric / Power BI
- Azure Integration Services
- Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, and Microsoft 365
- Estimating, project, HR, finance, customer, and operational systems where applicable
- Support data flows for customer, account, contact, lead, opportunity, quote, project, and service-related information.
- Ensure integration patterns are secure, resilient, auditable, and aligned with Keller’s iPaaS/API strategy.
- Partner with ERP architects to ensure consistency between CRM and ERP master data models.
Data Model, Dataverse & Master Data Governance:
- Own the CE logical data model and ensure effective use of Microsoft Dataverse.
- Define standards for accounts, contacts, leads, opportunities, activities, cases, service records, and custom entities.
- Support customer and commercial master data governance.
- Ensure data quality, retention, privacy, and lifecycle standards are built into the solution.
- Partner with reporting teams to enable trusted CRM analytics and executive dashboards.
Performance, Scalability & DR:
- Ensure solution meets performance, availability, and scalability requirements.
- Define Disaster Recovery (DR), RPO/RTO targets, and resilience architecture aligned with Microsoft SLAs.
Security, Compliance & Audit Readiness:
- Partner with D365 Security Lead to oversee:
- Design and govern CE role-based security, business units, teams, field-level security, and record ownership models.
- Ensure CE access aligns with least privilege, segregation of duties, and operational support requirements.
- Support SOX / ITGC where applicable for integrations, change management, access controls, and critical reporting.
- Ensure compliance with data privacy requirements and internal audit expectations.
- Maintain audit-ready architecture and design documentation.
ALM, Environment & Release Management:
- Partner with D365 Environment Manager to define and govern CE environment strategy.
- Establish application lifecycle management standards using:
- Managed and unmanaged solutions
- Azure DevOps pipelines
- Power Platform pipelines
- Solution packaging and deployment controls
- Ensure release practices support traceability, rollback planning, and production stability.
- Partner with support teams to manage release calendars, hotfixes, and platform updates.
Performance, Scalability & Platform Optimization:
- Ensure CE solutions are performant, scalable, and aligned to Microsoft platform best practices.
- Review plugin performance, Power Automate flow design, API usage, integration throughput, and Dataverse storage.
- Identify opportunities to simplify legacy customizations and reduce technical debt.
- Support platform health monitoring, capacity planning, and service improvement initiatives.
Power Platform & Automation Enablement:
- Provide architectural guidance for Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, Copilot Studio, and Power BI solutions connected to CE.
- Ensure citizen development and low-code solutions follow Keller governance standards.
- Support reusable components, common data patterns, and controlled innovation.
- Partner with COE teams to ensure Power Platform governance, DLP policies, and environment controls are followed.
Stakeholder Engagement:
- Partner with Keller IT Division Business Solution Managers to engage with:
- Sales
- Business development
- Marketing
- Customer service
- Project operations
- Finance
- IT leadership
- Translate business goals into scalable CE platform capabilities.
- Present architecture options, risks, recommendations, and roadmap items to senior stakeholders.
- Provide thought leadership on CRM capability maturity and continuous improvement.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
Core Experience:
- 10+ years of experience in CRM / enterprise application delivery.
- 5+ years in Microsoft Dynamics 365 CE / Power Platform architecture roles.
- Proven experience designing and delivering global or multi-business-unit CRM solutions.
- Strong understanding of commercial and customer engagement processes, including:
- Lead to opportunity
- Opportunity to quote
- Account and contact management
- Customer service / case management
- Field service, where applicable
- Sales pipeline and forecasting
Technical Expertise:
Strong working knowledge of:
- Dynamics 365 Sales
- Dynamics 365 Customer Service
- Dynamics 365 Field Service
- Dynamics 365 Customer Insights / Journeys, where applicable
- Microsoft Dataverse
- Power Platform architecture
- Model-driven apps
- Canvas apps
- Power Automate
- Power BI
- Azure Integration Services
- Dual-write / virtual tables / APIs where integrated with D365 F&O
- Microsoft 365 collaboration integration, including Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint
Governance & Compliance:
- Experience with enterprise architecture governance and design authority processes.
- Strong understanding of secure design, RBAC, business unit hierarchy, and access control models.
