Automation Engineer (RPA) Consultant

eir business talent; Drogheda; Hybrid; EUR 101,000 - 138,000; Part time

Job summary

eir business talent is seeking a Senior Automation (RPA) Engineer/Automation Consultant for a day-rate contract based in Louth, Ireland. The role is hybrid with occasional travel to Louth and requires eligibility to work in the EU/UK.

You will own and stabilise a large automation estate, drive governance, and collaborate with business units to scale automation across processes. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of RPA development experience (3+ years on UiPath), strong UiPath Studio/Orchestrator

Qualifications

• 5+ years' hands-on RPA development with at least 3 years on UiPath delivering automations into production.
• Strong UiPath Studio and Orchestrator experience including REFramework, queues, exception handling, scheduling and environment management.
• Experience automating against SAP GUI scripting and system integrations.
• Solid SQL skills and experience working with APIs and system integrations.
• Experience supporting and enhancing automations built by others.
• Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills.
• Disciplined about testing, documentation and following an agreed release process.

Responsibilities

• Deliver automations end to end: requirements, process mapping, design, build, testing, deployment and hypercare.
• Work from a prioritized pipeline of requests, providing clear estimates and regular progress updates.
• Build automations across a range of business processes, including document-based processes where appropriate.
• Support and enhance automations in production, investigating issues and resolving root cause.
• Implement logging, monitoring and alerting so issues are detected and communicated quickly.
• Maintain governance and documentation for release processes and environments.

Skills

RPA development

UiPath

Orchestrator

REFramework

APIs

SQL

Troubleshooting

Stakeholder communication

Tools

UiPath Studio

UiPath Orchestrator

SAP GUI scripting

Azure Data Factory

Microsoft Fabric

Job description

eir business talent are currently seeking applicants for a Senior Automation (RPA) Engineer / Automation Consultant. This is a day rate contract position located with our client in Louth. This is a hybrid role, occasional travel to Louth, Ireland may be required. Candidates must be located and have a right to work in EU/UK. Our client is looking for an experienced Senior Automation (RPA) Engineer/Consultant to take ownership of an existing automation and integration environment that has evolved over a number of years. The successful candidate will be responsible for stabilising and improving a large automation estate, introducing governance and best practices, and helping the business scale its automation capability as it continues to grow. This is not a pure RPA Developer role. The environment includes RPA, SQL databases, ERP integrations, reporting platforms and custom business applications. The position requires a combination of technical expertise, business process understanding and a pragmatic approach to problem solving.

Key Responsibilities

Deliver automation

• Deliver automations end to end: requirements, process mapping, design, build, testing, deployment and hypercare.
• Work from a prioritised pipeline of requests, providing clear estimates and regular progress updates.
• Build automations across a range of business processes, including document-based processes where appropriate.

Run and improve

• Support and enhance automations in production, investigating issues and resolving them at root cause.
• Implement logging, monitoring and alerting so issues are picked up and communicated quickly.
• Where practical, favour API or data-level integration over screen-based interaction to improve resilience.
• Help keep automations running smoothly through system upgrades and changes to the applications they use.

Standards and quality

• Apply the team's standards for design, coding, testing, release and change control consistently, and suggest improvements where you see gaps.
• Keep documentation, runbooks and test evidence up to date as part of every delivery, not as an afterthought.
• Maintain Orchestrator configuration, environments, credentials and scheduling in a controlled and documented way.

Skills & Experience

Essential

• 5+ years' hands-on RPA development, with at least 3 years on UiPath, delivering automations into production independently.
• Strong UiPath Studio and Orchestrator experience, including the REFramework, queues, exception handling, scheduling and environment management.
• Experience working alongside finance, operations and supply chain teams to automate their processes.
• Experience automating against SAP (GUI scripting, transactions and/or interfaces).
• Solid SQL skills and experience working with APIs and system integrations.
• Experience supporting and enhancing automations built by others.
• Strong troubleshooting and root cause analysis skills.
• Comfortable working directly with business stakeholders, mapping processes and asking the right questions about requirements.
• Disciplined about testing, documentation and following an agreed release process.

Desirable

• UiPath Advanced Developer (or equivalent) certification.
• UiPath Document Understanding or other intelligent document processing experience.
• Python or .NET for custom activities and scripting.
• Azure integration tools (e.g. Azure Data Factory, Logic Apps) or Microsoft Fabric.
• FMCG, manufacturing or supply chain sector experience.

About You

You are a developer at heart and happiest when you are building. You take pride in automations that run reliably, are well tested and are easy for someone else to pick up. You work well with minimal supervision, keep your manager informed without being chased, and are comfortable explaining technical issues to non-technical colleagues in plain English.

Candidates must be eligible to work full time and long term in the location specified or currently hold a valid appropriate long term work Visa to apply.

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