RPA Developer
Pay Rate: $55-$70/hour
About the Team and the Environment
This role sits within a centralized AI Engineering and Automation Center of Excellence responsible for delivering enterprise-scale automation solutions across a large, distributed North American organization.
This is a mature, production-scale environment, not a pilot program or proof-of-concept operation:
- Approximately 125 unattended production robots and more than 200 automations currently in service
- Approximately 66 UiPath execution machines
- More than 19,000 automation jobs executed every 30 days
- Automations supporting business-critical functions including claims processing, policy administration, financial reconciliation, compliance reporting, and operational workflows
Technology Stack:
- UiPath (primary automation platform)
- Microsoft Power Platform
- Anthropic Claude
- ServiceNow
- Bitbucket
- Azure DevOps
The organization is actively expanding into AI-assisted and agentic automation patterns, meaning this role will support both an established automation ecosystem and next-generation intelligent automation initiatives.
Positioning the Opportunity
This is a hands-on engineering role within a mature production environment that offers a genuine path into applied AI engineering and intelligent automation.
It is:
- A build-and-support engineering position with meaningful production ownership
- An opportunity to work on both traditional RPA and emerging AI-enabled automation solutions
- A role focused on developing new automation capabilities while supporting existing production workloads
It is not:
- An AI research position
- A greenfield-only innovation role
- A maintenance-only support position
What the Person Will Do
- Design, develop, test, and deploy production-grade automations primarily using UiPath across multiple business functions and operational areas
- Build and maintain complex bot architectures, including multi-system integrations, structured exception handling, retry logic, and recovery patterns
- Troubleshoot and resolve production automation failures with minimal downtime while partnering with analysts, engineers, and architects
- Extend automation capabilities beyond UI-based RPA using Python, PowerShell, REST APIs, and webhook integrations
- Integrate AI services into automation workflows, including document understanding, classification, and large language model interactions
- Develop solutions using a Power Platform front-end and automation back-end delivery model
- Contribute reusable components, templates, and integration patterns while participating in peer code reviews
- Implement logging, audit trails, monitoring, and compliance-ready documentation for all production automations
Must Have
These are required screening criteria. Candidates missing any of these requirements should not be considered a fit.
- Three or more years of hands-on RPA development experience using UiPath as the primary automation platform
- Demonstrated experience supporting production-grade automations, including:
- Exception handling
- Logging
- Error recovery
- Multi-system integration
- Production support
- Working knowledge of SQL for data validation and manipulation within automation workflows
- Current UiPath Developer Certification (see Certification section)
- Experience operating in an Agile delivery environment, including:
- Daily standups
- Sprint planning
- Retrospectives
- Authorized to work in the United States on a W-2 basis without sponsorship and physically located within the United States for the duration of the engagement
Preferred
These qualifications strengthen a candidate's profile but are not required.
- Python scripting for automation, data manipulation, and API integrations
- PowerShell for orchestration, automation, and environment management
- Hands-on REST API and webhook integration experience
- Microsoft Power Platform experience, including Power Automate and Power Apps
- Experience utilizing AI-assisted development tools such as Anthropic Claude, UiPath Autopilot, or GitHub Copilot
- Exposure to:
- Agentic automation
- Intelligent document processing
- Document understanding
- Process mining
- Task mining
- Experience with Automation Anywhere or other enterprise RPA platforms
- Git, CI/CD pipelines, and modern software engineering practices
- Jira or Azure DevOps for backlog and delivery management
- Experience supporting regulated industries such as insurance, financial services, healthcare, or similar enterprise environments
- Familiarity with enterprise platforms such as:
- Applied Epic
- Vertafore
- Microsoft Dynamics 365
- Workday
- Oracle Fusion
- Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline or equivalent practical experience
Certifications
Required
- UiPath Certified Professional (UCP) - Automation Developer Associate
Preferred
- UiPath Certified Professional (UCP) - Automation Developer Professional (formerly Advanced RPA Developer)
Also Preferred
- UiPath Agentic Automation Associate or Professional
- UiPath Specialized AI Associate or Professional
- Microsoft Power Platform certifications such as PL-400 or current Copilot/Agent-related certifications
Legacy Credential Note
Candidates holding retired UiPath certifications such as:
- UiRPA (RPA Associate)
- UiARD (Advanced RPA Developer)
may still be considered.
These certifications expire on October 15, 2026. If presented, note the expiration date and confirm the candidate's plan for transitioning to a current certification path.
Do not describe UiRPA or UiARD as current credentials.
Certification Guidance
Do not use the following as target certifications:
- PL-500 (retiring June 30, 2026)
- PL-600 (retiring June 30, 2026)
- PL-200 (retiring August 31, 2026)
as they are being retired and are no longer strategic certification targets.
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