Solution Architect Lead – D365, Power Platform, and Azure

Dhaka Technologies Limited Company | Contract

Washington, United States | Posted on 08/05/2026

Job Title: Solution Architect Lead – D365, Power Platform, and Azure

Work Arrangement: Hybrid

Location: Washington, DC (20003)

Employment Type: Contract

Engagement Type: W2 or 1099 only (no C2C)

Dhaka Technologies Limited Company is hiring a Solution Architect Lead for a DC Government client. The agency requires a senior, deeply hands‑on Solution Architect resource to serve as the technical design authority for STAAND (Stronger Together Against Abuse and Neglect in DC), the District’s federally certified Comprehensive Child Welfare Information System (CCWIS).

STAAND is a 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 Microsoft’s commercial cloud. Its supports agency social workers, supervisors, private agency partners, providers, resource parents, and District sister agencies across nine functional modules, namely 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 STAAND 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 agency executive leadership, the STAAND Product Team, the Office of the Chief Technology Officer (OCTO), Microsoft, and Federal Partners (ACF and the Children’s Bureau).

The Resource will work under the direct supervision of the District Dev Ops Manager.

• Own and maintain the authoritative STAAND architecture: logical and physical data models, Dataverse table and relationship design, solution segmentation, environment strategy, and integration topology.
• 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 and signoff 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, and 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 and 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.

• Serve as hands‑on technical lead for the agency AI capability, including CORA and its expansion into agentic workflows.
• Design, build, evaluate, and product ionize 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…