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# Technical Program Manager

- **Company:** Kunai
- **Location:** Chicago, IL, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Confluence, JIRA, Software Engineering, Legacy Systems
- **Published:** October 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/16_1aeb5a18

## About the Role

* 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, * 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

## 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