RPA Lead

Role & responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, implementation, and maintenance of RPA solutions across business processes.
• Analyze business processes and identify opportunities for automation, optimization, and digital transformation.
• Design scalable and secure RPA solutions using platforms such as UiPath, Automation Anywhere, or Blue Prism.
• Lead and mentor RPA developers and provide technical guidance, code reviews, and best practices.
• Translate business requirements into Process Design Documents (PDDs), Solution Design Documents (SDDs), and technical specifications.
• Integrate RPA solutions with enterprise applications, databases, APIs, web services, and other systems.
• Manage bot deployment, scheduling, monitoring, troubleshooting, and production support through RPA orchestrator platforms.
• Ensure automation solutions meet quality, security, performance, and compliance standards.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, process owners, IT teams, and project managers throughout the automation lifecycle.
• Conduct feasibility assessments, effort estimations, technical evaluations, and automation prioritization.
• Drive RPA standards, reusable components, frameworks, and best practices across projects.
• Identify and resolve complex technical issues, performance bottlenecks, and production incidents.
• Support CI/CD, version control, testing, and DevOps practices for RPA implementations.
• Track project progress, risks, dependencies, and deliverables and provide regular status updates to stakeholders.
• Stay current with emerging RPA, AI, intelligent automation, and process-mining technologies.

Preferred candidate profile

• 5 to 10 years of experience in RPA, intelligent automation, software development, or a related technology domain.
• Strong hands-on experience with UiPath, Automation Anywhere, or Blue Prism; expertise in one major RPA platform is essential.
• Proven experience in designing and delivering end-to-end enterprise RPA solutions.
• Strong understanding of RPA architecture, automation frameworks, Orchestrator, queues, exception handling, logging, and bot security.
• Good programming/scripting knowledge in C#, Python, VB.NET, JavaScript, or similar technologies.
• Strong SQL and database knowledge, with experience integrating APIs, web services, and enterprise applications.
• Experience leading RPA development teams and mentoring junior/mid-level developers.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to assess complex business processes for automation.
• Experience working with Agile/Scrum methodologies and standard SDLC practices.
• Familiarity with Azure/AWS, CI/CD, Git, DevOps, and cloud-based automation is an advantage.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, presentation, and documentation skills.
• Ability to independently manage technical deliverables while working with cross-functional teams.
• RPA certifications such as UiPath, Automation Anywhere, or Blue Prism are preferred.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field; postgraduate qualifications are an advantage.