Technical Program Manager

SD Worx is a leading European provider of Payroll & HR services with global reach. Our goal is to 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.

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.
• eLearning opportunities: through an individual development plan and professional training.
• Career growth: whether you want to become more of an expert in your field or expand your knowledge horizontally, there is always room to grow within SD Worx.

About the role:

The Infrastructure Program 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, and/or cloud. You will drive the program 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.

Qualifications:

• Previous hands-on engineering experience in networking, infrastructure, systems, or cloud engineering.
• 10+ years 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 program governance.
• Goal-oriented and self-directed individual with extensive experience 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).
• 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.

What 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.
• Lead the entire Azure migration programme, including planning, delivery, testing, cutover, and post-migration hard-care.
• 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.
• Participate actively in technical discussions regarding firewalls, routing, connectivity, DNS, load balancing, Windows servers, and SQL database migration approaches.
• Oversee environment builds and integrations including iterations, 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 and ensure the Squad correctly understands the requirements.
• Good stakeholder management to align business goals.
• Participate in leadership meetings and the PO project, following up on 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.