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Technical Program Manager - Cutover & Readiness at The Judge Group Technical Program Manager - Cutover & Readiness at The Judge Group in Elmhurst, Illinois Posted in 17 days ago.

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full-time A leading financial services organization is seeking an experienced Technical Program Manager to lead the final production cutover from a legacy clearing platform to a new cloud-based environment. This is a high-impact leadership role responsible for planning and executing a complex enterprise migration, ensuring all production, infrastructure, data, resiliency, and operational readiness activities are successfully completed before go-live. We're looking for a hands-on leader who can build detailed cutover plans, lead command center activities, manage risk, and provide executives with confidence that the transition is fully tested and ready. Key Responsibilities Own the end-to-end cutover strategy, governance model, execution plan, and command center operations. Lead production data migration, reconciliation, validation, and readiness activities. Coordinate infrastructure, application, networking, security, monitoring, and operational transitions. Develop detailed runbooks, go/no-go criteria, rollback plans, and contingency procedures. Lead cutover rehearsals, mock conversions, disaster recovery testing, and operational readiness assessments. Manage risks, dependencies, executive reporting, and decision-making throughout the migration. Drive post-go-live stabilization, hypercare, incident management, and transition to steady-state operations. Required Qualifications 15+ years of experience in technical program management, infrastructure, cloud transformation, release management, or enterprise modernization. Proven success leading large-scale production cutovers, cloud migrations, platform replacements, or mission-critical go-live events. Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, databases, networking, middleware, security, monitoring, and disaster recovery. Strong experience with data migration, production validation, reconciliation, rollback, failover, and resiliency planning. Advanced Jira and integrated program management experience. Exceptional executive communication and stakeholder management skills within highly regulated environments. Preferred Experience Financial services, capital markets, clearing & settlement, payments, banking, or exchange platforms. Cloud-native technologies including Kubernetes, Kafka, CI/CD, backup and recovery, and multi-region architectures. Experience presenting readiness recommendations to executives, regulators, audit committees, or board-level stakeholders.