- Experience supporting audit, SOX / ITGC, access review, change control, and evidence requirements.
- Familiarity with ITIL-based service management and BAU support models.
- Experience with ALM, release management, DevOps, and environment governance.
Leadership Skills:
- Ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence global stakeholders.
- Strong communication skills across technical, functional, business, and executive audiences.
- Ability to challenge unnecessary customization and promote standard platform capability.
- Strong vendor, partner, and system integrator management skills.
- Comfortable operating in a global, matrixed organization.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Microsoft certifications such as:
- Dynamics 365 + Power Platform Solution Architect Expert
- Power Platform Functional Consultant Associate
- Dynamics 365 Sales Functional Consultant Associate
- Dynamics 365 Customer Service Functional Consultant Associate
- Experience in construction, engineering, ground improvement, project-based services, or B2B commercial environments.
- Experience integrating CE with D365 Finance & Operations.
- Experience with global CRM templates and regional rollout models.
- Familiarity with data governance, customer master data, and reporting harmonization.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Salary Range: $X - $X per year
Actual salary will be based on a variety of factors including relevant internal and external experience, knowledge, skills, scope of job, geographical location or other factors permitted by law
Benefits:
- 401(k) + matching
- Health, Dental, Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off (PTO)
- Holiday Pay
Keller is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We encourage qualified women, minorities, veterans, individuals with disabilities, and others to apply.
Equal Employment Opportunity
INTRODUCTION
Keller is the world leader in geotechnical construction and deep foundations. With a North American presence of over 100 years, we operate as the market leader with over 50 offices throughout the US and Canada. By connecting global resources and local experience, Keller develops innovative, practical, and cost-effective solutions to geotechnical challenges. Our values of integrity, collaboration, and excellence enable us to lead the industry in providing the optimal solution for our clients.
Keller is looking for an experienced IT Solution Architect D365 CRM/Customer Engagement based out of the US.
The IT Solution Architect D365 CRM/Customer Engagement is responsible for the end-to-end architecture, design, and governance of Keller’s Microsoft Dynamics 365 CE platform. This role ensures that customer, commercial, sales, marketing, service, and field engagement capabilities are standardized, scalable, secure, integrated, and aligned to Keller’s global business processes. The CE Solution Architect acts as the key bridge between business stakeholders, IT delivery teams, solution partners, enterprise architecture, and Microsoft platform teams, ensuring that D365 CE solutions support Keller’s commercial operating model while integrating effectively with D365 Finance & Operations, Power Platform, Azure, and other enterprise systems.
Responsibilities
Solution Architecture & Design:
- Own the end-to-end solution architecture for D365 CE across Sales, Customer Service, Field Service, Marketing/Journeys, and related Power Platform capabilities.
- Define and maintain Keller’s global CRM solution blueprint, architecture principles, configuration standards, and design patterns.
- Lead fit-gap analysis and recommend standard D365 CE capabilities before custom development.
- Ensure solution design supports Keller’s global operating model, regional requirements, and long-term scalability.
- Provide architecture oversight for customizations, plugins, workflows, Power Automate flows, Dataverse configuration, security roles, and integrations.
Global CRM/CE Governance:
- Establish and enforce CE architecture governance, design review standards, and solution approval processes.
- Participate in or lead the CRM Design Authority / Architecture Review Board.
- Maintain solution consistency across global regions and business units.
- Govern customization decisions to minimize technical debt and improve maintainability.
- Ensure CE solutions comply with Keller’s internal IT standards, enterprise architecture principles, security controls, and audit requirements.
Delivery Leadership:
- Partner with Keller ERP delivery teams, IT services, and third-party partners to operate, maintain, and support D365 CRM/CE systems.
- Review and approval:
- Functional design documents
- Technical design documents
- Integration designs
- Security models
- Data migration approach
- Test strategy and deployment plans
- Provide guidance across the full delivery lifecycle, including discovery, design, build, test, deploy, hypercare, and transition to BAU support.
- Act as final design authority for critical CE solution decisions.
