[Hiring] Technical Program Manager @Kunai

Role Description

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.

• 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

Qualifications

• 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

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Professional development opportunities
• Flexible work arrangements

Company Description

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 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.

Requirements

• 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