Salary: $122,000.00 - $137,000.00 Annually
Location : Statewide, CO
Job Type: Full Time
Job Number: EGB93813
Department: Governor's Office of Information Technology
Opening Date: 06/30/2026
Closing Date: 7/5/2026 11:59 PM Mountain
FLSA: Determined by Position
Primary Physical Work Address: (Remote from anywhere in CO)
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
OIT ONLY RECRUITMENT: This recruitment is open only to current employees of the Office of Information Technology for the State of Colorado. Contractors currently engaged at OIT do not qualify as employees.
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.
We're looking for a strategic and collaborative Principal Developer to be a top team member in the operations of an applications delivery work unit to drive the modernization and architectural evolution of our enterprise-critical systems. In this role, you will be the technical cornerstone for our engineering team, guiding the migration of legacy infrastructure to modern, AWS-centric microservice architectures while maintaining high-stakes, data-intensive applications.

If you are passionate about reducing technical debt, enforcing robust engineering standards, and mentoring developers to elevate code quality, we invite you to lead our efforts in transforming our technology landscape.
Some of the Key Responsibilities:

• Design and own enterprise microservice architectures, REST API contracts, and AWS-centric modernization strategies across multiple business-critical applications.
• Serve as the primary technical expert for Oracle PL/SQL systems, including complex packages, stored procedures, relational schemas, and data migration workstreams.
• Establish and enforce reusable engineering patterns, coding standards, and modular architecture principles across teams.
• Lead migration efforts from legacy on-premise infrastructure to modern React/microservice stacks.
• Provide architectural validation and issue resolution during production go-lives and high-stakes deployments.
• Lead data migration efforts for large-scale document and structured data sets, including sensitive data types (PII, CJIS).
• Mentor software developers through 1-on-1 coaching, pair programming, code reviews, and technical design discussions.

Minimum Qualifications, Substitutions, Conditions of Employment & Appeal Rights
OIT ONLY RECRUITMENT: This recruitment is open only to current employees of the Office of Information Technology for the State of Colorado. Applications are not accepted from contractors engaged in work for OIT, or any state entity, as contractors are not employees.

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:

• Experience applying digital accessibility regulations and standards (e.g., WCAG 2.1) to business processes, content, tools, and/or documents, with the ability to provide specific examples of accessibility improvements made
• Minimum of Seven (7) years of progressive software engineering experience.

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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated expertise in Oracle PL/SQL development, including packages, stored procedures, scheduled jobs, and schema design at enterprise scale.
• Proven experience in modernizing legacy monolithic systems to microservice or cloud-native architectures.
• Strong proficiency in at least two of: C#/.NET, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, React.
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps or equivalent tooling.
• Working knowledge of AWS services in the context of enterprise application hosting and integration.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional engineering teams using Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Experience in Colorado state government or other public-sector enterprise IT environments.
• Experience with large-scale data migrations involving sensitive data types (PII, CJIS, HIPAA, tax records).

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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Visit our How to Apply webpage to learn more about our application process and what to expect after you apply.
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OIT ONLY Recruitment - This recruitment is open only to current employees of the Office of Information Technology for the State of Colorado. Applications are not accepted from contractors engaged in work for OIT, or any state entity, as contractors are not employees.

Are you a current OIT employee?

• Yes
• No

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Please detail how your skills and experience align with the requirements of this position.
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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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Do you currently reside in the state of Colorado?

• Yes
• No

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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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Do you currently require employer sponsorship for a Visa, any employer-provided documentation to maintain your Visa, or employer participation in a program for the purposes of immigration status?

• Yes
• No

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In the future, will you require employer sponsorship for a Visa, employer-provided documentation to maintain your Visa, or employer participation in a program for the purposes of immigration status?

• Yes
• No

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