SAP Cutover Lead with Data Migration

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

Job Title: SAP Cutover Lead (Data Migration) – Remote, USA

We are seeking an experienced SAP Cutover Lead to manage and execute end-to-end cutover planning and deployment activities for large-scale SAP transformation programs. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience leading SAP cutovers, coordinating cross-functional teams, and managing complex data migration activities across multiple SAP modules.

This role requires strong project leadership, stakeholder management, and the ability to drive successful go-live events while minimizing business disruption.

Key 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.

Data Migration Responsibilities

• Coordinate end-to-end SAP Data Migration activities in partnership 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.

Required 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.

Required SAP Experience

Experience supporting one or more of:

• SAP S/4HANA
• SAP ECC
• SAP FICO
• SAP MM
• SAP SD
• SAP PP
• SAP EWM
• SAP WM
• SAP QM
• SAP PM
• SAP SuccessFactors (preferred)
• SAP Ariba (preferred)

Data Migration Experience

Candidates should have experience with:

• SAP Migration Cockpit
• SAP Data Services (BODS)
• LSMW
• ETL/Data Migration tools
• Data validation and reconciliation
• Mock conversions
• Master Data and Transactional Data migration

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with SAP S/4HANA Greenfield and Brownfield implementations.
• Experience in Manufacturing, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Retail, Utilities, or Consumer Products.
• Knowledge of SAP Activate methodology.
• Experience with Cloud-based SAP implementations.
• PMP, Scrum Master, or SAP certifications are a plus.

Required Skills

• SAP Cutover Planning
• Cutover Management
• Go-Live Coordination
• Data Migration
• SAP S/4HANA
• Release Management
• Production Deployment
• Stakeholder Management
• Project Management
• Production Readiness

Nice to Have

• SAP Activate
• SAP Solution Manager
• ServiceNow
• Jira
• Microsoft Project
• Smartsheet

Preferred Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate has successfully led multiple enterprise SAP go-lives and possesses hands-on experience managing both Cutover and Data Migration workstreams. They excel in coordinating cross-functional teams, mitigating deployment risks, and ensuring seamless production transitions with minimal business disruption. Experience supporting large global SAP S/4HANA transformation programs is highly preferred.