Technical Project Manager

About the role

At Moorepay, we're on a mission to simplify and automate payroll and HR for UK businesses. With thousands of clients relying on our trusted platform and services, we combine powerful technology, compliance expertise, and brilliant people to deliver seamless workforce solutions.

As we scale, we're looking for a Technical Project Manager who can bridge the gap between software engineering and business delivery, ensuring our offshore teams remain aligned, productive, and focused on value.

You will be responsible for the successful delivery of technology projects across Moorepay's HR and Payroll product suite. Combining technical background with strong project management skills, you'll oversee the work of multiple offshore development teams, track project performance, and drive process improvement using Azure DevOps and other delivery tools.

This is a key role in ensuring we deliver high-quality, secure, and timely solutions to our clients, with transparency and accountability at every stage.

Key Responsibilities:

Project Planning & Execution:

• Lead the planning and execution of technology projects using Agile or hybrid methodologies.
• Us your technical background to ensure engineering to follow process, and us best practice.
• Define and manage scope, timelines, resources, and budgets across multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Maintain clear project roadmaps, sprint plans, and delivery milestones.

Team Coordination:

• Act as the primary liaison between UK-based stakeholders, product team, engineers and offshore development/test teams.
• Monitor offshore team activities, helping remove blockers and ensure alignment with strategic goals.
• Champion clear and consistent communication across time zones and cultures.

Azure DevOps Management:

• Use Azure DevOps to track work items, monitor progress, and report on delivery performance.
• Drive Azure DevOps best practices across all teams, and ensure processes are followed.
• Analyse metrics (velocity, burndown, cycle time) to ensure delivery efficiency.

Project Performance & Reporting:

• Regularly assess project health across teams - highlighting risks, issues, and variances to leadership.
• Provide structured reports and recommendations to drive accountability and improvements.
• Facilitate post-project reviews and retrospective action plans.

Process Improvement:

• Help mature Moorepay's project delivery frameworks and Agile adoption.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, QA, and DevOps to evolve best practices.
• Contribute to roadmap planning and capacity forecasting.

Skills & experience

• Proven experience managing software delivery projects in a technical environment.
• Strong knowledge of Azure DevOps - boards, pipelines, and reporting.
• A technical background in Microsoft technologies.
• Experience working with offshore or distributed development teams.
• Solid grasp of Agile/Scrum and hybrid delivery models.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and stakeholders in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and documentation skills.
• Experience with metrics-based project health tracking (e.g., DORA, velocity).
• Familiarity with cloud-based software development (Azure preferred).
• Understanding of CI/CD practices and DevOps culture.
• Experience in HR or Payroll software solutions advantageous, but not essential

Benefits & culture

Part of the Zellis Group, Moorepay is a team of over 500 friendly professionals across four offices in Swinton (Manchester), Sheffield, Birmingham and Kochi (India). We're passionate about making Moorepay a fantastic place to work for every single one of our colleagues. The average length of service at Moorepay is 12 years, which speaks for itself!

To help make Moorepay such a great place to work, we focus on three things in our company culture: mental health support, maintaining a healthy work/life balance, and equal opportunities and inclusion for all.

Here's what you'll gain if you join our team:

• A career packed with opportunity, in a stable and growing company.
• A comprehensive programme of learning and development.
• Competitive base salary.
• 25 days annual leave, with the opportunity to buy more. You'll even get your birthday off as well!
• Private medical insurance.
• Life assurance 4x salary.
• Enhanced pension with up to 8.5% employer contributions.
• A huge range of additional flexible benefits across financial & personal wellbeing, lifestyle & leisure.