Enterprise Practice Lead (Delivery Managment) (Remote from anywhere in CO)

Enterprise Practice Lead (Delivery Managment) (Remote from anywhere in CO)

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Salary

$115,000.00 - $145,000.00 Annually

Location

Statewide, CO

Job Type

Full Time

Job Number

EGBPOD

Department

Governor's Office of Information Technology

Opening Date

05/27/2026

Closing Date

6/10/2026 11:59 PM Mountain

FLSA

Determined by Position

Primary Physical Work Address

(Remote from anywhere in CO)

FLSA Status

Exempt; position is not eligible for overtime compensation.

Department Contact Information

View email address on jobs.institutedata.com

Type of Announcement

This announcement is not governed by the selection processes of the classified personnel system. Applications will be considered from residents and non-residents of Colorado.

How To Apply

Please submit an online application for this position at Reach out to the Department Contact to apply using a paper application, including any supplemental questions. Failure to submit a complete and timely application may result in the rejection of your application. Applicants are responsible for ensuring that application materials are received by the appropriate Human Resources office before the closing date and time listed.

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Department Information

Together, we innovate for a stronger Colorado

The work of employees at the Governor's Office of Information Technology (OIT) is challenging and diverse because the needs of agencies, customers and Coloradans constantly evolve. But our focus never changes: improve the lives of all Coloradans through innovation and collaboration. We're building one of the nation's leading government IT organizations by reimagining how we support agencies, building first-of-their-kind applications, and creating an inclusive, collaborative culture, together. Join us in the important work of providing equitable access to services.

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Description of Job

IMPORTANT NOTE: Please review your application to ensure completion. For the most equitable applicant experience, OIT's hiring team considers only the contents of your application to review your qualifications. Please do not include any attachments (such as resume or cover letter) with your application as these items are not used by OIT's hiring team.

The Colorado Governor's Office of Information Technology is in the middle of a transformation worth joining. We're building cross-functional pod teams that partner directly with agencies to design, deliver, and continuously improve services that work for Coloradans. Good government depends on technology that works. And OIT exists to make that true for every Coloradan. The State of Colorado is seeking an Enterprise Practice Lead, Delivery Management to help build the next generation of public services. We're looking for people who want to do the best work of their careers in service of the public.

The Enterprise Practice Lead, Delivery Management owns how delivery is managed across OIT's pods: the standards, procurement playbooks, sprint governance frameworks, and professional community that make every Delivery Manager more capable. Where the Delivery Manager embedded in a pod runs sprint cadence, manages vendor contracts, and keeps delivery moving, the Enterprise Practice Lead builds the infrastructure that makes those things possible at scale.Guilds at OIT enable consistency, quality, and community across a federated team structure. IT Directors (ITDs) are responsible for the people management of their pod of practitioners; Enterprise Practice Leads guide and support the practitioners to deliver good work.This role requires deep fluency in both modern delivery practice and state government procurement. The guild is responsible for one of the hardest transitions in the model: from classical project management (with its Gantt charts, fixed scope, and waterfall habits) toward continuous delivery discipline. 18F's de-risking work makes this case with evidence: only 13% of large government software projects succeed under traditional approaches. Modular procurement, Statements of Objectives, time-and-materials contracting, and empowered product ownership are not just preferences. They are measurably less risky. The Enterprise Practice Lead must know that case deeply and build the playbooks, training, and community that make the transition real rather than nominal.

What you'll do:

• Define what good delivery management practice looks like at each stage of the product lifecycle: discovery, alpha, beta, live, and continuous improvement each have different governance needs, and standards should reflect that.

• Develop and maintain contract templates, SOO frameworks, sprint governance standards, and procurement playbooks aligned to EA-approved vendor and technology guardrails and Colorado acquisition law.

• Build triage frameworks for inherited waterfall contracts: how to categorize them (pre-procurement, mid-flight, stable maintenance) and what transition strategy applies to each, drawing on 18F's de-risking guidance as a reference.

• Identify patterns of delivery management weakness across the portfolio: sprint governance that is nominal rather than real, missing vendor accountability, and unchecked scope creep. Design systemic responses to each.

• Run a delivery management guild: retrospectives on procurement and delivery challenges, shared lessons from vendor management, peer critique of sprint governance approaches, and calibration sessions on what's working and what isn't.

• Develop a career pathway for delivery managers that distinguishes modern delivery competency from classical project management and creates legible growth, drawing on the GDS DDaT framework's delivery manager progression as a reference.

