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 re

📌 STEP Cutover Lead (Hyderabad)
🏢 Sandoz
📍 Hyderabad