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Technical Architect

Technical Architect

HighCloud SolutionsSaint Paul, MN, Minnesota, USA
8 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Title : Technical Architect

Location : Saint Paul, MN (Initial Remote)

Duration : 12 Months

Description of Project

  • The Minnesota Department of Information Technology Services (MNIT) partnering with the Minnesota Department of Commerce (COMM) is seeking a Software Architect with technical leadership in architecture, implementation, data migration, training, project and technical documentation, and limited term post-production support sufficient to transition business and IT staff to growing and maintaining the developed architecture and applications.
  • The resource will have experience developing portals and applications using Microsoft Power Platform, a product management approach, and iterative methodologies.
  • The Commerce Department at the State of Minnesota is transitioning numerous existing business processes from Microsoft Access-based databases and applications to Power Platform, SharePoint, and DataVerse.
  • The department would like to invest in building an IT foundation for IT services to quickly scale and deliver additional solutions for the business.
  • At a high level, the resource will collaborate with State IT developers and Commerce business partners to produce development standards and frameworks; deployment of pipelines and processes; produce common architectural elements and stylesheets to be reused in future development efforts; and create scecurity roles and governance plan for Power Platform solutions in the organization.

Sample Tasks

  • Develop software with Power Platform on Azure Government Cloud as the primary infrastructure.
  • Lead architecture and design discussions and decisions with business partners, business analysts, project management, and junior developers.
  • Configure data gateway(s) to write and retrieve data between any Power Platform components and an Azure Managed MS SQL database and / or Azure BLOB / File Storage
  • Coordinate with Power Platform administrators to set up user authentication for Power Platform and Office 365 components using Azure Active Directory.
  • Participate on an agile-minded development team with other MNIT / COMM staff to design, code, test, deploy, and train staff.
  • Assist with product backlog refinement, story development, and story sizing / estimating.
  • Participate in sprint planning, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
  • Build user interface(s) with Power Apps and / or Power Pages.
  • Perform knowledge sharing / transfer with embedded MNIT / MN Comm staff.
  • Write or supply product technical architecture documentation.
  • Transfer knowledge to State.

    • Desired Qualifications and Skills

  • Experience developing Microsoft Power Apps, model-driven and canvas apps.
  • Experience in other Power Platform components like Power Automate and Power Pages.
  • Experience using product / agile frameworks and methodologies.
  • Experience in managing a dataset with various data sources, formats, and structures.
  • Experience developing Microsoft Power BI reports and dashboards.
  • Tableau or other visualization experience may substitute.
  • Experience in mentoring other developers, particularly during Power Platform development.
  • Experience gathering business requirements.
  • Experience using people-centric UX design and best practices in product development.
  • Experience designing a seamless user experience across devices.
  • Experience designing a seamless user experience for multilingual support.
  • Experience making applications ADA accessible to meet WCAG 2.1 standards.
  • Experience developing automated build / deployment processes with a DevOps mindset.
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    Technical Architect • Saint Paul, MN, Minnesota, USA