Cutover Manager in Zürich

AarkTech specializes in Software Development and Consulting Services across the industries. Our strategic vision is to position ourselves as a trusted partner in the Swiss market by providing innovative, high-quality IT solutions. We are hiring for Cutover Officers in Zurich.

Your 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.

What you bring

• 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.

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