Healthcare Automation Developer: UiPath & Workflows

Central East Integrated Care Board; Welwyn Garden City; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

HBL ICT Shared Services is recruiting an Automation Developer to design, configure and test automation workflows across the NHS ICT landscape. You will translate approved requirements into secure, maintainable automations and build both attended and unattended solutions using UiPath and related tools.

You will document workflows, support release activities, and collaborate with process owners and technical colleagues to ensure reliable, scalable automation delivery.

Qualifications

• Experience configuring, developing, testing or supporting digital automations.
• Experience developing or configuring automations using UiPath or an equivalent technology.
• Experience undertaking testing, resolving defects and supporting automation deployment or handover.
• Experience providing first or second-line support for digital or automation services.
• Experience supporting deployment or handover, or demonstrable knowledge of controlled release practices.
• Experience using logs, data and performance information to investigate automation exceptions, failures or expected benefits.

Responsibilities

• Develop, configure, test and support varying levels of complexity attended and unattended automations from approved requirements and process definition documents.
• Work within agreed enterprise architecture principles, technology standards, cyber security requirements, and strategic roadmaps, ensuring solutions remain supportable, interoperable, secure, and aligned with organisational direction.
• Build varying levels of complexity attended and unattended automations using approved platforms, reusable components, coding standards and development patterns, under appropriate technical supervision.
• Monitor automation schedules, queues, credentials, logs and exceptions within delegated responsibility, escalating complex failures appropriately.
• Use approved SQL queries and data-access components in support of automation development, undertaking minor amendments within delegated authority and escalating complex database design, optimisation or administration requirements.
• Translate approved process maps, user stories and acceptance criteria into automation workflow designs and technical tasks.
• Identify data-quality issues affecting assigned automations, implement approved validation and exception-handling controls, and escape wider data-quality, reconciliation or reporting requirements.
• Configure, test and maintain automation workflows, variables, assets, queues, schedules, credentials, and exception-handling routines within delegated responsibility.
• Undertake unit and system testing, support user acceptance testing, resolve routine defects and support deployment, handover and post-implementation review.
• Manage routine automation incidents, service requests and changes through approved service management processes, escalating where required.
• Maintain accurate source code, workflow, configuration, testing, release and support documentation and contribute to continual service improvement.

Skills

Automation design

Requirements translation

Testing and debugging

Stakeholder collaboration

Documentation

Tools

UiPath

SQL queries

Source control

Workflow tooling

Job description

HBL ICT Shared Services is recruiting an Automation Developer to design, configure and test automation workflows across the NHS ICT landscape. You will translate approved requirements into secure, maintainable automations and build both attended and unattended solutions using UiPath and related tools.

You will document workflows, support release activities, and collaborate with process owners and technical colleagues to ensure reliable, scalable automation delivery.