Principal Data Operations Engineer; Remote from in Colorado

Overview

Principal Data Operations Engineer – a term limited position with a two‑year anticipated end date. The role is eligible for state employee benefits and may be extended as needed. This position provides platform and application administration, configuration management, user management, security, patching and upgrades, source code control, deployment, release management, and operational support ranging from minor bug fixes to major enhancements.

The role involves collaboration across departments to establish efficient data and integration services and manage vendor interactions.

• Consult with Data and Integrations Architects, Principal Developers and other Data Operations and OIT team members to maintain and enhance existing platforms in line with OIT strategies such as API‑Led Connectivity, Cloud First, Mobile First and Secure Colorado.
• Perform platform administration and support for applications within Data Operations.
• Work with Data Architects, Data Engineers and Integration Developers on data ingestion, transformation and presentation tasks and scripts, including automation.
• Establish automation of manual processes, including code deployment and environment provisioning.
• Act as the Tier‑2 escalation point for on‑call/break‑fix efforts to diagnose and resolve incidents and problems within the Data Operations portfolio.
• Collaborate with Sec Ops resources to ensure network security policy is established in a consistent, repeatable, and automated manner.
• Coordinate with Business Analysts, customers, project managers and others to assist in creating estimates and timelines.
• Perform coding (in‑house applications) or configuration management (COTS applications) following standards and best practices, and minimize defects through disciplined unit testing.
• Coordinate release updates and other system changes, contribute to break/fix solutions, and update documentation and configuration information throughout the lifecycle.
• Organize, build, and validate all segments of the code and configurations related to a specific release through CI/CD pipelines.
• Ensure application maintenance and configuration activities adhere to established service portfolio policies, procedures, standards and guidelines.
• Identify and recommend changes to application and platform policies, processes, templates and SOPs to improve overall service quality.

• Seven (7) years of experience as a data engineer, Dev Ops engineer, or similar software engineering role.
• One year of experience designing, building, implementing, and maintaining data and system integrations using dimensional data modeling and development, and optimization of ETL pipelines.
• Experience with MS Azure Dev Ops CI/CD, Terraform and Python.
• Additional appropriate education may substitute for required experience on a year‑for‑year basis.

• Domain expertise on platforms used for the State Strategy for Data Sharing and Integrations – Snowflake, Informatica, Tableau.
• Experience with columnar and relational database technologies such as MS SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, or others.
• Familiarity with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Experience using Azure Dev Ops and source code management tools such as TFS or Git.
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining robust ETL pipelines to ingest disparate data from diverse agency platforms, including legacy mainframes, relational databases, web APIs and flat‑file storage into a data warehouse.
• Experience maintaining compliance with PHI, PII, HIPAA standards and state‑level data‑sharing protocols.
• Well versed in working with large, complex, inflexible datasets.
• Experience in healthcare data standards such as Medicaid/CHIP data, eligibility systems, and claims data.

OIT employees must comply with all screening procedures at the state agency locations where work may be performed, including pre‑employment background checks and post‑employment checks that may involve polygraph, fingerprint‑based criminal history, reference checks, and a drug test. The position may require travel within the specified geographic area and across the state, and on‑call duties. Remote work must be performed in Colorado;

candidates selected must relocate and reside in Colorado on the first day of employment.

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 Governor's Office of Information Technology is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. Individuals with a disability may request reasonable accommodation throughout the employment process.

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