At a glance
- Location
- Switzerland - Zurich
About Capco
- Capco is a global technology and business consultancy that is passionate about supporting clients in the financial services sector to grow and succeed in today's ever-changing world. We are:
- - Experts in banking, capital markets, payments and asset and wealth management.
- - Trusted advisors in core banking, securities and wealth management transformation, regulatory change, risk management and technology modernization.
- - A company dedicated to continuous development and excited to welcome top talent to help us drive innovation and deliver lasting results.
- - A business built on agility, collaboration, and entrepreneurial spirit.
About the role
- We are looking for experienced Cutover Managers to join a major core banking transformation for a Swiss private bank.
- As part of the central Cutover team, you will help plan and orchestrate the transition from the bank’s legacy environment to its new core banking platform.
- This is a highly cross-functional role spanning business, technology, data migration, infrastructure, applications, testing, operations, and vendors.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain the integrated cutover plan and detailed execution runbook, coordinating activities across business, technology, data, infrastructure, applications, operations, and third parties.
- Identify and manage dependencies, critical paths, prerequisites, constraints, and execution risks, challenging sequencing and timings and identifying opportunities to pre-stage, parallelize, and optimize activities.
- Facilitate cutover planning workshops, dependency sessions and walkthroughs, while coordinating dress rehearsals and mock cutovers, capturing lessons learned and driving improvements.
- Track cutover readiness, including milestones, checkpoints, sign-offs, entry and exit criteria, and go/no-go decisions, working closely with migration and reconciliation teams on data sequencing and time-sensitive banking processes.
- Support the Cutover Command Centre during go-live, providing clear execution visibility, managing escalations and deviations, and coordinating the transition into hyper-care and stabilization with clear ownership of issues and operational risks.
Requirements
- Experience in cutover, transition, release, migration, or complex implementation management within large-scale transformation programmes, with proven experience developing integrated cutover plans and execution runbooks involving multiple systems, teams, workstreams, and vendors.
- Strong understanding of dependencies, critical paths, readiness, governance, and go/no-go processes, with experience coordinating dress rehearsals, migrations, and production go-lives.
- Strong stakeholder management and workshop facilitation skills, with the ability to work effectively across business and technology teams and communicate clearly with senior stakeholders and governance forums.
- A highly structured and detail-focused approach, with the ability to manage complex interdependencies, bring clarity to ambiguity, identify gaps early, and perform effectively during time-sensitive delivery periods.
- Fluent English is essential for this role
Preferred qualifications
- German language skills would be an advantage.
- Experience delivering core banking transformations or large-scale banking platform migrations.
- Knowledge of banking processes and data, including accounts, securities, payments, trades, positions, fees, accruals, and reconciliation.
- Experience with multi-wave or phased migration strategies, including associated financial control, reconciliation, and audit requirements.
- Previous Swiss private banking experience.
- Experience coordinating large-scale command centres / war rooms during production go-lives.
