Remote SAP Cutover Lead — Data Migration Expert

Maitsys Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Maitsys Inc. is seeking an experienced SAP Cutover Lead to manage end-to-end cutover planning and deployment for large SAP transformations.

The role focuses on data migration, coordination across functional, technical, and security teams, and ensuring smooth go-live with minimal business disruption. The candidate will lead mock cutovers, production readiness, and governance meetings, handling dependencies, risks, and contingency plans while driving successful production deployment for S/4HANA

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of SAP implementation experience.
• 5+ years leading SAP Cutover activities on enterprise implementations.
• Strong experience with SAP Data Migration and production deployment.
• Experience managing multiple cutover cycles including mock cutovers and final production cutover.
• Excellent project coordination and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working in Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery environments.
• Strong communication and executive presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the overall SAP Cutover strategy, planning, execution, and post-go-live stabilization.
• Develop and maintain detailed cutover plans, runbooks, checklists, and deployment schedules.
• Coordinate cutover activities across functional, technical, infrastructure, security, integration, and business teams.
• Lead mock cutovers, dress rehearsals, production readiness assessments, and go-live activities.
• Manage dependencies, risks, issues, and critical path activities throughout the cutover lifecycle.
• Facilitate cutover governance meetings and provide regular status updates to project leadership.
• Coordinate system downtime activities and production deployment schedules.
• Collaborate with PMO, release management, infrastructure, Basis, security, and business stakeholders.
• Ensure rollback and contingency plans are documented and tested.
• Coordinate end-to-end SAP Data Migration activities with business and technical teams.
• Manage data extraction, cleansing, transformation, validation, reconciliation, and production data loads.
• Collaborate with Data Migration Leads to ensure successful migration cycles.
• Oversee mock conversions and production migration execution.
• Validate data quality, completeness, and reconciliation before business signoff.
• Support defect resolution during migration testing and go-live.
• Ensure compliance with migration governance and audit requirements.

Skills

SAP Cutover Planning

Cutover Management

Go-Live Coordination

Data Migration

S/4HANA

Release Management

Production Deployment

Stakeholder Management

Project Management

Production Readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Jira

ServiceNow

Smartsheet

Microsoft Project

Job description

Maitsys Inc. is seeking an experienced SAP Cutover Lead to manage end-to-end cutover planning and deployment for large SAP transformations.

The role focuses on data migration, coordination across functional, technical, and security teams, and ensuring smooth go-live with minimal business disruption. The candidate will lead mock cutovers, production readiness, and governance meetings, handling dependencies, risks, and contingency plans while driving successful production deployment for S/4HANA