Principal Developer - OIT Internal (Remote From Anywhere In CO)

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OIT ONLY RECRUITMENT: This recruitment is open only to current employees of the Office of Information Technology for the State of Colorado. Contractors currently engaged at OIT do not qualify as employees.

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We’re looking for a strategic and collaborative Principal Developer to be a top team member in the operations of an applications delivery work unit to drive the modernization and architectural evolution of our enterprise-critical systems.  In this role, you will be the technical cornerstone for our engineering team, guiding the migration of legacy infrastructure to modern, AWS-centric microservice architectures while maintaining high-stakes, data-intensive applications. 

If you are passionate about reducing technical debt, enforcing robust engineering standards, and mentoring developers to elevate code quality, we invite you to lead our efforts in transforming our technology landscape. 

Some of the Key Responsibilities:

• Design and own enterprise microservice architectures, REST API contracts, and AWS-centric modernization strategies across multiple business-critical applications.

• Serve as the primary technical expert for Oracle PL/SQL systems, including complex packages, stored procedures, relational schemas, and data migration workstreams.

• Establish and enforce reusable engineering patterns, coding standards, and modular architecture principles across teams.

• Lead migration efforts from legacy on-premise infrastructure to modern React/microservice stacks.

• Provide architectural validation and issue resolution during production go-lives and high-stakes deployments.

• Lead data migration efforts for large-scale document and structured data sets, including sensitive data types (PII, CJIS).

• Mentor software developers through 1-on-1 coaching, pair programming, code reviews, and technical design discussions.

OIT ONLY RECRUITMENT: This recruitment is open only to current employees of the Office of Information Technology for the State of Colorado. Applications are not accepted from contractors engaged in work for OIT, or any state entity, as contractors are not employees.

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 most salary offers are made within the posted range, occasionally an offer is made below or above the posted range based upon this 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:

• 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

• Minimum of Seven (7) years of progressive software engineering experience.

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. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated expertise in Oracle PL/SQL development, including packages, stored procedures, scheduled jobs, and schema design at enterprise scale.

• Proven experience in modernizing legacy monolithic systems to microservice or cloud-native architectures.

• Strong proficiency in at least two of: C#/.NET, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, React.

• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps or equivalent tooling.

• Working knowledge of AWS services in the context of enterprise application hosting and integration.

• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional engineering teams using Agile/Scrum methodologies.

• Experience in Colorado state government or other public-sector enterprise IT environments.

• Experience with large-scale data migrations involving sensitive data types (PII, CJIS, HIPAA, tax records).

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. 

This position may require on-call duties as needed by the position. 

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.

We know it's important to support each other, and that means having a healthy balance of work and personal time. Visit our benefits to learn more about some of our great offerings that allow us all to have fulfilling lives. 

Visit our How to Apply webpage to learn more about our application process and what to expect after you apply.

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 application process, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, participating in the employee selection process, and/or to perform essential job functions where the requested accommodation does not impose an undue hardship. If you have a disability and require reasonable accommodation to ensure you have a positive experience applying or interviewing for this position, please direct your inquiries to our ADA Coordinator at [email protected] or call (303) 764-7900.

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

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