Solution Architect Lead - D365/Power Platform/Azure

TITLE: Solution Architect Lead - D365/Power Platform/Azure

LOCATION: Washington, DC/ Hybrid

Employment type: Contract w2/1099/C2C

MINIMUM EDUCATION: Bachelor’s degree in IT, related field, or equivalent experience.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE: 16 years

INTERVIEWS: Webcam and In Person

Job Description:

The Client requires a senior, hands-on Solution Architect resource to serve as the technical design authority for STAAND (Stronger Together Against Abuse and Neglect in DC), the District's federally certified Comprehensive Child Welfare Information System.

Employment type: Contract w2/1099/C2C

Complete Description:

The client requires a senior, deeply hands-on Solution Architect resource to serve as the technical design authority for STAAND (Stronger Together Against Abuse and Neglect in DC), the District's federally certified Comprehensive Child Welfare Information System (CCWIS).

STAAND is a person-centric, AI-enabled platform built on Microsoft Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform hosted in a Government Community Cloud (GCC) tenant, with Azure services operating in Microsoft's commercial cloud. It supports social workers, supervisors, private agency partners, providers, resource parents, and District sister agencies across nine functional modules — Intake and Investigations, Case Management, ICPC, Finance (Contracts, Service Logs, and Fiscal), Provider, Eligibility and Subsidy, Placement, Services, and Management Reports — plus six external portals (Mandated Reporter, MPD, NYTD, OSSE, Resource Parent, and Community). STAAND also fields CORA, an AI assistant supporting natural-language search and AI-assisted contact notes among other use cases.

The Resource will own architecture, security design, AI engineering, and the platform-release change cadence required to keep STAAND current and improving. This is a build-and-design role, not an advisory or oversight role. The Resource is expected to personally configure, code, prototype, review, and troubleshoot in the platform while serving as the credible technical voice to executive leadership, STAAND Product Team, Microsoft, and Federal Partners (ACF/Children's Bureau).

Skills:

· Dynamics 365 Customer Service (MB-230). Required

· Progressive software dMicrosoft Certified: Power Platform Solution Architect Expert (PL-600). Required

· Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305). Required

· Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Developer Associate (PL-400). Desired

· TOGAF 9/10 Certified. Desired

· Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate (AI-102). Desired

· Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500). Desired

· CISSP or CCSP (ISC²). Desired

· Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert (SC-100). Desired

· Microsoft Certified: Fabric Analytics Engineer (DP-600) or Azure Data Engineer (DP-203). Desired

· Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, or a closely related technical discipline from an accord. Required 20 Years

· Progressive IT experience. Required 16 Years

· Solution or enterprise architecture on enterprise-scale, mission-critical systems. Required 8 Years

· Microsoft Dynamics 365 CE / Dataverse / Power Platform — hands-on. Required 7 Years

· Lead or principal architect on full D365 implementation lifecycles (min. 2 lifecycles). Required 5 Years

· Microsoft Azure architecture and hands-on build (PaaS integration, data, identity). Required 4 Years

· Generative AI / agentic development in production — Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, or Copilot Studio. Required 2 Years

· RAG / grounding, tool calling, agent orchestration, and AI evaluation methodology. Required 2 Years

· Application security in a regulated environment (NIST 800-53 or equivalent, threat modeling, secure SDLC). Required 5 Years

· Government cloud delivery — GCC, GCC High, or Azure Government. Required 2 Years

· Pro-code D365 extensibility — C#/.NET plug-ins, custom APIs, PCF controls. Required 5 Years

· Cross-cloud or cross-tenant architecture (government ? commercial). Required 2 Years

· Power Platform ALM, solution layering, Azure DevOps CI/CD. Required 4 Years

· Operating a live production system through vendor platform release waves without disruption. Required 3 Years

· Direct briefing of executive / non-technical program leadership. Required 5 Years

· Health and Human Services domain — child welfare (CCWIS/SACWIS), Medicaid/MMIS, integrated eligibility, behavioral health, or public health systems. Required 3 Years

· Federal child welfare reporting — AFCARS, NCANDS, NYTD, CFSR, Title IV-E. Required 2 Years

· Power Pages / portal architecture and external-user security. Required 3 Years

· Data engineering and BI — Fabric, Synapse, Data Factory, Power BI. Required 3 Years

· Public sector or District government delivery experience. Required 2 Years

· Mentoring and capability transfer to government staff. Required 3 Years