Technical Lead (Application Portfolio Assessment & Modernization Strategy)

Company Description

Integres, LLC is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) that was established to provide high-quality, insightful, agile information technology-based solutions to its customers. Integrity is a foundational element of everything we strive to do. We seek to develop solutions that respond to the evolving challenges that today’s organizations face using our own unique combination of industry best practices and evolving techniques and technologies. We started Integres with the intent of building "a company with a soul." As such, we take a servant-leadership approach as the long-term strategy for our success. We are cultivating a corporate family culture that demands excellence and accountability while putting a premium on work/life balance.  We empower and support our employees to contribute to achieving our corporate goals by interacting with our customers as true partners, rather than treating their engagement as just another job.  We seek to be good corporate citizens and encourage and promote employee participation in community and volunteer work.

Job Description

The Technical Lead will serve as the primary architect and technical analyst for assessing the current 52-application School Finance system portfolio. This role leads the technical evaluation of legacy applications, integrations, data flows, security posture, and system risks—and develops modernization options and recommendations as required by the STAMPS project.

This role requires deep technical expertise in enterprise architectures, system modernization patterns, integration frameworks, and application lifecycle evaluation. The Technical Lead will also produce technical artifacts for MDE’s modernization roadmap and benchmarking analysis.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the technical assessment of all 52 applications, including:

• architecture reviews
• technology stack evaluation
• end-of-life (EOL) identification
• security and supportability risk scoring
• technical debt analysis
• performance & scalability considerations

• Develop and maintain the application health and risk matrix.
• Analyze system interdependencies, upstream/downstream integrations, and data exchanges.
• Create architecture diagrams that visually represent portfolio complexity and integration points.
• Identify consolidation or simplification opportunities to reduce MNIT operational load
• Develop replatform, replace, consolidate, or retire options for each application.
• Provide technical recommendations aligned with modernization goals, including security, maintainability, and cost.
• Evaluate feasibility considerations such as cloud readiness, API opportunities, and modernization blockers.
• Analyze peer-state education agencies’ modernization strategies (platforms, architectures, governance).
• Identify 3–5 modernization patterns or technology platforms relevant to MDE.
• Contribute to the phased modernization roadmap (timelines, prerequisites, dependencies, and rough order of magnitude estimates).
• Develop technical KPIs and modernization success metrics.
• Validate all technical content in final reports and executive summaries.

Qualifications

• 7 years in enterprise application architecture, modernization strategy, or legacy system transformation.
• Strong understanding of application lifecycle management and modernization methods (modularization, microservices, cloud migration, COTS evaluations, etc.).
• Experience assessing large portfolios of interconnected applications.
• Familiarity with technologies commonly found in state financial systems, such as:

• .NET (including legacy COBOL-translated .NET code)
• SQL Server or similar RDBMS
• batch processing system
• ETL pipeline
• API and integration frameworks
• authentication/authorization framework

• Proven ability to produce architecture diagrams, system maps, and risk/health scoring models.
• Ability to translate technical findings into clear modernization recommendations.
• Experience collaborating with business SMEs, developers, security teams, and infrastructure teams.
• Strong documentation, modeling, and visual communication skills.

Additional Information

Integres offers competitive salaries bolstered by a comprehensive benefits package, which provides safety and security for our employees and their families. Our generous benefits package includes

• Healthcare and Insurance: medical, dental, vision, short- and long-term disability protection, basic life, and AD&D insurance
• 401(k) Savings Plan
• Accrued Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Employee Recognition and Rewards
• Employee Referral Bonuses

Integres is an equal opportunity affirmative-action employer.  We encourage Minority/Female/Protected Veteran/Disabled applicants to apply.  Integres, LLC proactively fulfills its role as an equal opportunity employer.  We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, marital status, physical or mental disability, status as a Disabled Veteran, Recently Separated Veteran, Active Duty Wartime, or Campaign Badge Veteran, Armed Forces services Medal, or any other characteristic protected by law.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.