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 governance
AARK Tech Solutions GmbH
Seestrasse 11
8805 Richterswil