Salary: $115,000.00 - $135,000.00 Annually
Location : Statewide, CO
Job Type: Full Time
Job Number: EGBPOD4 - October
Department: Governor's Office of Information Technology
Opening Date: 10/09/2026
Closing Date: Continuous
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 JobIMPORTANT NOTE: This posting is a continuation of an active recruitment to fill multiple positions. If you have applied to a POD4 Senior Delivery Engineer position within the last 180 days, your application is on file, and there is no need to reapply. Any new application will be marked as a duplicate and will not be considered.
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 a resume or cover letter) with your application, as these items are not used by OIT's hiring team.
The Colorado Governor's Office of Information Technology is in the middle of a transformation worth joining. We're building cross-functional pod teams that partner directly with agencies to design, deliver, and continuously improve services that work for Coloradans. Good government depends on technology that works, and OIT exists to make that true for every Coloradan. The State of Colorado is seeking a
Senior Delivery Engineer to help build the next generation of public services. We're looking for people who want to do the best work of their careers in the service of the public.
The Sr Delivery Engineer serves as the technical lead in the pod: the pod's technical authority and Enterprise Architecture's (EA) eyes in the agency. The Sr Delivery Engineer is responsible for evaluating build/buy/SaaS options, overseeing vendor technical quality, and flagging architecture gaps and exceptions before they impact delivery. This position provides the technical governance necessary to ensure agency solutions are sustainable, secure, and aligned with state standards.
What you'll do:- Evaluate vendor proposals, architecture designs, and deliver code for technical quality, security, and EA alignment.
- Conduct meaningful technical reviews of vendor work products, including demos, code repositories, and documentation; provide substantive feedback to hold teams to quality standards.
- Lead structured evaluation processes for custom development vs. commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) vs. SaaS options, producing documented technology decisions.
- Ensure alignment with state technology patterns by reviewing and identifying technology decisions with enterprise implications.
- Translate OIT EA standards, cloud strategies, and security baselines into practical guidance for agency stakeholders.
- Adapt architecture standards to agency-specific legacy systems and constraints.
- Utilize security fundamentals to identify potential risks and engage CISO/security resources appropriately to ensure compliance.
- Draft technical language for SOOs and develop evaluation criteria for vendor selection.
- Review mission outcomes and delivery timelines with the Product and Delivery Manager to align technical feasibility.
- Produce defensible, documented technology recommendations even when working with limited or imperfect information.
- Write or contribute to business cases that communicate the "business-value proposition" of technical decisions to pod and agency leadership.
- Serve as a technical advisor during complex production issues, helping the IT Director and agency leadership understand the nature and severity of the problem, evaluating vendor response, and escalating to OIT enterprise resources as appropriate.
- Participate in post-incident reviews after system failures, contributing architectural analysis of root causes and ensuring that systemic weaknesses are surfaced to the IT Director and documented as inputs to EA standards or vendor accountability conversations.
- Participate in user testing and demos of vendor-delivered work to evaluate whether technical solutions meet functional requirements and architectural standards, escalating concerns before acceptance.
- Partner with Sr Service Designer to ensure architectural decisions don't negatively impact the interface or user journey.
What you bring:- Knowledge of modern software architecture patterns, including cloud-native design, APIs, microservices, data architecture, and integration approaches.
- Knowledge of or ability to rapidly learn OIT Enterprise Architecture standards, approved technology patterns, cloud strategy, and security baselines
- Knowledge of security and compliance fundamentals sufficient to identify risk and engage CISO/security resources appropriately.
- Knowledge of vendor contract structure, including technical language for SOOs and evaluation criteria.
- Ability to assess vendor proposals, commercial off-the-shelf options, and custom development tradeoffs in a government context.
- Ability to evaluate code and system design through code reviews, demos, and technical documentation that has been written by others.
- Ability to identify and flag technical debt, architecture drift, and security gaps early in the development lifecycle, and communicate them to non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to explain technical decisions and tradeoffs to agency program staff, Agency CIO, procurement staff, and other non-technical staff.
- Ability to serve as a trusted technical advisor to agency leadership without overcomplicating or mystifying technology decisions.
- Ability to hold vendor teams to quality standards even when under delivery pressure.
- Ability to proactively identify decisions with enterprise implications and escalate to OIT pod leadership when necessary.
- Ability to evaluate a wide range of technology options with limited perfect information and arrive at a well-reasoned recommendation.
- Ability to adapt quickly to agency-specific technology landscapes, legacy systems, and constraints.
Minimum Qualifications, Substitutions, Conditions of Employment & Appeal Rights 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 all offers are compliant with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, there is no guarantee an offer will be at the top of the posted range based on the 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 five (5) years of experience as a technical lead in the delivery of technology products, which includes working in or leading cross-functional teams using iterative, user-centered methods.
- A track record of working across disciplines - design, engineering, policy, or operations - to ship things that work for real people.
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:- Relevant certificate from a major cloud provider such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional or Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
- Experience drafting technical requirements for Statements of Objectives (SOOs) and leading the technical evaluation of multi-million dollar vendor proposals within a government or highly regulated environment.
- Experience modernizing large-scale legacy systems and adapting modern architecture standards (microservices, APIs) to meet the constraints of established agency-specific technology landscapes.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipeline design and Infrastructure as Code approaches sufficient to evaluate vendor implementations, identify quality and security gaps, and provide meaningful technical feedback - without necessarily building these systems directly.
Conditions of Employment:OIT employees must comply with any screening procedures in place at state agency locations where they might perform work.
A pre-employment background check will be conducted as part of the selection process. Post-employment background checks will be required for specific agencies as business needs dictate, which may include a polygraph exam, fingerprint-based criminal history search, reference checks, and a drug test.
This position may require travel within the specified geographic area, and to locations across the state as needed.
Supplemental InformationIf 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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