Senior Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance Developer and Technical Lead

Artisan Analytix LLC; Arlington (VA); Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 152,000; Full time

Job summary

Artisan Analytix LLC seeks a senior developer to design, build, and improve the DoS DS/EX resource management platform. You will work with finance and resource-management specialists to turn complex planning processes into secure, intuitive applications.

This hands-on role includes proposing solutions, prototyping UX, coding, and supporting testing and releases. Recent Dynamics 365 Finance and X++ experience is essential, with Power Platform development skills to complement the stack.

Qualifications

• U.S. citizenship and active Secret clearance required.
• At least five years of professional software or enterprise application development.
• Hands-on Dynamics 365 Finance or Finance and Operations development experience with finance delivery.

Responsibilities

• Translate validated business needs into prototypes, data models, user stories, and testable acceptance criteria.
• Build X++ business logic, tables, forms, data entities, workflows, and batch processes.
• Develop connected Power Apps, Dataverse components, and Power Automate workflows as per design.
• Create navigation, role-based workspaces, and usable data-entry forms with clear UX.
• Ensure secure releases with least privilege, code reviews, and automated tests.
• Lead technical delivery, review implementation quality, and transfer knowledge.

Skills

X++

Dynamics 365 Finance

Power Platform

Visual Studio

API design/integration

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or related field

Tools

Visual Studio

Dataverse

Power Apps

Power Automate

REST/OData APIs

Job description

Client support: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Diplomatic Security

Engagement: Independent contractor (1099); full-time level of effort, 40 hours per week

Location: Rosslyn, Virginia; client-site presence as required. Telework requires client approval 2-3 days telework.

Eligibility: U.S. citizenship and active Secret clearance required

About the role

Artisan Analytix LLC is seeking a senior developer to help design, build, and improve the resource management platform for the Department of State’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security, Executive Directorate (DS/EX). You will work directly with finance and resource-management specialists to turn complex planning processes into secure, intuitive applications.

This is a hands-on development role with technical leadership responsibility. You will propose solutions, prototype user experiences, personally write and review code, and support testing and release. Recent Dynamics 365 Finance and X++ experience is essential, complemented by Power Platform development skills.

You will work with project and functional leads, government owners, and technology teams to evaluate product fit and deliver within the approved architecture. Responsibilities include explaining tradeoffs among standard configuration, Finance extensions, and connected Power Apps, including reuse, licensing, government-cloud availability, performance, and maintenance.

Key responsibilities

Translate requirements into working solutions

Review existing applications, code, data, and reference materials before rebuilding functionality. Translate validated business needs into prototypes, data models, user stories, and testable acceptance criteria. Maintain traceability from requirements through implementation and test evidence. Give clear estimates, identify dependencies, and demonstrate working software regularly.

Develop Dynamics 365 Finance and Power Platform components

Build X++ business logic, tables, form extensions, classes, data entities, workspaces, workflows, and batch processes using supported extension patterns, including Chain of Command and event handlers. Debug issues and optimize queries and application performance. Develop connected Power Apps, Dataverse components, and Power Automate workflows where the approved design calls for them.

Design applications people can use effectively

Create clear navigation, role-based workspaces, efficient data-entry forms, review queues, and drill-through views. Use native Finance patterns and appropriate Power Apps canvas or model-driven experiences. Validate prototypes with users and refine them based on observed friction. Address accessibility, visual consistency, and loading, empty, validation, error, and permission states.

Implement controlled planning and financial logic

Build configurable reference data, protected approved baselines, one working forecast with controlled snapshots, monthly close, quarterly finalization, and planning review workflows. Preserve explanations and decision history. Test financial calculations for fiscal periods, signs, precision, and rounding. Enforce critical validations and approval permissions in the underlying business logic so they apply across screens, APIs, and imports.

Integrate data and make quality visible

Use supported data entities, REST/OData APIs, approved connectors, and appropriate batch or event patterns. Build controlled imports and exports with stable identifiers, mapping, duplicate checks, reconciliation, visible exceptions, and safe retries. Preserve source lineage and as-of dates; prevent writeback to external source systems. Keep allocations, obligations, invoices, payments, and forecasts distinct. Coordinate consistent measures and reports with Power BI developers.

Deliver secure and supportable releases

Use source control, code reviews, automated tests, and application life-cycle management across separate development, test, and production environments. Implement least privilege, appropriate row and field security, segregation of duties, data loss prevention, audit, and retention controls with platform and security teams. Test integrations, calculations, screen/API/import permissions, accessibility, performance, and recovery. Support user acceptance testing and government release approval.

Lead technical delivery and transfer knowledge

Coordinate component designs and dependencies with other developers, review implementation quality, and resolve defects. Document configuration, integrations, deployment, monitoring, rollback or recovery, and support procedures. Contribute to operating procedures, training, and knowledge transfer. Support agreed fallback processes until retirement is authorized. Use approved development tools and data boundaries, with human review and testing of generated code.

Required qualifications

• U.S. citizenship, an active Secret clearance, and availability for the stated 1099 engagement and required client-site presence in Rosslyn.
• At least five years of professional software or enterprise application development, including at least three years of hands-on Dynamics 365 Finance or Finance and Operations development with substantive Finance delivery.
• Strong, recent X++ skills and experience with Visual Studio, the Finance and Operations application framework, extensions, tables, forms, data entities, debugging, and performance troubleshooting.
• Experience designing relational data models and reliable API integrations, including validation, error handling, and reconciliation.
• Demonstrated ability to build usable business applications and explain the code, design decisions, and user-experience improvements you personally delivered.
• Experience carrying solutions through development, testing, deployment, and support using source control and controlled release practices. Clear communication, problem-solving, and collaboration skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, information systems, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered, subject to contractual requirements.

Preferred qualifications

• Financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, workforce planning, contract-cost analysis, or other complex enterprise applications; federal or Department of State experience.
• Power Apps Component Framework (PCF), React, prototyping tools, or advanced Microsoft application interface development.
• Finance and Dataverse integration experience, including evaluation of virtual tables and other supported approaches against data ownership, permissions, and government-cloud constraints.
• Power BI, DAX, Power Query, Finance reporting, approved Azure integration services, or deployment pipelines in security-constrained environments.
• Relevant Microsoft developer certifications. Demonstrated delivery and code quality carry greater weight than certifications alone