Cutover Officer 100%

Lead Complex Cutover and Migration Execution

Take the lead in orchestrating high-stakes cutover activities within a complex banking environment. This role demands a strategic approach to data migration, technical sequencing, and cross-functional coordination to ensure seamless production execution and operational stability.

Core Responsibilities

• Build and maintain detailed cutover runbooks, clearly defining activities, owners, timings, dependencies, prerequisites, and completion criteria.
• Coordinate application, business, migration, testing, and infrastructure teams to prepare for rehearsals and production execution.
• Align data extraction, transformation, loading, validation, and reconciliation activities with the overall cutover sequence.
• Track readiness across application deployments, interfaces, environments, access, scheduling, and resource availability.
• Ensure migration and technical activities fit within the agreed cutover window, proactively identifying bottlenecks and resolving dependencies.
• Support command centre operations by tracking execution, collecting progress updates, and escalating blockers with clear impacts and required actions.
• Consolidate readiness evidence, risks, and sign-offs to support go/no-go decisions.
• Coordinate operational start-up checks and business validations, ensuring all outcomes are thoroughly documented.
• Capture lessons learned from rehearsals and drive improvements to runbooks, timings, and execution procedures.
• Support the handover from cutover into hypercare and operational teams.

Essential Qualifications

• Proven hands-on data migration experience within a bank or complex organisation, covering migration preparation, execution, validation, and reconciliation.
• Experience supporting migration dry runs, dress rehearsals, or production migrations.
• A solid understanding of application dependencies and the sequencing of technical, data, and business activities.
• Experience in cutover coordination, release management, technology delivery, or a closely related role.
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail, with disciplined management of actions, risks, and execution evidence.
• Confidence coordinating multiple teams, including application owners, business SMEs, database administrators, infrastructure, middleware/MQ, scheduling, and external vendors.
• Clear communication skills and the ability to remain structured and decisive under pressure.
• Availability to support planned evening and weekend rehearsal and cutover activities.

Preferred Advantages

• Experience with core banking platforms such as Avaloq or Temenos T24.
• Exposure to large-scale banking transformations involving multiple applications and implementation waves.
• Familiarity with command centre operations, integrated cutover runbooks, and go/no-go governance.