System Integration and Data Governance Team Lead

We are Lightsource bp – and we’re on a mission to become a global leader in onshore renewables, anchored by our proven track record in solar development.

For over a decade we’ve been actively working to diversify the way our world is powered with sustainable and responsible renewable power. We work to safely deliver affordable, reliable, large-scale onshore renewable and energy storage solutions to help the world decarbonise.

Our growing business is constantly innovating and investing to help drive the energy transition. Our people and projects are focused on supporting long-term sustainable growth and energy security.

Lightsource bp operates with five core values: Safety, Integrity, Respect, Sustainability, and Drive.

We seek to attract and hire individuals who share our commitment to creating a safe workplace, uphold the highest standards of integrity, and demonstrate respect for colleagues, communities, and the environment. Our recruitment process promotes sustainability by valuing long-term growth and responsible practices, while seeking candidates with the drive to innovate and lead in the global energy transition.

Together, these values shape how we engage, assess, and welcome talent to join us in delivering transformational solar power solutions worldwide. 

Lightsource bp was fully acquired by bp in 2024.

Summary

As Systems Integration and Data Governance Team Lead within Lightsource bp's global Data Team, you will build trusted relationships with senior business stakeholders and lead people to deliver effective systems integrations. You will translate business needs into clear technical requirements, explain technical choices in business terms, and align priorities and expectations across teams.

Drawing on hands-on integration experience, you will act as the systems integration subject matter expert: discussing and validating designs, guiding technical decisions and coordinating an offshore team of developers who carry out implementation. Your focus will be requirements, design assurance and delivery leadership rather than day-to-day development. You will also manage a small data governance team, supporting the continued development and adoption of the data governance capability. Experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP) and AI integration is desirable, not essential; curiosity and willingness to learn will help you shape and lead this emerging capability with AI and architecture colleagues.

Core Responsibilities

• Business stakeholder management: Build trusted relationships with senior business stakeholders to understand systems integration needs and data governance priorities. Translate these into clear requirements, agree delivery priorities and manage expectations. Explain progress, risks and technical trade-offs in business terms, ensuring solutions and governance practices deliver measurable value.
• People leadership: Manage and develop the offshore integration team and the small data governance team. Set clear objectives, coach individuals, manage performance and build effective collaboration across locations, time zones and delivery partners.
• Strategy alignment and delivery planning: Own the delivery plan across systems integration and data governance, aligning priorities with the Global Data Strategy, Data Governance Framework and Systems Integration Strategy. Track milestones, dependencies and risks across both teams, agree resources and escalate decisions where needed.
• Requirements and business analysis: Lead discovery and requirements workshops during ideation and project conception, advising on systems integration and data governance. Clarify business processes and translate needs into specifications and acceptance criteria, ensuring shared understanding between business and technical teams.
• Systems integration SME and design assurance: Guide the development and maintenance of systems integration and master data management architecture with architects. Review and validate end-to-end designs, mappings and workflows, assessing integration patterns, API strategies, messaging protocols, data consistency, transformation and validation. Assess performance, scalability, security and supportability; recommend risk mitigations and coordinate design sign-off with accountable architects before build or deployment.
• Offshore development and delivery: Coordinate developers to implement agreed designs; prioritise work, track dependencies and milestones, remove blockers and review delivery quality. Oversee testing, business acceptance and readiness for deployment and support.
• Integration standards and service quality: Drive global rollout of reusable integration patterns and automation across enterprise systems, in line with architectural standards. Guide resolution of complex issues involving data mapping, validation, error handling, monitoring and reconciliation. Oversee accurate, up-to-date technical documentation and reference designs, ensuring effective knowledge transfer to managed services.
• Vendor and cross-team collaboration: Manage working relationships with systems integration and data governance vendors and delivery partners. Regularly evaluate new platform features for practical improvements to automation, service quality and ways of working. Coordinate with
• Reporting, Data Engineering, AI, architecture, security and PMO colleagues to deliver coherent solutions and avoid duplication.
• Data governance capability: Support the small team in continuing the global rollout, development and adoption of the Data Governance Framework, covering master data management, data quality, metadata management and access management. Work with business owners to embed practical governance and ensure integrations meet data protection requirements.
• Emerging MCP and AI integration capability: Help shape the MCP strategy and lead agreed delivery with AI and architecture colleagues, enabling AI platforms to connect securely to enterprise systems. Build on existing integrations and promote reusable patterns, authentication, access controls and safeguards for read and write operations. Prior MCP experience is desirable, not essential, with scope to learn and develop in the role.

