Technical Programme Manager

Join to apply for the Technical Programme Manager role at SD Worx.SD Worx is a leading European provider of Payroll & HR services with a global reach. We have offices in Europe and an office in Mauritius. Our goal is to turn Human Resources into a source of value for the business and its people.Our people solutions span the entire employee journey, from getting people paid to attracting, rewarding, and developing talent. Are you ready to join us?What do we have to offer? An attractive salary based on your experience and achievement, plus the freedom to compose your personal benefit package.A dynamic environment with flexible working hours and remote work options – everything is negotiable.Learning opportunities through an individual development plan and professional training.Career growth: whether you want to deepen expertise or expand horizontally, there is always room to grow within SD Worx.About the role The Infrastructure Programme Manager leads the full migration of our private data centre estate into Microsoft Azure. This role requires a technical programme leader with a prior engineering background across infrastructure, networks, firewalls, or cloud.You will drive the programme end‑to‑end by coordinating engineering squads, architects, product owners, and application teams, ensuring that infrastructure, networks, platforms, and Microsoft workloads are migrated safely and efficiently. This is not a “reporting only” role – we need someone with a strong can‑do attitude, who takes full ownership, removes blockers, motivates teams, and drives delivery with urgency and confidence.What do you have to offer? Participate actively in technical discussions regarding firewalls, routing, connectivity, DNS, load balancing, Windows servers, and SQL database migration approaches.Review and challenge engineering decisions and documentation, migration runbooks, SQL migration strategies, and rollback plans using your hands‑on engineering experience.Validate architecture documentation, migration runbooks, SQL migration strategies, and rollback plans.Ensure infrastructure meets compliance, security, and operational standards.Provide daily direction to the Project Manager reporting into you.Act as a role model for ownership, accountability, and driving outcomes.Maintain momentum, push through delays, and proactively resolve blockers.Keep teams motivated, aligned, and focused during complex migration waves.Build a collaborative environment where engineers and PMs feel supported and empowered.Possess previous hands‑on engineering experience in networking, infrastructure, systems, or cloud engineering.Have good understanding of migrating Microsoft Windows VMs and Microsoft SQL Server databases into Azure.Understand cloud and data centre infrastructure: compute, storage, networking, monitoring, observability.Experience with landing zone design, environment provisioning, and security controls in Azure.Strong “can‑do” attitude with the ability to push through obstacles and maintain momentum.Experience leading large‑scale data centre migration programmes end‑to‑end.Proficient in both Agile (sprints, user stories, backlog management) and traditional programme governance.Goal‑oriented and self‑directed with extensive experience leading a team of IT experts from various technology divisions.Experience with project management tools and detailed understanding of project lifecycles, definition, governance, and quality.Excellent English written and spoken; strong problem‑solving and analytical skills.Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.Proactive, motivated and able to work well under pressure.Influence and convey confidence to build lasting relationships based on reliability and trust.Influence others to take a specific course of action when there is no direct line of command.Out‑of‑the‑box thinker.Experience in an Agile environment is a plus. Which tasks can you expect? Deliver the full migration of private data centre workloads—including Microsoft Windows VMs and Microsoft SQL Server databases into Azure.Drive delivery across all infrastructure streams, including firewalls, networks, subnets, routing, compute, storage, security, observability, and Azure landing zones.Coordinate technical teams, architects, Agile squads, PMs, Product Owners and customer‑facing PMs to ensure alignment and on‑time delivery.Drive infrastructure and migration plans using Agile epics, features, and user stories consumable by technical squads.Maintain execution momentum, removing blockers and ensuring teams stay focused and productive.Provide leadership, ownership and hands‑on programme direction—not just status updates.Lead the entire Azure migration programme, including planning, delivery, testing, cutover, and post‑migration hypercare.Define and manage migration waves, workload sequencing, rolling migrations, and operational readiness.Ensure readiness of Azure landing zones, VNets, subnets, NSGs, firewalls, routing, IAM, storage accounts, compute, SQL resources, and monitoring.Oversee environment builds and integrations – Windows VM deployment, SQL Server migrations, backup/restore, replication, failover/fallback, security controls, patching, and platform governance.Drive testing cycles for infrastructure, ensuring environment parity and migration readiness.Align with other Product Owners and their squads to synchronize the execution of complex projects.Meet with squads to update product backlogs and ensure correct understanding of requirements.Good stakeholder management to align business goals and participate in leadership meetings and PO communities.Manage risks during your project, follow up actions, and report status to higher management.Additional Information From many places, we work as one, moving from better to best together. SD Worx lives diversity in the workplace. We particularly welcome applications from qualified talent, regardless of origin, nationality, gender, skin colour, ethnic and social background, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation or stage of life.Seniority level Mid‑Senior levelEmployment type Full‑timeJob function Project Management and Information TechnologyIndustries Human Resources Services#J-18808-Ljbffr