Solution Architect Lead - D365/Power Platform/Azure (Hybrid)

Job Title: Solution Architect Lead - D365/Power Platform/Azure (Hybrid)

Location: Washington, DC

Duration: 6 Months+ with possible extension

Job Description:

The Resource will own architecture, security design, AI engineering, and the platform-release change cadence required to keep the Client 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 the Client executive leadership, Product Team, Microsoft, and Federal Partners.

Scope of Work and Responsibilities:

Solution and Platform Architecture

• Own and maintain the authoritative the Client architecture: logical and physical data models, Dataverse table and relationship design, solution segmentation, environment strategy, and integration topology.
• Personally build in the platform — model-driven app configuration, plug-ins and custom APIs (C#/.NET), PCF controls, TypeScript/JavaScript client extensions, Power Fx and plug-in pipeline optimization.
• Maintain architecture artifacts sufficient to satisfy CCWIS review, federal audit, and IT governance.

Cross-Cloud Architecture: GCC and Commercial Azure

• Design, document, and harden the boundary between the GCC Dynamics/Power Platform tenant and Azure commercial-cloud services.
• Maintain a defensible position on data residency and FedRAMP authorization boundaries for every commercial-cloud service in use and present that position to auditors and federal reviewers.

AI and Agentic Development

• Serve as hands-on technical lead for the Client AI capability, including CORA and its expansion into agentic workflows.
• Design, build, evaluate, and productionize agents in Azure AI Foundry and Copilot Studio: tool and function calling, orchestration and multi-agent patterns, grounding and retrieval over Dataverse and document stores, prompt and context engineering, structured output, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints.
• Implement responsible AI controls appropriate to a child welfare setting: content safety, PII/PHI handling, bias and fairness testing, explainability, audit logging of AI-influenced actions, and clear framing of AI output as decision support rather than decision making.

Application and Platform Security

• Own the security architecture of the Client end to end; serve as technical counterpart to the agency ISSO, the Client Security, the Client privacy officials.
• Apply and evidence compliance with the Client IT policies, NIST SP 800-53, FISMA, FedRAMP, HIPAA, 45 CFR 1355 (CCWIS), Title IV-E confidentiality, and the Client data protection law including Code § 28-3851 et seq. breach notification obligations.
• Contribute to incident response, continuity, and disaster recovery planning; validate RTO/RPO through periodic exercises.

Continuous Improvement and Release Management

• Own the Client change pipeline from enhancement request through design, build, test, release, and post-release verification, including published release notes and coordination with the CISA training organization.
• Maintain a rolling multi-year technical roadmap balancing stabilization, platform health, security, federal compliance, and innovation.

Data, Interoperability, and Federal Reporting

• Own the data architecture supporting AFCARS, NCANDS, NYTD, CFSR, and Title IV-E reporting, including lineage, quality rules, exception handling, and submission validation.
• Design and maintain bi-directional exchanges with the Client and external partners consistent with CCWIS interoperability requirements.
• Establish automated data quality controls, duplicate person detection and merge integrity, and reconciliation with legacy records.

Stakeholder and Senior Leadership Engagement

• Translate between social work practice and technical architecture; observe real workflow with intake workers, investigators, case managers, placement staff, and fiscal teams before designing for it.
• Brief the Client Steering Committee Members, CIO, Product Leadership, leadership, Council oversight staff, court monitors, and ACF/Children's Bureau reviewers, calibrating to each audience.

Skills:

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

·         Microsoft 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 accr.-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