IT Engineer, Salesforce & Platform Strategy

🇺🇸 Hybrid - Manhattan, Kansas 🕑 Full-Time 💰 $80K - $105K 💻 Information Technology 🗓️ October 18th, 2026

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Edtech.com's Summary

Kansas State University is hiring an IT Engineer, Salesforce & Platform Strategy for the Kansas Child Care Training Opportunities (KCCTO) team in the College of Health and Human Sciences. The role provides technology leadership for the enterprise platforms behind KCCTO, including Cape, the statewide early childhood workforce registry. It leads a technical team and reports to the Assistant Director of Business Systems.

Highlights

Lead enterprise application architecture, cloud platform design, API architecture, identity integration, and technical solution design.
Ensure solutions align with enterprise architecture standards, cybersecurity controls, scalability, and disaster recovery requirements.
Establish software engineering practices including version control, peer review, automated testing, and release governance to support CI/CD.
Develop and maintain a multi-year technology roadmap aligned with KCCTO priorities, funding constraints, and long-term sustainability.
Supervise platform development and support staff and lead software lifecycle management from design through deployment and maintenance.
Evaluate emerging technologies, cloud services, integration platforms, and AI-enabled capabilities, and take part in state-level governance boards.
Monitor system performance, uptime, adoption, and support metrics, and develop user training and documentation.
Seven years of technology leadership or Salesforce platform experience; hybrid eligible within three hours of Manhattan, KS, at $80,000 to $105,000.