Senior Cutover & Data Migration Lead

INSUS - AI Solutions for Sustainable Transformation; Zürich; On-site; CHF 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

INSUS Switzerland is seeking a Senior Cutover Manager to own end-to-end cutover planning, migration coordination, and execution readiness within a complex banking transformation programme. You will lead cross-functional teams across applications, data, testing, infrastructure, and business units to ensure controlled production transitions.

Your role requires extensive experience in data migration within regulated environments, strong governance capabilities, and a track record of delivering

Qualifications

• Essential: Strong hands-on data migration experience within banking or a highly regulated organisation.
• Significant experience leading cutover activities, migration workstreams, release coordination, or complex technology transitions.
• Proven involvement in large-scale migration rehearsals, dress rehearsals, and production cutovers.
• Strong understanding of application dependencies and sequencing of technical, data, infrastructure, and business activities.
• Experience coordinating multiple delivery teams and stakeholders across complex technology environments.
• Ability to manage execution risks, resolve cross-team dependencies, and drive decisions under tight timelines.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including communicating with senior project and programme leadership.
• Experience establishing structured cutover governance, readiness reporting, escalation procedures, and decision-making processes.
• Excellent organisational, analytical, and problem-solving skills with delivery focus.
• Proactive, accountable leadership style; calm during critical migration activities.
• Flexibility to support evening/weekend activities during rehearsals and production cutovers.

Responsibilities

• Own and lead the integrated cutover strategy and execution plan, including runbooks, milestones, responsibilities, dependencies, prerequisites, and completion criteria.
• Lead cross-functional cutover planning and coordination across application, business, data migration, testing, infrastructure, and external teams.
• Oversee data extraction, transformation, loading, validation, and reconciliation activities with the migration and cutover strategy.
• Drive end-to-end readiness assessments covering applications, interfaces, environments, infrastructure, access, scheduling, and resources.
• Identify and manage critical dependencies, risks, and bottlenecks to keep activities within cutover windows.
• Lead cutover rehearsals, dress rehearsals, and production execution coordination; capture lessons learned.
• Coordinate command centre activities during critical phases, with clear communication, progress tracking, and escalation.
• Consolidate readiness evidence, risks, and approvals; advise leadership on go/no-go decisions.
• Oversee start-up checks, business validations, and post-migration reconciliation.
• Establish cutover governance, reporting, escalation mechanisms and execution controls.
• Drive continuous improvement of runbooks and timelines across migration waves.
• Ensure transition from cutover to hypercare and business-as-usual support.

Skills

Data migration

Cutover management

Stakeholder management

Programme leadership

Risk management

Tools

Temenos T24

Avaloq

Job description

INSUS Switzerland is seeking a Senior Cutover Manager to own end-to-end cutover planning, migration coordination, and execution readiness within a complex banking transformation programme. You will lead cross-functional teams across applications, data, testing, infrastructure, and business units to ensure controlled production transitions.

Your role requires extensive experience in data migration within regulated environments, strong governance capabilities, and a track record of delivering