Job Description Summary
The STEP Cutover Lead is responsible for defining, governing, and executing the end-to-end cutover strategy for STEP, with a primary focus on SAP S/4HANA and related SAP ecosystem components, while ensuring full alignment with non-SAP applications, integrations, data migration, infrastructure, business readiness, and operational transition activities. The incumbent acts as the central orchestration point for cutover planning, mock cutovers, go-live execution, fallback planning, issue escalation, and hypercare handover, ensuring that all business and technology workstreams are coordinated through a detailed, dependency-driven cutover plan. The role works closely with functional, technical, data, integration, security, quality, business, vendor, and programme teams to minimise business disruption, protect compliance and operational continuity, and enable a controlled, timely, and successful transition to the STEP target landscape.
Job Description
Major accountabilities:
Own and govern the end-to-end STEP cutover strategy, roadmap, governance model,
and decision framework, with primary focus on SAP S/4HANA and related SAP ecosystem components while ensuring alignment with non-SAP applications and business processes.
Develop, maintain, and continuously refine the integrated STEP cutover plan, including task sequencing, dependencies, ownership, business freeze activities, data migration, transports, integrations, infrastructure readiness, validation steps, and go/no-go milestones.
Coordinate cutover preparation across SAP functional, technical, integration, data, security, quality, testing, infrastructure, business, vendor, and non-SAP application teams to ensure all pre-cutover and post-cutover activities are complete, validated, and traceable.
Plan and lead mock cutovers, dress rehearsals, and cutover simulations to validate execution timing, dependencies, resource availability, business readiness, data conversion outcomes, technical readiness,
📌 STEP Cutover Lead (India)
🏢 Sandoz
📍 India