Integration & Enterprise Application Alignment:
- Partner with Keller IT D365 CE, Cloud, Security, Data Service to define and govern CE integration architecture with:
- D365 Finance & Operations
- Power Platform
- Microsoft Fabric / Power BI
- Azure Integration Services
- Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, and Microsoft 365
- Estimating, project, HR, finance, customer, and operational systems where applicable
- Support data flows for customer, account, contact, lead, opportunity, quote, project, and service-related information.
- Ensure integration patterns are secure, resilient, auditable, and aligned with Keller’s iPaaS/API strategy.
- Partner with ERP architects to ensure consistency between CRM and ERP master data models.
Data Model, Dataverse & Master Data Governance:
- Own the CE logical data model and ensure effective use of Microsoft Dataverse.
- Define standards for accounts, contacts, leads, opportunities, activities, cases, service records, and custom entities.
- Support customer and commercial master data governance.
- Ensure data quality, retention, privacy, and lifecycle standards are built into the solution.
- Partner with reporting teams to enable trusted CRM analytics and executive dashboards.
Performance, Scalability & DR:
- Ensure solution meets performance, availability, and scalability requirements.
- Define Disaster Recovery (DR), RPO/RTO targets, and resilience architecture aligned with Microsoft SLAs.
Security, Compliance & Audit Readiness:
- Partner with D365 Security Lead to oversee:
- Design and govern CE role-based security, business units, teams, field-level security, and record ownership models.
- Ensure CE access aligns with least privilege, segregation of duties, and operational support requirements.
- Support SOX / ITGC where applicable for integrations, change management, access controls, and critical reporting.
- Ensure compliance with data privacy requirements and internal audit expectations.
- Maintain audit-ready architecture and design documentation.
ALM, Environment & Release Management:
- Partner with D365 Environment Manager to define and govern CE environment strategy.
- Establish application lifecycle management standards using:
- Managed and unmanaged solutions
- Azure DevOps pipelines
- Power Platform pipelines
- Solution packaging and deployment controls
- Ensure release practices support traceability, rollback planning, and production stability.
- Partner with support teams to manage release calendars, hotfixes, and platform updates.
Performance, Scalability & Platform Optimization:
- Ensure CE solutions are performant, scalable, and aligned to Microsoft platform best practices.
- Review plugin performance, Power Automate flow design, API usage, integration throughput, and Dataverse storage.
- Identify opportunities to simplify legacy customizations and reduce technical debt.
- Support platform health monitoring, capacity planning, and service improvement initiatives.
Power Platform & Automation Enablement:
- Provide architectural guidance for Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, Copilot Studio, and Power BI solutions connected to CE.
- Ensure citizen development and low-code solutions follow Keller governance standards.
- Support reusable components, common data patterns, and controlled innovation.
- Partner with COE teams to ensure Power Platform governance, DLP policies, and environment controls are followed.
Stakeholder Engagement:
- Partner with Keller IT Division Business Solution Managers to engage with:
- Sales
- Business development
- Marketing
- Customer service
- Project operations
- Finance
- IT leadership
- Translate business goals into scalable CE platform capabilities.
- Present architecture options, risks, recommendations, and roadmap items to senior stakeholders.
- Provide thought leadership on CRM capability maturity and continuous improvement.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
Core Experience:
- 10+ years of experience in CRM / enterprise application delivery.
- 5+ years in Microsoft Dynamics 365 CE / Power Platform architecture roles.
- Proven experience designing and delivering global or multi-business-unit CRM solutions.
- Strong understanding of commercial and customer engagement processes, including:
- Lead to opportunity
- Opportunity to quote
- Account and contact management
- Customer service / case management
- Field service, where applicable
- Sales pipeline and forecasting
Technical Expertise:
Strong working knowledge of:
- Dynamics 365 Sales
- Dynamics 365 Customer Service
- Dynamics 365 Field Service
- Dynamics 365 Customer Insights / Journeys, where applicable
- Microsoft Dataverse
- Power Platform architecture
- Model-driven apps
- Canvas apps
- Power Automate
- Power BI
- Azure Integration Services
- Dual-write / virtual tables / APIs where integrated with D365 F&O
- Microsoft 365 collaboration integration, including Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint
Governance & Compliance:
- Experience with enterprise architecture governance and design authority processes.
- Strong understanding of secure design, RBAC, business unit hierarchy, and access control models.
