Solution Architect Lead: D365, Power Platform, Azure

The DC Child and Family Services Agency (CFSA) needs a senior, hands-on Solution Architect Lead as technical design authority for STAAND, its federally certified child-welfare system on Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform (GCC) with commercial Azure services and production AI (Copilot Studio / Azure AI Foundry). Build-and-design role: architecture, security, AI engineering, and release cadence. Hybrid in Washington, DC (four days onsite).

What you’ll do

• Serve as the hands-on technical design authority for a federally certified child-welfare system built on Microsoft Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform (GCC) with Azure services
• Own the authoritative architecture (Dataverse data models, solution segmentation, environment strategy, integration topology) and personally build: model-driven apps, C#/.NET plug-ins and custom APIs, PCF controls, and Power Fx
• Design and harden the boundary between the GCC Power Platform tenant and commercial Azure (cross-tenant identity, managed identities, Key Vault, private networking, API gateways) with a defensible data-residency/FedRAMP position
• Lead AI/agentic development: build, evaluate, and productionize agents in Azure AI Foundry and Copilot Studio (RAG/grounding, tool calling, orchestration, AI evaluation, responsible-AI controls)
• Own end-to-end security architecture (NIST 800-53, FISMA, FedRAMP, HIPAA, CCWIS, Title IV-E), least-privilege design, and secure SDLC
• Own the change pipeline, Microsoft release-wave management, DevOps/CI-CD maturity, and performance/cost optimization

What you need

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, or a closely related technical discipline
• 16 plus years of progressive IT experience and 8 plus years of solution or enterprise architecture on enterprise-scale, mission-critical systems
• 7 plus years hands-on with Microsoft Dynamics 365 CE / Dataverse / Power Platform, and lead/principal architect on at least 2 full D365 implementation lifecycles
• 5 plus years of pro-code D365 extensibility (C#/.NET plug-ins, custom APIs, PCF controls) and 4 plus years of hands-on Azure architecture (PaaS integration, data, identity)
• 2 plus years of production generative-AI / agentic development (Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, or Copilot Studio) including RAG/grounding, tool calling, orchestration, and AI evaluation
• 5 plus years of application security in a regulated environment (NIST 800-53 or equivalent) and 2 plus years of government cloud delivery (GCC, GCC High, or Azure Government)
• Required certifications: Power Platform Solution Architect Expert (PL-600), Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305), and Dynamics 365 Customer Service (MB-230)

Required skills

• Dynamics 365 / Dataverse / Power Platform solution architecture and hands-on build (model-driven apps, Power Fx)
• Pro-code extensibility: C#/.NET plug-ins, custom APIs, PCF controls, and client-side extensions
• Azure architecture and cross-cloud/cross-tenant design (GCC to commercial): identity, networking, Key Vault, API gateways
• Generative-AI and agentic engineering (Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Copilot Studio): RAG, tool calling, orchestration, and AI evaluation
• Security architecture for regulated systems (NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, HIPAA, CCWIS, Title IV-E) and secure SDLC
• Power Platform ALM, solution layering, Azure DevOps CI/CD, and release-wave management