SAP Cutover-Sr Manager

EY; Dadri; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

EY is seeking an experienced SAP Cutover Lead to own and govern end-to-end cutover strategies for SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA transformations in India. The role requires coordinating business and technical teams, managing data migration, and driving readiness across mock cutovers and go-live activities.

The candidate should have 10+ years in relevant domains, strong governance and stakeholder management, and a proven track record in large-scale cutover programs.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in SAP/IT project cutover or migration programs.
• Experience in SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA transformations.
• Strong ability to define cutover scope, milestones, and dependencies.
• Proven governance, risk management, and escalation skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and own the cutover strategy, approach, and governance framework.
• Lead end-to-end cutover execution across all streams.
• Plan multiple mock cutovers, ensure readiness criteria are met.
• Coordinate with business, technical, and third-party teams for readiness.
• Manage data migration activities, transports, and batch job scheduling.
• Identify risks, develop mitigations, and monitor critical path tasks.
• Coordinate hypercare after go-live and drive knowledge transfer.
• Prepare effort estimates and staffing models for cutover activities.

Skills

SAP Cutover

S/4HANA Transformation

Governance & Planning

Stakeholder Management

Cross-Functional Leadership

Job description

Service line - Position Title: SAP Cutover Lead

Your Key Responsibilities

• 10+ years of experience in respective domain

Cutover Strategy Planning

• Develop and own the overall cutover strategy, approach, and governance framework.
• Create and maintain integrated cutover plans covering business, application, data migration, infrastructure, security, and reporting workstreams.
• Define cutover scope, milestones, dependencies, assumptions, risks, and contingency plans.
• Establish cutover governance, communication, escalation, and decision-making processes.

Cutover Execution Management

• Lead end-to-end cutover execution activities across all project workstreams.
• Manage cutover command center activities during mock cutovers, dress rehearsals, and production go-live.
• Coordinate execution of pre-cutover, cutover, go-live, and post-go-live tasks.
• Monitor cutover progress and ensure timely completion of critical path activities.
• Manage issue resolution and stakeholder communications during cutover periods.

Mock Cutovers Readiness Assessments

• Plan and execute multiple mock cutovers to validate timelines, procedures, and dependencies.
• Conduct go-live readiness assessments and ensure all entry and exit criteria are met.
• Measure cutover performance and identify optimization opportunities.
• Drive lessons learned and continuous improvements across rehearsal cycles.

Business Stakeholder Coordination

• Coordinate activities across functional, technical, business, and third-party teams.
• Facilitate cutover workshops, planning sessions, status meetings, and leadership reviews.
• Present cutover readiness status, risks, and mitigation plans to program leadership and steering committees.
• Work closely with business process owners to ensure business readiness and acceptance.

Data Migration Technical Cutover

• Collaborate with data migration teams to plan and execute data migration activities.
• Coordinate system freeze periods, data extraction, transformation, validation, reconciliation, and load activities.
• Ensure technical activities including transports, integrations, infrastructure readiness, security setup, and batch job scheduling are completed successfully.
• Manage rollback and fallback plans in case of critical issues.

Risk Dependency Management

• Identify cutover risks, issues, and interdependencies.
• Develop and monitor mitigation and contingency plans.
• Track critical path activities and maintain risk logs.
• Escalate issues proactively to ensure successful go-live.

Hypercare Stabilization

• Coordinate hypercare support activities following go-live.
• Monitor production stability, defect resolution, and business adoption.
• Track stabilization metrics and transition to support operations.
• Facilitate project closure and knowledge transfer activities.

RFP Solutioning Estimation Responsibilities

• Lead cutover solutioning activities during SAP implementation and transformation pursuits.
• Define cutover approach, governance structure, mock cutover strategy, and hypercare model for proposals.
• Prepare effort estimates, staffing models, timelines, and cost estimates for cutover management activities.
• Contribute to RFP, RFI, and proposal responses relating to cutover, deployment, and go-live management.
• Support client workshops, solution presentations, and proposal defense activities.
• Define cutover risks, assumptions, dependencies, and mitigation approaches for pursuit opportunities.

Skills and attributes for success

• SAP ECC/Non-SAP to SAP S/4HANA transformation programs.
• Cutover Strategy Planning
• Cutover Execution Management
• Mock Cutovers Readiness Assessments
• Business Stakeholder Coordination
• Data Migration Technical Cutover
• Risk Dependency Management
• Hypercare Stabilization
• RFP Solutioning Estimation
• SAP ECC/Non-SAP to SAP S/4HANA transformation programs

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