Salary : $72,264.00 - $82,848.00 Annually
Location : Denver Metro, CO
Job Type: Full Time
Job Number: QAA 06538 07.08.2026
Department: Department of Early Childhood
Opening Date: 07/15/2026
Closing Date: 7/29/2026 11:59 PM Mountain
FLSA: Determined by Position
Type of Announcement: This position is open only to Colorado state residents.
Primary Physical Work Address: 710 S. Ash Street, Denver, CO 80246
FLSA Status: Exempt; position is not eligible for overtime compensation.
Department Contact Information: 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.
Department InformationSTATE OF COLORADO RESIDENCY REQUIRED NOTE: This announcement may be used to fill multiple openings. Colorado Governor Jared Polis is committed to building a Colorado For All, a place where everyone has an opportunity to succeed and live the Colorado way of life. Governor Polis is focused on lowering health care costs for hardworking Coloradans, transitioning the state to renewable energy sources, ensuring every Colorado child gets a quality education, and building an economy that works for everyone.
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.
We offer a generous benefits package including:
11 paid holidays per year plus vacation and sick leave
Medical, dental, and vision plans
State paid life insurance policy
Choice of 2 retirement plans (defined benefit or defined contribution)
Optional 401(k) and 457 plans
State paid short-term disability coverage
Additional optional life and disability plans
Credit Union membership
Training and professional development
To learn more about State of Colorado benefits visit:
Some positions may qualify for the
Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program. For more information, go to This position will have the opportunity for a hybrid schedule (combination of in-office and remote workplace). **Please note - equipment provisioning and certain onboarding tasks will take place in person, in our Denver office, on the first day of employment.**
The Colorado Department of Early Childhood (CDEC) ensures the delivery of a comprehensive, community-informed, data-driven, high-quality, and equitable early childhood system that supports the care, education and well-being of all Colorado's young children, their families and early childhood professionals in all settings. CDEC provides access to collaborative, coordinated, quality early childhood programs and support to children, families, and early care professionals in an effort to best prepare Coloradans for future success. CDEC works with many partners, including parents, schools, child care providers, Early Childhood Councils, counties, Community Centered Boards, early intervention service providers, family resources centers, county human services, county public health, businesses, community organizations, and other stakeholders to provide high-quality early childhood and family support programs.
Business Operations, Innovation, Technology, & Security (BITS) has 4 crucial teams responsible for the entire agency technology portfolio. The 4 teams manage CDEC's information technology, infrastructure, operations, projects, & enterprise applications. BITS coordinates daily with all of CDEC, the Governor's Office of Information Technology (OIT), and technology service providers in support of the CDEC Mission. Our vision is to be the most tech-forward, user-centric agency in the State of Colorado by identifying, implementing, and managing solutions that are sustainable, interoperable, & secure
The
Technology team is focused on managing CDEC's enterprise applications & systems. This is achieved through a balance of application management, operational support, service delivery, and continuous enhancement. The Technology team has 2 work units:
Operations & Service. The Operations team is responsible for system administration and all day-to-day operations. The Service team is responsible for ticketing, triaging, troubleshooting, and the service delivery to the end user.
Technology supports the CDEC mission through the management of the primary mediums of CDEC's service delivery. These are critical applications that ultimately allow CDEC to execute its goals, outcomes, & objectives. While the individual goals are often driven by individual programs, this team holds the significant responsibility of understanding how each part of the CDEC enterprise infrastructure fits in, impacts, and influences the entire technological ecosystem. All decisions, actions, and solutions executed by the Technology team shall be sustainable, interoperable, & secure.
Technology's primary customer & end user is the recipient of the service being delivered through the enterprise solution. Their primary partners are Product, Program Delivery, & OIT. The inseparable relationship between the Technology & Product teams shall be viewed as 2 sides of the same coin. Both of these teams are primarily focused on the end user - Technology is focused on achieving the desired outcome for the end user and Product is focused on achieving the best possible experience for the end user.
