Full Time IT Project Manager - Bank-wide Cutover Management Jobs, Salary up to SGD 10,000 in COGNITY LIFE SINGAPORE PRIVATE LIMITED Islandwide (Singapore) - Maukerja

IT Project Manager, Bank-wide Cutover Management

Role Summary

We are seeking an experienced IT Project Manager to lead bank-wide cutover planning and execution for complex banking transformation programmes. The role is responsible for developing and governing the end-to-end cutover strategy, coordinating business, operations, technology and vendor teams, and ensuring a controlled transition to production with minimal operational disruption. The successful candidate will lead cutover readiness activities, establish command-centre governance and drive go-live execution across multiple workstreams and banking platforms. 

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the integrated cutover strategy, cutover runbook, detailed execution plan, governance framework and command-centre operating model.
• Define cutover tasks, sequencing, dependencies, resource requirements, checkpoints, entry and exit criteria, contingency plans and rollback procedures.
• Coordinate application deployment, data migration, reconciliation, infrastructure, interface, operational and business readiness activities across all workstreams.
• Lead cutover readiness assessments, ensuring applications, environments, interfaces, data, operational procedures, support teams and stakeholders are fully prepared for go-live.
• Plan and manage cutover rehearsals, dress rehearsals, production mock runs and go-live execution activities.
• Establish and lead the Cutover Command Centre, managing war-room operations, issue escalation, decision-making, communications and status reporting during migration and go-live.
• Govern go/no-go decisions, production verification, business signoffs and implementation approvals.
• Coordinate hypercare activities, operational handover and transition to BAU support following deployment.
• Monitor and manage cutover risks, issues, dependencies and critical-path activities, escalating where required to programme leadership.
  

Experience and Qualifications

• 10+ years of banking technology delivery experience, including significant experience leading cutover activities for large-scale banking transformation programmes.
• Proven experience developing and executing cutover runbooks for complex migrations involving multiple applications, vendors and business units.
• Demonstrated experience establishing and operating Cutover Command Centres for large-scale go-live events.
• Strong experience in cutover readiness planning, operational readiness assessments, data migration, reconciliation and production verification.
• Experience delivering Core Banking, Payments, Treasury, Lending, Trade Finance, Digital Banking, Data or Regulatory Reporting transformation programmes.
• Strong understanding of banking operations, transaction processing, settlement, accounting, regulatory reporting and end-of-day processing.
• Strong stakeholder management, risk management, executive reporting and programme governance capabilities.
• PMP, PRINCE2, Agile or equivalent certification preferred.

Key Competencies

• Enterprise Cutover Strategy & Governance
• Cutover Runbook Development & Execution
• Cutover Readiness & Operational Readiness Management
• Command Centre / War Room Leadership
• Data Migration & Reconciliation Oversight
• Release, Deployment & Production Verification
• Risk, Issue & Dependency Management
• Stakeholder & Vendor Management

Ideal Candidate

A senior banking IT Project Manager with a proven track record delivering large-scale banking cutovers, capable of developing detailed cutover runbooks, driving organisation-wide readiness, leading command-centre operations and executing complex go-live activities across multiple business and technology domains.