[Hiring] Senior Delivery Engineer @State of Colorado

Role Description

The Colorado Governor's Office of Information Technology is seeking a Senior Delivery Engineer to help build the next generation of public services. The Sr Delivery Engineer serves as the technical lead in the pod, responsible for:

• Evaluating vendor proposals, architecture designs, and delivering code for technical quality, security, and EA alignment.
• Conducting meaningful technical reviews of vendor work products, including demos, code repositories, and documentation; providing substantive feedback to hold teams to quality standards.
• Leading structured evaluation processes for custom development vs. commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) vs. SaaS options, producing documented technology decisions.
• Ensuring alignment with state technology patterns by reviewing and identifying technology decisions with enterprise implications.
• Translating OIT EA standards, cloud strategies, and security baselines into practical guidance for agency stakeholders.
• Adapting architecture standards to agency-specific legacy systems and constraints.
• Utilizing security fundamentals to identify potential risks and engaging CISO/security resources appropriately to ensure compliance.
• Drafting technical language for SOOs and developing evaluation criteria for vendor selection.
• Reviewing mission outcomes and delivery timelines with the Product and Delivery Manager to align technical feasibility.
• Producing defensible, documented technology recommendations even when working with limited or imperfect information.
• Writing or contributing to business cases that communicate the "business-value proposition" of technical decisions to pod and agency leadership.
• Serving as a technical advisor during complex production issues, helping the IT Director and agency leadership understand the nature and severity of the problem.
• Participating in post-incident reviews after system failures, contributing architectural analysis of root causes.
• Participating in user testing and demos of vendor-delivered work to evaluate whether technical solutions meet functional requirements and architectural standards.
• Partnering with Sr Service Designer to ensure architectural decisions don't negatively impact the interface or user journey.

Qualifications

• 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.
• 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.

Requirements

• 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.

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.

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