Senior Delivery Engineer: Public Sector Tech Leader

State of Colorado; Colorado; On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

State of Colorado's Governor's Office of Information Technology is seeking a Senior Delivery Engineer to help build the next generation of public services. You will work in cross-functional pod teams partnering with agencies to design, deliver, and continuously improve services for Coloradans.

The role focuses on evaluating architectures, leading technology decisions, aligning with enterprise patterns, and translating security baselines into practical guidance for agencies.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of modern software architecture patterns, including cloud-native design, APIs, microservices, data architecture and integration.

Responsibilities

• 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. 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
• Serve as a technical advisor during complex production issues, helping the IT Director and agency leadership understand the nature and severity of the problem.
• 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.
• Participate in user testing and demos of vendor-delivered work to evaluate whether technical solutions meet functional requirements and architectural standards.
• Partner with Sr Service Designer to ensure architectural decisions don't negatively impact the interface or user journey.

Skills

Software architecture

APIs

Microservices

Data architecture

Job description

State of Colorado's Governor's Office of Information Technology is seeking a Senior Delivery Engineer to help build the next generation of public services. You will work in cross-functional pod teams partnering with agencies to design, deliver, and continuously improve services for Coloradans.

The role focuses on evaluating architectures, leading technology decisions, aligning with enterprise patterns, and translating security baselines into practical guidance for agencies.