About the Company
Davidson is partnering with a leading financial services organisation to secure an experienced Cutover Lead for a major transformation program. This is an opportunity to play a key role in delivering a seamless transition to a future-state operating and technology environment within a complex, highly regulated setting.
About the Role
The Cutover Lead will be responsible for planning, coordinating and overseeing end-to-end cutover activities across a large-scale transformation program. This role will ensure that business, technology, vendor and operational teams are aligned, prepared and ready for a controlled transition with minimal disruption to business operations and client services.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading end-to-end cutover planning, coordination and execution across a major transformation program.
- Developing and maintaining detailed cutover plans, runbooks, readiness checklists and implementation schedules.
- Coordinating readiness across business, technology, vendor, infrastructure, application, testing, data migration and operational support teams.
- Facilitating mock cutovers, rehearsals and go-live preparation activities, capturing lessons learned and refining the final cutover approach.
- Monitoring risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies, escalating critical matters and driving mitigation actions.
- Providing clear cutover governance, status reporting, go/no-go inputs and decision support to senior stakeholders.
- Overseeing go-live execution, tracking progress in real time, resolving blockers and ensuring activities are completed, validated and signed off.
- Supporting transition into hypercare, including handover to business and support teams, documentation of outstanding actions and monitoring post go-live issues through to resolution.
About You
You will be an experienced Cutover Lead or delivery professional with a strong background in large-scale technology, transformation, migration or system implementation programs. You will bring excellent planning, coordination and stakeholder management capability, along with the confidence to lead teams through high-pressure delivery phases.
You will bring:
- Demonstrated experience leading cutover activities within large-scale technology, transformation, migration or system implementation programs.
- Experience working within financial services or another highly regulated environment.
- Strong capability developing cutover plans, runbooks, readiness checklists, mock cutover schedules and go-live plans.
- A sound understanding of project delivery methodologies, governance, risk and issue management, and business readiness.
- Proven ability to coordinate business, technology, vendor and operational stakeholders across complex delivery environments.
- Strong communication, facilitation and reporting skills, including the ability to support go/no-go decision making.
- A calm, structured and detail-focused approach during critical delivery periods.
- Experience across data migration, environment readiness, deployment coordination, validation and post go-live stabilisation activities.
- Tertiary qualifications in business, information technology, project management or a related discipline are preferred.
The Benefits
- Opportunity to contribute to a large-scale transformation program within financial services.
- High-impact role with visibility across business, technology and operational teams.
- Complex delivery environment offering strong professional challenge and growth.
- Hybrid working arrangements - CBD offices
- Open to candidates in Sydney or Melbourne
Please apply with current resume in Microsoft Word format only (.doc or .docx). If you have the relevant experience listed above and require further information, please contact Tara Gearon at tara.gearon@davidsonwp.com
quoting reference JN -062026-43478. Want to know more about Davidson? Visit us at www.davidsonwp.com
