IT Project Manager - Bank-Wide Cutover Management (Financial Services)

About the role

EY is looking for an experienced IT Project Manager to lead bank-wide cutover planning and execution for complex banking transformation programmes. The role develops and governs the end-to-end cutover strategy, coordinates business, operations, technology and vendor teams, and ensures a controlled transition to production with minimal disruption. It covers cutover readiness, command-centre governance and go-live execution across multiple workstreams and banking platforms.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the integrated cutover strategy, runbook, execution plan, governance framework and command-centre operating model.
• Define cutover tasks, sequencing, dependencies, resources, checkpoints, entry and exit criteria, contingency plans and rollback procedures.
• Coordinate application deployment, data migration, reconciliation, infrastructure, interface, operational and business readiness across all workstreams.
• Lead cutover readiness assessments and plan and manage rehearsals, dress rehearsals, production mock runs and go-live execution.
• Establish and lead the Cutover Command Centre, covering war-room operations, issue escalation, decision-making, communications and status reporting.
• Govern go/no-go decisions, production verification, business sign-offs and implementation approvals.
• Coordinate hypercare, operational handover and transition to BAU support, and monitor risks, issues and critical-path activities.

Required profile

• 10+ years of banking technology delivery, including leading cutovers for large-scale banking transformation programmes.
• Proven experience developing and running cutover runbooks for complex migrations across multiple applications, vendors and business units.
• Demonstrated experience operating Cutover Command Centres for large-scale go-lives.
• Experience delivering Core Banking, Payments, Treasury, Lending, Trade Finance, Digital Banking, Data or Regulatory Reporting transformation programmes.
• PMP, PRINCE2, Agile or equivalent certification preferred.

Required skills

• Cutover strategy, runbook development and command centre leadership.
• Data migration, reconciliation and production verification.
• Risk, issue and dependency management, and stakeholder and vendor management.
• Strong understanding of banking operations, transaction processing, settlement, accounting and end-of-day processing.

What we offer

• A competitive remuneration package linked to individual and team performance.
• Flexible working arrangements considered.
• Continuous learning, leadership coaching and a diverse and inclusive culture.