FY24 FastTrack Recognized Solution Architect nominations now open!

 

 

Hello Partners,

The Microsoft Business Applications & Platform engineering team confers the designation FastTrack Recognized Solution Architect to practicing enterprise solution architects who consistently exhibit deep architecture expertise and create high-quality solutions for customers. They typically work for systems integrator partners, who may nominate solution architects to recognize their expertise.

Systems integrator partners may nominate their solution architects who meet the below requirements. A panel of solution architects from Power CAT will then assess the candidate based on the architecture related artifacts and solution quality of the candidate’s projects.

 Nomination Link: http://aka.ms/FTRSANomination

 

Why Nominate

• Recognized architects’ profiles, and the partners they work for, are listed on the Microsoft Dynamics 365 Architects and Power Platform websites.
• Partners may indicate the number of recognized architects they have in their promotional materials and may direct prospective customers to the recognized architect profile page.
• Recognized architects get an e-badge to share on LinkedIn and other social media platforms.

* Partners and architects may opt out of this public listing.

 

Requirements

For an architect to be eligible for the FTRSA distinction, he/she must meet the following requirements:

 

For Power Apps:

• Have a minimum of two years’ experience with Power Apps and a minimum of five years’ experience with Microsoft products.
• Have a minimum of three years’ experience as a solution architect.
• Be a Microsoft Certified Power Platform Solution Architect Expert (PL-600).
• Be the lead architect on at least one customer implementation with at least five apps in production or at least 1,000 users within the customer’s organization.
• Be responsible for the architecture and design of at least two customer implementation projects.
• Be employed at a Microsoft Partner organization that has at least one Gold  competency and has achieved at least 3 out of 4 requirements for the Low Code Application Development specialization
• Have built solutions using Microsoft Dataverse, Power Platform products, integration with multiple systems, other Power Platform services, Azure services, custom connectors, and/or Power Apps component framework and can provide evidence of the depth and breadth of experience around these technologies.
• Have a good understanding of the administration, governance and ALM capabilities of the platform and have provided insights and custom tooling to customer organization admins as needed.

For Power Automate:

• Have a minimum of two years’ experience with Power Automate and a minimum of five years’ experience with Microsoft products or robotic process automation.
• Have a minimum of three years’ experience as a solution architect.
• Be a Microsoft Certified Power Platform Solution Architect Expert (PL-600) or Microsoft Power Automate RPA Developer
• Be the lead architect on at least one Power Automate customer implementation, with at least one mission-critical cloud-and-desktop flow in production within the customer’s organization.
• Be responsible for the architecture and design of at least two customer implementation projects.
• Be employed at a Microsoft Partner organization that has at least one Gold competency and is in the process of achieving the Intelligent Automation specialization.
• Have built solutions using Microsoft Dataverse, Microsoft Power Automate (both Cloud Flows and Desktop Flows), integration with multiple systems, other Microsoft Power Platform services (AI Builder, Document handling, Process Insights etc.), Azure services, and custom connectors and can provide evidence of the depth and breadth of experience around these technologies.