Program Manager – Agentic AI-Augmented .NET Modernization

Program Manager – Agentic AI-Augmented .NET Modernization

Location: Austin, TX (Hybrid)

MUST-HAVE REQUIREMENTS

• 12+ years of IT delivery experience, including 6+ years as a Program Manager or Senior Project Manager.

• Experience managing large-scale programs involving multiple teams, budgets of $5M+ or 30+ team members, and executive-level stakeholder accountability.

• Proven experience delivering application modernization, replatforming, or cloud migration programs.

• Strong expertise in integrated program planning, critical-path analysis, dependency management, resource planning, budgeting, forecasting, risk management, and governance.

• Working knowledge of .NET, Microsoft Azure, microservices, and CI/CD.

• Experience managing AI-assisted software development initiatives and measuring productivity, delivery speed, and quality improvements.

• Strong experience with Agile, hybrid delivery models, release management, change control, and executive stakeholder communication.

• PMP, PgMP, SAFe Program Consultant, or equivalent certification/experience.

PREFERRED / NICE-TO-HAVE

• Experience modernizing legacy .NET Framework applications to .NET 10+.

• Hands-on program delivery exposure to Azure services, including App Services, Functions, Service Bus, Cosmos DB, API Management, and Azure DevOps.

• Experience with Azure OpenAI Service or enterprise agent-based architectures.

• Wealth management or financial services technology experience.

• Consulting or professional services delivery experience.

• Exposure to React, micro-frontends, and DevSecOps.

• Experience with Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, and Power BI.

• Advanced certifications such as PgMP, SAFe Release Train Engineer, or Azure certifications.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own the integrated modernization program plan, including scope, milestones, dependencies, critical path, release roadmap, and change control.

• Establish governance processes, steering committees, delivery reviews, RAID logs, decision tracking, and escalation mechanisms.

• Manage budgets, forecasts, resource allocation, team capacity, vendor performance, and commercial changes.

• Identify and mitigate technical, delivery, security, compliance, and resourcing risks.

• Coordinate architecture, engineering, QA, DevOps, product, security, and change management teams to ensure predictable delivery.

• Partner with technical leadership on sprint planning, release readiness, quality gates, cutover, go-live, rollback, and hypercare.

• Integrate AI-assisted coding, code review, test generation, and pipeline orchestration into delivery practices; track measurable productivity and quality improvements.

• Communicate program status, business outcomes, risks, and decisions to executive stakeholders while driving user adoption, data migration, and legacy system decommissioning.

OTHER REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor's degree in a technical or business discipline, or equivalent experience.

• Ability to manage complex, client-facing enterprise programs and communicate effectively with executive stakeholders.

• Hybrid work arrangement in Austin, TX.