About this role
- 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 governanceAARK Tech Solutions GmbHSeestrasse 118805 Richterswil