RPA AI Lead ​/ Engineer

RPA AI Lead / Engineer

Location:

Irving, TX, Edina, MN (Hybrid – 3 days’ work from office)

Rate: 70-73/hour (C2C) 60-64/hour on W2

Seeking a RPA AI Lead / Engineer with 12+ years of experience in UiPath and Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI), specializing in designing, developing, integrating, and governing enterprise-scale automation solutions while driving CoE, security, and operational excellence initiatives.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Own solution architecture and technical delivery for enterprise automation initiatives.
• Select the appropriate technology, platform capabilities, integration approach, and engineering patterns for each initiative.
• Define the skills, roles, effort, technical dependencies, and delivery approach required for successful execution.
• Lead multiple engineers, including Senior AI Automation Engineers, through design, development, testing, deployment, and support.
• Be accountable for technical delivery commitments, engineering quality, production readiness, and ongoing solution support.
• Define and govern reference architectures, reusable frameworks, engineering standards, design patterns, and lifecycle practices.
• Lead architecture reviews, technical assessments, design approvals, complex troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.
• Drive adoption of advanced capabilities including Agentic Automation, AI Agents, Intelligent Document Processing, Process Mining, and Generative AI.
• Provide the Manager with technical estimates, skill requirements, capacity needs, risks, and dependencies for portfolio planning.
• Present solution recommendations, technical risks, delivery status, and tradeoffs to business and technology leaders.
• Develop engineers through coaching, technical feedback, knowledge sharing, and leadership opportunities.

Duration:
Contract role with Citius Tech

Educational

Qualifications:

• Engineering Degree – BE/ME/BTech/MTech/BSc/MSc.
• Technical certification in multiple technologies is desirable.

Skills:

• 12+ years of software engineering, enterprise automation, or platform engineering experience.
• 5+ years of enterprise UiPath engineering experience.
• 5+ years leading technical teams or complex enterprise automation initiatives.
• Proven experience designing and delivering large-scale enterprise automation ecosystems.
• Experience owning solution architecture, engineering standards, delivery lifecycle, and production support.
• Experience defining technical skills, effort, architecture, and delivery plans for multiple initiatives.
• Strong technical leadership, executive communication, stakeholder management, and decision-making skills.
• Ability and willingness to come in – person interview and 3 days’ work from office.

Technical Skills & Technologies:

• Enterprise Intelligent Automation:
  UiPath, Microsoft Power Platform, enterprise RPA platforms
• AI-Enabled Automation:
  Agentic AI, AI Agents, LLMs, Prompt Engineering, Intelligent Document Processing, Process Mining
• Software Engineering & Integration:
  Python, C#, .NET, REST APIs, SQL, Git, CI/CD, enterprise integration
• Cloud & Platform Services:
  Microsoft Azure, Azure OpenAI, Azure Dev Ops, cloud-native services
• Engineering Practices:
  Solution design, automation frameworks, SDLC, Agile, Dev Sec Ops , observability, production support