[Hiring] Technical Architect @State of Colorado

Role Description

The Technical Architect serves as a critical public service leader within the Colorado Governor's Office of Information Technology (OIT), providing senior technical leadership and owning the overall architectural direction of the myColorado Platform. This role connects statewide digital product goals with secure, highly accessible, reliable, and maintainable technical solutions designed to seamlessly and equitably serve all Coloradans and residents. You will be working in close collaboration with Product, Design, Operations, Engineering, QA, Security, state agency partners, and vendors.

This role combines platform-wide architecture, governance, and technical assurance with retained operational responsibility for mobile app production releases, while routine software implementation is assigned to delivery engineers. The architectural scope includes:

• iOS and Android mobile applications
• Backend microservices and APIs
• Administrative and verifier portals
• Data flows
• Cloud dependencies (AWS)
• Integrations with state agencies and third-party services

Essential Duties:

• Lead current-state and target-state architecture, maintaining architectural diagrams, significant design decisions, and dependency mapping across the platform.
• Own the technical roadmap and recommend the priority and sequencing of technical debt, platform improvements, security remediation, and lifecycle work in partnership with Product and Operations.
• Participate in discovery with Product and Design to establish technical feasibility and ensure proposed user experiences account for accessibility, security, privacy, and system architecture prior to delivery commitments.
• Define and review solution designs, interface expectations, nonfunctional requirements, data boundaries, authoritative sources, and privacy considerations.
• Provide required architecture and technical-integrity approvals for mobile and backend releases under approved change-management procedures.
• Retain authorized responsibility for submitting approved mobile builds and metadata to the Apple App Store and Google Play, managing production releases, and maintaining release records.
• Provide backend production pull-request approvals during release windows while delivery engineers prepare changes, verify environment settings, and perform deployments.
• Review release dependencies, compatibility, readiness, and rollback arrangements with Engineering, QA, Product, and Operations prior to release.
• Oversee platform stability, library updates, SDK versions, dependency management, and code version control strategies.
• Translate OIT security, accessibility, privacy, and architectural requirements into platform designs, acceptance criteria, and actionable engineering tasks, supporting Authorization to Operate (ATO) requirements.
• Lead the technical content and maintenance of the System Security Plan (SSP), Mobile Application Addendum, and Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP) alongside Security and Operations teams.
• Coordinate vulnerability scanning and penetration-testing activities, review findings with specialists, and establish remediation priorities.
• Define and review monitoring, alerting, performance, and data-protection requirements using operational evidence to remediate systemic risks.
• Lead platform-level technical investigation and decision-making during major incidents, coordinating engineers, cloud specialists, agencies, and vendors to restore service promptly.
• Contribute technical findings to root-cause analysis and define durable corrective work with designated incident and problem-management coordinators.
• Assist Operations and Cloud teams in managing the AWS spend plan; review cloud and vendor service usage/costs to recommend efficiency improvements.
• Manage the provisioning and administration of user access for designated technical systems, environments, and tools.
• Guide and mentor engineers, resolve cross-team technical questions, and establish review practices allowing routine implementation decisions and peer reviews to be handled by delivery engineers.
• Assess the technical quality of internal and vendor deliverables against agreed designs, requirements, test evidence, and acceptance criteria.
• Articulate technical options, decisions, risks, progress, and capacity constraints in clear terms to Product, management, state agency partners, and vendors.
• Evaluate modernization opportunities, frameworks, tools, and vendor capabilities, outlining actionable paths to adoption.

Qualifications

• A minimum of five (5) years of experience in data architecture, solution architecture, data management, and information classification at the enterprise level.
• Demonstrated ability to establish and guide end-to-end technical architecture across mobile applications (iOS and Android), backend services/APIs, cloud infrastructure (AWS), data flows, and external integrations.

Requirements

• OIT ONLY RECRUITMENT: This recruitment is open only to current employees of the Office of Information Technology for the State of Colorado.
• 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.

Benefits

• Support for a healthy balance of work and personal time.