Solution Architect IV - Remote

We are seeking a consultant to conduct a Readiness Assessment to evaluate our agency's preparedness to design, build, and maintain a secure, robust, moderately complex application in-house. The assessment should analyze the capabilities of our IT department-including staffing, architecture, platform, development approach, and governance processes-and identify risks, gaps, and areas for improvement. The consultant will deliver findings, recommendations, and a roadmap to help ensure we are positioned for a successful in-house build.

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What we want in a Readiness Assessment: High Level: an assessment of risk around an in-house build and how ready we are to build a solution and analysis about what it would take to get ready. What are we getting ready to do? Build a secure, robust, moderate complexity application in-house using Microsoft Tools. From EIS P3: the understanding of the agency's IT dept to understand/develop/and maintain an in house build. with all the surrounding things like, approach, platform, structure, architecture and everything like that included. List of or sample of reports that are publicly available: State School Fund: School District and ESD Payment Statements and Estimates Payment Statements for School districts Payment Statements for Education Service Districts SSF Estimate report for school districts ADMw Breakout report for school districts Virtual Charter Extended ADMw report SSF Estimate report for Education Service Districts K-12 School Funding Information High Cost Disability Grant (preliminary and reconciliation reports) Common School Fund payment Small High School Grant (preliminary and reconciliation reports) ADMr by County Lines report Poverty Transparency report December to June Ratio repor