Cutover & Deployment Lead: Data Migration & Go-Live

Advance Delivery Consulting; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Advance Delivery Consulting in Sydney leads the end-to-end transition of member, policy, claims, and provider data across platforms, ensuring data integrity, security, and privacy compliance under Australian law. You own the cutover strategy and coordinate technical and business readiness to deliver a controlled go-live with minimal disruption to operations and members.

The role oversees environment readiness, data migration, risk and audit governance, training, hypercare, and post-go-live

Qualifications

• 10+ years in cutover/deployment/release management for mission-critical systems.
• Familiarity with PHI migrations and large-scale platform replacements in Australia.
• Strong stakeholder and vendor management.
• Excellent runbook design and risk mitigation.

Responsibilities

• Define cutover strategy, scope, success criteria, decision gates, rollback approach and detailed runbook with rehearsals.
• Establish go/no-go governance and readiness checkpoints across technology, operations, contact centre, finance, compliance, and vendors.
• Align platform capabilities and integrations with cutover sequencing.
• Lead data migration, validation and parallel run comparisons to prove outcome equivalence.
• Orchestrate environment readiness (dev/test/pre-prod/prod), release schedules and configuration of modules.
• Coordinate open-system integrations and industry services for end-to-end journeys.
• Manage performance, resilience and disaster recovery tests.
• Plan operational day-1 readiness: scripts, rules, certificates, and communications.
• Coordinate training for front-line, claims, finance and back-office teams; ensure hypercare and knowledge base updates.
• Provide board/executive reporting on readiness, incidents, defects and regulatory compliance.
• Lead hypercare and post-Go-Live stabilization; handover to BAU; embed continuous improvement.

Skills

Delivery leadership

Stakeholder management

Vendor management

Runbook design

Risk mitigation

Executive communication

Cloud migrations

Tools

HICAPS

HealthPoint

ECLIPSE

Job description

Advance Delivery Consulting in Sydney leads the end-to-end transition of member, policy, claims, and provider data across platforms, ensuring data integrity, security, and privacy compliance under Australian law. You own the cutover strategy and coordinate technical and business readiness to deliver a controlled go-live with minimal disruption to operations and members.

The role oversees environment readiness, data migration, risk and audit governance, training, hypercare, and post-go-live