Lead Dynamics 365 & Azure Solution Architect
Job Description
Veteran Firm Seeking a Lead Dynamics 365 & Azure Solution Architect for a Hybrid Assignment in Washington, DC
\n
\n
My name is Stephen Hrutka, and I lead a Veteran-owned consulting firm in Washington, DC, focused on strategic sourcing, supply chain, and IT Staffing.
\n
\n
We want to fill a Lead Dynamics 365 & Azure Solution Architect role for the Child and Family Services Agency (CFSA) in the DC Government.
\n
\n
The ideal candidate is a DMV resident with 16+ years of progressive IT experience, 8+ years of enterprise solution architecture, and extensive hands-on expertise with Microsoft Dynamics 365, Azure, and Power Platform. Nice-to-have skills include government cloud delivery experience and familiarity with Health and Human Services domains.
\n
\n
If you’re interested, I'll gladly provide more details about the role and further discuss your qualifications.
\n
\n
Thanks,
\n
\n
Stephen M Hrutka
\n
Principal Consultant
\n
\n
\n
Executive Summary: HRUCKUS is looking for an experienced Lead Dynamics 365 & Azure Solution Architect to serve as the technical design authority for STAAND (Stronger Together Against Abuse and Neglect in DC), a person-centric, AI-enabled Comprehensive Child Welfare Information System built on Microsoft Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform.
\n
\n
Position Description: The Resource will own architecture, security design, AI engineering, and the platform-release change cadence required to keep STAAND current and improving. This is a hands-on build-and-design role requiring the candidate to personally configure, code, prototype, review, and troubleshoot in the platform while serving as the credible technical voice to CFSA executive leadership and federal partners.
\n
\n
Position Responsibilities:
\n
- \n
- Own and maintain the authoritative STAAND 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 CCWIS review, federal audit, and District IT governance.
- 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, under what authorization, and with what logging.
- 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.
- Serve as hands-on technical lead for CFSA's AI capability, including CORA and its expansion into agentic workflows.
- Design, build, evaluate, and productionize agents in Azure AI Foundry and Copilot Studio.
- Own AI evaluation discipline: golden datasets, automated evals, groundedness and hallucination measurement, regression testing, and controlled rollout.
- Manage the AI model lifecycle, implement responsible AI controls appropriate to a child welfare setting, and build reusable AI platform assets.
- Own the security architecture of STAAND end to end; serve as technical counterpart to the agency ISSO, OCTO security, and District privacy officials.
- Apply and evidence compliance with OCTO IT policies, NIST SP 800-53, FISMA, FedRAMP, HIPAA, 45 CFR 1355, Title IV-E confidentiality, and District data protection laws.
- Design and enforce least privilege and lead secure SDLC (threat modeling, secure code review, dynamic analysis).
- Own the STAAND change pipeline from enhancement request through design, build, test, release, and post-release verification.
- Plan and execute against Microsoft's Dynamics 365 biannual release waves and Power Platform service updates.
- Own the data architecture supporting AFCARS, NCANDS, NYTD, CFSR, and Title IV-E reporting.
- Design and maintain bi-directional exchanges with District and external partners consistent with CCWIS interoperability requirements.
- Translate between social work practice and technical architecture; observe real workflow before designing for it.
- Brief the CFSA IT Steering Committee, CIO, Product Leadership, OCTO leadership, and federal reviewers.
- Serve as principal technical liaison to Microsoft and to implementation and support vendors.
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
Required Qualifications:
\n
- \n
- Progressive IT experience (16 Years)
- Solution or enterprise architecture on enterprise-scale, mission-critical systems (8 Years)
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 CE / Dataverse / Power Platform — hands-on (7 Years)
- Lead or principal architect on full D365 implementation lifecycles (min. 2 lifecycles) (5 Years)
- Application security in a regulated environment (NIST 800-53 or equivalent, threat modeling, secure SDLC) (5 Years)
- Pro-code D365 extensibility — C#/.NET plug-ins, custom APIs, PCF controls (5 Years)
- Direct briefing of executive / non-technical program leadership (5 Years)
- Microsoft Azure architecture and hands-on build (PaaS integration, data, identity) (4 Years)
- Power Platform ALM, solution layering, Azure DevOps CI/CD (4 Years)
- Operating a live production system through vendor platform release waves without disruption (3 Years)
- Generative AI / agentic development in production — Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, or Copilot Studio (2 Years)
- RAG / grounding, tool calling, agent orchestration, and AI evaluation methodology (2 Years)
- Government cloud delivery — GCC, GCC High, or Azure Government (2 Years)
- Cross-cloud or cross-tenant architecture (government to commercial) (2 Years)
- Public sector or District government delivery experience (2 Years)
- Dynamics 365 Customer Service (MB-230) Certification (Required)
- Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Solution Architect Expert (PL-600) (Required)
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305) (Required)
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
\n
Minimum Education/ Certification Requirements: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, or a closely related technical discipline from an accredited institution.
\n
\n
The target annual salary is $136, 864.00 - $146,640.00
\n