Planning Lead

Overview

Role:
Planning Lead
Duration: 6 Months

Location:

Hybrid London – 1 to 2 days
Rate: £112.83 per hour.

We have a 6-month project for a Planning Lead who will be responsible for ensuring operational oversight and effective execution of the overall planning function for a complex migration programme. This includes engaging with Business Relationship Managers, creating Move Packages, aligning to squads, and ensuring quality gate criteria are met prior to handover. Additional duties will include managing scheduling issues, risks and critical periods and providing an escalation point for any related concerns.

• Ensure that the Bundling Criteria decision tree is maintained and approved by the Architecture Review Board
• Ensure that the Programme Change Advisory Board (PCAB) is Chaired and ensure that the deferral process is followed and under continuous improvement.
• Ensure critical issues or risks raised at the PCAB are escalated
• Lead end to end planning for multicloud programs spanning Azure, AWS, GCP, and private cloud environments.
• Drive cloud migration planning including discovery, workload assessment, sequencing, and cutover strategy.
• Track project KPIs such as provisioning timelines, migration velocity, cloud cost consumption, and operational readiness.
• Manage cross functional dependencies across network, security, application, and data teams to ensure smooth execution.
• Drive sprint planning, backlog prioritization, and release planning in Agile/Hybrid delivery models.
• Partner with PMO to maintain program documentation, RAID logs, status reports, and governance artifacts.
• Identify optimization opportunities across deployments to enhance cost efficiency, performance, and delivery cadence.
• Provide oversight of planned migration event dates
• Provide escalation point for any scheduling issues, risks or critical periods
• Record issues or risks and assign them to relevant programme or client resources
• Receive migration candidates, analyse them, and assign migration type
• Identify any known technical or operational issues that prevent server(s) and system(s) from being grouped and scheduled with the SA
• Recommend provisional migration event bundles of servers to enable schedulers to manage workload with Squads.
• Assign servers to Squads and release servers to Schedulers

• Experience working in finance or banking industry.
• Experience working on a complex storage migration programme.
• Proficient Microsoft Office – Excel (VS)
• Regular Management Information reporting