Company Description

Krasan Consulting Services is a Chicago boutique management consulting and technology solutions integrator. As a certified BEP WBE with the State of Illinois and a certified WBE, MBE, and DBE recognized by the City of Chicago, Krasan provides complex technology solutions and services for clients in the Public and Commercial sectors. With decades of experience, Krasan specializes in end-to-end technology solutions, integration, and implementation services and is proud to enable the success of our customers.

Role Title: Senior Solution Architect-Lead Strategist

Type of contract: W2

Location: Remote

Client: State of Illinois – Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity

Project: DCEO Work Bid System

Job Description:

Position Overview:

The Senior Solution Architect will provide overall technical architecture, solution design, integration guidance, and technical oversight for an enterprise technology initiative supporting the Bid Credit, Apprentice Initiative, and Career Services applications. The role will define scalable, secure, accessible, and maintainable solution architecture using Microsoft Power Platform, Microsoft Dataverse, Power Automate, REST APIs, and related enterprise technologies. The position will work closely with business stakeholders, technical teams, developers, QA resources, security teams, and vendor partners to ensure application design, data models, integrations, workflows, and security controls align with approved requirements, Microsoft Power Platform best practices, and State of Illinois IT standards. The ideal candidate will have strong enterprise solution architecture experience, practical knowledge of Microsoft Power Platform and Dataverse, and experience designing data models, system integrations, automated workflows, security controls, and technical documentation within a structured enterprise environment.

Primary Responsibilities & Key Deliverables

• Lead end-to-end solution architecture across the Bid Credit, Apprentice Initiative, and Career Services applications.
• Define scalable, secure, maintainable, and compliant architecture aligned with Microsoft Power Platform best practices and State of Illinois IT standards.
• Translate business and functional requirements into solution architecture, application design, data models, integration approaches, workflows, and security requirements.
• Design and maintain normalized Microsoft Dataverse schemas, including tables, field definitions, entity relationships, metadata, constraints, and audit fields.
• Ensure Dataverse models support auditability, accessibility, extensibility, reporting, and future enhancement requirements.
• Define mappings between legacy Smartsheet structures, source data, and target Dataverse entities.
• Architect REST API and batch-job integrations with IWRS and other internal or external systems.
• Define integration standards for authentication, payload structures, error codes, error handling, logging, monitoring, and interface security.
• Define technical integration requirements for IWRS, Okta, document storage platforms, and other applicable systems.
• Design Power Automate workflows supporting compliance routing, waiver approvals, job order processing, graduate-list validation, notifications, escalation paths, approval logic, and exception handling.
• Ensure automated workflows are modular, reusable, traceable, and maintainable.
• Define role-based access control, authentication, authorization, encryption, audit logging, and secure access requirements across applications and Dataverse.
• Provide technical guidance related to accessibility requirements, including WCAG 2.1 AA, and applicable State of Illinois accessibility standards.
• Review developer deliverables for alignment with approved architecture, security requirements, performance benchmarks, accessibility requirements, and integration standards.
• Conduct architecture reviews, technical design reviews, code walkthroughs, performance validations, and technical quality assessments.
• Identify technical risks, dependencies, integration issues, security concerns, or performance constraints and provide recommendations for resolution.
• Collaborate with project leadership, business analysts, developers, QA teams, security teams, infrastructure teams, vendors, and agency stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle.
• Provide technical direction and architectural guidance to development teams and support resolution of complex application, workflow, data, and integration issues.
• Develop and maintain an Architecture Blueprint Document covering application topology, integration points, data flow diagrams, system dependencies, security overlays, and deployment considerations, serving as the technical foundation for development and stakeholder alignment.
• Develop and maintain a Dataverse Entity Model Specification documenting field definition, relationships, constraints, metadata, audit fields, and legacy Smartsheet mappings.
• Develop and maintain an Integration Interface Control Document defining REST API endpoints, payload formats, authentication methods, error codes, logging requirements, and interface dependencies.
• Develop and maintain a Workflow Design Package documenting Power Automate flowcharts, configuration specifications, approval logic, escalation paths, and exception handling.
• Maintain Technical Review Logs and QA Signoffs documenting architecture reviews, code walkthroughs, performance validations, technical decisions, and accessibility and security compliance checklists.

Qualifications & Technical Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Engineering, or related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• Minimum of five years of progressively responsible experience in solution architecture, technical architecture, application architecture, or enterprise application delivery.
• Demonstrated experience designing enterprise solutions using Microsoft Power Platform technologies, including Power Apps, Power Automate, Microsoft Dataverse, and related platform services.
• Experience designing Dataverse tables, entity relationships, metadata, business rules, constraints, security models, and audit structures.
• Experience designing REST API integrations, batch interfaces, and enterprise system integrations.
• Working knowledge of authentication, authorization, API payload design, error handling, logging, monitoring, and integration security.
• Experience designing automated workflows using Power Automate, including approvals, routing, notifications, escalations, and exception handling.
• Working knowledge of role-based access control, encryption, identity management, audit logging, and enterprise security principles.
• Experience with identity and authentication technologies such as Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, or comparable technologies.
• Experience with relational data modeling, data transformation, data migration, validation, and data-governance practices.
• Experience mapping or migrating data from Smartsheet, spreadsheets, legacy systems, or other structured data sources into Dataverse.
• Experience developing architecture diagrams, data-flow diagrams, entity relationship diagrams, workflow diagrams, and technical design documentation.
• General understanding of Power Platform Application Lifecycle Management, including environments, managed solutions, connection references, and deployment practices.
• Working knowledge of Azure integration services such as API Management, Azure Functions, Logic Apps, Service Bus, Key Vault, or comparable technologies.
• Experience supporting enterprise application development, integration, testing, deployment, and production transition activities.
• Strong understanding of Software Development Life Cycle methodologies and experience supporting Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid project delivery approaches.
• Experience conducting architecture reviews, technical design reviews, code walkthroughs, performance reviews, and solution-quality assessments.
• Knowledge of WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility requirements and accessible application-design practices.
• Strong written and verbal communication, analytical, problem-solving, documentation, and collaboration skills.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to business, technical, executive, and vendor stakeholders.
• Microsoft Power Platform, Azure, Solution Architect, or comparable Microsoft technical certification is preferred.
• Experience working in a government, public-sector, EPMO, or similarly governed enterprise environment is preferred.

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