Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The AES Group is a premier technology consulting company that has been delivering innovative technology solutions for over 20 years. They are seeking a seasoned Technical Program Manager to drive the execution of a platform modernization initiative, managing dependencies and ensuring the program stays on track across multiple engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Own the integrated program plan for the platform modernization, spanning architecture, engineering, data, infrastructure, and testing workstreams
- Define and manage program milestones, critical path dependencies, and delivery commitments across multiple engineering squads
- Translate technical architecture decisions and engineering constraints into program-level impacts on scope, schedule, and risk
- Drive technical discovery sessions, architecture reviews, and workstream planning to maintain program momentum
- Partner closely with Engineering Leads, Architects, and Product Managers to ensure technical strategy is reflected in the delivery roadmap
- Identify, track, and actively manage technical risks, blockers, and cross-team dependencies
- Develop and maintain risk registers and mitigation plans, escalating to senior leadership when program health is at risk
- Proactively identify sequencing conflicts and integration risks across workstreams and drive resolution
- Coordinate with vendors, infrastructure providers, and third-party partners where applicable
- Provide executive-level program reporting on progress, milestones, risks, and decisions required
- Establish and run program governance forums including steering committees, working groups, and engineering sync rhythms
- Communicate program status and impacts to business stakeholders across Product, Operations, and Customer Success
- Maintain a clear RAID log (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) and ensure timely resolution
- Coordinate across multiple engineering teams working on concurrent modernization workstreams, ensuring alignment on shared services, APIs, and data contracts
- Facilitate cross-team planning ceremonies (program increment planning, dependency mapping, retrospectives)
- Work with QA, Security, and Compliance teams to ensure the modernization meets quality, security, and regulatory requirements
- Coordinate cutover planning, migration sequencing, and legacy system decommission activities
- Implement and maintain program dashboards, roadmaps, and reporting frameworks that provide real-time visibility into program health
- Drive adoption of program management standards across engineering teams participating in the modernization
- Maintain comprehensive program documentation including architecture decision records (ADRs), runbooks, and migration playbooks
Skills
- 7+ years of Technical Program Management experience in software engineering or platform/infrastructure organizations
- Direct, hands-on experience managing large-scale platform modernization, legacy migration, or re-architecture programs
- Strong technical background able to engage substantively with engineering teams on architecture, APIs, data models, and infrastructure concepts without requiring translation
- Proven ability to manage programs with 5+ concurrent workstreams, multiple engineering teams, and complex interdependencies
- Experience with cloud infrastructure modernization (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and cloud-native architectural patterns (microservices, event-driven, containers/Kubernetes)
- Proficiency with engineering program management tools: Jira, Confluence, Smartsheet, or equivalent
- Excellent executive communication skills with demonstrated experience presenting program status to C-suite and VP-level stakeholders
- Strong facilitation skills for cross-team planning, dependency resolution, and technical decision-making forums
- Experience with SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) or other enterprise agile program management frameworks
- Background in data platform modernization, API gateway migration, or service mesh adoption
- Experience coordinating DevSecOps practices and security/compliance requirements within modernization programs
- Familiarity with database migration strategies (e.g., lift-and-shift, strangler fig, event sourcing)
- PMP, PgMP, SAFe SPC, or equivalent certification
- Prior experience as a software engineer, solutions architect, or technical lead
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