Cutover Officer

Swiss Himmel GmbH; Zürich; On-site; CHF 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Swiss Himmel GmbH in Switzerland is seeking several experienced Cutover Officers to support a large-scale banking transformation with a leading financial institution. You will orchestrate cutover activities, coordinate cross-functional teams and ensure a smooth go-live.

This role requires hands-on migration experience, strong coordination skills and the ability to stay structured under pressure. Evening and weekend cutovers are planned, so flexibility is essential.

Qualifications

• Hands-on data migration experience in banking or complex organisations, from prep through execution and reconciliation.
• Experience with dry runs, dress rehearsals or production migrations.
• Background in cutover coordination, release management or technology delivery.
• Ability to coordinate application owners, DBAs, infrastructure, middleware/MQ, scheduling and vendors.
• Stay structured and decisive under pressure.
• Availability for planned evening and weekend cutover activities.
• Nice-to-have: Avaloq or Temenos T24, multi-wave banking transformations, and experience with integrated runbooks and go/no-go governance.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain detailed cutover runbooks covering activities, owners, timings, dependencies and completion criteria.
• Coordinate application, business, migration, testing and infrastructure teams through rehearsals and production go-live.
• Align data extraction, transformation, loading, validation and reconciliation with the cutover sequence.
• Track readiness and run command-centre execution, escalating blockers with clear actions.
• Consolidate evidence, risks and sign-offs for go/no-go decisions.
• Drive lessons learned and support the handover to hypercare.

Skills

Data migration

Dry runs

Cutover coordination

Release management

Technology delivery

Stakeholder coordination

Decision making

Evening/weekend work

Avaloq experience

Temenos T24 experience

Runbooks

Go/no-go governance

Job description

Swiss Himmel is looking for several experienced Cutover Officers for a large-scale banking transformation programme with a leading financial institution in Switzerland.

What you’ll do

• Build and maintain detailed cutover runbooks covering activities, owners, timings, dependencies and completion criteria
• Coordinate application, business, migration, testing and infrastructure teams through rehearsals and production go-live
• Align data extraction, transformation, loading, validation and reconciliation with the cutover sequence
• Track readiness and run command-centre execution, escalating blockers with clear actions
• Consolidate evidence, risks and sign-offs for go/no-go decisions
• Drive lessons learned and support the handover to hypercare

What you bring

• Hands‑on data migration experience in a bank or complex organisation, from preparation through execution, validation and reconciliation
• Experience with dry runs, dress rehearsals or production migrations
• A background in cutover coordination, release management or technology delivery
• Confidence coordinating application owners, DBAs, infrastructure, middleware/MQ, scheduling and vendors
• The ability to stay structured and decisive under pressure
• Availability for planned evening and weekend cutover activities
• Nice to have: Avaloq or Temenos T24, multi-wave banking transformations, and experience with integrated runbooks and go/no-go governance