Azure

AHU Technologies Inc•Washington, DC

7d•$88 - $93•Onsite

About The Position

The client seeks a hands-on Senior Developer to build, release, and operate STAAND (Stronger Together Against Abuse and Neglect in DC), the District’s federally certified Comprehensive system. STAAND is built on Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform in a Government Community Cloud (GCC) tenant, with Azure services operating in Microsoft’s commercial cloud. This is a working lead role, with daily coding and ownership of CI/CD, Power Platform ALM, code quality, production support, releases, and direct collaboration with staff and community partners to ensure delivery meets operational needs. The position is listed as a contract engagement (W-2, 1099, or C2C), based onsite in Washington, DC, with flexible work-from-home options available. The Senior Developer designs and implements complex Dynamics 365, Dataverse, Power Platform, portal, and Azure functionality; maintains integrations across cloud boundaries; optimizes performance; and builds automated tests. The role owns Azure DevOps pipelines and end-to-end solution deployment across development, test, UAT, training, and production environments. It also serves as primary pull-request reviewer and merge authority, enforces engineering and security standards, and mentors staff and contract developers. The role owns production defect triage and resolution, monitoring and observability, release hypercare, incident escalation as required, capacity and cost monitoring, disaster recovery procedures, and support documentation. It also works directly with social workers, supervisors, agency partners, resource development specialists, and fiscal staff to refine requirements, support UAT, demonstrate completed work, and coordinate training and change communications.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, or a closely related technical discipline; the posting also allows a degree in IT, a related field, or equivalent experience.
16 years of education/experience as stated in the skills section; the posting separately lists 15 years of required experience in its summary.
10 years of progressive software development experience.
6 years of hands-on Dynamics 365 CE, Dataverse, or Power Platform development.
5 years of C#/.NET plug-in and custom API development for Dataverse.
4 years of TypeScript/JavaScript client extensions and PCF control development.
4 years in a technical lead role over a development team of at least three developers.
4 years of Azure DevOps pipeline authoring and ownership, including YAML and multi-stage pipelines.
4 years of Power Platform ALM, including solution layering, environment variables, connection references, and managed deployments.
4 years of pull-request review as designated merge authority on a protected branch.
4 years of production support ownership with defined severity tiers and SLAs.
4 years of Azure development using services such as Functions, Logic Apps, API Management, Service Bus, and Key Vault.
3 years of automated testing, including unit, integration, and UI regression testing for Dynamics 365 solutions.
3 years of Power Pages or portal development, including web roles and table permissions.
2 years operating a live system through Microsoft biannual release waves.
4 years of direct engagement with non-technical business users for requirements and UAT.
3 years of secure development practice, including code-level security review, secrets management, and PII/PHI handling.
Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Developer Associate (PL-400).
Microsoft Certified: Power Platform DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400).

Nice To Haves

2 years of government cloud delivery using GCC, GCC High, or Azure Government.
2 years of infrastructure as code using Bicep, ARM, or Terraform.
1 year of generative AI integration using Copilot Studio, Azure OpenAI, or Azure AI Foundry.
3 years of data and reporting work using Power BI, Fabric, Synapse, or Data Factory.
3 years of mentoring and capability transfer to government staff.
Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate (AZ-204).
Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Solution Architect Expert (PL-600).
Microsoft Certified: Dynamics 365 Customer Service (MB-230) or Sales Functional Consultant (MB-210).
Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500).
Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate (AI-102).
GitHub Actions or GitHub Advanced Security certification.
CSSLP (ISC²).
ITIL 4 Foundation.

Responsibilities

Design and write complex backlog work, including Dataverse plug-ins and custom APIs in C#/.NET, PCF controls, TypeScript/JavaScript client extensions, Power Fx, Azure Functions and Logic Apps, and integration components.
Build and maintain integrations across GCC and commercial cloud boundaries, including retry, idempotency, dead-letter handling, and reconciliation logic.
Optimize platform performance, including plug-in execution, queries and FetchXML, API batching, portal behavior, and form and view load times.
Implement functionality across six external portals, including web roles, table permissions, and external-user authentication flows.
Build and maintain unit, integration, and UI regression test coverage; produce prototypes and spikes; and retire technical debt on a defined cadence.
Own Azure DevOps YAML build and release pipelines and Power Platform ALM, including solution packaging, environment variables, connection references, and automated deployment across Dev, Test, UAT, Train, and Production.
Own branching and merge strategy, versioning, release cadence, and source control; ensure there are no manual production changes.
Maintain environment strategy and hygiene with the Architect, including refresh cadence, data masking, managed environment policies, DLP alignment, and capacity monitoring.
Integrate static analysis, solution checking, dependency and secret scanning, and test execution into pipeline quality gates.
Automate Azure infrastructure provisioning using Bicep/ARM or Terraform.
Plan and execute releases, including release notes, runbooks, rollback plans, go/no-go criteria, and post-deployment verification.
Prepare for Dynamics 365 release waves and monthly Power Platform updates through early-access testing, deprecation remediation, and regression validation.
Reduce release cycle time, deployment failures, and manual steps, and report DORA-style metrics.
Serve as primary pull-request reviewer and merge authority for protected branches; enforce coding, security, performance, and test standards and maintain review processes.
Review code for security defects and review AI-related changes against the Architect’s evaluation framework.
Mentor CFSA staff and contract developers through code review and capability transfer.
Own production triage, diagnosis, resolution, root cause analysis, and permanent fixes across modules and portals.
Maintain monitoring and observability using Application Insights, Azure Monitor, Dataverse audit and plug-in trace logs, portal telemetry, and integration failure dashboards.
Operate to severity and response targets, provide post-release hypercare, and participate in critical-incident escalation rotation outside core hours as required.
Monitor capacity, storage, licenses, API consumption, and Azure spend; maintain and exercise backup, restore, and disaster recovery procedures; and keep support documentation current.
Engage directly with stakeholders to understand requests, refine requirements, and translate practice language into testable acceptance criteria.
Run sprint and pre-release demos, collect feedback, support UAT, triage UAT defects, and provide go/no-go recommendations.
Coordinate with the training organization on release notes, tip sheets, training schedules, and change communications; serve as a technical contact for super-users and the help-desk escalation path.