Principal Developer (Salesforce) Remote From Anywhere In CO

State of Colorado; Colorado; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

The Governor's Office of Information Technology (OIT) in Colorado seeks a Senior Salesforce Developer/Architect to shape architectural vision, standards, and execution for the CDEC Salesforce portfolio. You will balance strategic leadership with hands-on delivery, bridging executives, stakeholders, and project teams to solve complex Salesforce challenges.

Core qualifications include 7+ years in Salesforce roles and WCAG 2.1 accessibility experience, with preferred Salesforce certifications.

Qualifications

• Minimum seven years in a Salesforce Developer or Architect role.
• Experience applying accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1) to processes and tools.

Responsibilities

• Strategic leadership to guide planning, modernizations, and governance with AI input.
• Architect and deliver secure, scalable Salesforce solutions across the SDLC.
• Oversee deployments, version control, and environment alignment.
• Refactor tech debt and sunset legacy components to modern approaches.
• Provide tier-3 Salesforce support for complex features and rollouts.
• Collaborate across teams and mentor Senior Salesforce Developers.

Skills

Salesforce development

Architectural design

SDLC execution

Stakeholder collaboration

Tools

Salesforce Flow

Lightning Web Components (LWC)

Job description

Together, we innovate for a stronger Colorado

The work of employees at the Governor's Office of Information Technology (OIT) is challenging and diverse because the needs of agencies, customers and Coloradans constantly evolve. But our focus never changes: improve the lives of all Coloradans through innovation and collaboration. We're building one of the nation's leading government IT organizations by reimagining how we support agencies, building first-of-their-kind applications, and creating an inclusive, collaborative culture, together. Join us in the important work of providing equitable access to services.

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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.

Step into a pivotal technical leadership role as the OIT Principal Salesforce Developer, where you will shape the architectural vision, engineering standards, and strategic execution for the Colorado Department of Early Childhood (CDEC) Salesforce portfolio. Operating with a high degree of autonomy, this role offers you a dynamic blend of strategic leadership and hands‑on execution across the full Salesforce SDLC. As OIT’s primary technical and architectural resource, you will bridge the gap between high-level strategies, agency stakeholders, and cross-functional project teams to solve CDEC’s most complex Salesforce challenges.

Essential Functions

• Strategic Leadership and Governance: Collaborate with OIT leadership to guide strategic planning, system modernization, compliance, and technology roadmaps. Act as a trusted advisor to agency stakeholders and executive leadership. Provide insight on AI use and governance with Salesforce development.
• Architecture and SDLC Execution: Lead the design and delivery of secure, scalable Salesforce solutions. Hands‑on duties span requirements gathering, secure coding standards, unit/integration testing, and solution documentation.
• Release Management and Deployments: Drive configuration management and version control for Salesforce metadata. Oversee deployment pipelines, release strategies, and environment alignment.
• Modernization and Lifecycle Management: Lead efforts to refactor technical debt, sunset obsolete components (e.g., migrating legacy automations and Visualforce to modern Flow and LWC), and align architecture with enterprise standards.
• Operational Support and Maintenance: Oversee tier‑3 Salesforce support, ranging from complex bug resolution to major feature enhancements and application rollouts.
• Cross‑Functional Collaboration: Partner effectively across matrixed teams, mentor Senior Salesforce Developers, lead remediation efforts, and navigate organizational protocols to align engineering resources.
• Qualifications and Scope: Bring all core capabilities of a Senior Salesforce Developer, paired with proven architectural experience in enterprise‑level strategic planning and cross‑departmental alignment.

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

• Minimum of seven (7) years in a Salesforce Developer or Architect role.
• 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.

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

• The Salesforce Platform Developer II certification or at least two Salesforce Architect certifications (e.g., Platform Integration Architect, Platform Data Architect, Platform Sharing and Visibility Architect).
• (Preferred) Experience working in a Salesforce Public Sector Solutions (PSS)/Agentforce Public Sector org is highly desirable.

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.

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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The State of Colorado strives to create a Colorado for All by building and maintaining workplaces that value and respect all Coloradans through a commitment to equal opportunity and hiring based on merit and fitness. The State is resolute in non-discriminatory practices in everything we do, including hiring, employment, and advancement opportunities.

The Governor's Office of Information Technology is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, our agency will assist individuals who have a disability with any reasonable accommodation requests related to employment, including completing the applicationprocess, interviewing, completing any pre‑employment testing, participating in theemployee selection process, and/or to perform essential job functions where the requestedaccommodation does not impose an undue hardship. If you have a disability and requirereasonable accommodation to ensure you have a positive experience applying or interviewingfor this position, please direct your inquiries to our ADA Coordinator at [e-mail] or call [phone].

This posting may be used to fill multiple vacancies based upon business need.

The Governor's Office of Information Technology does NOT offer sponsored Visas for employment purposes.