RPA Lead Developer - Cape Town at Apex Group

Job Summary

This role represents a combination of strong technical, people and leadership skills as well as business acumen.  This role requires extensive hands-on experience in designing and developing UiPath RPA Implementations as well as a passion for learning and understanding the products emerging in a rapidly changing RPA market.

As the RPA Lead Developer, you will be responsible for designing automation solutions and managing various automation projects, ranging from low to high complexity.  These automation projects could involve several applications and environments.  The automation projects will be mainly implemented with many, if not all, of the components of the UiPath Platform and a team of RPA developers, for whom you will in charge of. 

You will be responsible and accountable for the overall delivery of the RPA developer team, from development through to implementation stages, including operationalization of the solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business stakeholders on feasibility and optimization of their processes.
• Work with Business Users (SMEs and other stakeholders), Business Analysts and your team of RPA developers to sign off on the business automation and technical requirements.
• Design automation solutions using UiPath and other relevant technologies and document them in the relevant documents (e.g. Solution Design Document).  Your solution designs should be well structured, reusable, and easy to understand.
• Based on the solution design, estimate time and cost of proposed automated solution
• Decide on the development methodologies and best practices around design, coding, quality, and performance and drive the adoption of these with the RPA development team. 

Oversee the development of automation projects by conducting regular check-ins with the RPA development team to:

• ensure components are being done according to the solution design and requirements; and
• to identify and resolve bottlenecks and exceptions.

In addition to overseeing development within the RPA development team, you will also be required to develop automation projects yourself.

• Perform code reviews with the RPA development team and facilitate knowledge transfers.
• Oversee technical testing with the RPA developer and/or Quality Assurance Tester (QA) through all stages of the testing process.  In addition to overseeing testing with the RPA development team, you will also be required to perform testing for your own automation projects which you have developed yourself.
• Participate and oversee in all stages of the automation project lifecycle, including production deployment, hypercare, and monitoring.
• Define and create technical documentation for the automations developed, according to global best practices.
• Be aware of evolving and new technologies so that existing automations can be upgraded for greater efficiency.

Skills, Qualifications and Experience

Soft Skills:

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to business audience.
• Strong conceptual and analytical skills with demonstrated outside-the-box problem solving skills
• Ability to effectively engage with and lead a team
• Results driven
• Zero tolerance for error

Experience and Education

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or similar field.
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in a senior technical role designing and implementing UiPath robots and solutions (e.g., RPA Lead Develop or Senior RPA Developer)

UiPath RPA Knowledge and Skills

• Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and business automation
• Knowledge of all components of the UiPath Platform and the way they are integrated, including Studio, Apps, Integration Service, Robots, Action Centre, Data Service and Orchestrator.
• UiPath templates (e.g., UiPath Robotic Enterprise Framework)
• UiPath solution accelerators, available on the UiPath Marketplace

You will need to be 100% proficient in all the below key development topics:

• Data manipulation with strings in Studio
• Data manipulation with lists and dictionaries in Studio
• UI Automation synchronization with Studio
• UI Automation descriptors in Studio
• Selectors in Studio
• Debugging in Studio
• Error and exception handling in Studio
• Working with local files and folders in Studio
• Email automation in Studio
• PDF automation with Studio
• Data manipulation with datatables in Studio
• Logging in Studio
• Working with Orchestrator resources
• Object repository in Studio
• Version control systems integration in Studio
• Workflow analyzer in Studio
• RPA testing with Studio
• Project organization in Studio