Technical Program Manager

Kunai
United States
Remote

Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have experience managing legacy application retirement and migration in the financial services domain.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 7+ years managing application modernization in regulated financial environments
    — “7+ years experience as a Technical Program Manager running programs involving application engineering, modernization, migration, or retirement”
  • Individuals with technical expertise to engage directly with engineering leads on scoping and sequencing
    — “software engineering background and/or enough technical depth to scope and sequence work directly with engineering teams”
  • Professionals familiar with cloud migration and infrastructure tools like AWS
    — “familiarity with cloud migration concepts and target infrastructure (AWS or similar)”

Things to consider

  • Requires a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in technology for each missing year of college
    — “Bachelor’s Degree, in lieu of a degree, demonstrating in addition to the minimum years of experience required for the role, three years of specialized training and/or progressively responsible work experience in technology for each missing year of college is required”
  • Candidates must be prepared to manage multiple concurrent workstreams and stakeholder groups
    — “Build and maintain project plans, timelines, and dependency maps across multiple concurrent workstreams and products”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience managing legacy systems in regulated financial sectors on your resume
    — “Experience in banking, payments, credit, debit, settlements, or another regulated financial services environment”
  • Showcase your ability to coordinate across engineering, security, and compliance teams
    — “Coordinate across engineering, infrastructure, security, and compliance teams to keep migrations on track”
  • Demonstrate your track record in defining disposition paths for legacy systems
    — “Partner with engineering and architecture teams to define disposition paths for legacy systems”
  • Emphasize your experience in Agile delivery and using tools like JIRA and Confluence
    — “Working knowledge of Agile delivery practices and tools like JIRA and Confluence”
  • Demonstrate your ability to translate technical details to business stakeholders
    — “A clear communicator who can translate technical detail for both engineers and business stakeholders”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • Manage legacy application retirement and migration projects
  • Define disposition paths for legacy systems
  • Coordinate across engineering, infrastructure, security, and compliance teams
Typical background
7+ years experience as a Technical Program Manager

Skills & requirements

Required

Technical Program ManagementLegacy Application RetirementMigrationAgile Delivery Practices

Preferred

Cloud MigrationFinancial ServicesRegulated Industries

Stack & domain

Program ManagementCloud MigrationAgile DeliveryCommunicationProblem SolvingFinanceTechnology

About the role

Original posting from Kunai via Greenhouse

Kunai builds full-stack technology solutions for banks, credit and payment networks, infrastructure providers, and their customers. Together, we are changing the world’s relationship with financial services. At Kunai, we help our clients modernize, capitalize on emerging trends, and evolve their business for the coming decades by remaining tech-agnostic and human-centered.

As part of your first client engagement, you will help drive the retirement, remediation, and migration of legacy applications across a large payments platform program, working closely with engineering teams to define scope and sequence the work.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

Manage a portfolio of legacy application retirement and migration projects across a payments platform program

Partner with engineering and architecture teams to define disposition paths for legacy systems: retire, remediate, or migrate to new infrastructure

Bring a software engineering lens to technical scoping, sequencing, and tradeoff discussions with engineering leads

Build and maintain project plans, timelines, and dependency maps across multiple concurrent workstreams and products

Identify risks and blockers early, and drive them to resolution with the right technical and business stakeholders

Track progress against milestones and report status clearly to program leadership and client stakeholders

Coordinate across engineering, infrastructure, security, and compliance teams to keep migrations on track

Facilitate program-level ceremonies (planning, status reviews, retros) to keep teams aligned

Maintain clear documentation of application disposition decisions and migration progress

Flag scope or timeline changes early and help the team adjust plans accordingly

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

7+ years experience as a Technical Program Manager running programs involving application engineering, modernization, migration, or retirement, ideally leading multiple products or a portfolio in large organizations

Software engineering background and/or enough technical depth to scope and sequence work directly with engineering teams

Exposure to product management, with an understanding of how technical roadmaps connect to product priorities

Experience in banking, payments, credit, debit, settlements, or another regulated financial services environment

Familiarity with cloud migration concepts and target infrastructure (AWS or similar)

Working knowledge of Agile delivery practices and tools like JIRA and Confluence

Experience managing risk, dependencies, and stakeholder communication across multiple workstreams

A clear communicator who can translate technical detail for both engineers and business stakeholders

Organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable keeping several moving parts on track at once

Our success over the past 20 years is rooted in our exceptional team, which thrives in a culture of collaboration, creativity, and continuous learning. 

We are proud to offer our employees a range of benefits, including competitive compensation, professional development opportunities, and flexible work arrangements, all designed to help them thrive. As we continue to expand, we remain committed to cultivating an environment where people feel valued, have a voice, and are given the tools to grow—both personally and professionally—while pushing the boundaries of innovation in the fintech industry.

Minimum Degree Required:

Bachelor’s Degree, in lieu of a degree, demonstrating in addition to the minimum years of experience required for the role, three years of specialized training and/or progressively responsible work experience in technology for each missing year of college is required

Source: Kunai careers (Greenhouse)

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