Developer II (ECS) - OIT Transparency Posting (Remote From Anywhere In CO)

Salary: $100,000.00 - $110,000.00 Annually
Location : Statewide, CO
Job Type: Full Time
Job Number: EGBTBD-11/2026
Department: Governor's Office of Information Technology
Opening Date: 11/12/2026
Closing Date: 11/15/2026 11:59 PM Mountain
FLSA: Determined by Position
Primary Physical Work Address: (Remote From Anywhere In CO)
FLSA Status: Exempt; position is not eligible for overtime compensation.
Department Contact Information:
Type of Announcement: This announcement is not governed by the selection processes of the classified personnel system. Applications will be considered from residents and non-residents of Colorado.
How To Apply: Please submit an online application for this position at https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/colorado. Reach out to the Department Contact to apply using a paper application, including any supplemental questions. Failure to submit a complete and timely application may result in the rejection of your application. Applicants are responsible for ensuring that application materials are received by the appropriate Human Resources office before the closing date and time listed.

Description of Job
Transparency Posting: This position is intended for and will be filled with an existing resource. This posting is for notification purposes only under the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Please review your application to ensure completion. For the most equitable applicant experience, OIT's hiring team considers only the contents of your application to review your qualifications. Please do not include any attachments (such as resume or cover letter) with your application as these items are not used by OIT's hiring team.
As a Developer II (ECS) with the Office of Information Technology (OIT), you will build, modernize, and maintain secure software solutions and automated workflows to help state agencies serve Coloradans efficiently. In this role, you will create reliable custom applications, streamline business processes, and maintain system integrations to deliver seamless, high-performing digital services across state government.
Essential Functions:
Enterprise Solution Architecture & Software Engineering

• Complex Solution Engineering: Architect high-complexity enterprise systems, such as the Electronic Requisition (eReq) platform, utilizing custom WorkView applications, HTML/JavaScript, backend workflows, and dynamic Unity forms. Outcomes: Delivers reliable, end-to-end digital purchasing tools that reduce processing delays for state agencies.
• Technical Scoping & Evaluation: Conduct frontend technical evaluations, feasibility analyses, and solution scoping for advanced platform enhancements (e.g., financial logic, retainage updates). Outcomes: Ensures system upgrades are feasible, accurate, and aligned with financial policy standards before development begins.
• Operational & HR Automation: Architect multi-tiered applications and document composition pipelines for critical operations, including 401(k) contributions, SEED pre-approvals, HR awards, payroll payouts, and out-of-state work authorizations. Outcomes: Streamlines employee administrative services to ensure timely and accurate processing of personnel and payroll requests.

Integration Engineering & Legacy Transformation

• Legacy Re-engineering: Modernize manual agency processes into standardized digital workflows for conflict of interest disclosures, travel authorizations, and official requests. Outcomes: Replaces inefficient paper-based systems with clear, trackable, and user-friendly online tools.
• Secure Enterprise Integrations: Design and configure robust integrations and secure client SFTP configurations to ensure automated, secure data transport. Outcomes: Maintains safe, seamless data exchanges between state platforms while safeguarding sensitive information.
• Inter-Agency Workflow Lifecycles: Develop automated, cross-departmental file transfer systems enabling secure, compliant transmission of employee files and administrative documents between state entities. Outcomes: Facilitates fast and compliant record-sharing across state agencies.

Tier-3 Incident Management & System Optimization

• Production Incident Leadership: Serve as primary technical lead for high-priority incidents, production outages, and critical software defect remediation. Outcomes: Minimizes system downtime and quickly restores essential digital services for agency operations.
• Data Maintenance Execution: Oversee large-scale data maintenance and legacy note/document migrations across content management systems. Outcomes: Preserves data integrity and ensures seamless access to historical agency records.
• Technical Stakeholder Engagement: Conduct 1-on-1 technical advisory sessions with agency leadership and end-users to troubleshoot business-critical system issues and gather engineering requirements. Outcomes: Builds strong partnerships with agency partners while ensuring software solutions effectively meet user needs.

Minimum Qualifications, Substitutions, Conditions of Employment & Appeal Rights
Transparency Posting: This position is intended for and will be filled with an existing resource. This posting is for notification purposes only under the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act.
A wide salary range is posted for this position and any job offer is based upon a salary analysis to comply with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act. The salary analysis considers relevant experience, education, certifications, and state seniority as compared to others doing substantially similar work. While most salary offers are made within the posted range, occasionally an offer is made below or above the posted range based upon this salary analysis.

This is a skills-based job announcement. The required minimum qualifications and/or education (if substituting for the proven experience, knowledge, and skills), are as follows:
Minimum Qualifications:
A minimum of three (3) years of professional experience in an occupational field related to the work assigned to the position.
Substitutions:

• Additional appropriate education will substitute for the required experience on a year-for-year basis, but cannot completely substitute for these qualifications.
• Training or Certification related to the work assigned to the position will be assigned credit towards substitution for experience and/or education, but cannot completely substitute for these qualifications.
• If the minimum qualifications include a degree requirement, additional appropriate paid or unpaid experience will substitute for the required education on a year-for-year basis.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience designing and building high-complexity enterprise platforms (such as custom WorkView applications, dynamic forms, and automated document composition pipelines) using technologies like HTML, JavaScript, and backend workflows.
• Proven background in successfully transforming manual or legacy paper-based processes into standardized digital workflows, alongside expertise in configuring secure data transports (such as SFTP and cross-departmental file transfers).
• Extensive experience serving as a technical lead for production outages, high-priority incident resolution, and software defect remediation in a mission-critical enterprise environment.

Conditions of Employment:
OIT employees must comply with any screening procedures in place at state agency locations where they might perform work.

This position may require travel within the specified geographic area, and to locations across the state as needed.

This position may require on-call duties as needed by the position.
Supplemental Information
If this posting indicates "remote from anywhere in CO" in the title, periodic reporting to the primary state work location designated for the position is required. All remote work must be performed in Colorado.

While candidates from out of state will be considered for this role, the candidate selected for the position must relocate and reside in Colorado on the first day of their new position. A reasonable timeframe for relocation will be established on an individual basis, while considering business needs, and determining a start date.
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Describe the top 3 outcomes you have achieved that you believe are relevant to this role.
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Please describe how you learned of this job opening.
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The Governor's Office of Information Technology (OIT) complies with Colorado's Equal Pay for Equal Work Act. While a wide salary range is posted, specific criteria (experience, education, state seniority, etc.) will be used to determine any salary offer. While most salary offers are made within the posted range, occasionally an offer is made below or above the posted range based upon this salary analysis. It is this salary analysis, rather than any negotiation process, that determines any salary offer. Please acknowledge your understanding of this process and the posted salary range for this position.

• Yes, I understand the above statement.

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All remote work must be performed from within the State of Colorado. If you live out of state and are selected for this position you must relocate to Colorado before commencing employment. There is no form of relocation assistance, financial or otherwise, available for any position. Do you wish to proceed with your submission?

• Yes, I understand the above statement.

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If any of the State of Colorado positions listed in your employment history were performed as a contract employee, you MUST list the position/s, State Agency, and the name of the contracting company by whom you were paid during the contract position. If this does not apply, please type "N/A".
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