Remote – United States

Project Overview:

Louisiana Department of Transportation & Development (LADOTD) is undertaking a modernization initiative to enhance its district‑level financial data intake and reporting processes. The project will deliver a customized data management platform that aligns with LADOTD’s existing operational workflows while introducing targeted improvements in usability, security, auditability, and reporting.

The solution must maintain continuity with LADOTD’s established practices while providing a secure, reliable, and scalable foundation for long‑term operational excellence. The OTS Application Development Office (AppDM) will provide oversight.

Objectives:

The primary objectives of this project are to:

• Modernize and streamline district financial data intake processes.

• Improve data accuracy through automated validations and built‑in calculations.

• Strengthen auditability, security, and user access controls.

• Enhance reporting capabilities for both district users and administrators.

• Provide a stable, secure, and maintainable hosting environment for long‑term operations.

I. DESCRIPTION OF SERVICES

The scope of the proposed services will include the following:

• Design, code, compile, test, debug, modify, and document new or existing highly complex applications programs.
• Implement complex application software solutions ensuring scalability and security.
• Evaluate, analyze, and prepare recommendations on technical solutions or options for managing enterprise information systems.
• Define data elements; design structures for databases; write and compile definitions and descriptions of data elements into dictionary form for use by professionals and users.
• Evaluate and analyze requests for enhancements or development projects of a highly complex nature.
• Prepare and supervise formal system test procedures for complex application systems to ensure quality and compliance.
• Monitor work plans and schedules to ensure timeliness, data integrity, and availability on a project basis.

Functional Scope: Provides automated field‑level and cross‑form validations; Includes built‑in calculations to reduce manual data entry; Allows carry‑forward of selected data elements across fiscal years

Hosting & Technical Requirements provides: Monitoring and alerting for system health and performance.

Reporting & Data Access

• Interactive grid displays with filtering, sorting, and drill‑down.

• Visual dashboards with export options (Excel, CSV, PDF where applicable).

• Administrative reporting for audit logs, user activity, and fiscal year status.

Deliverables Include:

• Integration with Microsoft Entra ID.

• User access and role management tools.

• Fiscal year management module.

• Audit logging framework.

• Reporting dashboards and export tools.
• User training
• Hosting environment

Additional preferable skills: Bentley ProjectWise, Bentley MicroStation V8i (SS2 or SS4)

II. CANDIDATE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

Note: Expected Start Date 06/01/2026 and Expected End Date 12/30/2026. May not be extended beyond 06/30/2029. Hours worked should be within the State’s core hours of 7:00 AM CT to 6:00 PM CT. May be required to work on State holidays, weekends and hours outside of the State’s core business hours in order to meet critical deadlines.