Senior Automation Engineer (213171)
1 day ago
Worthing
Client Location: Worthing - Hybrid (1 day per week onsite) Starting: ASAP Minimum Pay (per year): 51300.00 Maximum Pay (per year): 72500.00 Hours: Full-time Duration: Permanent Job Description: The Senior Automation Engineer leads the engineering design, build, assurance and product ionisation of complex automation, digital worker and agentic solutions. • The role provides hands‑on technical leadership across the delivery lifecycle, ensuring solutions are secure, reusable, testable, supportable and aligned to approved architecture, engineering standards and measurable business outcomes., • The Senior Automation Engineer acts as the technical lead within delivery squads, translating process and business equirements into robust solutions across Microsoft Power Platform, Power Automate Desktop, Copilot Studio,, • APIs and related Azure services. The role coaches Automation Engineers, performs code and design reviews, resolves difficult technical issues and strengthens the reusable engineering capability needed to scale delivery., • Lead the end-to-end technical delivery of complex automations, agents, workflows and reusable services from candidate assessment and Sprint 0 through build, test, transition, early life support and continuous improvement., • Turn approved process designs, user stories, non-functional requirements and benefit assumptions into maintainable solution designs and delivery plans., • Own or lead build activities for high‑complexity solutions involving multiple systems, sensitive data, custom connectors, APIs, unattended desktop automation or agentic orchestration., • Apply MVP discipline, manage technical scope and expose delivery risks, dependencies and trade‑offs early., • Lead peer reviews of code, configuration, prompts, solution architecture, test evidence and deployment artefacts, • Ensure Definition of Ready and Definition of Done criteria are met, including documentation, testing, exception handling, security controls, release notes and operational handover., • Define and apply engineering standards for naming, source control, branching, ALM, CI/CD, environment variables, connection references, error handling, logging and observability., • Identify, record and help prioritise technical debt, including supportability, security, deprecated patterns, legacy dependencies and lifecycle risks., • Design solutions within approved environment, DLP, security group, role-based access and service-account patterns., • Work with Platform Engineering and Architecture to confirm environment readiness, connectivity, credentials, capacity, licensing and production monitoring., • Prepare designs and evidence for Design Authority, change governance and production approval; address actions and exceptions promptly., • Embed Responsible AI controls in agentic solutions, including grounding, permissions, guardrails, human escalation, content safety, auditability and monitoring., • Design for supportability from initiation, not at go‑live, including runbooks, operational handbooks, support models, SLAs, monitoring, alerting and business/technical exception handling., • Lead deployment, smoke testing, production verification and early life support fixes for assigned solutions., • Resolve escalated production defects and contribute to root‑cause analysis, emergency changes, resilience improvements and service reviews., • Refactor live solutions to improve reliability, performance, maintainability, security and run cost., • Create and maintain reusable components, patterns, templates, APIs, starter kits and engineering guidance; promote their adoption across central, partner and federated teams., • Provide technical coaching, pairing and constructive review for Automation Engineers, citizen developers and delivery partners., • Contribute to communities of practice, technical training and knowledge transfer, helping raise engineering consistency across the automation ecosystem., • Act as a trusted technical adviser to process analysts, product owners, business SMEs, architects, support teams and suppliers., • Demonstrable experience designing, building, testing and deploying enterprise automation solutions in a governed production environment., • Strong hands‑on capability in Microsoft Power Platform, including Power Automate cloud flows, Power, • Apps and Dataverse, plus experience with Power Automate Desktop or equivalent RPA tooling., • Experience with Copilot Studio, agentic automation, Azure AI Foundry, Azure integration services or AI‑ enabled workflows., • Experience leading technical delivery for solutions with integrations, APIs, custom connectors, security roles, service accounts and multiple environments., • Strong understanding of ALM, source control, deployment pipelines, CI/CD, solution packaging and environment configuration., • Ability to design robust error handling, retry, logging, monitoring, alerting and business/technical exception patterns., • Experience producing and assuring solution designs, operational handbooks, runbooks, release notes, test evidence and support handovers., • Ability to lead code reviews, diagnose complex defects, make proportionate engineering decisions and coach other engineers., • Clear written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders., • Advanced engineering knowledge across Power Automate Desktop, cloud flows, Power Apps, Copilot Studio, Dataverse, APIs and custom, • Degree, higher‑education qualification or equivalent professional experience in software engineering, computer science, information connectors., • Strong knowledge of solution design, coding standards, peer review, source control, deployment pipelines and managed‑solution practices., • Experience designing technical and business exception handling, retries, recovery paths, logging and monitoring., • Knowledge of functional, integration, regression, performance and non‑functional testing., • Strong awareness of security, DLP, access control, and data governance within cloud platforms., • Awareness of Responsible AI controls, including groundedness, hallucination management, content safety, bias, human oversight, data leakage and prompt‑injection risk, • Understanding of GDPR, ISO27001 and regulated environments (Ofwat, DWI, EA) systems, automation engineering or a related discipline., • Relevant practical training or demonstrable professional experience in enterprise automation or low‑code solution engineering., • Agile delivery training or equivalent experience working within Scrum‑based engineering teams., • Demonstrable learning or certification in at least one relevant automation, cloud, software‑development or service‑management discipline, • Microsoft certifications (PL‑100, PL‑200, PL‑ 400).Azure certifications (AZ‑900, AI‑900, AZ‑204)., • Knowledge of creating APIs, • Familiarity with enterprise systems such as ServiceNow, SAP, or GIS platforms. #J-18808-Ljbffr