Automation Engineer

Client Location: Worthing (1 day per week onsite) Starting: 10/11/2026 Pay Comments: Up to 54,600 Minimum Pay (per year): 44500.00 Maximum Pay (per year): 54600.00 Hours: Full-time Duration: Permanent : The Automation Engineer designs, builds, tests, deploys and continuously improves secure, scalable and supportable automation solutions within the Process Engineering & Intelligent Automation team.

• Working as part of a multidisciplinary delivery squad, the role translates approved business processes, user stories, solution designs and non-functional requirements into production-ready automations using Microsoft Power Platform, Power Automate Desktop (Unattended), Copilot Studio and associated integration capabilities.
• The Automation Engineer contributes throughout the end-to-end automation lifecycle, from technical discovery and feasibility assessment through sprint delivery, testing, release, Early Life Support and live-service improvement.
• The role ensures that solutions comply with architectural patterns, security controls, engineering standards and operational acceptance criteria, while delivering measurable business process, customer and financial outcomes. Accountabilities Estimated
• Technical Discovery, Solution Design, Build & Testing
• Participate in technical discovery and feasibility assessments, providing engineering estimates, delivery assumptions, integration considerations and technical risks.
• Work with business stakeholders and Process Engineers to translate approved process designs, user stories, acceptance criteria and non-functional requirementsinto secure, supportable automation solutions.
• Develop automation solutions using Power Automate cloud flows, Power Automate
• Desktop, Power Apps, Copilot Studio, Dataverse, APIs and approved integration patterns.
• Configure exception handling, retry logic, logging, alerting, environment variables, connection references and secure credential handling.
• Develop and execute unit, functional, integration, regression and non-functional tests, maintaining evidence against acceptance criteria.
• Participate in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, demonstrations, retrospectives and backlog refinement.
• Maintain solution designs and engineering documentation as the solution evolves.
• Identify and use reusable components, APIs, templates and common engineering patterns Technical Discovery, Solution Design, Build & Testing 45%
• Engineering Quality, Documentation & Assurance
• Produce technical and support documentation, including solution diagrams, test scripts, runbooks
• Follow ALM practices using Azure DevOps for deployment and version control.
• Apply secure development practices and ensure solutions meet auditability, resilience, and compliance requirements.
• Conduct peer reviews and support continuous code/configuration review throughout each sprint.

Engineering Quality, Documentation & Assurance - 25%

• Ensure solutions meet Definition of Ready, Definition of Done, Design Authority, security, privacy, auditability and operational acceptance requirements.
• Record known business and technical exceptions and confirm agreed remediation or fix-forward actions
• Ensure reusable components and assets are documented and added to the approved asset library
• Identify and record technical debt arising from delivery decisions.
• Collaboration with Platform, Process & Architecture Team members
• Work alongside the Platform Engineer to ensure environments, connectors, and platform capabilities support reliable delivery.
• Engage with our Automation Architect during design reviews or when solutions require architectural guidance.
• Collaborate with our Process Architect and Process Engineers to ensure processes are well‑understood, standardised, and ready for automation.
• Support the Senior Automation Engineer with solution quality reviews, component reuse, and delivery consistency.
• Work with Scrum Masters to estimate user stories, maintain delivery visibility and resolve impediments.
• Work with Support Engineers to agree support requirements, monitoring, operational documentation and handover criteria.
• Engage business process owners and SMEs through demonstrations, testing, UAT and operational-readiness activities Collaboration with Platform, Process & Architecture Team members - 20%
• Support, Troubleshooting & Continuous Improvement
• Support controlled deployment to test, pre-production and production environments.
• Conduct post-deployment smoke testing and support cutover activities.
• Complete the engineering elements of the production handover pack and verify operational monitoring. Investigate and resolve defects, workflow failures, integration issues, and performance bottlenecks.
• Contribute to continuous improvement by identifying reusable components, automation candidates, standard patterns, and optimised delivery methods.
• Participate in early life support and transition to operations.
• Support live automations as an L3 engineering resolver, working with support and platform teams Support, Troubleshooting & Continuous Improvement - 10%
• Strong engineering capability across Power Automate cloud flows, Power Automate Desktop, Power Apps, Dataverse and Copilot Studio
• Ability to design and build robust workflows, low‑code automations, API integrations
• Understanding of environment strategies, managed solutions, connection references, environment variables, DLP, RBAC and secure credential management.
• Strong problem‑solving and logical thinking applied to process automation challenges.
• High attention to detail, strong documentation discipline, and willingness to follow structured delivery frameworks.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines and structured release management.
• Ability to design robust exception handling, telemetry, logging, alerting, retry and recovery mechanisms.
• Strong testing capability across unit, functional, integration, regression and non-functional testing.
• Ability to diagnose defects, identify root causes and implement resilient fixes rather than short-term workarounds.
• Strong documentation discipline, including solution designs, test evidence, release notes, runbooks and operational handbooks.
• Ability to work effectively within Agile multidisciplinary squads and communicate technical matters clearly to business stakeholders
• Commitment to component reuse, coding standards, peer review and continuous engineering improvement. Knowledge Qualifications Technical
• Hands-on experience with Power Platform (Power Platform) and Co‑Pilot Studio
• Awareness or some working knowledge of Foundry, or other ML tooling such as Azure ML
• Awareness of enterprise systems such as Workday, ServiceNow, SAP Risk & Compliance
• Understanding of GDPR, information security, and compliance requirements in regulated environments.
• Awareness of platform security practices including identity management, DLP, RBAC, and secure data access. Essential
• Experience in automation development using Power Automate and CoPilot Studio
• Strong analytical and digital problem‑solving ability. Desirable
• Microsoft certifications: PL-500, PL-200, PL-400, AB-620 relevant Azure or AI credentials for roles expected to contribute to Copilot or AI-enabled solutions