What are the responsibilities and job description for the Software Solutions Architect in Lansing, MI position at Syntricate?
Job ID: - 159181
Job Title: - Software Solutions Architect
Location: Lansing MI
- Hybrid Work Schedule (Non-Negotiable): There is no remote-only option
Required onsite days- Wednesdays and Thursdays
Remote eligible days- Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fridays
Assignment duration: Ongoing long-term contract with the potential for extension based on performance and business needs
The resource must meet these requirements from the beginning
- Candidates must be local to the Lansing, Michigan area (within 90 miles.
Job Description: -
The architect is responsible for leading the design, development, and implementation of enterprise-grade Salesforce solutions, ensuring architectural integrity, platform optimization, and alignment with client strategic and operational goals. This includes transitioning legacy systems to a modern Salesforce-based platform, with a focus on Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, and Field Service Lightning (FSL).
Job Responsibilities:
Job Title: - Software Solutions Architect
Location: Lansing MI
- Hybrid Work Schedule (Non-Negotiable): There is no remote-only option
Required onsite days- Wednesdays and Thursdays
Remote eligible days- Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fridays
Assignment duration: Ongoing long-term contract with the potential for extension based on performance and business needs
The resource must meet these requirements from the beginning
- Candidates must be local to the Lansing, Michigan area (within 90 miles.
Job Description: -
The architect is responsible for leading the design, development, and implementation of enterprise-grade Salesforce solutions, ensuring architectural integrity, platform optimization, and alignment with client strategic and operational goals. This includes transitioning legacy systems to a modern Salesforce-based platform, with a focus on Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, and Field Service Lightning (FSL).
Job Responsibilities:
- Leading end-to-end architecture and technical design of Salesforce solutions that support case management, field service operations, and user engagement.
- Conducting org health checks and platform assessments, and delivering actionable recommendations based on Salesforce best practices.
- Participating in Design & Discovery sessions and promoting the adoption of Salesforce’s StateWell-Architected Framework.
- Providing technical leadership and mentorship to development teams, including state employees and contractors.
- Collaborating with business analysts, product owners, and stakeholders to translate complex business requirements into scalable, maintainable Salesforce solutions.
- Overseeing proof-of-concepts (POCs) to validate technical feasibility and business value of proposed solutions.
- Ensuring secure application development lifecycle (SADLC) practices are followed throughout all phases of development and deployment.
- Setting the technical direction for client Child Welfare applications.
- Supporting 24/7 operations of Tier 2 applications like client, which serve over 8,000 users across state and private agencies.
- Ensuring compliance with security, performance, and regulatory standards.
- Lead development of software applications, server components and services using various development tools and client approved/supported technologies.
- Plan/Coordinate integration of systems within the business area, external partners, state agencies, and hosting platforms.
- Design and implement application security that complies with client policies.
- Lead/Direct impact analysis of changes due to legislation, requests, or changes in governmental and business processes.
- Review/Approve presentation materials for technical review meetings, approval sessions, application demonstrations.
- Ensure that technical design strategies or applications adhere to State and agency policies, standards, and guidelines.
- Review and approve client system engineering methodology or other required technical deliverables.
- Work with teams and product owners to refine SADLC, prioritize agile backlogs, and maintain release readiness/schedule.
- 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.
- Make technical recommendation(s) and/or decision(s) for changes to the Bridges application based on user requirements.
- Solve complex system design and programming problems which ensure high security is addressed for client level of data.
- Plan for coordination, development, testing and integration of systems and data with Bridges.
- Maintain thorough, up to date knowledge of programming techniques used in software development in line with the client technology standards
- Recommend configuration management tool best practices.
- Identify/Share/Recommend improvements to tools and technology to development team and technical support staff.
- 5 years of experience working within Agile development environments
- 5 years of experience gathering and analyzing business and technical requirements in collaboration with stakeholders
- Experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines, including pipeline-as-code, branching strategies, automated code reviews, and testing aligned with organizational goals
- Strong ability to communicate technical concepts clearly and effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Salesforce certification required
- 5 years of hands-on experience with Salesforce, SQL, Java, and web services development
- Strong experience with Oracle SQL development, including query execution and performance tuning
- Experience working with DevOps practices, including automated builds, testing (regression/smoke), and multi-environment deployments
- Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex system issues and provide technical guidance/leadership to development teams
- Experience working on enterprise-level implementations
- Database-related certifications