Technical Program Manager

Kunai, part of the PwC Network; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Professional development opportunities

Flexible work arrangements

Job summary

Kunai, part of the PwC Network, seeks a seasoned program manager to lead legacy retirement, remediation, and migration efforts within a large payments platform program. You will partner with engineering, architecture, security, and compliance teams to define scope, sequence work, and keep migrations on track.

You will manage risks and dependencies, translate complex technical details for leaders, and drive plans, milestones, and documentation to live deployments.

Qualifications

• 7+ years experience running technical programs involving migration, modernization, or retirement.
• Experience in payments, banking, or regulated financial services environments.
• Familiarity with cloud migration concepts and target infrastructure (AWS or similar).
• Working knowledge of Agile delivery practices and tools like JIRA and Confluence.
• Ability to manage risk, dependencies, and stakeholder communication across multiple workstreams.
• Clear communicator who translates technical detail for engineers and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Manage a portfolio of legacy application retirement and migration projects across a payments platform program.
• Work with engineering and architecture teams to define disposition paths: retire, remediate, or migrate.
• Build and maintain project plans, timelines, and dependency maps across concurrent workstreams.
• Identify risks and blockers early, and drive them to resolution with stakeholders.
• Track progress against milestones and report status to program leadership and clients.
• Coordinate across engineering, infrastructure, security, and compliance teams to keep migrations on track.
• Facilitate program-level ceremonies and maintain documentation of decisions and progress.
• Flag scope or timeline changes early and adjust plans accordingly.

Skills

Technical program management

Stakeholder communication

Risk management

Agile delivery

Cloud migration

Payments domain experience

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or higher in technology

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

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.

You’ll help drive the retirement, remediation, and migration of legacy applications across a large payments platform program, working closely with engineering teams to define scope, sequence the work, and keep it moving. This is client-facing engagement work with a leading professional services firm, where the systems you help modernize actually go live.

What You’ll Do

• Manage a portfolio of legacy application retirement and migration projects across a payments platform program
• Work with engineering and architecture teams to define disposition paths for legacy systems: retire, remediate, or migrate to new infrastructure
• Build and maintain project plans, timelines, and dependency maps across multiple concurrent workstreams
• 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 running technical programs involving application migration, modernization, or retirement, ideally at scale
• Comfort working directly with engineering teams on technical scoping and sequencing, even if you’re not writing the code yourself
• Experience in payments, banking, 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