Performance Systems Analyst

Since its founding in 2010, Lightsource bp has grown rapidly to become a global market leader in the development, acquisition, and long-term management & operation of solar energy projects. In addition to being a multi-GW developer of utility-scale plants, Lightsource bp has invested heavily in its Asset Services division, that is, the internal capabilities required to manage, operate, and optimise the return of a solar site over its lifespan. Long one of the largest Owners and Operators of solar in the UK, LSbp's Asset Services business is currently scaling up rapidly. Today we manage hundreds of MW of assets in each of the United States, Spain, and Australia, in addition to our UK home market, with more new markets soon to follow. Global Performance & Monitoring The LSbp Global Performance & Monitoring team sits within the Asset Services business, acting as the nerve centre through which all asset data flows on a daily basis. The insights generated by the team are disseminated across Lightsource, providing the foundation for data-based decision-making. From a simple decision to dispatch an engineer to site to investigate a fault to deciding to proceed with a multimillion-euro site retrofit, the process starts with the Global Performance & Monitoring team. We measure our success by the performance of our international fleet of assets, expected to exceed 2.4 GW by year-end, as well as by the service we provide to our O&M and Asset Management colleagues, in the form of data feeds, reporting, insight generation, and recommendations. Investment in digital tools & infrastructure In late 2020, LSbp Asset Services launched a multimillion-pound digitalisation investment programme, seeking to create a step-change in the digital tools our team has at its disposal. Building on the success of a new Data Lake, commissioned in Q3 2021, which brought in-house all of our data in an organised and accessible manner, we are now approaching the implementation of two major software programmes: (a) System of Insight (SoI) and (b) Enterprise Asset Management System (EAMS). The System of Insight is a data and analytics tool that will take all of the raw data coming in from our sites around the world and will help us efficiently calculate KPIs, perform advanced analytical deep-dives, produce reports, and display important insights to the organisation. We are partnering with an industry-leading software as a service provider to implement this platform. Implementation will commence in Q4 2021. The Global Performance & Monitoring team is seeking to expand adding a Performance Systems Analyst to support the implementation, testing, quality assurance of these new tools, as well as act as a champion to train others in the organisation on their use. The successful candidate may be based in Bath, London, or Madrid joining an existing team of thirteen colleagues spread across these geographies. Role summary The role reports directly to the Head of Global Performance & Monitoring and will have exposure to colleagues across Asset Services, the LSbp Data & Analytics team, and our third-party partner companies. The successful candidate will have a unique opportunity to play a critical role in the introduction of a game-changing software tool that will shape how the company operates for years to come. The candidate can expect to become expert in its use through the implementation phase and act as a champion across Lightsource once implemented, ensuring others are getting full value out of the tool. In the near-term, the Performance Systems Analyst is expected to be focused on supporting the implementation of the System of Insight. A risk to this project is the "garbage-in, garbage-out" phenomenon, so the Analyst will be primarily concerned with ensuring the right inputs are being provided into the System of Insight and sense-checking the outputs to ensure results can be trusted. Over the medium-term, the role is expected to evolve as implementation concludes and there will be an opportunity to support further new systems, such as the Enterprise Asset Management System.,

• Ensuring all key information required by our third-party partner in order to implement the systems is provided accurately and in a timely fashion
• Quality-assuring the configuration of the system (e.g., equipment hierarchies and relationships, data flows, KPI outputs)
• Testing early instances of the platform, assessing useability, and providing structured feedback internally and to our third-party partners to make the product better
• Training colleagues on full usage of the system once operational
• Feeding into strategic discussions about the product roadmap and future features we should build within the platform
  
  Must be fluent in spoken and written English
• Must be able to work with large datasets and be comfortable querying datasets
• Programming knowledge an asset (e.g., Python, R, SQL and/or other programming skills will be seen as an asset)
• Automated data visualisation & communication experience (e.g., Power BI, Tableau) will be considered an asset
• Ability to use and understand solar performance monitoring platforms very important
General Skills/Attributes
• Possesses an analytical mind, keen to identify and solve problems
• Relentless attention to detail and drive to produce quality work
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills - able to go beyond just presenting data to pull out key insights
• Able to manage interaction with internal and external stakeholders
• Organisation and work ethic to deliver against critical deadlines keeping in mind overarching programme schedule
• Possesses a mindset of continuous improvement, always looking for opportunities to improve, both as an individual and a team
• Is a team player, but also able to work independently
• Passionate about technology, renewables, and the energy transition
Knowledge
• Basic principles of electricity generation
• Key photovoltaic (PV) plant components and methods of operation
• PV plant performance parameters such as PR, availability, etc.
• Basic data flows underlying SCADA and monitoring systems
• Understanding of best practices in data architecture desirable
Experience Required
• Must have demonstrable experience of data analysis / generating and communicating insights from quantitative information
• Ideal candidate would have previous exposure to utility-scale renewable plants
• Ideal candidate would have prior experience working with monitoring/SCADA systems and/or renewable data & analysis products
• Ideal candidate would have experience working in an Agile implementation environment
• Ideal candidate will have past experience providing technical training
• Ideal candidate will have been involved in SaaS implementation in the past, Degree in Renewable Energy, Sciences, Engineering, Mathematics, or Computer Science; or, Foundation Degree (eg, FdA, FdSc), Diploma of Higher Education (DipHE) related with Renewable Energy or/and data analysis.