Automation Architect

Job Description

Sun Life is seeking a Senior UiPath Developer to design, build, deploy, and support enterprise-grade automations. This is a hands‑on development role for a seasoned automation engineer who can deliver high-quality solutions and understands how automation operates within a broader enterprise platform.

Reporting to the Director, Process Automation & Application Delivery, this role owns end-to-end automation delivery across design, development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and support. The focus is primarily on UiPath, with strong expectations around hands‑on development, engineering discipline, reusable components, and production-ready solutions.

The Senior UiPath Developer partners with business analysts, infrastructure teams, security teams, and application owners to deliver reliable automation solutions. The role requires a strong understanding of the UiPath platform, including Orchestrator concepts, unattended runtime environments, secure credential access, and AI-enabled automation opportunities such as AWS Bedrock integrations.

• End‑to‑End UiPath Delivery
  • Design, develop, test, deploy, and support automation solutions using UiPath Studio and enterprise patterns such as REFramework or equivalent.
  • Translate process requirements into scalable solutions with strong exception handling, logging, retry strategies, and maintainable code.
  • Own quality across the delivery lifecycle, including testing, deployment readiness, defect resolution, and production support.
• Platform and Operational Support
  • Work with UiPath Orchestrator capabilities including assets, queues, robots, triggers, schedules, monitoring, and environment promotion.
  • Apply a strong understanding of tenants, folders, role‑based access, and runtime configuration to support secure and scalable delivery.
  • Support bot stability through monitoring, troubleshooting, incident triage, and continuous improvement.
• Environment, Security, and Integration
  • Partner with infrastructure teams to ensure virtual machines and runtime environments are ready for unattended automation.
  • Support secure credential and privileged access patterns, including approved enterprise tools such as Beyond Trust or similar platforms.
  • Build integrations across APIs, databases, enterprise applications, and AI-enabled services such as AWS Bedrock where relevant.
• Technical Leadership and Best Practices
  • Promote best practices including modular design, code reviews, reusable components, documentation, and release discipline.
  • Guide developers and contribute to solution design decisions while remaining hands‑on in delivery.
  • Collaborate with business analysts, security teams, architects, and application owners to deliver practical, scalable solutions.

• Deep hands‑on UiPath development expertise, including workflow design, selectors, exception handling, logging, and reusable automation patterns.
• Strong understanding of UiPath platform concepts including Orchestrator, tenants, folders, assets, queues, robots, triggers, and role‑based access.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across automation code, runtime environments, credential access, and infrastructure dependencies.
• Ability to guide developers, influence solution quality, and contribute to design decisions while staying hands‑on.
• Commitment to secure development, documentation quality, and enterprise best practices.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of hands‑on enterprise automation experience, with strong UiPath expertise.
• Strong experience delivering automations end to end across design, development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and support.
• Experience with UiPath Studio, Orchestrator, unattended automation, queues, assets, schedules, deployment, and bot support in enterprise environments.
• Experience applying best practices such as modular design, source control, peer reviews, reusable components, and supportable exception handling.
• Experience with virtual machines or hosted runtime environments for automation execution.
• Familiarity with secure…