Cutover Lead - Banking Migration Orchestration

AARK Tech Solutions GmbH; Zürich; On-site; CHF 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

AARK Tech Solutions GmbH in Zürich is seeking a Cutover Officer (100%) to lead and coordinate complex migration cutovers in a banking environment. You will build runbooks, align teams and ensure readiness for rehearsals and production execution.

The role requires hands-on data migration experience, strong organizational skills, and the ability to manage multiple vendors and interfaces. Start date 01.01.2027; work at 8010 Zürich; shift-based schedule.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from a university of applied sciences or equivalent.
• 3+ years in cutover coordination, migration or release management.
• Experience in banking environments with core platforms.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to coordinate multiple teams.

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.

Skills

Cutover coordination

Release management

Data migration

Stakeholder communication

Shift work readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree from a university of applied sciences or equivalent

Tools

Avaloq

Temenos T24

Job description

AARK Tech Solutions GmbH in Zürich is seeking a Cutover Officer (100%) to lead and coordinate complex migration cutovers in a banking environment. You will build runbooks, align teams and ensure readiness for rehearsals and production execution.

The role requires hands-on data migration experience, strong organizational skills, and the ability to manage multiple vendors and interfaces. Start date 01.01.2027; work at 8010 Zürich; shift-based schedule.