Description of JobClass Code & Class Description:H1D4XX Data Management IV
This position is an experienced Salesforce administrator that acts as the system and operational subject matter expert (SME). In addition, this position manages & monitors the overall health and performance of the application. This position leads the analysis, deployment, uptime, operation, security, and configuration of the technology system and related components to ensure optimal performance. This position is expected to champion and utilize both Agile and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) methodologies throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
In addition, the position interfaces with the Colorado Child Care Assistance Program (CCCAP) program management, the TechOps Supervisor, TechSer Supervisor, TechDev Manager, BITS Director, OIT, and technology vendors.
What you'll be doing:- Configure, operate, and administer systems in a manner that ensures smooth, ongoing availability for end users
- Create, evaluate, and submit user stories and/or business requirements related to using, administering, and configuring the application
- Support the quality assurance process; contribute to the development of test plans; coordinating and leading test efforts, including internal and external user participation in the test effort; communicating with stakeholders on the progress of the test effort
- Lead technical planning and work sessions with internal and external stakeholders, product managers and owners, and other technologists to support operations, maintenance, & defect resolution. Identify and propose enhancement needs.
- Coordinate with the Data, Strategy, & Impact (DSI) team in defining, documenting, developing, and implementing secure and streamlined data management processes.
- Maintain System Administrator Documentation, including Procedurals, Configurations, Maintenance Logs, Network Maps Standard Operating Protocols (SOPs), Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP), & Technology Plan Workbook (TPW)
- Serve as the liaison between TechDev, TechSer, CCCAP Program, & vendors
- Develop test scripts and lead code testing efforts prior to deployment, including security, user acceptance testing (UAT), American Disability (ADA) and/or Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), and regression. Ensure quality data by defining, testing, and performing data loads. Communicate any concerns prior to deployment to minimize regression and maximize user experience.
- Support sandbox environment operations by developing and maintaining an environment refresh and data obfuscation plan to conduct environment refresh activities.
- In partnership with TechDev, deploy tested and accepted code to production environments.
- Implement and maintain operation configuration changes, maintenance, & defect resolution including validations and process automation to ensure data quality and integrity.
- Collaborate with TechDev to build and maintain integrations with other platforms.
- Maintain application security model, including configuration for user access and security settings according to the Office of Information Technology (OIT) Colorado Information Security Policies (CISPs) and team norms
- Implement, execute, and monitor role-based application access control (RBAC) processes including ensuring appropriate access aligned with best practices to achieve all security & experience metrics
- Implement and manage system monitoring of all health & performance metrics.
- In partnership with TechSer, manage user and software licenses, including user setup/deactivation and license use
- Review user issues, analyze available information, & identify problems. In partnership with Product, TechDev, & TechSer, develop, propose, implement, and manage solutions.
- Other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications, Substitutions, Conditions of Employment & Appeal Rights Minimum Qualifications:Experience Only:- Seven years of current Salesforce systems administration experience. At least two years of experience must be heavily focused on the following:
- Managing Salesforce lower environments (Sandboxes), data masking and deploying configurations via CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub)
- Performing tier 2/3 technical triage to isolate, root-cause, and resolve data flow failures between Salesforce and integrated external systems or middleware
Education and Experience:- Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration or a closely related field AND three (3) years of current Salesforce systems administration experience. At least two of the three years of experience must be heavily focused on the following:
- Managing Salesforce lower environments (Sandboxes), data masking and deploying configurations via CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub)
- Performing tier 2/3 technical triage to isolate, root-cause, and resolve data flow failures between Salesforce and integrated external systems or middleware
Please note: The required experience must be substantiated within the work experience section of your application and in the supplemental questions. Your resume will not be reviewed to determine if you meet the minimum qualifications; only the work experience section and supplemental questions of your application will be reviewed to determine this. "See Resume" statements on the application will not be accepted. In addition,
part-time work will be prorated. Substitutions: - Additional appropriate experience will substitute for the degree requirement on a year-for-year basis.
