[FT, Remote Colorado] Engineering Lead @ Colorado Digital Service
Abigail F
ABOUT THE COLORADO DIGITAL SERVICE
The Colorado Digital Service, a team within the Governor's Office of Information Technology, is supporting the new Behavioral Health Administration. The digital service hires top technologists from diverse backgrounds into term-limited "tours of service," bringing their expertise to help improve the services that millions of Coloradans use. Digital Service Experts mature state agencies’ approach to delivering high-quality products and services to all of Colorado by focusing on people, processes, and technology.
ABOUT THE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
Over one million people in Colorado are in need of behavioral health services. Based on the public testimonies from hundreds of people across the State, there are numerous barriers to access to behavioral healthcare. The current systems are described by individuals as having inconsistent quality, cultural disparities, challenging access, poor accountability, unaffordable to many, disconnected, and difficult to navigate. The Colorado Behavioral Health Administration (BHA) teams are devoted advocates of whole-person health - a concept that is uniquely defined by each person as they navigate their individual lived experiences.
In collaboration with other state agencies, the BHA is accountable for the delivery of all behavioral health services in Colorado. The BHA bestows a streamlined and efficient government approach to support quality care while minimizing the burden on providers so that they can focus on service delivery. The BHA will be responsible for behavioral health policy development and effective collaboration with cross-sector partners working in and around the behavioral health system and along the continuum from prevention to treatment and recovery.
Read more about the BHA here: https://bha.colorado.gov/
ROLE OVERVIEW
As the Engineering, Technical Lead you will contribute to a range of projects across the Behavioral Health Administration technology portfolio. For example, you will guide the technical direction of OwnPath, a public platform that helps Colorado residents navigate their options for behavioral and mental health service providers. Additionally, you will help with products that support providers in listing their service offerings. These projects range from low-maturity technical environments to established products and platforms.
You will advocate for modern software engineering practices, create momentum through incremental improvements to software deployment pipelines, and have expertise in several aspects of software development, such as application and software architecture, security, CI/CD, automated testing, performance optimization, and code refactoring, penetration testing, and database management/migration.
In this Engineering, Technical Lead role you will be working collaboratively in a cross-functional team including skillsets in public policy, product management, user-experience design, and data science. You must be comfortable contributing in a hands-on capacity when needed, as well as consulting and leading others in adopting and improving engineering best practices. You must be committed to a human-centered and data-backed approach to improving public sector technology.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Engineering Leadership
Champion modern software practices on topics such as agile project management, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), infrastructure as code, security, testing, and automation.
Advise and guide on software and application architecture decisions, providing design leadership, modeling, and implementation governance.
Advocate for users with accessibility needs. Champion accessibility to internal and external stakeholders, with knowledge of the best tools and methods to be used when accessibility testing.
Provide clear communication and counsel to a variety of stakeholders, from policymakers to technical subject matter experts.
Build trust with agency partners by doing the work alongside them.
Establish version one of a process or tool implementation to improve engineering quality to demonstrate best practices.
Evaluate emerging technology proposals, either at the inception policy phase, scoping and strategy phase, or acquisition procurement phase.
Development
- Write code, unit tests, and scripts based on user stories, in a version-controlled environment.
- Pair with junior developers to help them develop clean and accessible code that meets the needs of end-users.
- Review pull requests and code from state and vendor developers.
- Contribute to open source code bases and represent the state to open source developers on relevant projects.