Senior UiPath RPA Engineer

Senior UiPath RPA Engineer

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced Senior UiPath RPA Engineer with 8+ years of strong hands-on experience in Robotic Process Automation and comprehensive expertise across the UiPath platform.

The candidate should have the ability to understand business requirements, assess automation opportunities, design solutions, develop and deploy automations, troubleshoot production issues, and drive continuous improvements independently.

The ideal candidate should have strong technical depth across the end-to-end UiPath automation lifecycle, combined with good analytical, problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Key Responsibilities

1. Requirement Analysis & Process Understanding

• Understand business processes, requirements, and pain points and translate them into automation opportunities.
  
• Conduct process discovery and feasibility assessments.
  
• Analyze existing processes and identify opportunities for automation, optimization, and standardization.
  
• Translate business requirements into functional and technical automation solutions.
  
• Identify dependencies, risks, exceptions, and integration requirements.
  
• Prepare Process Definition Documents (PDD), Solution Design Documents (SDD), and technical documentation.
  

2. UiPath Solution Design

• Design scalable, secure, reusable, and maintainable UiPath automation solutions.
  
• Define workflow architecture, exception handling, logging, retry mechanisms, and recovery strategies.
  
• Develop solutions following UiPath best practices, coding standards, naming conventions, and reusable components.
  
• Determine the appropriate automation approach, including attended and unattended automation.
  
• Design integrations with enterprise applications, APIs, databases, email systems, files, and other technologies.
  

3. UiPath Development

Strong hands-on expertise in:

• UiPath Studio
  
• UiPath Orchestrator
  
• UiPath Robots
  
• UiPath Assistant
  
• REFramework
  
• Queues and transaction management
  
• Assets and credentials
  
• Triggers and scheduling
  
• Environments and folders
  
• Exception handling
  
• Logging and monitoring
  
• Reusable workflows and libraries
  
• Version control and source-code management
  

Experience developing automations involving:

• SAP
  
• Web applications
  
• Windows applications
  
• Citrix / VDI environments
  
• Microsoft Office / Excel
  
• Outlook and email automation
  
• PDF processing
  
• Document processing
  
• Databases and SQL
  
• REST / SOAP APIs
  
• Files and folders
  
• Enterprise business applications
  

4. Advanced UiPath Capabilities

Exposure to modern UiPath capabilities such as:

• UiPath Document Understanding
  
• OCR
  
• Intelligent Document Processing
  
• AI/ML-based automation
  
• UiPath Apps
  
• Action Center
  
• Integration Service
  
• Process Mining
  
• Task Mining
  
• Automation Hub
  
• Communications Mining
  
• AI Center
  
• GenAI-enabled automation
  

The candidate should be able to assess where these capabilities can add value and recommend appropriate solutions.

5. Orchestrator & Production Support

Strong knowledge of UiPath Orchestrator, including:

• Robot and machine management
  
• Folders and environments
  
• Queues
  
• Assets
  
• Credentials
  
• Triggers
  
• Jobs and schedules
  
• Monitoring and alerts
  
• Logs
  
• Package deployment
  
• Production troubleshooting
  
• Failure analysis and recovery
  

The candidate should be capable of independently troubleshooting automation failures and coordinating with relevant technology teams to resolve issues.

6. End-to-End Automation Delivery

Own the complete automation lifecycle:

Requirement → Process Analysis → Feasibility → Solution Design → Development → Testing → Deployment → Production Support → Continuous Improvement

Responsibilities include:

• Unit testing
  
• System integration testing
  
• UAT support
  
• Defect resolution
  
• Production deployment
  
• Hypercare
  
• Production support
  
• Root Cause Analysis (RCA)
  
• Performance optimization
  
• Continuous improvement
  
• Technical documentation
  
• Knowledge transfer
  

7. Stakeholder Engagement

• Participate in requirement discussions and process discovery sessions.
  
• Communicate technical concepts clearly to business and technology stakeholders.
  
• Present automation solutions and recommendations.
  
• Provide effort estimates and delivery timelines.
  
• Communicate risks, dependencies, and technical considerations.
  
• Work collaboratively with business, application, infrastructure, security, and other technology teams.
  
• Identify additional opportunities for automation and process improvement.
  

8. Technical Ownership

The candidate should be capable of taking ownership of automation initiatives with minimal supervision.

This includes:

• Understanding ambiguous or high-level requirements.
  
• Asking the right questions to establish requirements.
  
• Evaluating technical feasibility.
  
• Designing the appropriate solution.
  
• Making sound technical decisions.
  
• Independently investigating and resolving technical issues.
  
• Driving automation requirements through development and deployment.
  
• Taking ownership of production issues through resolution.
  
• Identifying opportunities for optimization and reuse.
  
• Establishing and following automation development standards.
  

Mandatory Technical Skills

Preferred Skills

• UiPath certification
  
• UiPath Solution Architect experience
  
• Enterprise RPA implementation experience
  
• Experience developing reusable automation frameworks and components
  
• Document Understanding
  
• AI Center / AI-enabled automation
  
• Integration Service
  
• Process Mining / Task Mining
  
• Microsoft Power Platform
  
• Azure / AWS
  
• CI/CD implementation for UiPath
  
• SAP automation
  
• Salesforce / ServiceNow / Workday integration
  
• REST / SOAP API integration
  
• Database integration
  

Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate should have:

• 8+ years of experience in RPA, with significant hands-on experience in UiPath.
  
• Strong understanding of the complete UiPath ecosystem.
  
• Proven experience delivering enterprise-grade automation solutions.
  
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  
• Ability to independently understand requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
  
• Strong troubleshooting and production-support capabilities.
  
• Good communication and stakeholder management skills.
  
• Strong ownership and accountability.
  
• Ability to manage multiple automation requirements and priorities.
  
• Ability to work independently and make appropriate technical decisions.
  
• Strong interest in emerging RPA, AI, and intelligent automation capabilities.
  

Experience That Will Be Highly Valued

• Enterprise-scale UiPath implementations.
  
• End-to-end ownership of automation initiatives.
  
• Automation discovery and feasibility assessments.
  
• Complex integrations with SAP, APIs, databases, and enterprise applications.
  
• Large-scale Orchestrator environments.
  
• Production support and troubleshooting of critical automations.
  
• UiPath version upgrades and platform migrations.
  
• CI/CD implementation for UiPath.
  
• Document Understanding and intelligent automation.
  
• Development of reusable frameworks and components.
  
• Automation governance and development standards.
  
• Experience identifying and implementing process optimization opportunities.
  

Key Success Criteria

The candidate should be able to:

1. Understand business requirements and convert them into effective automation solutions.
   
2. Design and develop robust UiPath automations independently.
   
3. Work across the complete UiPath ecosystem.
   
4. Troubleshoot complex technical and production issues.
   
5. Design scalable and reusable automation solutions.
   
6. Integrate UiPath with enterprise applications, APIs, databases, and other technologies.
   
7. Drive automation initiatives from requirement through production.
   
8. Identify opportunities for automation and process improvement.
   
9. Follow and contribute to UiPath development and governance standards.
   
10. Continuously evaluate and adopt relevant UiPath and intelligent automation capabilities.