- Additional appropriate education will substitute for the required experience on a year-for-year basis.
Skills-Based Hiring Competencies:- Building complex Salesforce Flows, validation rules and custom objects without writing Apex code
- Troubleshooting data flows between Salesforce, MuleSoft, AWS, Heroku and Postgres databases
- Managing Salesforce lower environments (Sandboxes), data masking and deploying configurations via CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub)
- Translating high-level business requests into technical requirements, preventing custom-code bloat and validating the work of external vendors
- Tier 2/3 technical triage, reducing cognitive/administrative overhead for end-users and empathetic stakeholder communication
Preferred qualifications:- Salesforce Administrator certification (Advanced Administrator, Platform App Builder, or Public Sector Solutions preferred)
- Demonstrated experience managing Salesforce within a complex, multi-org, or shared-tenant enterprise environment
- Expertise in advanced declarative automation (e.g., Salesforce Flows, validation rules) to implement business logic without custom code
- Experience troubleshooting data flows between Salesforce and integrated components (e.g., MuleSoft, AWS, Heroku, Postgres)
- Exceptional oral and written communication skills
- Experience developing and coordinating communications associated with change management and Change Advisory Board (CAB) reviews
- Demonstrated experience overseeing and validating the work of technology vendors and internal QA teams that support Salesforce applications
- Demonstrated experience with customer/stakeholder relationship management, applying empathy to synthesize needs from diverse stakeholder groups
- Proficiency in G Suite, including Gmail, Chat, Calendar, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Forms
- Demonstrated experience with CI/CD deployment pipelines, version control, and lower environment (Sandbox) data masking protocols
- Experience utilizing Agile software tools such as Jira
- Experience coordinating, developing, and maintaining technology application documentation (e.g., SOPs, data dictionaries, user guides)
- Change management experience implementing new technology application products or features
Highly Desired:- Experience working in or with state government and compliance frameworks (e.g., ADA/WCAG, FedRAMP, security audits)
- Project Management experience
- Able to perform under pressure and triage high-severity incidents
- Analytical and solution-oriented with a focus on reducing administrative and cognitive overhead for users
- Collaborative
- Comfortable with highly scrutinized public-facing work products
- Curious
- Emotionally intelligent
- Exceptional attention to detail
- Flexible
- Independent and self-directed
DEFINITION OF PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:Work that involves exercising discretion, analytical skill, judgment, and personal accountability, and responsibility for creating, developing, integrating, applying, and sharing an organized body of knowledge that characteristically is uniquely acquired through an intense education or training regimen at a recognized college or university; equivalent to the curriculum requirements for a bachelor's or higher degree with major study in or pertinent to the specialized field; and continuously studied to explore, extend, and use additional discoveries, interpretations, and application and to improve data, materials, equipment, applications and methods.
CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT- Applicants must pass a thorough background check prior to employment.
- Employees who have been disciplinary terminated, resigned in lieu of disciplinary termination, or negotiated their termination from the State of Colorado must disclose this information on the application.
APPEAL RIGHTS:If you receive notice that you have been eliminated from consideration for this position, you may file an appeal with the State Personnel Board or request a review by the State Personnel Director.
An appeal or review must be submitted on the official appeal form, signed by you or your representative. This form must be delivered to the State Personnel Board by email (), postmarked in US Mail or hand delivered (1525 Sherman Street, 4th Floor, Denver CO 80203), or faxed ) within ten (10) calendar days from your receipt of notice or acknowledgement of the department's action.
For more information about the appeals process, the official appeal form, and how to deliver it to the State Personnel Board; go to spb.colorado.gov; contact the State Personnel Board for assistance at ; or refer to 4 Colorado Code of Regulations (CCR) 801-1, State Personnel Board Rules and Personnel Director's Administrative Procedures, Chapter 8, Resolution of Appeals and Disputes, at spb.colorado.gov under Rules.
