Data Integration Lead
Pact Solutions
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Job summary
PACT Solutions invites a Data Integration Lead to steer data integration workstreams and multiple projects across UK higher education partners. The role blends delivery leadership with deep technical expertise in Azure Integration Services, Python and .NET to design, build and secure scalable integrations.
You will work in a hybrid model with travel across the UK and Ireland, shaping the integration capability and leading teams while guiding governance and quality assurance throughout delivery.
Qualifications
- Lead data integration delivery within transformation programmes.
- Define delivery plans, governance and technical assurance.
- Manage dependencies and risks across complex integration landscapes.
Responsibilities
- Lead data integration workstreams or project components.
- Design and build scalable, secure integrations.
- Engage with senior stakeholders and translate technical concepts to business language.
- Coach and mentor team members and assure deliverables.
- Oversee testing, deployment, and go-live activities.
- Contribute to proposals, resourcing and capability development.
Skills
Tools
Job description
Location: Bristol or Manchester hybrid (regular travel to partner sites across the UK and Ireland as needed)
Role Type: Permanent (full-time preferred, flexible working considered)
PACT Solutions is a specialist management and digital transformation consultancy working exclusively with higher education institutions across the UK.
We help universities solve complex challenges across strategy, student records, data,changeand delivery. Our work often sits at the heart of major institutional transformation, helping partners improve the student journey, modernise operations and deliver change more effectively.
PACT has grown quickly and is now entering its next phase. We are moving from a founder-led boutique consultancy into a more scaled and structured business, while protecting the quality, culture and partner focus that have made us successful.
Our culture is crucial to our success. Each day,our teamsignificantlycontributes toour business and that of ourpartners.
We combine the agility and collaborative spirit of a close-knit consultancy with the credibility, structure, and professionalism needed to deliver meaningful digital transformation.
Our values sit at the heart of everything we do and are core to our business.
We work with you, not for you.
We do the right thing, even when it requires difficult conversations.
We dig deeper to uncover what will truly deliver value.
We focus on outcomes that create lasting, measurable improvement.
We are looking for a Data Integration Lead to lead data integration workstreams and small-to-medium integration projects across our higher education partners.
This role combines delivery leadership with deep technical expertise in integration architecture, Azure Integration Services and software engineering. You will shape, build and assure secure, resilient integrations that connect institutional platforms, data and services.
You will operate with a high degree of autonomy and play a key role in both delivery and the growth of PACT’s Data Integration capability.
To lead the design, build and delivery of high-quality data integrations within transformation programmes, ensuring secure, scalable and supportable solutions that meet partner needs.
Lead data integration workstreams or full integration project components.
- Define delivery approaches, plans, milestones, technical assurance and governance
- Lead the design, build, testing and deployment of integrations across programmes
- Manage dependencies between source and target systems, data flows, interfaces and wider programme delivery
- Manage technical risks, dependencies and priorities across complex integration landscapes
- Ensure delivery is structured, controlled, secure and outcome-focused
Design and deliver practical, scalable and maintainable integration solutions.
- Define integration architecture, patterns, standards and reusable components
- Design and build integrations using Azure Integration Services, including Azure Service Bus, APIs and related Azure services
- Develop integration services and automation using Python and .NET, applying sound engineering and testing practices
- Provide expert input on data contracts, message design, error handling, observability, security and technical trade-offs
Lead engagement with senior stakeholders.
- Own relationships up to Head of Service / senior manager level
- Lead workshops, design sessions and decision forums
- Provide clear recommendations and challenge constructively
- Translate technical concepts into clear business language
Support delivery quality and team development.
- Coach and mentor Consultants and Analysts
- Review and assure deliverables
- Set standards for integration documentation, code quality, technical assurance and delivery outputs
- Support development of capability within the team
Ensure high-quality, controlled delivery.
- Oversee RAID management and reporting
- Ensure alignment with programme governance and delivery frameworks
- Lead integration testing, deployment, cutover planning, monitoring and go-live activity
- Ensure integrations are secure, resilient, scalable, observable and supportable
Support growth and development of PACT.
- Contribute to proposals, bids and estimates
- Shape delivery approaches and resourcing plans
- Identify follow-on opportunities with partners
- Support account development
Help develop PACT’s Data Integration capability.
- Contribute to integration methodologies, engineering standards, reusable assets and propositions
- Support knowledge sharing and capability development
- Contribute to thought leadership where appropriate
- Accountable for delivery of data integration scope to agreed outcomes, quality and technical standards
- Responsible for governance, reporting and risk management
- Accountable for quality assurance of team outputs
- Lead data integration delivery across major transformation programmes
- Work with Azure Integration Services, Azure Service Bus, Python and .NET in complex enterprise environments
- Development of leadership, consulting and technical capability
- Clear progression to Manager-level roles
- Opportunity to shape PACT’s Data Integration capability
At PACT, we value people who are proactive about their growth, open to feedback, and motivated to keep developing their skills, judgement and impact.
This role sits at the Senior Consultant level within PACT’s consulting career pathway (Analyst → Consultant → Senior Consultant → Lead → Principal), combining delivery leadership with deeper expertise and team responsibility.
- Strong experience leading data integration delivery and hands-on integration engineering
- Experience leading workstreams or small projects
- Strong understanding of integration architecture, API design, messaging patterns and asynchronous processing
- Hands-on experience with Azure Integration Services, particularly Azure Service Bus, APIs and related Azure services
- Strong Python and/or .NET development capability, with experience building production-grade integration services
- Ability to design secure, scalable and maintainable integrations across complex enterprise environments
- Experience mentoring or supporting junior team members and assuring technical outputs
- Experience within higher education
- Experience integrating enterprise platforms (SIS, ERP, CRM, VLE, etc.)
- Experience with Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, source control and automated testing
- Experience in consultancy or transformation environments
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