• Build and deliver training programs that embed modern operational standards statewide, focusing on establishing team rhythm, unblocking delivery bottlenecks, creating progress visibility, and utilizing modern procurement practices to de-risk delivery and enforce consistent quality benchmarks.

• Create and maintain shared resources that practitioners can use without starting from scratch, such as sprint governance guides, contract templates, vendor evaluation rubrics, and procurement playbooks.

• Advise ITDs on what strong delivery management practice looks like across sprint governance, vendor accountability, and procurement. Advise on how to give feedback to delivery managers whose craft spans technical, commercial, and process dimensions.

• Distinguish between a practitioner skill gap, a vendor quality problem, and a structural constraint such as inherited contracts that prevent modern delivery approaches or procurement rules that need navigation rather than override, and advise accordingly.

• Surface systemic procurement or governance patterns across pods that point to a policy gap or training need rather than individual performance.

What you bring:

• Knowledge of modern delivery management at a deep practitioner level: agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban), sprint governance, risk and dependency management, vendor accountability in continuous delivery contexts, and how delivery needs shift across the product lifecycle from discovery through live service.

• Knowledge of government procurement and contracting: Statements of Objectives versus Statements of Work, time-and-materials structures with caps, modular procurement strategy, performance-based services contracting, and how to write and manage contracts oriented toward outcomes rather than deliverables, all grounded in the 18F de-risking framework and Colorado state acquisition rules.

• Knowledge of the distinction between classical project management and modern delivery management: why the transition is hard, what habits from waterfall are most resistant to change, and how to design training and standards that address the actual gap rather than just the vocabulary.

• Knowledge of Vendor management in a government delivery context: how to hold vendor teams accountable to working software and outcomes, how to conduct meaningful contract performance reviews, and how to triage inherited fixed-scope contracts toward continuous delivery approaches, including how to categorize and sequence that transition.

• Knowledge of state budget and legislative cycles as they affect technology delivery timelines, contracting structures, and the practical constraints delivery managers navigate.

• Knowledge of career pathway design for delivery managers: how to distinguish modern delivery competency from project coordination, and what a growth path looks like inside this discipline through the lens of the GDS head of delivery management framework.

• Ability to navigate procurement complexity without slowing delivery. Find paths through Colorado acquisition rules that enable iterative contracts and real vendor accountability. Make those paths usable by every Delivery Manager through clear playbooks.

• Ability to resist the gravity of waterfall. The hardest part of this guild's job is helping practitioners unlearn habits that feel safe and familiar. Build a community where modern delivery practice is the norm rather than the exception, backed by evidence.

• Ability to hold accountability standards without micromanagement. Define what good delivery management looks like and advise ITDs on it. Do not insert the guild into pod-level delivery decisions.

• Ability to make procurement accessible. Delivery Managers shouldn't need a legal background to write a good SOO. Translate procurement complexity into playbooks practitioners can use confidently.

• Ability to distinguish processes from overhead. Some delivery governance is essential. Some are habits from a different model. Design standards that add real value and actively prune what doesn't.

Minimum Qualifications, Substitutions, Conditions of Employment & Appeal Rights

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 all offers are compliant with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, there is no guarantee an offer will be at the top of the posted range based on the 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:

• A minimum of five (5) years of experience in the delivery of technology products, which includes working in or leading cross-functional teams using iterative, user-centered methods.

• A track record of working across disciplines - design, engineering, policy, or operations - to ship things that work for real people.

• Additional appropriate education will substitute for the required experience on a year-for-year basis, but cannot completely substitute for these qualifications.

• Additional, appropriate paid or unpaid experience will substitute for the required education on a year-for-year basis.

• 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.

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.

If the minimum qualifications include a degree requirement, additional appropriate paid or unpaid experience will substitute for the required education on a year-for-year basis.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Relevant certifications such as Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), or PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP).

• Proven experience drafting and managing Statements of Objectives (SOOs) and modular procurement contracts within a government or highly regulated environment.

• Deep expertise managing the evolution of team cadences and needs across the entire service life cycle, specifically moving from discovery and alpha phases into live service and continuous improvement.

• Proven experience drafting and managing Statements of Objectives (SOOs) and modular procurement contracts within a government or highly regulated environment.

Conditions of Employment:

OIT employees must comply with any screening procedures in place at state entity locations where they might be required to perform work.

A pre-employment background check will be conducted as part of the selection process.

Positions supporting some agencies such as the Department of Corrections and the Department of Public Safety will also require a pre-employment drug test.

This position may require travel within the specified geographic area, and to locations across the state as needed.

Supplemental Information

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.

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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 View email address on jobs.institutedata.com or call View phone number on jobs.institutedata.com.

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

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