Senior Specialist, Intelligent Automation

Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated seeks a Python automation developer and Senior Specialist to build and maintain attended automations. The role emphasizes Selenium-based web automation, VBA for Excel, and Gen AI integration, with a focus on reliability and ongoing maintenance.

You will monitor live automations, triage issues, and apply change requests while following established team patterns and SLAs. Location is on-site in Gurugram with 40-hour weeks.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3+ years hands-on Python automation experience.
• Strong Selenium WebDriver and web automation skills.
• Experience with VBA for Excel and Excel automation.
• Foundational exposure to Power Automate/Power Apps.
• Experience processing data (Excel, PDF) and OCR tech.
• Hands-on prompt engineering for Gen AI within automations.
• Experience in supporting live automations and triaging issues.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain attended automations and portolio reliability.
• Monitor live automations, triage and fix failures promptly.
• Adapt automations when target apps/sites change; implement changes.
• Deliver minor enhancements and change requests within SLAs.
• Collaborate with senior developers and follow team standards.
• Escalate complex issues with clear diagnostics and options.

Skills

Python programming

Selenium WebDriver

VBA for Excel

Gen AI prompt engineering

RESTful APIs

Git/GitHub

Communication

Tools

Power Automate

Power Apps

PyInstaller packaging

OCR tools (Tesseract)

xlwings

Beautiful Soup

Requests

Tabula/camelot

Pandas

Job description

UDA Developer Requirements for Automation Role P1 — Senior Specialist, Intelligent Automation Python, VBA, Power Platform & Gen AI | Development & Maintenance

JLL empowers you to shape a brighter way. Our people at JLL are shaping the future of real estate for a better world by combining world class services, advisory and technology for our clients. We are committed to hiring the best, most talented people and empowering them to thrive, grow meaningful careers and to find a place where they belong. Whether you’ve got deep experience in commercial real estate, skilled trades or technology, or you’re looking to apply your relevant experience to a new industry, join our team as we help shape a brighter way forward.

The requirement is for a Python automation developer and Intelligent Automation Senior Specialist with 3+ years of experience who builds and maintains attended business process automations, delivering well‑defined development work and keeping the live automation portfolio running reliably. This Python‑first developer brings good Selenium and web automation skills, working VBA/Excel competencies, foundational exposure to Power Automate and Power Apps, practical data processing capabilities (Excel, PDF, OCR), and hands‑on prompt engineering skills to apply Gen AI within automations using established team patterns. Alongside new development, a significant part of this role is maintenance and support — monitoring live automations, triaging and fixing failures, adapting automations when target applications or websites change, and delivering minor enhancements and change requests within agreed SLAs. Working under the guidance of the senior developers, this is someone who follows team standards, makes good use of reusable components, resolves routine issues independently, and escalates complex or higher‑risk issues with clear diagnostics. This is a dependable, hands‑on developer who is building towards greater ownership and autonomy.

Core Technical Requirements

• Python Development
  • Good proficiency in Python 3.x with 3+ years hands‑on experience
  • Working understanding of OOP principles, error handling, and modular code design
  • Experience packaging Python applications into executables (PyInstaller, cx_Freeze, auto-py-to-exe)
  • Familiarity with virtual environments and dependency management (pip, requirements.txt)
  • Ability to read, debug, and extend existing Python codebases written by others
• Selenium & Web Automation
  • Hands‑on Selenium WebDriver experience, with the ability to work within existing automation frameworks (e.g. Page Object Model)
  • Experience handling dynamic content, iframes, pop‑ups, and alerts
  • Working command of explicit/implicit waits and locator strategies (XPath, CSS selectors), including updating broken locators when target sites change
  • Exposure to headless browser operations
  • Familiarity with Beautiful Soup and Requests; exposure to Scrapy is a plus
• Power Platform — Power Automate & Power Apps
  • Foundational experience building and maintaining Power Automate cloud and desktop flows with Microsoft365, SharePoint, and common connectors
  • Exposure to Power Apps canvas apps, with the ability to make changes to existing apps that front automation workflows
  • Awareness of when a use case suits Power Platform vs. Python/RPA, applying guidance from senior team members
  • Awareness of Power Platform governance basics (DLP policies, environments), working within IT‑defined guardrails
• Data Processing & File Handling
  • Excel manipulation (openpyxl, pandas, xlwings, xlsxwriter)
  • PDF processing (PyPDF2, pdfplumber); exposure to tabula‑py or camelot
  • Exposure to OCR implementation (Tesseract, pytesseract, EasyOCR, or cloud OCR APIs)
  • Data transformation and cleansing with pandas
• VBA & Excel Macros
  • Working knowledge of VBA for Excel automation; able to read, debug, and maintain existing macros
  • Familiarity with the Excel object model: Workbooks, Worksheets, Ranges
  • Exposure to integrating Python and VBA via xlwings or win32com (pywin32)
  • Awareness of macro security and digital signature requirements
  • Exposure to Excel events, user forms, and custom functions (UDFs) is a plus
• Gen AI Integration & Prompt Engineering
  • Hands‑on prompt engineering skills for data extraction, classification, and summarisation use cases
  • Familiarity with prompting techniques such as few‑shot, chain‑of‑thought, and role‑based prompting
  • Awareness of hallucination risks and basic output‑validation approaches
  • Ability to write prompts that return structured outputs (JSON, CSV), using and maintaining the team's existing prompt templates
  • Basic understanding of temperature, token limits, and parameter settings
  • Hands‑on experience consuming RESTful APIs (authentication, request/response handling, error handling)
• Production Support & Maintenance
  • Performs root‑cause analysis and applies break‑fix changes for issues such as application/UI changes, locator breakages, input data variations, and access or credential errors
  • Delivers minor enhancements and change requests to existing automations, following the team's change and release process
  • Logs, updates, and closes incidents and service requests in Azure DevOps within agreed SLAs
  • Performs regression testing after fixes and supports UAT with business users
  • Keeps runbooks, known‑error notes, and support documentation up to date
• Professional Competencies
  • Owns delivery of assigned automations and support tickets end‑to‑end, from requirement clarification through testing and handover
  • Works from defined requirements and designs, seeking clarification early where requirements are unclear
  • Attempts a solution first when blocked, escalating to the senior developers with clear diagnostics and the options already tried
  • Communicates status, risks, and effort estimates accurately and on time
  • Good documentation habits for code, fixes, and user guides
• Learn & Team Collaboration
  • Actively learns from senior developers through pairing and code reviews, and acts on feedback
  • Shares fixes, learnings, and recurring issues with the wider team
  • Supports peers and new joiners with practical, day‑to‑day guidance where possible
  • Works effectively with business users when gathering issue details or supporting UAT
• Version Control & Collaboration
  • Working Git/GitHub skills: branching, committing, pull requests, and resolving simple merge conflicts
  • Participates in code reviews and incorporates review feedback
  • Follows team branching and repository standards
• Code Quality & Best Practices
  • Follows coding standards (PEP8, logging, exception handling, debugging practices)
  • Uses config files and environment variables for sensitive data; never hardcodes credentials
  • Uses the team's reusable functions, classes, and modules, and contributes to them where appropriate
  • Flags technical debt and recurring failures observed during maintenance work

Location: On-site –Gurugram, HR

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

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