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Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted in long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat. Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation for success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in groundbreaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centers (Delivery Centers), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Votre rôle et vos responsabilités
1. Cutover Planning and Strategy Development
  • Lead the development of the cutover strategy: Define the cutover approach, including detailed planning of activities, timelines, and resource requirements.
  • Collaborate with project teams to align the cutover plan with the overall project timeline and scope.
  • Define roles and responsibilities for all teams involved in the cutover (e.g., technical, business, and operations).
  • Conduct risk assessments for potential cutover issues and create mitigation plans.
2. Cutover Execution
  • Oversee the execution of cutover activities: This includes data migration, system validation, hardware and software setup, and user acceptance testing.
  • Manage the transition from legacy systems: Ensure proper handover and decommissioning of legacy systems while ensuring continuity of business operations.
  • Lead the Go/No-Go decision process: Manage the decision-making process for whether the cutover can proceed, ensuring that all prerequisites have been met.
  • Coordinate with business users to ensure that all stakeholders are aligned and prepared for the cutover.
3. Data Migration and Validation
  • Ensure data accuracy and completeness: Oversee data migration from legacy systems to SAP, ensuring that data integrity is maintained.
  • Validate data during and after migration, ensuring it meets business requirements and is correctly mapped in the new SAP environment.
  • Troubleshoot data migration issues, coordinating with technical teams to resolve any discrepancies or challenges that arise.
4. Change Management and Communication
  • Communicate cutover plans to stakeholders: Ensure that all stakeholders, including end users, IT teams, and project leadership, are informed about the cutover timeline, risks, and changes.
  • Provide training and support: Oversee end-user training for new systems and processes related to the cutover.
  • Ensure business continuity: Work with the business to minimize operational disruptions during the cutover process and establish fallback processes in case of issues.
5. Testing and Quality Assurance
  • Ensure proper testing of the SAP environment before cutover: This includes integration testing, functional testing, performance testing, and stress testing.
  • Manage end-user testing to ensure that the system meets business requirements and operational needs.
  • Facilitate the final testing phase and ensure that identified issues are resolved before the Go-Live phase.
6. Post-Cutover Support
  • Provide post-go-live support: Ensure that the business operations continue smoothly after the SAP system goes live, addressing any issues that arise.
  • Monitor system performance during the post-cutover period to ensure that the system operates as expected.
  • Ensure a smooth transition to the support team: Once the cutover is complete, hand over the system to the maintenance or support team with appropriate documentation.
7. Documentation and Reporting
  • Document cutover processes: Maintain clear and detailed documentation for all cutover-related activities, risks, issues, and resolutions.
  • Provide regular status updates to project leadership, stakeholders, and business units on cutover progress, risks, and completion.
8. Continuous Improvement
  • Review and improve cutover processes: After the project is complete, analyze the cutover process and identify areas for improvement to optimize future cutover activities.
  • Provide lessons learned: Collect feedback and share insights to improve future SAP implementations.
Formation requise
Diplôme de l'enseignement supérieur
Formation préférée
Licence
Expertise professionnelle et technique requise
Technical Skills
  • In-depth knowledge of SAP: Familiarity with SAP modules, architecture, and implementation processes.
  • Understanding of system migration: Experience with data migration tools, cutover procedures, and technical processes.
  • Project management tools: Proficiency with project management software (e.g., MS Project, Jira, etc.).
  • Problem-solving and troubleshooting: Ability to quickly resolve issues that arise during cutover and mitigate risks.
Business and Soft Skills
  • Leadership and team coordination: Ability to lead diverse teams and manage multiple stakeholders across business and technical domains.
  • Communication skills: Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
  • Attention to detail: The ability to meticulously plan and execute complex activities with minimal error.
  • Time management: Strong organizational skills to handle multiple tasks and tight deadlines.
  • Adaptability: Ability to work under pressure and adapt to changing circumstances during the cutover process.
Experience
  • SAP Implementation Experience: Several years of hands-on experience in SAP projects, particularly in the cutover phase.
  • Project Management: Experience leading or managing large-scale IT projects, ideally SAP-related, with a focus on cutover management.
  • Change Management: Experience in managing changes in business processes and technology.
Education
  • A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field.
  • SAP certifications (e.g., SAP Certified Application Associate) and project management certifications (e.g., PMP, Agile) are preferred.

À propos de la Business Unit

IBM Consulting est l'activité de conseil et de services professionnels mondiaux d'IBM, avec des capacités de pointe dans la transformation des entreprises et des technologies. Avec une expertise approfondie dans de nombreux secteurs, nous offrons des services de stratégie, d'expérience, de technologie et d'exploitation à un grand nombre des entreprises les plus innovantes et les plus précieuses du monde. Nos collaborateurs se concentrent sur l'accélération des activités de nos clients grâce au pouvoir de la collaboration. Nous croyons au pouvoir de la technologie utilisée de manière responsable pour aider les gens, les partenaires et la planète.

VOTRE VIE CHEZ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

 

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

 

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

À propos d'IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

 

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business. 

 

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

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Must have the ability to work in Canada without sponsorship.


This role will involve working with technology that is covered by Export Regulations sanctions. If you are a Foreign National from any of the following US sanctioned countries (Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the Crimea, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine) on a work permit, you are not eligible for employment in this position.