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Senior / Lead Automation Engineer – Power Platform & AI

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Senior / Lead Automation Engineer – Power Platform & AI
Brighton, East Sussex – Hybrid, 1 day in the office
£60,000 – £72,000
A Senior / Lead Automation Engineer is required to play a leading role in a newly established team within a large, highly regulated organisation undergoing significant digital transformation.
The organisation is building an enterprise-scale automation capability that will deliver a significant portfolio of Power Platform, Copilot and AI-enabled solutions. The focus is not simply on completing individual projects, but on creating reusable assets, mature engineering practices and a scalable delivery model that can support dozens of automation initiatives.
This is a hands-on senior engineering position rather than a traditional management role. You’ll design and deliver complex automation solutions while providing technical direction to other engineers, reviewing code, owning estimates and helping to establish consistent development and delivery standards.
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- You’ll work closely with architects, process specialists and senior stakeholders, taking responsibility for the quality, sizing and technical delivery of automation solutions.
- As the capability grows, there may also be an opportunity to take on formal team-management responsibilities.
We are looking for a Senior Automation Engineer with experience in:
- Delivering automation solutions at scale within a large, enterprise-level, complex or regulated organisation
- Strong hands-on experience with Power Apps, Power Automate and Power Automate Desktop
- Building and deploying Microsoft Copilot Agents
- Developing AI-enabled workflows, agents or business applications
- Power Automate flows, APIs and enterprise system integrations
- Reviewing code and providing technical guidance to other developers
- Owning estimates, technical sizing and delivery planning
- Defining development standards and creating reusable automation components
- Working with architects to ensure solutions meet enterprise requirements
- CI/CD, application lifecycle management, testing and release pipelines
- Working within collaborative Agile engineering teams
- Power Platform governance, including DLP, RBAC and identity management
- Mentoring engineers and improving development quality across a team


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They are offering a salary of £60,000 – £72,000 plus great benefits and free parking, as well as, hybrid working, with 1 day a week onsite in their office in Brighton East Sussex, and occasional travel between nearby offices.
To be considered for this Senior / Lead Automation Engineer role, please send your CV to Jennifer Palmer at IT Recruitment Solutions.
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