Supplemental InformationHow to Apply (PLEASE READ CAREFULLY)Please note that ONLY your State of Colorado job application will be reviewed during the initial screening; if you submit a resume and cover letter, they will be reviewed in later stages of the selection process. Therefore, it is paramount that you clearly describe all your relevant experience on the application itself. Applications left blank or marked "SEE RESUME" will not be considered.
Complete Applications must include the following documents:
- A complete CDEC Application for Announced Vacancy (please submit online using the green 'APPLY' button at the top of this announcement)
- A complete Supplemental Questionnaire (The questionnaire is part of the online application. You will be prompted to answer them as you are completing your online application.)
- If you are using education to qualify, a copy of your official or unofficial transcript showing that your degree has been conferred and the name of your school, or your NACES accreditation. Please submit this as an attachment to your online application.
- If you are a veteran, a copy of your DD214. Please submit this as an attachment to your online application.
Your application will be reviewed against the minimum qualifications for the position. If your application demonstrates that you meet the minimum qualifications, you will be invited to the comparative analysis process, which is described below
Comparative Analysis ProcessThe comparative analysis process will consist primarily of a review of applications against the minimum and preferred qualifications of this position. Applications will be reviewed in comparison to all others in the applicant pool in order to identify a top group of candidates who may be invited for a final interview. Depending on the size of the applicant pool, additional selection processes may be utilized to identify a top group of candidates. Applicants will be notified of their status via email.
Failure to submit properly completed documents by the closing date will result in your application being rejected.
The State of Colorado believes that equity, diversity, and inclusion drive our success, and we encourage candidates from all identities, backgrounds, and abilities to apply. The State of Colorado is an equal opportunity employer committed to building inclusive, innovative work environments with employees who reflect our communities and enthusiastically serve them. Therefore, in all aspects of the employment process, we provide employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, medical condition related to pregnancy, creed, ancestry, national origin, marital status, genetic information, or military status (with preference given to military veterans), or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law.
ADAAA Accommodations: The Colorado Department of Early Childhood 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 the Human Resources Business Partner:
The Department
does not offer sponsored visas for employment purposes.
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All positions at the Department require that potential employees undergo a thorough background check. As a condition of employment, you are required to submit to pre-employment screening if offered the position. Are you willing to meet this requirement?
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Are you willing to accept an offer within the posted salary range?
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Former state employees who were disciplinarily terminated or resigned in lieu of termination must disclose the information on the application. In the space below, please provide an explanation as to why the prior termination or resignation should NOT disqualify your application from the current position. Otherwise, please list N/A.
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If you are a current or previous State of Colorado employee, please provide your EID (employee identification number will start with 99....), and please list your dates of employment and classifications for all State of Colorado Departments or institutes of Higher Education for which you have worked.
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This position has been designated as hybrid. The Hiring Manager will discuss the expectations and details of the schedule with you during the interview process. A hybrid position can work a portion of the time from home and a portion of the time in the state workplace location. A workspace is provided for the employee when they come into the office, which could include a cubicle, office, or hoteling station. When required to come into the assigned state workplace, the employee is required to bear the expense of commuting. Do you understand this expectation and are you willing to meet this requirement? (Please write "YES" in the space below in order to continue in the selection process.)
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List any additional relevant experience you would like us to consider in determining if you meet the qualifications of this position. Please, include the months and years relevant to the experience you describe.
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Tell us about a time you had to troubleshoot a data sync or integration failure between Salesforce and an external system (such as an external database, middleware, or third-party app). Walk us through your root-cause analysis and resolution process
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We strongly prioritize native, declarative Salesforce configurations (like Flows) over custom programmatic code. Describe a situation where a stakeholder, developer, or external vendor proposed a highly custom solution (like Apex), but you advocated for a declarative approach. How did you handle the pushback, and what was the outcome?
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