Senior Automation Engineer

Client

Location:

Worthing - Hybrid (1 day per week onsite)

Starting: ASAP

Minimum Pay (per year): 51300.00

Maximum Pay (per year): 72500.00

Hours: Full-time

Duration: Permanent

Job Description:

The Senior Automation Engineer leads the engineering design, build, assurance and product ionisation of complex automation, digital worker and agentic solutions.

• The role provides hands‑on technical leadership across the delivery lifecycle, ensuring solutions are secure, reusable, testable, supportable and aligned to approved architecture, engineering standards and measurable business outcomes.
• The Senior Automation Engineer acts as the technical lead within delivery squads, translating process and business equirements into robust solutions across Microsoft Power Platform, Power Automate Desktop, Copilot Studio,
• APIs and related Azure services. The role coaches Automation Engineers, performs code and design reviews, resolves difficult technical issues and strengthens the reusable engineering capability needed to scale delivery.

• Lead the end-to-end technical delivery of complex automations, agents, workflows and reusable services from candidate assessment and Sprint 0 through build, test, transition, early life support and continuous improvement.
• Turn approved process designs, user stories, non-functional requirements and benefit assumptions into maintainable solution designs and delivery plans.
• Own or lead build activities for high‑complexity solutions involving multiple systems, sensitive data, custom connectors, APIs, unattended desktop automation or agentic orchestration.
• Apply MVP discipline, manage technical scope and expose delivery risks, dependencies and trade‑offs early.

• Lead peer reviews of code, configuration, prompts, solution architecture, test evidence and deployment artefacts
• Ensure Definition of Ready and Definition of Done criteria are met, including documentation, testing, exception handling, security controls, release notes and operational handover.
• Define and apply engineering standards for naming, source control, branching, ALM, CI/CD, environment variables, connection references, error handling, logging and observability.
• Identify, record and help prioritise technical debt, including supportability, security, deprecated patterns, legacy dependencies and lifecycle risks.

• Design solutions within approved environment, DLP, security group, role-based access and service-account patterns.
• Work with Platform Engineering and Architecture to confirm environment readiness, connectivity, credentials, capacity, licensing and production monitoring.
• Prepare designs and evidence for Design Authority, change governance and production approval; address actions and exceptions promptly.
• Embed Responsible AI controls in agentic solutions, including grounding, permissions, guardrails, human escalation, content safety, auditability and monitoring.

• Design for supportability from initiation, not at go‑live, including runbooks, operational handbooks, support models, SLAs, monitoring, alerting and business/technical exception handling.
• Lead deployment, smoke testing, production verification and early life support fixes for assigned solutions.
• Resolve escalated production defects and contribute to root‑cause analysis, emergency changes, resilience improvements and service reviews.
• Refactor live solutions to improve reliability, performance, maintainability, security and run cost.

• Create and maintain reusable components, patterns, templates, APIs, starter kits and engineering guidance; promote their adoption across central,…