Software Solutions Architect

TekWissen LLC

Lansing, MI

JOB DETAILS
SALARY
$70.29
SKILLS
Acceptance Testing, Administrative Skills, Agile Programming Methodologies, Agriculture, Analysis Skills, Applications Security, Architectural Services, Backlog Prioritization, Best Practices, Business Analysis, Business Plan, Business Processes, Business Strategy, Case Management, Child Protection/Welfare, Child and Youth Services, Cloud Computing, Code Reviews, Communication Skills, Configuration Management, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Continuous Integration, Department of Health and Human Services, DevOps, Diversity, Engineering Change Management, Environmental Health, Federal Government, Healthcare, High Availability, Hospital Systems, Identify Issues, Information Technology & Information Systems, Integration Testing, Java, Law Enforcement, Leadership, Maintain Compliance, Mentoring, Natural Resources, On Site Support, Operational Strategy, Oracle Database, Performance Tuning/Optimization, Problem Solving Skills, Procedure Development, Product Demonstration, Production Systems, Programming Methodologies, Programming Tools, Proof of Concept, Public Safety, Regression Testing, Regulations, Regulatory Compliance, Rural Development, SQL (Structured Query Language), Sales, Salesforce.com, Security Compliance, Service Delivery, Software Architecture, Software Design, Software Development, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Software Engineering, System Integration (SI), System Test, Systems Engineering, Systems/Internals Programming, Technical Delivery, Technical Leadership, Technical Presentation, Technical Strategy, Technical Support, Technical Writing, Technical/Engineering Design, Test Automation, Test Plan/Schedule, Web Hosting, Web Programming, Web Services, Workforce Management
LOCATION
Lansing, MI
POSTED
1 day ago

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. The below Client runs through fifteen executive departments which carry out the day-to-day administration of the federal government. Popular departments like Agriculture and Rural Development, Civil Rights, Environment, Health and Human Services, Natural Resources, Secretary of State. This Client has opportunities in a number of career pathways, including, but not limited to, business and administrative support, education and human services, IT and computers, medical and healthcare, natural resources, law enforcement and public safety, skilled trades and more. With positions in over 18 state departments, your perfect career fit is waiting for you at the client. This client is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Job Title: Software Solutions Architect
Location: Lansing, MI 48933
Duration: 3 Months
Job Type: Hybrid
Work Type: Temporary Assignment
Shift: 8.00AM - 5.00 PM

Job Summary:

This position functions as a Salesforce Application Architect within the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS), supporting the modernization and ongoing operations of critical Child Welfare and State Hospital systems, including the Michigan Statewide Automated Child Welfare Information System (MiSACWIS) and the Comprehensive Child Welfare Information System (CCWIS). These systems are essential to the delivery of services to vulnerable children and families across Michigan and require high availability, scalability, and compliance with state and federal standards.

The architect is responsible for leading the design, development, and implementation of enterprise-grade Salesforce solutions, ensuring architectural integrity, platform optimization, and alignment with MDHHS's 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 Well-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 MDHHS Child Welfare applications.
  • Supporting 24/7 operations of Tier 2 applications like MiSACWIS, which serve over 8,000 users across state and private agencies.
  • Ensuring compliance with security, performance, and regulatory standards.
  • Primary Duties (80%): Serve as the development specialist responsible for the design, development, testing and documentation of the technical software solutions. Solve system design problems and programming issues. Ensure that the solutions are integrated and enhanced to meet the needs of the agency's business plan.
  • Lead development of software applications, server components and services using various development tools and State of Michigan 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 State of Michigan 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 State of Michigan system engineering methodology or other required technical deliverables.
  • Primary Duties (15%): Provide technical leadership to the application development team, agency, and external groups
  • 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.
  • Primary Duties (5%): Research and evaluate relevant technology as it pertains to the business strategy
  • Maintain thorough, up to date knowledge of programming techniques used in software development in line with the DTMB technology standards
  • Recommend configuration management tool best practices.
  • Identify/Share/Recommend improvements to tools and technology to development team and technical support staff.

Required Qualifications:

  • 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

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience working on enterprise-level implementations
  • Database-related certifications

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

About the Company

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TekWissen LLC

WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE

TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.

To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.

Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.

It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.

Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.



COMPANY SIZE
100 to 499 employees
INDUSTRY
Computer/IT Services
FOUNDED
2009
WEBSITE
http://www.tekwissen.com/