Senior Specialist, Intelligent Automation

The requirement is for a Python automation developer and Intelligent Automation Senior Specialist with 3+ years of experience who builds and maintains attended business process automations, delivering well-defined development work and keeping the live automation portfolio running reliably. A significant part of this role is maintenance and support.

Responsibilities

Builds and maintains attended business process automations; Delivers well-defined development work; Keeps the live automation portfolio running reliably; Monitors live automations, triages and fixes failures; Adapts automations when target applications or websites change; Delivers minor enhancements and change requests within agreed SLAs; Resolves routine issues independently and escalates complex or higher-risk issues with clear diagnostics

Requirements

Good proficiency in Python 3.x with 3+ years hands-on experience; Working understanding of OOP principles, error handling, and modular code design; Experience packaging Python applications into executables (PyInstaller, cx_Freeze, auto-py-to-exe); Familiarity with virtual environments and dependency management (pip, requirements.txt); Ability to read, debug, and extend existing Python codebases written by others; Hands-on Selenium WebDriver experience, with the ability to work within existing automation frameworks (e.g. Page Object Model); Experience handling dynamic content, iframes, pop-ups, and alerts; Working command of explicit/implicit waits and locator strategies (XPath, CSS selectors), including updating broken locators when target sites change; Exposure to headless browser operations; Familiarity with Beautiful Soup and Requests; Foundational experience building and maintaining Power Automate cloud and desktop flows with Microsoft 365, SharePoint, and common connectors; Exposure to Power Apps canvas apps, with the ability to make changes to existing apps that front automation workflows; Awareness of when a use case suits Power Platform vs. Python/RPA; Awareness of Power Platform governance basics (DLP policies, environments); Excel manipulation (openpyxl, pandas, xlwings, xlsxwriter); PDF processing (PyPDF2, pdfplumber); Exposure to OCR implementation (Tesseract, pytesseract, EasyOCR, or cloud OCR APIs); Data transformation and cleansing with pandas; Working knowledge of VBA for Excel automation; able to read, debug, and maintain existing macros; Familiarity with the Excel object model: Workbooks, Worksheets, Ranges; Exposure to integrating Python and VBA via xlwings or win32com (pywin32); Awareness of macro security and digital signature requirements; Hands-on prompt engineering skills for data extraction, classification, and summarisation use cases; Familiarity with prompting techniques such as few-shot, chain-of-thought, and role-based prompting; Awareness of hallucination risks and basic output-validation approaches; Ability to write prompts that return structured outputs (JSON, CSV); Basic understanding of temperature, token limits, and parameter settings; Hands-on experience consuming RESTful APIs (authentication, request/response handling, error handling); Performs root-cause analysis and applies break-fix changes; Delivers minor enhancements and change requests following the team's change and release process; Logs, updates, and closes incidents and service requests in Azure DevOps within agreed SLAs; Performs regression testing after fixes and supports UAT with business users; Keeps runbooks, known-error notes, and support documentation up to date; Owns delivery of assigned automations and support tickets end-to-end; Works from defined requirements and designs, seeking clarification early where requirements are unclear; Attempts a solution first when blocked, escalating to senior developers with clear diagnostics; Communicates status, risks, and effort estimates accurately and on time; Good documentation habits for code, fixes, and user guides; Actively learns from senior developers through pairing and code reviews; Shares fixes, learnings, and recurring issues with the wider team; Supports peers and new joiners with practical guidance; Works effectively with business users when gathering issue details or supporting UAT; Working Git/GitHub skills: branching, committing, pull requests, and resolving simple merge conflicts; Participates in code reviews and incorporates review feedback; Follows team branching and repository standards; Follows coding standards (PEP 8, logging, exception handling, debugging practices); Uses config files and environment variables for sensitive data; never hardcodes credentials; Uses the team's reusable functions, classes, and modules, and contributes to them where appropriate; Flags technical debt and recurring failures observed during maintenance work

Nice to have

Exposure to Scrapy; Exposure to tabula-py or camelot; Exposure to Excel events, user forms, and custom functions (UDFs)