Senior RPA Developer
JOB DESCRIPTION
Process
- Analyse business processes and identify opportunities for automation using Microsoft Power Platform tools.
- Collaborate with business analysts and process owners to gather requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
- Design, develop, test, and deploy RPA bots in accordance with SARS’s governance and security standards.
- Maintain and monitor bots to ensure optimal performance and resolve any issues.
- Document automation solutions and provide training/support to end-users and stakeholders.
- Ensure compliance with SARS’s data privacy, cybersecurity, and internal control policies.
- Participate in continuous improvement initiatives and contribute to the RPA Centre of Excellence.
- Apply and utilise systems in a manner that ensures efficient and effective service delivery, optimised quality, financial accuracy and calculation.
- Apply processes to improve data validation across service delivery systems in line with operational targets.
- Design, model and document Process Solutions Specifications.
- Ensure that business requirements are clearly identified, prioritised and satisfied by appropriate technical and or business process solutions.
- Provide process solution support to institutionalise process initiatives.
- Analyse and make recommendations about improvements to specialist systems, procedures, policies and practices.
- Draw on own technical or professional expertise, knowledge and experience to identify and recommend tactical solutions to defined problems in practices.
- Influence and communicate across business areas impacted by practice area to minimise resistance and ensure on-boarding of new thinking.
- Proactively identify interconnected problems, determine its impact and use to develop best fit alternatives, developing best practice solutions.
- Recommend changes to optimise processes, systems, practice areas and associated procedures and execute the implementation of change and innovation.
Governance
- Ensure that completed work adhere to relevant policies, procedures, governance and legislative requirements and report on deviations and discrepancies.
People
- Provide specialist know-how, support, advice and practice thought leadership in area of expertise.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
Qualifications and Experience:
- Relevant bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or related field.
- 6 – 8 years’ experience in software development, of which 5 years at a specialist level and at least 4 years in RPA development.
- Microsoft Certified: Power Automate RPA Developer Associate.
- Scripting languages: VBScript, JavaScript.
- .NET Framework.
- Microsoft Dataverse.
- Power Platform: Power Apps, AI Builder, Power Virtual Agents.
- Ability to design scalable automation solutions.
- Familiarity with AI/ML integration.
- Understanding of business analysis and process engineering.
Key Skills and Competencies:
- The acknowledgement and assumption of responsibility for actions, products, decisions, and policies within the scope of the role or employment position.
- Understands a situation, issue, and or problem by breaking it into smaller pieces, or tracing the implications of a situation in a step-by-step way.
- The ability to take all relevant details into account to ensure that a task is completed to required standards.
- The ability to identify patterns or connections between situations that are not obviously related and to identify key or underlying issues in complex situation.
- This is the ability to formulate new concepts based on information gathered.
- Degree to which one possesses definitive technical and or fundamental understanding of the business.
- Must be able to systematically identify, analyse and resolve existing and anticipated problems in order to reach optimum solutions in a timely manner
- Ability to be considerate for self and others.
- Firm belief in the reliability, truth or ability of someone or something.
- Decisions, practices, processes and transactions are transparent and fair.
- The quality of being upright, truthful, sincere and freedom from deceit or fraud. Guided by values, ability to demonstrate moral judgement and doing the right thing consistently.
- Activities, tasks and practices associated with obtaining and using knowledge in business areas, functions and products.
- Ability to determine trends from raw data to assist decision-making.
- Fundamentally rethinking and redesigning business processes, to obtain sustained improvements in quality, cost, service, lead time, flexibility and innovation.
- Contributions to improving operational efficiencies including re-evaluation of processes and provision of recommendations to enhance operational efficiency.
- Ability to create reports in a lucid and effective manner, keeping in mind the purpose of the reports.
This vacancy is open to people with disabilities.
Desired Skills:
- Communication skills
- Fundamentally rethinking
- Ability to create reports