Senior Developer RPA

Sun Life; Hartford (CT); On-site; USD 101,000 - 151,500; Full time

Job summary

Sun Life is seeking a Senior UiPath Developer to design, build, deploy, and support enterprise-grade automations. This hands-on role focuses on UiPath, Orchestrator, and scalable solutions within an enterprise platform.

Reporting to the Director of Process Automation, you will partner with analysts, security, and application owners to deliver reliable automation, mentor junior developers, and promote best practices across design, testing, and production support.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering or equivalent.
• 7+ years of hands-on enterprise automation with UiPath.
• Strong knowledge of UiPath Studio, Orchestrator, and unattended automation.
• Experience delivering end-to-end automation across design, development, testing, deployment, monitoring and support.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, deploy, and support UiPath automations.
• Collaborate with analysts, security, and owners to deliver reliable automation.
• Lead best practices: modular design, reviews, reusable components.
• Ensure production readiness and incident resolution.

Skills

UiPath development

End-to-end automation delivery

Orchestrator concepts

Secure credential access

AI-enabled automation (AWS Bedrock)

Troubleshooting

Code reviews

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Equivalent practical experience

Tools

UiPath Studio

UiPath Orchestrator

BeyondTrust

AWS Bedrock

REFramework

Job description

Sun Life is seeking a Senior UiPath Developer to design, build, deploy, and support enterprise‑grade automations. This is a hands‑on development role for a seasoned automation engineer who can deliver high‑quality solutions and understands how automation operates within a broader enterprise platform.

Job Description

Reporting to the Director, Process Automation & Application Delivery, this role owns end‑to‑end automation delivery across design, development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and support. The focus is primarily on UiPath, with strong expectations around hands‑on development, engineering discipline, reusable components, and production‑ready solutions.

The Senior UiPath Developer partners with business analysts, infrastructure teams, security teams, and application owners to deliver reliable automation solutions. The role requires a strong understanding of the UiPath platform, including Orchestrator concepts, unattended runtime environments, secure credential access, and AI‑enabled automation opportunities such as AWS Bedrock integrations.

Main Accountabilities

• End‑to‑End UiPath Delivery
  • Design, develop, test, deploy, and support automation solutions using UiPath Studio and enterprise patterns such as REFramework or equivalent.
  • Translate process requirements into scalable solutions with strong exception handling, logging, retry strategies, and maintainable code.
  • Own quality across the delivery lifecycle, including testing, deployment readiness, defect resolution, and production support.
• Platform and Operational Support
  • Work with UiPath Orchestrator capabilities including assets, queues, robots, triggers, schedules, monitoring, and environment promotion.
  • Apply a strong understanding of tenants, folders, role‑based access, and runtime configuration to support secure and scalable delivery.
  • Support bot stability through monitoring, troubleshooting, incident triage, and continuous improvement.
• Environment, Security, and Integration
  • Partner with infrastructure teams to ensure virtual machines and runtime environments are ready for unattended automation.
  • Support secure credential and privileged access patterns, including approved enterprise tools such as BeyondTrust or similar platforms.
  • Build integrations across APIs, databases, enterprise applications, and AI‑enabled services such as AWS Bedrock where relevant.
• Technical Leadership and Best Practices
  • Promote best practices including modular design, code reviews, reusable components, documentation, and release discipline.
  • Guide developers and contribute to solution design decisions while remaining hands‑on in delivery.
  • Collaborate with business analysts, security teams, architects, and application owners to deliver practical, scalable solutions.

Core Competencies

• Deep hands‑on UiPath development expertise, including workflow design, selectors, exception handling, logging, and reusable automation patterns.
• Strong understanding of UiPath platform concepts including Orchestrator, tenants, folders, assets, queues, robots, triggers, and role‑based access.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across automation code, runtime environments, credential access, and infrastructure dependencies.
• Ability to guide developers, influence solution quality, and contribute to design decisions while staying hands‑on.
• Commitment to secure development, documentation quality, and enterprise best practices.

Education, Experience & Technical Competencies

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of hands‑on enterprise automation experience, with strong UiPath expertise.
• Strong experience delivering automations end to end across design, development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and support.
• Experience with UiPath Studio, Orchestrator, unattended automation, queues, assets, schedules, deployment, and bot support in enterprise environments.
• Experience applying best practices such as modular design, source control, peer reviews, reusable components, and supportable exception handling.
• Experience with virtual machines or hosted runtime environments for automation execution.
• Familiarity with secure credential and privileged access patterns, including BeyondTrust or similar tools.
• Experience with ICR, document understanding, or AI‑assisted workflows is preferred.
• Exposure to AWS services, including Amazon Bedrock, is preferred.
• UiPath certification is preferred.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and documentation skills.

Salary Range: $101,000 - $151,500

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