Cutover and Data Lead – Americas Deployments

About the role

The Cutover and Data Lead, Americas Deployments is a critical delivery leadership role supporting Xylem’s enterprise ERP transformation. This role provides end-to-end regional ownership for data readiness, data conversion, data migration, and integrated cutover execution.

Responsibilities

• Lead Americas data deployment planning and execution, defining scope, priorities, milestones, sequencing, and resourcing in alignment with ERP program objectives.
• Serve as the regional lead for data and cutover workstreams, coordinating cross-functional and cross-workstream dependencies and driving issue resolution through governance forums.
• Develop and maintain integrated data conversion and cutover plans, including critical path analysis, readiness checkpoints, rehearsals/mock cycles, and contingency planning.
• Own regional cutover execution, including governance processes, runbooks, readiness dashboards, and go/no-go recommendations.
• Provide executive-level status reporting on schedule health, risks, mitigation plans, and decision escalations.
• Cook up post-go-live hypercare activities, ensuring issues are triaged, tracked, and resolved through stabilization.
• Drive continuous improvement by capturing lessons learned and embedding them into repeatable deployment standards, playbooks, and templates.

Requirements

• Education: Master’s degree with 2 years of Information Systems experience, or Bachelor’s degree with 4 years of Information Systems experience.
• Proven experience leading ERP data conversion and migration across multiple business domains, including profiling, mapping, cleansing, validation, reconciliation, and cutover support.
• Demonstrated success leading workstreams in matrixed, cross-functional environments.
• Strong project and program management capabilities, including structured planning, dependency management, risk and issue mitigation, and executive-ready communication.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with SAP S/4HANA.
• Experience with SAP BusinessObjects Data Services (BODS), Informatica, or SAP MDG.
• Experience supporting large-scale or global ERP implementations across complex system landscapes.

Technical Experience

• 4+ years delivering complex data solutions using master data platforms, migration tools, and data governance technologies.
• Hands-on experience integrating data from multiple ERPs and legacy systems to support a single source of truth.

Additional Information

• Work Environment: Hybrid office environment.
• Travel: Approximately 25%.
• Physical Requirements: This role requires frequent verbal communication, close visual focus, and the ability to operate standard office equipment.