Software Solutions Architect at Zenfreed, LLC
Lansing, MI
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Jul 9, 2026
Lansing, MI
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role involves leading the architecture and technical design of Salesforce-based solutions for Michigan's child welfare and state hospital systems, including a large-scale migration away from legacy platforms. Day-to-day work spans org assessments, CI/CD pipeline oversight, mentoring development teams, and ensuring security and regulatory compliance across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Experience Cloud, and Field Service Lightning. It suits an experienced Salesforce architect comfortable operating in a government enterprise environment with Agile and DevOps practices.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Bachelor's required · Contract
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 12,300 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 7,400–18,500
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
The job posting explicitly states the position is hybrid (Wednesdays and Thursdays onsite in Lansing, MI) and that there is 'no remote-only option.' The caller has instructed this be treated as fully remote with a national candidate pool — this overrides the posting's stated location requirement. The metro has been left unset per caller instruction, though the posting hard-requires candidates be within 90 miles of Lansing, MI.
The role is titled 'Salesforce Application Architect' but the primary duties (80%) are hands-on design, development, testing, and documentation — closer to a senior Software Developer than a pure systems analyst or people manager. SOC 15-1211 (Computer Systems Analysts) is a plausible alternative given the architecture, requirements-gathering, and stakeholder-translation emphasis.
The posting requires '2-3 Salesforce certifications' and states 'Salesforce certification required' as hard gates. These are treated as a single Salesforce certification requirement on the Salesforce skill. The Salesforce Architect certification specifically is listed under Desired Skills and is marked preferred.
Web services development is mentioned alongside Salesforce, SQL, and Java in the requirements section but names no specific framework or platform; it was omitted as it does not name a concrete, canonical technology.
Employment type is W2 Contract (40 hrs/week, staffing firm Zenfreed) — classified as Contract.
No compensation figures are provided in the posting.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): Salesforce Field Service Lightning.
Posting is for a contract engagement — the market benchmarks below price full-time roles, so read the comp comparison with that in mind.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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