Technical Program Manager, M&A Integration

TCWGlobal • Austin, TX

4d • Remote

About The Position

The Technical Program Manager, M&A Integration leads end-to-end technology integration initiatives following company acquisitions. The role oversees integration planning and execution across IT Operations and Infrastructure, Business Applications, and Data and Analytics Engineering, helping acquired companies transition into the organization’s systems, platforms, and processes with minimal business disruption. The program manager coordinates technical workstreams, supports executive-level decisions, identifies unresolved integration gaps and technical debt, and establishes repeatable frameworks and playbooks for future acquisitions. This is a hands-on program leadership role requiring technical fluency, cross-functional collaboration, and delivery under compressed timelines and evolving priorities.

The role is remote within the United States, with Austin, Texas preferred but not required. It is full-time, Monday through Friday, for an initial 6–12-month duration with a strong possibility of extension. The stated pay rate is $103 per hour.

Requirements

• At least 7 years of technical program management experience, including direct leadership of at least 2–3 completed end-to-end M&A technology integrations.
• Personal experience leading acquisition-related technology integrations from initial planning and due diligence through migration, cutover, and post-integration stabilization.
• Cross-functional technical program leadership spanning IT infrastructure and operations, enterprise business applications, and data platforms or analytics engineering.
• Experience managing complex integration plans, technical dependencies, milestones, risks, issues, budgets, and go-live readiness.
• Ability to assess acquired technology environments, identify unresolved integration issues and technical debt, and coordinate remediation.
• Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills, including facilitating decisions across engineering teams, business leaders, and executive stakeholders.
• Ability to work effectively in ambiguous environments, manage competing priorities, and deliver on compressed timelines.
• Experience coordinating multiple technical teams and driving accountability without necessarily having direct management authority over individual contributors.
• Strategic and analytical thinking; executive presence; cross-functional leadership; sound decision-making; adaptability; organization and execution; and a continuous-improvement mindset.

Nice To Haves

• Experience integrating SaaS companies or software and technology businesses following acquisitions.
• Familiarity with identity and access management consolidation, including Okta or comparable platforms.
• Experience coordinating ERP, CRM, HR, or finance system migrations and consolidations.
• Familiarity with cloud data platforms, data migration, analytics pipelines, and reporting consolidation.
• Experience establishing or improving M&A integration processes, governance frameworks, and reusable playbooks.
• Experience identifying and prioritizing technical debt across previously acquired companies.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end M&A technology integration planning and execution, from due diligence and initial planning through Day 1 readiness, migration, cutover, and post-integration stabilization.
• Coordinate workstreams across IT Operations and Infrastructure, Business Applications, and Data and Analytics Engineering.
• Manage milestones and dependencies; facilitate cross-functional working sessions; establish sequencing and ownership; resolve blockers; and drive critical decisions to closure.
• Oversee integration readiness and execution, including go-live requirements, interim-state operations, target-state transitions, and cutover activities.
• Assess acquired technology environments to identify integration gaps, redundant systems, technical debt, and remediation requirements.
• Manage risks, issues, budgets, and timelines, and provide status updates, escalation plans, and executive reporting.
• Align engineering, IT, corporate development, integration management, finance, HR, and security stakeholders on integration requirements and priorities.
• Evaluate technical plans and estimates, using knowledge of infrastructure, enterprise applications, and data platforms to identify gaps, challenge assumptions, and assess execution plans.
• Develop standardized integration playbooks, governance processes, and templates to improve repeatability and consistency in future integrations.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed