Technical Project Manager
Sporty Group is looking for an experienced IT/IS Project Manager to coordinate and drive Information Technology and Information Security initiatives across its global organisation. The role works across IT, Information Security, Engineering, Infrastructure, Platform/DevOps, and business teams to ensure projects and operational initiatives have clear ownership, priorities, timelines, and measurable outcomes.
A significant part of the role focuses on Information Security delivery, including vulnerability remediation, Red Team and Blue Team activities, and security improvement initiatives. Work is distributed across multiple teams and Jira environments, and the successful candidate will be responsible for maintaining consolidated visibility, identifying delivery risks and trends, and ensuring important work is driven through to completion.
This is a hands-on delivery role. Sporty Group is looking for someone who takes ownership, creates structure, proactively identifies problems, and drives actions rather than simply tracking and reporting status.
- Lead internal IT initiatives from requirements and planning through implementation, rollout, and operational handover.
- Define scope, milestones, ownership, dependencies, and success criteria.
- Coordinate delivery across IT, Engineering, Infrastructure, Security, and business teams.
- Proactively manage risks, blockers, priorities, and cross-team dependencies.
- Drive decisions and ensure projects progress through to completion.
- Coordinate security-related initiatives and tasks across Information Security, Engineering, Infrastructure, Platform, Red Team, and Blue Team.
- Track vulnerability findings and remediation activities through to validation and closure.
- Coordinate follow-up actions from penetration testing, Red Team/Blue Team activities, security reviews, incidents, and security improvement programmes.
- Ensure security tasks have appropriate priority, ownership, target dates, and remediation plans.
- Identify stalled or high-risk items and drive follow-up, prioritisation, and escalation where necessary.
- Maintain visibility of IT/IS work distributed across multiple Jira systems, projects, teams, and workflows.
- Establish consolidated reporting across different Jira environments and maintain appropriate data quality and traceability.
- Monitor backlog, aging, remediation progress, overdue work, throughput, and other relevant delivery metrics.
- Analyse historical and current data to identify trends, bottlenecks, recurring issues, and deteriorating performance.
- Automate data collection, aggregation, and reporting where practical.
- Act as a coordination point across Information Security, IT, Engineering, Infrastructure, Platform/DevOps, system owners, business functions, and management.
- Resolve unclear ownership and facilitate prioritisation where teams have competing priorities.
- Provide concise management reporting focused on progress, trends, risks, exceptions, and decisions required.
- Establish appropriate project and task governance without introducing unnecessary process.
- 5+ years of experience in IT/IS Project Management, Security Project Management, Technology Project Management, or a similar role (required)
- Experience delivering technology or security initiatives across multiple technical teams (required)
- Experience working with Information Security and Engineering organisations (required)
- Strong experience with Jira-based task and backlog management (required)
- Experience working across multiple Jira projects, workflows, or systems (required)
- Experience producing consolidated reporting, KPIs, and trend analysis from task-level data (required)
- Strong project management skills covering scope, priorities, timelines, risks, dependencies, and stakeholders (required)
- Experience working with globally distributed teams (required)
- Excellent written and spoken English (required)
- Experience managing vulnerability remediation programmes (nice-to-have)
- Experience coordinating Red Team / Blue Team activities (nice-to-have)
- Experience consolidating data from multiple Jira instances (nice-to-have)
- Experience automating Jira reporting or building operational dashboards (nice-to-have)
- Experience with AWS or cloud security environments (nice-to-have)
- Experience in large-scale online or high-availability technology organisations (nice-to-have)
- PMP, PRINCE2, ITIL, CISSP, CISM, Security+, Agile, or Scrum certification (nice-to-have)
- Competitive salary
- Individual performance based bonuses every quarter
- 28 days paid annual leave
- Flexible working hours outside of core 10am-3pm local time
- Referral bonuses
- Flash bonuses
- Top of the line equipment
- Annual company retreats
Sporty Group is a sports technology company whose brands include SportyBet, a mobile-first sportsbook licensed in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Zambia, Tanzania and Uganda, alongside the Sporty.com app and the SportyTV broadcast service in Nigeria. SportyBet has sponsorship partnerships with Real Madrid and Manchester City. The group hires across Europe, Latin America and Asia, and many of its technology and product roles are remote.