Principal Automation Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the principal technical authority for intelligent automation initiatives, with deep expertise in Automation Anywhere and modern automation patterns.

• Define and maintain automation architecture standards, frameworks, patterns, and best practices across RPA, AI-assisted automation, APIs, and orchestration.

• Provide hands-on technical leadership in the design and development of complex automations using Automation Anywhere and related technologies.

• Design scalable, reusable automation components, frameworks, and accelerators that improve delivery speed, quality, and consistency.

• Build automations that integrate with enterprise applications, APIs, databases, document systems, AI services, and cloud platforms.

• Design and implement AI-augmented and agentic automation workflows that combine RPA with AI agents, LLMs, decision automation, and event-driven orchestration.

• Collaborate with business teams to identify automation opportunities, lead process discovery workshops, and translate complex processes into robust automated workflows.

• Establish and enforce automation governance, including development standards, code review practices, CI/CD pipelines, testing, monitoring, and operational observability.

• Ensure automations are secure by design and comply with enterprise security and data protection standards, including appropriate handling of PII and PHI.

• Work closely with architects, engineering leaders to align automation solutions with enterprise architecture, delivery plans, and operational needs.

• Mentor and guide automation engineers and developers, raising technical capability, architectural awareness, and engineering discipline across the automation team.

• Monitor platform roadmaps and industry trends in RPA, AI automation, agentic workflows, and hyperautomation, using insight to inform the automation strategy.

• Evaluate and help introduce new automation capabilities, including document intelligence, conversational automation, AI orchestration frameworks, and agent-based approaches, where they deliver measurable value.

• Contribute to shaping the overall automation roadmap, helping the organisation scale enterprise automation capabilities and modernise its automation architecture over time

Essential Skills - What You'll Bring

• Extensive experience in software engineering, automation, or integration development within complex enterprise environments.

• Exceptional hands-on RPA / intelligent automation development experience, including design and delivery of enterprise-scale automation solutions.

• Deep expertise with the Automation Anywhere A360 platform, including bot development, orchestration, error handling, and operational best practice.

• Strong experience designing scalable automation architectures that integrate RPA, APIs, data stores, enterprise systems, and cloud services.

• Strong skills in process orchestration and workflow desi...