IT Program / Senior Project Manager

Company Description

Integres, LLC is a Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) which 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 which 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 which 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

IT Program / Senior Project Manager
Client: Minnesota Department of Information Technology Services (MNIT), partnering with the Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC)
Job Type: Full-Time
Location: Minnesota / Remote

We are seeking an experienced IT Program / Senior Project Manager to support the Minnesota Department of Information Technology Services (MNIT) in partnership with the Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC).

The selected professional will lead a complex, high-visibility technology project and will be responsible for providing strong program and project leadership from planning and initiation through implementation and closeout.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide overall program and senior-level project management for a complex MNIT/DOC technology initiative.
• Lead project planning, initiation, execution, monitoring, control, and closure activities.
• Establish and maintain project scope, schedule, milestones, dependencies, deliverables, and resource plans.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans and ensure activities remain aligned with established timelines.
• Coordinate and manage cross-functional teams consisting of technical, business, operational, vendor, and other project stakeholders.
• Serve as a primary point of contact for project-related coordination, communication, status, and escalation.
• Facilitate project meetings, working sessions, stakeholder discussions, and executive-level reviews as required.
• Track project progress against approved baselines and communicate status, accomplishments, issues, risks, and upcoming activities.
• Identify, document, assess, and proactively manage project risks, issues, assumptions, constraints, and dependencies.
• Develop mitigation and contingency strategies and escalate significant risks or issues appropriately.
• Manage project deliverables and ensure they are completed, reviewed, approved, and delivered on schedule.
• Coordinate requirements, decisions, action items, and dependencies across business and technical teams.
• Monitor project resources and support appropriate allocation of people, time, and other project resources.
• Manage project changes through appropriate change-control processes, including scope, schedule, resource, and priority changes.
• Maintain project documentation, including project plans, status reports, meeting materials, risk/issue logs, decision logs, action items, and other required artifacts.
• Provide regular and accurate project status reporting to MNIT/DOC leadership and other stakeholders.
• Identify project-level conflicts and facilitate resolution among stakeholders and delivery teams.
• Ensure project activities follow applicable MNIT/DOC policies, procedures, standards, and governance requirements.
• Support coordination with vendors, contractors, and other external partners when applicable.
• Monitor project quality and ensure deliverables meet established requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Coordinate testing, implementation, transition, and deployment activities as required by the project.
• Support organizational change, communications, training, and transition activities where applicable.
• Maintain clear communication across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Provide senior-level guidance and recommendations to project stakeholders and leadership.
• Ensure timely escalation of issues that could affect project scope, schedule, budget, quality, or successful delivery.
• Perform other project and program management activities necessary to support successful completion of the initiative.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in IT project/program management, with demonstrated responsibility for managing complex technology initiatives.
• Strong experience leading projects involving multiple teams, stakeholders, systems, and dependencies.
• Demonstrated experience managing project scope, schedule, risks, issues, resources, dependencies, and deliverables.
• Experience developing and maintaining detailed project plans and project management documentation.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, including the ability to work effectively with technical teams, business users, vendors, and leadership.
• Experience facilitating meetings, driving action items, resolving issues, and maintaining project momentum.
• Strong analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and multiple workstreams in a complex environment.
• Experience producing executive-level and project-level status reports.
• Strong understanding of standard IT project management methodologies, governance, and change-control practices.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with state government, public-sector, or other government IT organizations.
• Previous experience supporting MNIT, Minnesota state agencies, or the Minnesota Department of Corrections (DOC).
• Experience managing large or complex enterprise technology programs.
• Experience working in environments with formal project governance, oversight, and reporting requirements.
• Experience coordinating third-party vendors, contractors, and implementation partners.
• PMP certification or equivalent formal project-management credential.
• Experience with Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid project delivery methodologies.
• Familiarity with state government IT standards, processes, and governance frameworks.

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.