Overview
Skills
Job Details
Texas Department of Family and Protective Services requires the services of Applications Architect 3,
The successful Worker has excellent technical, analytical, and project management skills, as well as strong leadership,
communication, and interpersonal skills. The Worker's responsibilities include directing and leading activities in
improving the current IT infrastructure, optimizing business operations, and setting the direction and approach for
integrating information applications and programs. The Worker is also responsible for cataloging, developing,
coordinating, communicating, maintaining, and enforcing overall enterprise architecture models, representations,
initiatives, capabilities, and components to adequately perform the organization's business and technology activities. The
Worker may supervise a team of high performing technologists and report to the DFPS Chief Technology Officer.
The mission of DFPS is to protect children, the elderly, and people with disabilities from abuse, neglect, and exploitation
by involving clients, families, and communities.
This position is classified as a full-time position (40 hours a week). Work outside of regular hours may be required. Travel
to other Austin offices(s) may be required. Works under minimal supervision, with extensive latitude for the use of
initiative and independent judgment.
Work may involve the following:
Work under the direction of CTO Team and drive the adoption of Microsoft Azure Directory services,
Authentication and Authorization reference architectures for existing, new Azure methodologies.
Drive the adoption of creative solutions to address complex, global IAM problems using Microsoft Azure
Technology.
Participate in Identity and Access Management enterprise governance processes and drive IAM standards adoption
using Microsoft Azure Technology.
Implement effective architecture solutions that not only satisfy immediate project requirements but also deliver a
coherent, reusable, reliable and phased architecture to help the business grow and change while aligning to strategic vision
using Microsoft Azure Technology.
II. CANDIDATE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS
Minimum Requirements:
Candidates that do not meet or exceed the minimum stated requirements (skills/experience) will be displayed to
customers but may not be chosen for this opportunity.
Years Required/
Preferred Experience
8 Required Hands on experience in building custom user provisioning workflow and making them
integrated to custom applications.
8 Required Experience in analyzing as-is solutions and understanding the current roadmap to
migration applications and implement the to-be roadmap objectives.
6 Required Experience in building applications in Spring Boot /.NET, Microsoft Power Apps, Power
Automate, and integration with Azure IdP solutions.
5 Required Experience in configuring SAML, OIDC and OAuth protocols and integration with
applications.
5 Required
Experience implementing enterprise Identity and Access Management (IAM), Privileged
Access Management (PAM) solutions in client environments using Microsoft Azure AD
technologies.
5 Required
Experience in establishing Azure AD and B2C authentication and authorization architecture
and enabling SSO for custom solutions developed in WebSphere Application Server,
WebSphere Portal Server and IIS.
5 Required Experience managing Azure policies and configurations.
5 Required Development experience with REST APIs, standard Java/J2EE Frameworks like Spring,
Spring Boot, .NET framework and Azure.
4 Required
Experience with Identity and Access Management system architecture including RBAC and
Single Sign-On Federation using SAML, OIDC/OAuth 2.0, Kerberos Authentication
standards is needed.
4 Required Hands on experiencing in integration with Graph API and guide team to integrate with
existing and custom build APIs.
4 Required Build audit and monitoring solution for IdP, to identify, protect and remediate from
unauthorized and illegal attempts.
4 Required Experience with Python, PowerShell, Java, Java Script, JSON, REST.
3 Required Experience in establishing Azure AD and B2C for cloud platform like Salesforce and
MuleSoft.
3 Required Experience in establishing B2B authentication in Azure.
3 Required Experience in migration of users from different platforms like ISIM/ISAM to Azure AD
and B2C.
3 Preferred Strong project management and technical skills.
2 Preferred Experience in Other IDP solutions like AWS, Okta, IBM ISIM. ISAM is a plus.
2 Preferred Knowledge of ITIL and other EA frameworks like TOGAF.
2 Preferred Knowledge of Applied Cryptography and PKI.
V. OTHER SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
In order to assist in quickly acclimating the contractor to DFPS/ITS, they will be
required to attend a virtual onboarding session and to physically pick up agency issued equipment in Austin, TX
on their first day of contract.
There will be additional appointments and blocks of time that the contractor will need to attend during their first week of
assignment.
Candidates selected for this opportunity may be required to physically attend meetings in Austin, TX, with minimal
notice.
Candidates currently residing outside of the State of Texas, will be required to relocate to Texas, if selected for this
position and the offer is accepted.