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Solution Architect Lead D365Power PlatformAzure
Job Location:
Job Location:
Washington, AR - USA
Hourly Salary:
USD 85 - 90
Hourly Salary:
Posted:
21 August 2026 (19 hours ago)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
18 November 2026
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Vacancies:
Job Summary
TITLE: Solution Architect Lead - D365/Power Platform/Azure
LOCATION: Washington DC/ Hybrid
Employment type: Contract w2/1099/C2C
MINIMUM EDUCATION: Bachelors degree in IT related field or equivalent experience.
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE: 16 years
INTERVIEWS: In Person
Job Description:
The Client is looking for the 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 Districts federally certified Comprehensive.
Employment type: Contract w2/1099/C2C
Complete Description:
The 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 Microsofts 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 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 Product Team Microsoft and Federal Partners.
Key Responsibilities:
3.1 Solution and Platform Architecture
Own and maintain the authoritative 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.
Establish and enforce architecture standards design patterns naming conventions and technical debt registers across all modules and portals.
Chair design authority review for significant changes; sign off on solution designs before build.
Diagnose deep platform issues: performance degradation API and service-protection limits plug-in execution ordering solution layering conflicts storage growth portal rendering.
Maintain architecture artifacts sufficient to satisfy review federal audit and District IT governance.
3.2 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.
Define what data may traverse that boundary in what form (de-identified tokenized aggregated or full record) under what authorization and with what logging including explicit architectural boundaries for protected data categories such as Medicaid Enrollment.
Implement cross-tenant identity managed identities service principals Key Vault secret lifecycle private networking and API gateway patterns.
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.
3.3 AI and Agentic Development
Serve as hands-on technical lead for 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.
Own AI evaluation discipline: golden datasets automated evals groundedness and hallucination measurement regression testing on model or prompt changes latency and cost benchmarking controlled rollout.
Manage the AI model lifecycle track model releases and deprecations run comparative evaluation before adopting a new model execute migrations without regression to worker-facing quality.
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.
Support predictive and analytic capability aligned to agency mission priorities ensuring models are validated monitored for drift and governed.
Build reusable AI platform assets prompt libraries agent templates evaluation harnesses observability dashboards.
Skills:
Bachelors degree in Computer Science Software Engineering Information Systems Data Science or a closely related technical discipline from an accredited institution. Required 20 Years
Dynamics 365 Customer Service (MB-230). Required
Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Solution Architect Expert (PL-600). Required
Microsoft Dynamics 365 CE / Dataverse / Power Platform hands-on. 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
Progressive IT experience. Required 16 Years
Solution or enterprise architecture on enterprise-scale mission-critical systems. Required 8 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. Desired 3 Years
Federal child welfare reporting AFCARS NCANDS NYTD CFSR Title IV-E. Desired 2 Years
Power Pages / portal architecture and external-user security. Desired 3 Years
Data engineering and BI Fabric Synapse Data Factory Power BI. Desired 3 Years
Public sector or District government delivery experience. Desired 2 Years
Mentoring and capability transfer to government staff. Desired 3 Years
Flexible work from home options available.
Compensation: $85.00 - $90.00 per hour
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AHU Technologies INC. is an IT consulting and permanent staffing firm that meets and exceeds the evolving IT service needs of leading corporations within the United States. We have been providing IT solutions to customers from different industry sectors helping them control costs and release internal resources to focus on strategic issues.
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