Aquent
Automation Engineer [AQ-21851]
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Delivering essential services and driving sustainable impact within its community, this company is at the forefront of leveraging technology to enhance operational efficiency, improve customer experiences, and build a resilient future. As a partner with Aquent, we seek innovative talent to contribute to their mission of excellence and digital transformation.
Are you passionate about transforming business processes through intelligent automation? We are seeking a highly skilled and dynamic engineer to join a multidisciplinary team at the heart of digital innovation. This is an incredible opportunity to design, build, and deploy cutting-edge automation solutions that will directly impact operational efficiency, enhance service delivery, and drive significant business outcomes. You’ll be instrumental in shaping the future of how critical services are delivered, making a tangible difference every day.
What You’ll Do
- Lead technical discovery and feasibility assessments, providing engineering estimates, delivery assumptions, integration considerations, and technical risks.
- Translate approved process designs, user stories, acceptance criteria, and non-functional requirements into secure, scalable, and supportable automation solutions.
- Develop robust automations using Microsoft Power Automate (cloud flows and Desktop), Power Apps, Copilot Studio, Dataverse, APIs, and approved integration patterns.
- Configure comprehensive exception handling, retry logic, logging, alerting, environment variables, connection references, and secure credential handling.
- Design and execute unit, functional, integration, regression, and non-functional tests, maintaining evidence against acceptance criteria.
- Actively participate in Agile sprint planning, daily stand-ups, demonstrations, retrospectives, and backlog refinement sessions.
- Produce and maintain high-quality technical and support documentation, including solution designs, diagrams, test scripts, and runbooks.
- Ensure solutions adhere to architectural patterns, security controls, engineering standards, and operational acceptance criteria, leveraging Azure DevOps for Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) and version control.
- Collaborate closely with Platform Engineers to ensure environments, connectors, and platform capabilities support reliable delivery.
- Engage with Architects for design reviews and architectural guidance, and with Process Engineers to ensure processes are well-understood, standardized, and ready for automation.
- Provide L3 engineering support for live automations, investigating and resolving defects, workflow failures, integration issues, and performance bottlenecks.
- Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives by identifying reusable components, automation candidates, standard patterns, and optimized delivery methods.
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Must-Have Qualifications
- Proven hands-on experience designing and building automation solutions using Microsoft Power Platform, including Power Automate (cloud flows and Desktop), Power Apps, Dataverse, and Copilot Studio.
- Demonstrated ability to develop robust workflows, low-code automations, and API integrations.
- Solid understanding of Power Platform environment strategies, managed solutions, connection references, environment variables, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), and secure credential management.
- Experience with Azure DevOps for Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), CI/CD pipelines, and structured release management.
- Strong problem-solving, analytical, and logical thinking skills applied to complex process automation challenges.
- Ability to design and implement comprehensive testing strategies (unit, functional, integration, regression, non-functional) and diagnose root causes of defects.
- Experience in designing robust exception handling, telemetry, logging, alerting, retry, and recovery mechanisms.
- Commitment to high-quality documentation, including solution designs, test evidence, release notes, and operational handbooks.
- Experience working effectively within Agile, multidisciplinary teams and communicating technical concepts clearly to diverse stakeholders.
- A strong commitment to component reuse, coding standards, peer review, and continuous engineering improvement.
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Nice-to-Have Qualifications
- Microsoft certifications such as PL-500, PL-200, PL-400, or AB-620.
- Relevant Azure or AI credentials for roles contributing to Copilot or AI-enabled solutions.
- Awareness or working knowledge of ML tooling such as Foundry or Azure ML.
- Familiarity with enterprise systems like Workday, ServiceNow, or 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.
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