A Note on Assignment Type:

This position is currently listed as "Onsite"; however, the Assignment under this request will provisionally be "Hybrid", working 7.25 hours per calendar day, sometime between 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM (excluding breaks) Monday to Friday inclusive, unless otherwise identified. These conditions are subject to change as the OPS reflects on its current situation. During the duration of the assignment, you will be under the discretion of the Hiring Manager's requirements for the Project you are assigned to.

Scope

• The Office of the Public Guardian and Trustee (OPGT) requires a solution architect - CRM to provide technical leadership for the data migration into Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement (CE).

Assignment Deliverables

As a technical leader in the data migration and reporting team, you will provide expert guidance into all aspects of the data migration from legacy solutions into Dynamics 365 CE, full and delta load design and implementation and ensure a quality data migration. 

Other responsibilities include:

• Lead the development, implementation, and management of D365 CE, monitoring of the whole system.
• Define the interactions between application packages, databases and middleware systems.
• Deliver customizations by defining and implementing entities, fields, workflows, business rules, forms, and views, ensuring they align with the business processes.
• Determine how the Dynamics CRM system will integrate with other systems and applications within the organization's technology landscape.
• Establish security measures to protect sensitive data and ensure proper access control within the CRM system.
• Optimize the performance of the Dynamics CRM system to ensure smooth operation and responsiveness.
• Ongoing Support: lead post-migration support, analysis and resolution of data-related issues or questions; help with optimizing data management processes in the new environment.
• Other duties as assigned.

The Vendor’s Personnel will also be required to:

• Complete work and achieve milestones within the assigned deadlines.
• Notify the Cluster/Ministry project Manager in writing of any issues or other material concerns related to the Assignment Deliverables, as soon as he/she becomes aware of them
• Submit Deliverables for the Cluster/Ministry approval as they are completed.
• Comply with the Ontario Government and the Cluster/Ministry security procedures and practices
• Comply with the Ontario Government and the Cluster/Ministry architecture/technology standards and best practices
• Comply with the Ontario Government and the Cluster/Ministry Conflict of Interest and Confidentiality Guidelines
• Provide knowledge and skill transfer to a designated Cluster/Ministry staff; and
• Comply with the Ontario Government I&IT Directive, Operational Policy on the I&IT Project Gateway Process, and other applicable Guidelines, Standards and Procedures.

A Note on the VOR Master Service Agreement:

The VOR Master Service Agreement which expires on April 5, 2026, leaves some Contracts with funding unassigned for fiscal 2026-27. If the current statement of work expires on March 31, 2026, the remaining funds can be used to exercise an option to extend the SOW beyond March 31, 2026, based on business case approvals. Such extensions will be allowable, only if the Master Service Agreement is extended beyond April 5, 2026, and be upon the same terms, conditions, and covenants contained in the SOW.  

The start date is subject to change based on security clearances and contract signing timelines.

Experience and Skillset Requirements

Mandatory Requirements

• At least 1 year of recent experience as CRM architect in Microsoft Dynamics 365 CE implementation, data migration and solution integration

Desired Skills and Experience

• Knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement (CE) functionalities and capabilities
• Extensive experience with CRM applications, operating systems, environments, database technologies, programming languages and communication protocols 
• Knowledge of performance considerations in different environments 
• Experience in structured methodologies for the design, development and implementation of applications 
• Extensive experience in CRM applications analysis and design in large enterprise environments 
• Experience in the use of data and process modelling methodologies, techniques and tools, including a working knowledge of metadata structures, repository functions, and data dictionaries 
• Experience developing enterprise architecture deliverables (e.g., models and documentation)
• Experience in designing, developing, implementing and maintaining large complex CRM applications, workflow processes and dynamic forms.
• Knowledge of integration technologies commonly used with Dynamics, such as DataVerse / Common Data Service (CDS), Data Entities, and APIs.
• Experience with continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes around DevOps, data workflows, Synapse workspaces.
• Strong understanding of ETL principles, including data extraction, transformation, and loading processes; knowledge of common ETL design patterns.
• Understanding of data pipeline architectures, Azure workflow orchestration tools, and concepts related to data ingestion, transformation, and movement.

Resumes Evaluation/Criteria:

Criteria 1: Dynamics 365 CE - 30 Points

• Knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement (CE) functionalities and capabilities, implementation, configuration, customization, and operation.
• Extensive experience with CRM applications, operating systems, environments, database technologies, programming languages and communication protocols 
• Knowledge of performance considerations in different environments 
• Extensive experience in CRM applications analysis and design in large enterprise environments 

Criteria 2: Azure Data Migration/ET/SQL - 30 Points

• Experience with the design and implementation of data management strategies within Dynamics CRM, data governance policies, data quality, data migration plans, and designing data synchronization processes with other systems.
• Demonstrated experience in integrating various data sources and systems, both on-premises and in the cloud, using Azure ETL services or other ETL tools
• Demonstrated experience working with Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse workspaces, PolyBase, including knowledge of pipeline creation, data flows, integration runtimes, triggers, and monitoring. 
• Demonstrated experience with data manipulation languages (T-SQL, PL/SQL), data definition languages, query performance analysis & tuning
• Demonstrated experience with SQL Server, Oracle, Azure SQL Databases
• Demonstrated experience with data modeling tools (preferably, ERWIN)
• Experience with SSIS, SSRS

Criteria 3: Data Migration Test Automation - 30 Points

• Demonstrated experience with data migration testing, ideally from legacy data sources to Dataverse / Dynamics 365 CE
• Demonstrated experience with designing, implementing and supporting solutions to automate data migration testing to Dynamics 365 

Criteria 4: Azure Platform - 10 Points

• Experience in Azure resource configuration and administration such as Azure Data Lake, Blob Storage, Key Vault, Application Insight resources, resource groups and subscriptions.
• Azure cloud certifications
• Demonstrated experience with continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) tools and processes around Azure DevOps

Knowledge Transfer

What needs to be KT

• Document the tasks executed and in process of execution as a member of the data migration team using the approach and tools as required by the project manager.
• All plans & designs including architecture artefacts, data models, protypes, wireframes.

To whom

• Project Manager / Team members

When

• 1:1 meetings / team meetings / documentation in DevOps Wiki and boards throughout the duration of the project life cycle.

Req Closing Date/Time

2025-05-07, 3:00 p.m

 

This position is currently listed as "Onsite"; however, the Assignment under this request will provisionally be "Hybrid", working 7.25 hours per calendar day, sometime between 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM (excluding breaks) Monday to Friday inclusive, unless otherwise identified. These conditions are subject to change as the OPS reflects on its current situation. During the duration of the assignment, you will be under the discretion of the Hiring Manager's requirements for the Project you are assigned to.

 

Max no of submission- 1(one)

 

Must have:

Mentioned above in Experience and Skill Set Requirements