Workforce Modernization Architect

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Analyze federal reporting specifications, data standards, and program guidance, emphasizing PIRL and U.S. Department of Labor and Department of Education reporting.

• Convert federal requirements into comprehensive functional specifications.

• Establish clear, testable business rules for reporting periods, populations, deduplication, enrollment, participation, exits, dates, and any missing or conflicting data.

• Create documentation for necessary file layouts, field definitions, code lists, ordering, and naming conventions for CSV, XML, fixed-width, and agency-specific exports.

• Diagnose root causes of reporting and compliance issues and lead documented resolutions.

• Investigate agency FAQs, TEGLs, and technical assistance resources to clarify ambiguities and document edge-case decisions.

• Develop test scenarios and expected results; collaborate with QA to verify outputs against specifications and DOL WIPS edit checks.

• Utilize knowledge of state case management systems to foresee integration, mapping, and consistency challenges.

• Track modifications to federal specifications, PIRL versions, and reporting cycles and coordinate system updates.

• Suggest intake workflows, necessary fields, and validation checks to enhance data quality.

• Assist customers throughout reporting cycles by clarifying reports, troubleshooting validation errors, and addressing questions from grant managers, monitors, and auditors.

• Acquire familiarity with the platform and customer state systems within 30 days.

• Independently draft reporting logic specifications and test cases, leading requirements discussions within 90 days.

• Ensure customer reports consistently pass federal validation and become the compliance authority for sales and implementation teams within six months.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in workforce development, including programmatic involvement in at least one WIOA program: Title I, Title II, Title III, Title IV, or Title V.

• Practical experience with PIRL and federal reporting for grant-funded initiatives.

• Hands-on experience with multiple state case management systems.

• Experience utilizing government software as a user, implementer, or administrator in a public-sector environment.

• Grant management expertise, including knowledge of how reporting is linked to performance, funding, and compliance.

• Capability to read and interpret technical federal specifications and convert them into clear, precise requirements.

• Strong logical reasoning skills with the ability to articulate rules as if/then logic, inclusion and exclusion criteria, and date calculations.

• Familiarity with testing and quality assurance methodologies, including drafting test cases and validating report outputs.

• Exceptional attention to detail.

• Proficiency in working with spreadsheets to verify counts, reconcile figures, and identify discrepancies.

• A background check, including criminal history, previous employment, and education verification, is required for employment.

• Preferred: familiarity with Uniform Guidance (2 CFR 200) and general grants compliance.

• Preferred: experience with WIPS, NRS, RSA-911, HMIS, CAREWare, or Sage.

• Preferred: experience collaborating with federal agencies, state workforce agencies, or technical assistance providers.

• Preferred: basic SQL or reporting-tool experience.

• Preferred: background as a program administrator, grants manager, or data analyst at a federally funded agency or local workforce development board.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equal Opportunity Employer.

• Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check, which includes criminal history, previous employment, and education verification.