Workforce Modernization Architect

Career Team is a leading workforce development organization on a mission to transform lives. We blend cutting-edge technology with compassionate, high-touch services to drive real, measurable outcomes in the lives of job seekers across the country. At Career Team, we’re solving today’s unemployment challenges with smart software, world-class trainers, dedicated case managers, dynamic job developers, and innovative partners. If you're passionate about making a difference and believe in the power of technology to transform lives, you’ll feel right at home here. Career Team is looking for a Workforce Modernization Architect who designs solutions around people, processes, and compliance; not code. Many of Career Team's customers run federally funded workforce development programs. These programs must submit reports to federal agencies in strictly defined formats, such as the WIOA Participant Individual Record Layout (PIRL), and follow detailed logic rules. You'll make sure our government software platform is built to meet those requirements from the start, translate federal reporting specifications into clear business rules, work with technical teams to make sure the system calculates and formats data correctly, and help customers submit accurate, on-time reports. Role Overview: - Own federal reporting requirements. Interpret federal reporting specifications, data standards, and program guidance, with a focus on PIRL and related U. S. Department of Labor and Department of Education reporting. Turn them into detailed functional requirements. - Define reporting logic. Write clear, testable business rules for how the system must calculate each reported value. This includes: - Reporting periods and date ranges - Who counts in each reporting population, including participants, exiters, and co-enrollments across WIOA titles (Title I, Title II, Title III, Title IV) - Unduplicated counts and deduplication - Enrollment, program participation, and exit logic - Age and status calculated as of specific dates - Handling of missing, refused, or conflicting data - Specify output formats. Document required file layouts, field definitions, code lists, ordering, and file naming conventions (CSV, XML, fixed-width, or agency-specific templates) so exports pass federal validation the first time. - Solve compliance issues. Find the root cause of reporting and compliance problems, whether they come from system logic, data entry, or unclear guidance, and lead them through to a documented fix.

- Resolve ambiguity. Identify gaps or contradictions in federal guidance. Research agency FAQs, TEGLs, and technical assistance resources. Document how the system handles edge cases and the reasoning behind each decision. - Lead testing and quality assurance. Build test scenarios and expected results for reporting logic. Partner with QA to review system outputs against specifications and federal validation tools, such as DOL's WIPS edit checks. Trace errors back to the rule or data that caused them. - Bridge state case management systems. Apply your knowledge of how different state case management systems capture and structure participant data. Anticipate integration, mapping, and consistency challenges across customers in multiple states. - Track regulatory change. Monitor updates to federal specifications, PIRL versions, and reporting cycles. Assess how changes affect the system and customers, and plan updates ahead of deadlines. - Build data quality in. Recommend intake workflows, required fields, and validation checks that keep bad data out of the system, instead of fixing it at report time. - Support customers during reporting cycles. Help program staff understand their reports, troubleshoot validation errors, and answer questions from grant managers, monitors, and auditors.