Salesforce Architect -W2
3 days ago
Lansing
Job Title: Software Solutions Architect -W2 \n Location: Lansing, MI-Hybrid \n Contract \n Only Locals \n In-person interview is required for this position \n Required onsite days: Wednesdays and Thursdays. \n Remote eligible days: Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fridays. \n \n \n Job Responsibilities: \n\n • Lead end-to-end architecture and technical design of Salesforce solutions that support case management, field service operations, and user engagement.\n, • Conduct org health checks and platform assessments, and deliver actionable recommendations based on Salesforce best practices.\n, • Participate in Design & Discovery sessions and promote the adoption of Salesforce’s Well-Architected Framework.\n, • Provide technical leadership and mentorship to development teams, including state employees and contractors.\n, • Collaborate with business analysts, product owners, and stakeholders to translate complex business requirements into scalable, maintainable Salesforce solutions.\n, • Oversee proof-of-concepts (POCs) to validate technical feasibility and business value of proposed solutions.\n, • Ensure secure application development lifecycle (SADLC) practices are followed throughout all phases of development and deployment.\n, • Set the technical direction for MDHHS Child Welfare applications.\n, • Support 24/7 operations of Tier 2 applications like MiSACWIS, which serve over 8,000 users across state and private agencies.\n, • Ensure compliance with security, performance, and regulatory standards.\n, • Lead development of software applications, server components and services using various development tools and State of Michigan approved/supported technologies.\n, • Plan/Coordinate integration of systems within the business area, external partners, state agencies, and hosting platforms.\n, • Design and implement application security that complies with State of Michigan policies.\n, • Lead/Direct impact analysis of changes due to legislation, requests, or changes in governmental and business processes.\n, • Review/Approve presentation materials for technical review meetings, approval sessions, application demonstrations.\n, • Ensure that technical design strategies or applications adhere to State and agency policies, standards, and guidelines.\n, • Review and approve State of Michigan system engineering methodology or other required technical deliverables.\n, • Work with teams and product owners to refine SADLC, prioritize agile backlogs, and maintain release readiness/schedule.\n, • Ensure compliance with ECM standards and procedures across development, system test, user acceptance testing, security, and production environments, includes coordinating, creating, approving, and monitoring required work items.\n, • Make technical recommendation(s) and/or decision(s) for changes to the Bridges application based on user requirements.\n, • Solve complex system design and programming problems which ensure high security is addressed for client level of data.\n, • Plan for coordination, development, testing and integration of systems and data with Bridges.\n, • Maintain thorough, up to date knowledge of programming techniques used in software development in line with the DTMB technology standards.\n, • Recommend configuration management tool best practices.\n, • Identify/Share/Recommend improvements to tools and technology to development team and technical support staff.\n\n \n Required Education \n\n • Bachelor's Degree\n\n \n Required Skills \n\n • 5+ years of experience gathering and analyzing business and technical requirements in collaboration with stakeholders.\n, • Experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines, including pipeline-as-code, branching strategies, automated code reviews, and testing aligned with organizational goals.\n, • Strong ability to communicate technical concepts clearly and effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.\n, • 2-3 Salesforce certifications required.\n, • 5+ years of hands-on experience with Salesforce, SQL, Java, and web services development.\n\n \n Most Preferred Skills \n\n • Salesforce Architect certification.\n, • Experience working on enterprise-level implementations.\n, • Database-related certifications.\n\n \n Other Preferred Qualifications \n\n • 5+ years of experience working within Agile development environments.\n, • Strong experience with Oracle SQL development, including query execution and performance tuning.\n, • Experience working with DevOps practices, including automated builds, testing (regression/smoke), and multi-environment deployments.\n, • Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex system issues and provide technical guidance/leadership to development teams.\n\n \n