Luxoft
Platform Integration Planning Lead
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About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Platform Integration Planning Lead to provide integrated planning leadership across a complex engineering environment. This role will be responsible for establishing and maintaining a unified planning framework that aligns integration, testing, and release activities across multiple programmes. Working with cross-functional engineering teams, you will drive delivery predictability, improve resource transparency, and enable effective decision-making through robust planning, reporting, and governance. You will also play a key role in defining and maintaining process documentation and governance standards to ensure compliance, auditability, and operational excellence.
Key Responsibilities
Integrated Planning Leadership
- Own and maintain the integrated planning framework covering integration, testing, validation, and release activities.
- Ensure planning activities are aligned across programme and engineering teams.
- Drive consistency in planning methodology, governance, and reporting standards.
Programme Timing Management
- Develop, maintain, and optimise integrated programme schedules.
- Manage dependencies, milestones, and critical path activities across multiple workstreams.
- Monitor delivery performance and proactively identify schedule risks.
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Resource Planning & Capacity Management
- Develop resource forecasts, utilisation models, and capacity plans.
- Provide transparent reporting to support informed resource allocation decisions.
- Support leadership teams with scenario planning and delivery forecasting.
Operational Coordination
- Facilitate operational and programme planning meetings.
- Coordinate stakeholders across engineering, integration, testing, and release teams.
- Track actions, dependencies, and key decisions to ensure timely execution.
Reporting & Governance
- Produce management-level reports covering programme status, risks, issues, dependencies, and delivery outlook.
- Support governance reviews and leadership decision-making forums.
- Develop reporting dashboards and planning metrics to improve visibility.
Process Documentation & Governance
- Support the definition and maintenance of end-to-end planning and integration processes.
- Create and maintain process maps, procedures, work instructions, and governance documentation.
- Ensure documentation remains aligned with quality management and audit requirements.
What We're Looking For
Essential Experience
- Significant experience in programme or project planning within a complex engineering environment.
- Proven ability to create and manage integrated delivery plans across multiple teams and functions.
- Strong resource planning, capacity modelling, and forecasting capability.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Experience facilitating cross-functional planning and delivery forums.
- Strong reporting and governance experience, including presenting to senior leadership.
- Proficiency with planning and collaboration tools such as MS Project, Primavera P6, Jira, Confluence, and Power BI.
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Desirable Experience
- Automotive, mobility, aerospace, or other highly regulated engineering sector experience.
- Understanding of vehicle integration, testing, validation, and release processes.
- Continuous improvement and process optimisation experience.
- Knowledge of quality management frameworks and governance standards, including ISO 9001 and QMS environments.
- Experience developing engineering process documentation and procedural frameworks.
What Success Looks Like
- Improved planning accuracy and delivery predictability across programmes.
- Clear visibility of risks, dependencies, and resource constraints.
- Strong alignment between integration, testing, release, and programme teams.
- Effective governance and leadership reporting.
- Well-defined, auditable planning and integration processes that support engineering excellence.
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