- Experience supporting audit, SOX / ITGC, access review, change control, and evidence requirements.
- Familiarity with ITIL-based service management and BAU support models.
- Experience with ALM, release management, DevOps, and environment governance.
Leadership Skills:
- Ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence global stakeholders.
- Strong communication skills across technical, functional, business, and executive audiences.
- Ability to challenge unnecessary customization and promote standard platform capability.
- Strong vendor, partner, and system integrator management skills.
- Comfortable operating in a global, matrixed organization.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Microsoft certifications such as:
- Dynamics 365 + Power Platform Solution Architect Expert
- Power Platform Functional Consultant Associate
- Dynamics 365 Sales Functional Consultant Associate
- Dynamics 365 Customer Service Functional Consultant Associate
- Experience in construction, engineering, ground improvement, project-based services, or B2B commercial environments.
- Experience integrating CE with D365 Finance & Operations.
- Experience with global CRM templates and regional rollout models.
- Familiarity with data governance, customer master data, and reporting harmonization.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Salary Range: $X - $X per year
Actual salary will be based on a variety of factors including relevant internal and external experience, knowledge, skills, scope of job, geographical location or other factors permitted by law
Benefits:
- 401(k) + matching
- Health, Dental, Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off (PTO)
- Holiday Pay
Keller is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We encourage qualified women, minorities, veterans, individuals with disabilities, and others to apply.
Equal Employment Opportunity
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Gather your academic transcripts, certifications like TOGAF or AWS Solutions Architect, and employment letters that tie your title to a defined architecture function. Consular officers assess specialty occupation based on your documentation, not job title alone.
Target employers with active LCA filing history
Companies that have filed Labor Condition Applications for architecture or senior engineering roles already understand the E-3 visa process. Search the DOL's OFLC disclosure data to identify which employers have sponsored comparable roles recently.
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Clarify the specialty occupation case with your employer
Some IT Architect postings list a bachelor's in any field as acceptable. That language can undermine your E-3 case. Ask the hiring team to confirm the role requires a degree in computer science, information systems, or a directly related discipline before the LCA is filed.
Request an amended LCA if your role scope changes
If your responsibilities shift significantly after you enter the U.S., your employer may need to file a new LCA with the DOL. A mismatch between your approved LCA and actual duties is a common compliance risk for architects moving between project assignments.
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E-3 Visa IT Architect: Frequently Asked Questions
Where can I find IT Architect jobs that offer E-3 visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate lists IT Architect roles from employers open to E-3 sponsorship, so you're not filtering through positions that exclude Australian visa holders. The E-3 has no lottery and no cap, meaning employers can hire year-round without the timing constraints that make H-1B sponsorship difficult to plan around.
How much does it cost to get an E-3 visa?
Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service covers the entire process for $499, including the Labor Condition Application, visa document preparation, and consulate appointment guidance. Traditional immigration lawyers charge $2,000–$5,000+ for the same work. The E-3 has less paperwork than most work visas, so paying thousands for legal help is usually unnecessary.
Does an IT Architect role qualify as a specialty occupation for the E-3 visa?
IT Architect roles generally qualify as specialty occupations because they require theoretical and practical application of highly specialized knowledge, typically in computer science, information systems, or software engineering. The key is that your actual duties must require a degree in a specific related field, not just any bachelor's degree. Job descriptions that accept any undergraduate major can create problems at the consulate.
How does the E-3 visa compare to H-1B for IT Architect roles?
For IT Architects, the E-3 is materially easier to obtain than H-1B. There's no lottery, no annual cap, and no April registration window. Your employer files an LCA with the DOL, you apply directly at an Australian consulate, and the visa can be renewed every two years indefinitely. H-1B requires surviving a lottery before any sponsorship process begins, which creates multi-year delays many candidates can't accommodate.
Can I change employers on an E-3 visa as an IT Architect?
Yes, but your new employer must file a fresh LCA with the DOL and you'll generally need a new visa stamp unless you're changing status inside the U.S. You can't carry your existing E-3 authorization to a new company the way some other visa categories allow. Coordinate the timing carefully so your old employment end date and new LCA certification don't leave a gap in your authorized status.