Website Solano County, Dept of Information Technology
THE POSITION
The IT Analyst Principal – Software Engineering serves as a solution architect, leading successful implementations and addressing broader business and technical needs. The position helps identify opportunities to solve business problems through functional and technical knowledge of Microsoft Power Platform, Dynamics 365 customer engagement apps, related Microsoft cloud solutions, and third-party technologies.
Responsibilities include designing and developing custom integrations to ensure effective communication between applications, whether on-premises or cloud-based. The role performs proactive and preventative work to maximize the value of the County's investment and promote organizational maturity with timely solutions.
Solid expertise across functional and technical disciplines of Microsoft Azure, Power Platform, and the programming stack is essential. The position facilitates design decisions across development, configuration, integration, infrastructure, security, licensing, availability, storage, and change management, balancing the project's business needs with functional and non-functional requirements.
This class is distinguished from the Information Technology Analyst IV by responsibility for a major section, program or initiative with a high level of independence and responsibility for significant resources.
Supervision
- Receives direction from an Information Technology Manager, the Assistant Director, or Chief Information Officer.
- May exercise supervision over administrative and professional staff.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Education: Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university, preferably in Information Technology or related field.
Experience: Six (6) years of information technology systems and/or application development and support experience including two (2) years of project lead or supervisory responsibility.
Note: Additional experience may substitute on a year for year basis for the educational requirement.
Licensing, Certification and Registration Requirements:
- Applicants may be required to possess a valid California Driver's License, Class C.
- Some positions in this class will require technical certifications demonstrating expertise in specific bodies of knowledge.
- All licenses, certificates and registrations requisite to the position must be kept current while employed in this class. This may include the completion of continuing education units to maintain the required registration in good standing.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Technical knowledge/skills:
- 5+ years of relevant experience with Microsoft Power Platform services, JavaScript, JSON, TypeScript, C#, HTML, RESTful Web APIs, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, and Microsoft Azure
- In-depth knowledge of the entire Power Platform stack (PowerApps, Power BI, Power Automate, Power Virtual Agents, and Power Pages) with in-depth understanding of its capabilities, boundaries, and constraints
- Experience developing Canvas and Model Driven applications
- Experience with Dataverse and developing Power Apps applications that leverage Dataverse as the data source
- Experience in migrating various data sources and workflows to PowerApps and Power Automate
- Experience in automating business processes with Power Automate
- Ability to create custom connectors for PowerApps and Power Automate
- In-depth knowledge of authentication, security, and application lifecycle management (ALM) practices for the Microsoft Power Platform
- Azure OpenAI Service: Knowledge of integrating foundational enterprise Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT into custom software architectures using Web APIs
- Azure Cognitive Services / Azure AI Services: Skill in consuming pre-built APIs for vision (OCR, object detection), speech, translation, and language within custom applications
- Dataverse Semantic Search & AI Grounding: Understanding how to securely ground generative AI prompts and models using the enterprise data stored in Microsoft Dataverse
- Relational databases (design/SQL/tuning)
- Web APIs (SOAP/REST)
- Tooling (GIT/Azure DevOps)
- An eye for clean, easy to use, UI/UX implementations
- Understanding of data privacy and information security best practices
- Experience working with Agile/Scrum methodologies
- Provide technical insights and guidance to development teams throughout the software development lifecycle
- Conduct workshops, presentations, and demonstrations to showcase the capabilities and benefits of low-code platforms to teammates and internal stakeholders
Desired Certifications:
- Microsoft Certified: Power Automate RPA Developer Associate
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate
- Microsoft Certified: Power Platform App Maker Associate
- Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert
- Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Developer Associate
- Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Solution Architect Expert
- Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate
- Microsoft Certified: Agentic AI Business Solutions Architect