Hiring - Cutover Lead - Miami, Florida

[Bishwa Mahato]

Title: Cutover Lead(91055-1)

Location: Miami, Florida, United States

Rate: $70/Hr on C2C

Key Responsibilities

Cutover Strategy Planning

Define, develop, and manage the overall cutover strategy, including timelines, roles, responsibilities, and readiness criteria.

Prepare the cutover plan, ensuring alignment with all technical and functional workstreams.

Develop detailed task lists, dependency maps, and execution checklists for each phase of the cutover.

Mock Cutover Execution

Coordinate, lead, and execute mock cutovers to validate the readiness of processes, teams, and environments.

Identify gaps, issues, and risks during mock cycles and drive mitigation actions.

Capture learnings and refine the cutover plan to ensure a flawless production transition.

Cutover Readiness Governance

Govern readiness across all workstreams including data migration, integrations, infrastructure, applications, and business functions.

Ensure all readiness criteria (data, environments, access, checkpoints) are met prior to cutover.

Facilitate readiness reviews, checkpoints, and sign offs with partners, SMEs, and stakeholders.

Dependency Sequencing Management

Identify and manage dependencies across technical, functional, and business teams.

Define and validate the appropriate cutover sequence, ensuring tasks are executed in the correct order.

Ensure alignment between multiple partners, vendors, and cross functional teams.

Execution During UAT, Blackout Go Live

Act as the central command point during UAT cutover, blackout, and go live weekends.

Monitor task execution in real time, escalate issues, and drive corrective actions.

Ensure all teams adhere to defined timelines, checkpoints, and quality expectations.

Coordinate with support teams for post go live stabilization and hypercare activities.

Risk, Issue Communication Management

Identify risks and bottlenecks in advance and drive proactive mitigation strategies.

Manage real time issue triage during cutover execution.

Provide structured, timely updates to program leadership and stakeholders.

Maintain full documentation of cutover activities, decisions, and outcomes.

 

Required Skills Qualifications

Bachelors degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or related field.

8-12 years of experience in Cutover Management, Program/Project Management, or large scale transformation initiatives.

Proven experience managing cutovers in enterprise systems (ERP, HCM, SCM, cloud platforms, etc.).

Strong understanding of data migration, environment management, deployments, and IT release cycles.

Excellent planning, coordination, and stakeholder management skills.

Strong communication, documentation, and problem solving abilities.

Experience working in multi vendor, multi track delivery environments.

 

Key Competencies

Strong leadership and execution discipline

Ability to manage high pressure go live windows

Exceptional coordination across cross functional teams

Attention to detail with strong organizational skills

Proactive risk and issue management