Project Lead

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 Project Lead will oversee the end-to-end delivery of a large-scale discovery and analysis engagement for the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) and MNIT. This role is responsible for managing schedules, coordinating multidisciplinary teams, ensuring alignment with project milestones, and leading stakeholder engagement across School Finance leadership, business SMEs, MNIT technical teams, and executive audiences.

The Project Lead ensures that the project delivers high-quality assessments, system inventories, benchmarking reports, modernization recommendations, and the strategic roadmap outlined in the STAMPS project deliverables.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the project kickoff, planning activities, and ongoing governance in alignment with the RFP deliverables.
• Develop and maintain the detailed project plan, including methodology, schedule, resources, risks, and dependencies
• Facilitate recurring project status meetings with MDE, MNIT, and vendor team members.
• Maintain the communication plan and ensure visibility to stakeholders at all levels.
• Conduct or oversee up to 15 stakeholder interviews across MDE School Finance, MNIT Engineering, and Operations teams
• Ensure business needs, pain points, compliance requirements, and process complexities are accurately captured and documented
• Prepare executive-ready briefing materials for cabinet, leadership, and legislative audiences.
• Coordinate cross-functional workstreams involved in:

• application inventory
• business process mapping
• dependency mapping
• risk and health assessment
• benchmarking with peer state
• modernization options analysis

• Ensure consistency in artifacts across multiple technical analysts and architects.
• Oversee the creation of all Phase 1 and Phase 2 deliverables, including reports, matrices, architectural maps, modernization roadmaps, and communication materials.
• Validate findings, ensure traceability back to evidence, and ensure deliverables are polished and actionable.
• Identify project risks (e.g., SME availability, data gaps, system access), propose mitigation strategies, and escalate when needed.

Manage scope to ensure compliance with the engagement’s strict discovery-only boundaries and avoid conflicts of interest.

Qualifications

• 7 years of project or program management experience on large-scale IT modernization or enterprise assessment initiatives.
• Experience working with state or federal agencies or similar regulated environments.
• Proven success managing multi-disciplinary teams (business analysts, technical architects, data analysts, UX, etc.).
• Demonstrated ability to produce executive-level deliverables and facilitate workshops with senior leadership.
• Strong understanding of IT landscapes, including legacy systems, custom applications, interfaces, and data flow mapping.
• Experience overseeing system portfolio assessments or large application inventories.
• Familiarity with modernization approaches such as replatforming, consolidation, and replacement strategies.
• Exceptional communication, stakeholder facilitation, and conflict-resolution capabilities.
• Ability to synthesize complex technical information into clear, decision-ready insights for non-technical audiences.
• Highly organized, with demonstrated success managing projects with many moving parts.

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.