Cutover Officer 100%

Title: Cutover Officer 100%

Responsibilities:

*Build and maintain detailed cutover runbooks, 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, 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 outcomes are 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:

*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.

What would be an advantage:

*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

AARK Tech Solutions GmbH

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8805 Richterswil