Technical Programme Manager

SD Worx is a leading European provider of Payroll & HR services with global reach. We have offices in Europe and an office in Mauritius. Our goal? We bring people solutions to life, so companies of any size can turn Human Resources into a source of value for the business and the people in it.

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. And the freedom to compose your personal benefit package.

• A dynamic environment: flexible working hours and working from home – everything is negotiable

• Learning opportunities: through an individual development plan and professional training

• Career growth: whether you want to become more of an expert in your field our you want to expand your knowledge more 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 technical programme leader with a prior engineering background across infrastructure, networks, firewalls, and/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 previous hands-on experience as an engineer.

·        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.

·        Previous hands-on engineering experience in networking, infrastructure, systems, or cloud engineering.

·        Good understanding of experience migrating Microsoft Windows VMs and Microsoft SQL Server databases into Azure

·        Understanding of cloud and data centre infrastructure, Compute, storage, networking, monitoring, observability

·        Experience in 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.

·        Competent in both Agile (sprints, user stories, backlog management) and traditional programme governance.

·        Goal-oriented and self-directed individual who has extensive experience of leading a team of IT experts from various technology divisions. 

·        Experience with project management tools.

·        Detailed understanding of project lifecycles, project definition, project governance and project quality. 

·        Excellent English-written and spoken.

·        Excellent problem solving and analytical skills. 

·        Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills. 

·        Proactive and motivated with an excellent attitude.

·        Ability to work well under pressure. 

·        Ability to influence and convey a level of confidence and build long lasting relationships based on reliability and trust.

·        Ability to 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 that are 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.

You have a strong interest in new technologies and know the challenges within our Tribe.

You can have technical discussions with all levels of technical architects.

·        You can follow up different projects across the Squads and prioritize and report these to the Technical Leadership team.

You also give the right prioritization to Epics via the well-known OKR process.

·        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 including:

·        Microsoft Windows VM deployment

·        Microsoft SQL Server database migrations

·        Backup/restore, replication, failover/fallback procedures

·        Security controls, patching, and platform governance

·        Drive testing cycles for infrastructure , ensuring environment parity and migration readiness.

·        Align with other POs and their squads to synchronize the execution of complex projects. 

·        Hold meetings with the Squad to update the Squad product backlog. 

·        Make sure the Squad correctly understands the requirements. 

·        Good stakeholder management to align business goals.   

·        Participating in the leadership meetings and the PO communities 

·        Managing Risks during your project.  

·        Follow up the actions planned for your project.

·        Report the status of your project to higher management.

Manage multiple stakeholders’ competing, conflicting requirements, persuading and championing change.

From many places, we work as one, moving from better to best together.

SD Worx lives diversity in the workplace. Diversity provides inspiration and innovation in our company. We particularly welcome applications from qualified talent, regardless of origin, nationality, gender, skin colour, ethnic and social background, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation and stage of life.