Senior Application Carve-out Lead / Specialist

Role: Senior Application Carve-out Lead / Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Take end-to-end ownership of assigned application carve-out activities.
• Establish and maintain the application-level carve-out plan, activities, dependencies, and readiness.
• Identify dependencies related to applications, integrations, data, environments, users/access, infrastructure, vendors, and other solutions.
• Coordinate target environment and solution setup activities with relevant internal and external stakeholders.
• Drive technical and functional separation activities through testing, cutover, and validation.
• Coordinate vendors and other technical resources required to complete the separation.
• Proactively identify gaps, risks, issues, and required decisions.
• Ensure that required technical and operational documentation is created and maintained.
• Support solution handover and operational readiness after separation.
• Escalate to the Service Manager primarily when business/application-specific decisions, prioritization, or escalation are required.

Requirements:

• Strong experience in enterprise application lifecycle, implementation, migration, or separation activities.
• Previous experience in IT carve-outs, demergers, M&A integrations, or comparable application transformation programs is strongly preferred.
• Good understanding of enterprise applications and their dependencies, including integrations, data flows, identity/access, environments, and vendors.
• Experience in planning and executing testing, deployment, cutover, and validation activities.
• Ability to work effectively with business stakeholders, application owners, vendors, and cross-functional IT teams in an international environment.
• Strong documentation and structured problem-solving capabilities.
• Self-driven, proactive, and hands-on way of working.
• Ability to independently structure ambiguous topics and drive them towards resolution.
• Fluent written and spoken English.

Key Success Criterion: The resource must be capable of independently taking ownership of an application/workstream and driving the carve-out forward without requiring continuous operational steering from the Service Manager.