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Automation Engineer
Client Location: Worthing (1 day per week onsite)
Starting: 10/11/2026
Pay Comments: Up to 54,600
Minimum Pay (per year): 44500.00
Maximum Pay (per year): 54600.00
Hours: Full-time
Duration: Permanent
Job Description
The Automation Engineer designs, builds, tests, deploys, and continuously improves secure, scalable, and supportable automation solutions within the Process Engineering & Intelligent Automation team.
Working as part of a multidisciplinary delivery squad, the role translates approved business processes, user stories, solution designs, and non-functional requirements into production-ready automations using Microsoft Power Platform, Power Automate Desktop (Unattended), Copilot Studio, and associated integration capabilities. The Automation Engineer contributes throughout the end-to-end automation lifecycle, from technical discovery and feasibility assessment through sprint delivery, testing, release, Early Life Support, and live-service improvement. The role ensures that solutions comply with architectural patterns, security controls, engineering standards, and operational acceptance criteria, while delivering measurable business process, customer, and financial outcomes.
Accountabilities Estimated
Technical Discovery, Solution Design, Build & Testing (45%)
- Participate in technical discovery and feasibility assessments, providing engineering estimates, delivery assumptions, integration considerations, and technical risks.
- Work with business stakeholders and Process Engineers to translate approved process designs, user stories, acceptance criteria, and non-functional requirements into secure, supportable automation solutions.
- Develop automation solutions using Power Automate cloud flows, Power Automate Desktop, Power Apps, Copilot Studio, Dataverse, APIs, and approved integration patterns.
- Configure exception handling, retry logic, logging, alerting, environment variables, connection references, and secure credential handling.
- Develop and execute unit, functional, integration, regression, and non-functional tests, maintaining evidence against acceptance criteria.
- Participate in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, demonstrations, retrospectives, and backlog refinement.
- Maintain solution designs and engineering documentation as the solution evolves.
- Identify and use reusable components, APIs, templates, and common engineering patterns.
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Engineering Quality, Documentation & Assurance (25%)
- Produce technical and support documentation, including solution diagrams, test scripts, runbooks.
- Follow ALM practices using Azure DevOps for deployment and version control.
- Apply secure development practices and ensure solutions meet auditability, resilience, and compliance requirements.
- Conduct peer reviews and support continuous code/configuration review throughout each sprint.
- Ensure solutions meet Definition of Ready, Definition of Done, Design Authority, security, privacy, auditability, and operational acceptance requirements.
- Record known business and technical exceptions and confirm agreed remediation or fix-forward actions.
- Ensure reusable components and assets are documented and added to the approved asset library.
- Identify and record technical debt arising from delivery decisions.
Collaboration with Platform, Process & Architecture Team members (20%)
- Work alongside the Platform Engineer to ensure environments, connectors, and platform capabilities support reliable delivery.
- Engage with our Automation Architect during design reviews or when solutions require architectural guidance.
- Collaborate with our Process Architect and Process Engineers to ensure processes are well-understood, standardized, and ready for automation.
- Support the Senior Automation Engineer with solution quality reviews, component reuse, and delivery consistency.
- Work with Scrum Masters to estimate user stories, maintain delivery visibility, and resolve impediments.
- Work with Support Engineers to agree on support requirements, monitoring, operational documentation, and handover criteria.
- Engage business process owners and SMEs through demonstrations, testing, UAT, and operational-readiness activities.
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Support, Troubleshooting & Continuous Improvement (10%)
- Support controlled deployment to test, pre-production, and production environments.
- Conduct post-deployment smoke testing and support cutover activities.
- Complete the engineering elements of the production handover pack and verify operational monitoring.
- Investigate and resolve defects, workflow failures, integration issues, and performance bottlenecks.
- Contribute to continuous improvement by identifying reusable components, automation candidates, standard patterns, and optimized delivery methods.
- Participate in early life support and transition to operations.
- Support live automations as an L3 engineering resolver, working with support and platform teams.
Knowledge Qualifications
Technical
- Hands-on experience with Power Platform and Co-Pilot Studio
- Awareness or some working knowledge of Foundry, or other ML tooling such as Azure ML
- Awareness of enterprise systems such as Workday, ServiceNow, SAP Risk & Compliance
- Understanding of GDPR, information security, and compliance requirements in regulated environments.
- Awareness of platform security practices including identity management, DLP, RBAC, and secure data access.
Essential
- Experience in automation development using Power Automate and CoPilot Studio
- Strong analytical and digital problem-solving ability.
Desirable
- Microsoft certifications: PL-500, PL-200, PL-400, AB-620 relevant Azure or AI credentials for roles expected to contribute to Copilot or AI-enabled solutions.
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