Applications Architect - SOW25-348

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Position: Application Architect

Job No: 1220

State Term Contract: 80101507-23-STC-ITSA

Scope: C. Advanced

Location: 4052 Bald Cypress Way Tallahassee, FL 32399 Onsite

Duration: 2/1/2026 6/30/2026

Job Description:

Scope of Services:

1. PURPOSE:

This scope of work is for application architect services to provide design, team direction, technical guidance, code review, development work, design documentation, and other IT systems enhancement and remediation tasks required for the Florida PALM project to support operations of the Florida Department of Health. The Contractor will provide these services to the Florida Department of Health (Department).

Note: The Department of Financial Services is transitioning from their legacy financial system to a modern solution called PALM Planning, Accounting, and Ledger Management System. This transition impacts Department of Health interfaces and systems that currently interface with DFS legacy application. The project to implement the required system remediations is referred above as the PALM project.

2. TERM:

This scope of work will begin on 2/1/2026. It will end at midnight, Eastern Time on 6/30/2028. The State of Florida s performance and obligation to pay under this purchase order and any subsequent renewal is contingent upon annual appropriation by the Legislature and satisfactory performance of the Contractor.

3. Criminal Background Screening The Department will conduct a criminal history record check, including fingerprinting, on the consultant assigned by the Contractor prior to the consultant commencing work for the Department. The Department retains sole discretion as to whether the results of the criminal history record check will result in the Contractor s employee being disqualified from performing services pursuant to this agreement.

4. CONTRACTOR QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

The Contractor must possess the following minimum qualifications and experience:

1. 1. A minimum of 3 years of experience in managing information technology projects.
   2. A minimum of 3 years of experience in developing detailed project documentation for Executive Management.
   3. A minimum of 3 years of experience with change management procedures.
   4. A minimum of 3 years of experience with managing a mix of local/virtual teams.
   5. A minimum of 3 years of experience with management and facilitation of external stakeholder groups.

5. CONTRACTOR STAFF QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

Contractor staff assigned to this agreement must possess the following minimum qualifications and experience:

1. 1. Ten years of leadership of successful development and implementation of applications in Azure environment.
   2. Ten years of architect/tech lead, design and development experience with .NET application and Entity framework.
   3. Ten years of experience leading technology projects.
   4. Ten years of experience creating and reviewing ERDs and understanding data and processes.
   5. Five years of experience with MVC.
   6. Ten years of Object-Oriented programming, ASP.NET, JavaScript and application development using C#.
   7. Five years of experience with Azure Build and Deployment automation processes.
   8. Five years of experience with Azure DevOps, including pipelines, triggers, blob storage, data migration (between cloud and on-prem), data warehouse, scheduling VMs, and Webjobs, ADF, Graph API, ARM templates.
   9. Experience with Azure ASE and integration with SQL MI.
   10. Experience with Azure Data Warehouse and integration with SQL MI.
   11. Five years of experience with Reporting Tools such as Crystal, SSRS, Power BI or similar technologies.
   12. Five years of experience with Azure cost analysis.
   13. Bachelor s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field; or equivalent work experience.
   14. Florida State experience preferred.

6. CONTRACTOR RESPONSIBILITIES:
   1. SERVICE TASKS: Contractor will perform the following tasks in the time and manner specified:
      1. Collaborate with the project manager, business analysts, and other technical leads to collect and clarify functional and technical requirements as directed by the Department.
      2. Conduct remediation of application architecture as directed by the Department.
      3. Assist the Project Manager with monitoring, estimating, and tracking development team productivity as directed by the Department.
      4. Assist project manager, business analysts, and other technical leads with development tasks as directed by the Department.
      5. Provide technical guidance to developers and Department Project Manager as directed by the Department Project Manager and Department.
      6. Provide technical training and guidance to development team members as directed by the Department.
      7. Conduct code review as directed by the Department.
      8. Work with the Department Office of Information Technology and all other development teams to analyze and minimize costs associated with the Azure environment as directed by the Department.

1. 1. 1. Modify, create, and test application code and database code for remediation with a zero-defect rate as directed by the Department.
      2. Document application modifications and additions as coding tasks are assigned by the Department Project Manager and Department, and store in a document repository as directed by the Department.
      3. DATA SECURITY AND CONFIDENTIALITY TASK:

The Contractor, its employees, subcontractors, and agents must comply at all times with all Department data security procedures and policies in the performance of this scope of work as specified in the Data Security and Confidentiality document attached to the purchase order.