Senior AI Program Manager, Cross‑Functional Delivery

Ciandt; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

CI&T in Plano, Texas, is seeking an experienced Program Manager for a 6‑month engagement. You will lead a cross‑functional team across engineering, data, and product, driving delivery with Azure DevOps and SAFe practices.

The role requires global collaboration and stakeholder alignment to meet strategic milestones. The position involves a 4‑day per week on‑site presence at client offices in Plano, with opportunities to expand to multiple initiatives as projects scale.

Qualifications

• 8–10+ years of program management experience.
• Proven ability to manage 2+ programs concurrently at different delivery cycles.
• Experience deploying vendor products across supply chain and GTM functions.
• Led cross-functional teams across product, engineering, data and infra.
• Mentor and elevate project managers or scrum masters.

Responsibilities

• Lead a cross-functional team of 5–10 across engineering, data, and product.
• Manage deliverables, timelines, and dependencies using ADO.
• Prioritize and maintain the backlog aligned to business goals.
• Identify risks and mitigation strategies throughout the lifecycle.
• Translate goals into actionable work packages and roadmaps.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to refine milestones and deliverables.
• Initially run one program with potential to scale to multiple initiatives.
• Coordinate sprint and release progress and reporting.

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional lead

Azure DevOps

Agile SAFe

Stakeholder mgmt

Cloud services

Data platforms

DevOps/SRE

Team mentoring

Kafka CI/CD

Tools

Azure DevOps

AKS

Kafka

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

CI&T in Plano, Texas, is seeking an experienced Program Manager for a 6‑month engagement. You will lead a cross‑functional team across engineering, data, and product, driving delivery with Azure DevOps and SAFe practices.

The role requires global collaboration and stakeholder alignment to meet strategic milestones. The position involves a 4‑day per week on‑site presence at client offices in Plano, with opportunities to expand to multiple initiatives as projects scale.