Technical Program Manager, M&A Integration

Location: Remote (Austin, TX preferred, but not required)

Pay Rate: $103hr

Duration: 6-12 months (strong possibility of extension)

Schedule: Full-time, Monday-Friday

Our client is seeking an experienced Program Manager, M&A Technology Integration to lead technology integration initiatives following company acquisitions. This role will oversee end-to-end integration planning and execution across IT Operations & Infrastructure, Business Applications, and Data & Analytics Engineering, ensuring acquired companies are successfully integrated into the organization’s systems, platforms, and processes with minimal business disruption.

The ideal candidate has personally led multiple end-to-end technology integrations following mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and can coordinate complex technical work streams, drive executive-level decisions, and identify unresolved integration gaps and technical debt. This individual will establish repeatable integration frameworks and playbooks to improve the efficiency and consistency of future acquisitions.

This is a hands-on program leadership role requiring strong technical fluency, cross-functional collaboration, and the ability to deliver results under compressed timelines and evolving priorities.

• Lead end-to-end M&A technology integrations, developing and executing comprehensive integration plans from due diligence and initial planning through Day 1 readiness, systems migration, cutover, and post-integration stabilization.
• Coordinate multiple technical work streams, including IT Operations & Infrastructure (identity management, endpoints, networking, and security tools), Business Applications (ERP, CRM, HR, and finance systems), and Data & Analytics Engineering (data migration, pipelines, and reporting consolidation).
• Manage integration milestones and dependencies, facilitating cross-functional working sessions, establishing sequencing and ownership, resolving blockers, and driving critical decisions to closure.
• Oversee integration readiness and execution, monitoring go-live requirements, interim-state operations, target-state transitions, and cutover activities to minimize disruption to business operations.
• Assess acquired technology environments to identify outstanding integration gaps, redundant systems, technical debt, and remediation requirements.
• Manage risks, issues, budgets, and timelines, providing clear status updates, escalation plans, and executive reporting to integration leadership and executive sponsors.
• Drive stakeholder alignment across engineering, IT, corporate development, integration management, finance, HR, and security teams to ensure integration requirements and priorities are addressed.
• Evaluate technical plans and estimates, applying working knowledge of infrastructure, enterprise applications, and data platforms to identify gaps, challenge assumptions, and ensure realistic execution plans.
• Develop standardized integration playbooks, governance processes, and templates to improve repeatability, accelerate future integrations, and establish consistent execution practices.

• 7 years of technical program management experience , including direct leadership of at least 2-3 completed end-to-end M&A technology integrations
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• Demonstrated experience personally leading technology integration initiatives following acquisitions, with clear ownership 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 efforts.
• Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills
  , including the ability to facilitate decisions across engineering teams, business leaders, and executive stakeholders.
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments, manage competing priorities, and deliver against compressed timelines.
• Experience coordinating multiple technical teams and driving accountability without necessarily having direct management authority over individual contributors.
• Experience integrating SaaS companies or…