Technical Architect

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.