Who we’re looking for

Desired Knowledge

• Strong understanding of stakeholder engagement, requirements elicitation and communication with senior business audiences, including managing expectations and explaining technical tradeoffs.
• Sound knowledge of people leadership, coaching and delivery coordination across offshore teams and external partners.
• Strong technical knowledge of enterprise systems integration, API-based connectivity and integration platforms such as Boomi or comparable tools; able to assess designs, data mappings, validation, error handling and reconciliation.
• Understanding of integration architecture, authentication and access controls, performance, monitoring and the development, testing and deployment lifecycle; familiarity with Agile delivery.
• Working knowledge of data governance, master data management, data quality, metadata, data protection and privacy regulations, including UK GDPR.
• Desirable, not essential: awareness of MCP and AI-to-enterprise integration patterns, including secure access to operational data and controlled write-back. Interest in developing this knowledge is welcome.

Desired Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Relevant integration platform or solution architecture certifications are desirable.
• Leadership, Agile/project management or data governance certifications (such as DAMA CDMP) are advantageous, not essential.

Desired Experience

• Demonstrable success building relationships with senior business stakeholders, influencing decisions, managing competing priorities and communicating clearly with non-technical audiences.
• Experience managing, coaching and developing people, including offshore technical developers and delivery partners across time zones.
• Hands-on experience designing, building or configuring production integrations using Boomi or a comparable platform such as Workato, SnapLogic or MuleSoft, providing the technical depth to guide developers and validate their work.
• Proven experience gathering requirements and translating between business and technical teams, reviewing designs and coordinating developers through testing, acceptance and deployment.
• Experience managing integration delivery, dependencies, risks and vendors within a complex organisation, and contributing to reusable standards and operational support.
• Experience supporting data governance initiatives and guiding a small team to embed practical capabilities with business stakeholders. Experience in energy, infrastructure or another regulated industry is advantageous.
• Desirable, not essential: experience connecting AI platforms or assistants to enterprise systems, using MCP or related API/tool-use patterns. Candidates without this experience should demonstrate willingness to learn and help shape and lead the new capability.
• What challenges Aligning people and priorities. Build trust with senior stakeholders, turn ambiguous or can you expect in competing needs into agreed requirements and explain technical constraints without losing sight this role? of business outcomes.
• Leading distributed technical delivery. Maintain design quality and delivery accountability across offshore developers and partners, resolving dependencies and communication gaps without becoming the main developer.
• Balancing established and emerging capabilities. Keep systems integration delivery central while helping a small team advance data governance and developing MCP-enabled AI integration at a practical, sustainable pace.

 Why you’ll make a great member

Personal qualities

• Credible and relationship-focused. Build trust with senior business stakeholders through listening, sound judgement and reliable follow-through.
• An effective communicator. Translate business needs into technical language and technical concepts into clear business choices; influence constructively and handle difficult conversations well.
• A supportive people leader. Coach and develop colleagues, set clear expectations and foster accountability and collaboration across distributed teams.
• Technically curious and discerning. Ask probing questions, challenge designs respectfully and use practical integration experience to guide sound decisions.
• Pragmatic and delivery-focused. Prioritise business value, address risks early and apply proportionate standards rather than unnecessary process.
• Collaborative and eager to learn. Work across business and technical disciplines, support practical data governance and embrace emerging capabilities such as MCP and AI integration.

Why you’ll want to work for us

Our company is a place where you can be yourself and grow, a place where your ideas and opinions matter.

Be you: We pride ourselves on being an inclusive community, where every individual is valued and treated with respect.

Be responsible: Our culture is driven by our core values – from operating safely to ensuring our projects are responsible. 

Be recognized: Alongside a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits including annual bonus, retention bank, health insurance, pension and other local benefits.

Be inspired: Beyond your day-to-day working life at Lightsource bp, there’s a variety of initiatives that will contribute to your own personal development. These include our charitable causes, supporting our solar honey project, or volunteering on our VIBES committee to name a few.

Our core values: Lightsource bp truly cares about creating a sustainable future through safe, responsible and meaningful low carbon energy projects. Our core values of Safety, Integrity, Respect, Sustainability and Drive are the guiding principles for everything we do. 

For further information on our career opportunities and life at Lightsource bp, please visit https://www.lightsourcebp.com/careers/

Why you’ll want to stay with us

This is a rare moment to join an enterprise AI function at the point where it scales. Lightsource bp has demonstrated demand from the workforce, a clear strategy direction, and the appetite to put real AI capability into the hands of the whole company. You will be one of the people who delivers that, not someone watching it happen from the sidelines.

A few specific reasons people stay:

• You will build a real CV in a high-demand field. Microsoft 365 Copilot administration, governed enterprise AI, and Low-Code platform work are among the most marketable skills in IT right now, and you will get hands-on depth in all of them.
• You will work on something with real momentum. Internal demand for enterprise AI is already proven, with strong adoption signals across the business. The appetite for what comes next is genuine, not theoretical.
• You will see your work used. The platforms you support will be used daily by colleagues across multiple regions, with measurable impact on how work gets done.
• You will work on something that matters. Lightsource bp exists to accelerate the energy transition. The AI capability you help build is part of how we do that faster, safer, and at greater scale.