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# Enterprise Practice Lead (Engineering) (Remote From Anywhere In Colorado)

- **Company:** The State Of Colorado
- **Location:** Denver, CO, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $115,000.0 - $145,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Software as a Service, Software Quality, Code Review, Technical Debt, Cloud Optimization, GXP
- **Published:** June 1, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=d437227d8002c315

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Vendor quality assurance?

## Description

when evaluated without writing the code yourself.Knowledge of OIT Enterprise Architecture standards: approved technology patterns, reference architectures, cloud strategy, integration standards, and security baselines, and how all of these translate into practical engineering decisions at the agency level.Knowledge of build/buy/SaaS evaluation: how to assess vendor proposals, commercial off-the-shelf options, and custom development tradeoffs in government contexts, including what technical language belongs in SOOs and evaluation criteria, and how to structure evaluations that produce defensible decisions.Knowledge of software quality assessment: how to conduct meaningful technical reviews of vendor work through code reviews, sprint demos, and technical documentation. As 18F's de-risking guide states, the government must have specific employees equipped to inspect delivered code at the end of every sprint.Knowledge of security and compliance fundamentals sufficient to set
engineering standards that embed security by design, and to identify when a CISO or security team engagement is needed.Knowledge of career pathway design for engineers: how to build a technical promotional track that rewards deep engineering expertise and doesn't force engineers into management to advance. This is a gap that GDS's framework explicitly addresses through its senior-to-head of engineering progression.Ability to lead through technical credibility. Engineering standards get adopted when Delivery Engineers trust that the Enterprise Lead has done the work and understands their constraints, rather than because compliance is required.Ability to balance standardization and judgment. Not every agency context is identical. Hold universal craft standards while recognizing that good engineering decisions require judgment about specific constraints, legacy environments, and the delivery phase.Ability to keep standards aligned to EA without becoming an EA proxy.
Surface systemic technical issues upward; don't become a gatekeeper or approval layer. The guild's job is craft, not governance.Ability to make the technical promotional track real. Engineers need to see that deep expertise is valued. The Enterprise Lead demonstrates through the career pathway and the guild's culture that craft is a legitimate and respected path.Ability to build a culture of quality under pressure. Vendor delivery timelines, inherited technical debt, and legacy constraints push against good engineering practice. The Enterprise Lead makes quality feel like professional pride, not bureaucratic compliance.


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