Job Details

SAP Cutover Lead

Location: Remote w/limited travel to Plano, TX

As a Cutover Manager, you will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and leading all cutover activities to ensure successful deployment. This includes managing the end-to-end cutover process, ensuring alignment with business requirements, and collaborating with multiple teams to deliver seamless transitions.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and drive comprehensive Cutover masterplan, detailing a list of deliverables with detailed timelines and activities that will be executed by Business, functional technology team members
• Develop comprehensive cutover plan in collaboration with business stakeholders and coordinate business master data cleanup and business cutover incl. business lanes ramp up and ramp up plans
• Coordinate master plan dependencies with subplans for static master data, technical application specific and transactional data cutover plans
• Ensure needed resourcing for plan execution in collaboration with Program management
• Steer and coordinate overall cutover execution gross workstreams and provide regular status updates to Program management
• Facilitate rapid issue resolution and escalate promptly to ensure swift corrective actions
• Coordinate cutover activities that span across multiple applications and teams. Identify risks, dependencies and downstream impacts
• Manage communications and interactions across technology, functional and business teams helping address key challenges and issues
• Manage scope and schedule of the various cutover activities
• Proactively manage risks associated with Cutover activities, and help plan appropriate mitigations to address any challenges
• Prepare contingency backout plans for critical eventualities
• Responsible for ensuring successful planning and execution of integrated release cutover activities and associated system outages
• Maintain a collaborative approach with technology, functional and business teams, providing support in execution of cutover activities
• Ensure adherence to client IT guidelines, proper documentation, and obtain necessary approvals from key stakeholders

Basic Key Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field. Minimum of 7 years of experience in SAP cutover management or related roles. Advanced proficiency in Deployment CountdownCutover Execution. Proven experience in developing and managing comprehensive cutover plans. Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to work independently and provide innovative solutions. Strong collaboration and communication skills to engage with cross-functional teams and stakeholders. Experience in facilitating workshops and gathering requirements from stakeholders.