Cutover Officer 100%

AARK Tech Solutions GmbH; Zürich; Vor Ort; CHF 90.000 - 120.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

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.

Qualifikationen

• 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.

Aufgaben

• 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.

Kenntnisse

Cutover coordination

Release management

Data migration

Stakeholder communication

Shift work readiness

Ausbildung

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

Tools

Avaloq

Temenos T24

Jobbeschreibung

Cutover Officer 100%

AARK Tech Solutions GmbH

Vacant since : 29.10.2026 Number of jobs : 1 8010 Zürich (ZH) 100% From 01.01.2027 Until 30.06.2027

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

Location & Employment Details

• Work location 8010 Zürich (ZH)
• Workload 100%
• Employment start 01.01.2027
• Employment duration 30.06.2027
• Work form Shift work

Qualifications

• Qualification skilled
• Work experience More than 3 years
• Education Bachelor's degree from a university of applied sciences or equivalent

Languages

• English Orally : Good knowledge Written : Good knowledge

By email [e-mail]

AARK Tech Solutions GmbHSeestrasse 118805 Richterswil