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Overview

The UiPath Automation Engineer supports the design, analysis, implementation, enhancement, and operational support of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) solutions within federal government environments. This role is responsible for both architecture and engineering, helping the client identify automation opportunities, design scalable automation solutions, implement new bots, optimize existing bots, and support the migration of attended automations to unattended enterprise automation platforms.

The engineer collaborates closely with business stakeholders and operations teams to develop intelligent automation solutions that improve efficiency, reduce manual effort, enhance data quality, and streamline business processes. Responsibilities include designing automation architectures, developing and supporting UiPath workflows, implementing attended and unattended bots, troubleshooting production automations, leveraging UiPath AI and Computer Vision capabilities, and implementing Document Understanding solutions for structured and unstructured data processing.

This role requires strong technical expertise in UiPath technologies, process analysis, automation architecture, workflow development, and operational support. The engineer will evaluate existing business processes, recommend automation approaches, define technical requirements, and develop scalable solutions that align with enterprise architecture, security, compliance, and operational requirements. Success in this role requires strong analytical skills, effective communication abilities, attention to detail, a customer-focused mindset, and the ability to collaborate across multiple technical and business teams within a federal government environment.

Key Functions

• Analyze business processes and operational workflows to identify automation opportunities and recommend UiPath-based solutions.
• Design end-to-end automation architectures that leverage attended bots, unattended bots, orchestrated automations, Computer Vision, AI-powered automation capabilities, and Document Understanding.
• Develop, test, deploy, and maintain UiPath automation solutions across enterprise environments.
• Assess existing attended automations and design migration approaches to transition processes into scalable unattended automation platforms.
• Troubleshoot, optimize, and enhance existing UiPath bots to improve reliability, performance, maintainability, and operational efficiency.
• Perform root cause analysis and resolution of automation failures, production incidents, and bot performance issues.
• Design and implement Document Understanding solutions to automate extraction, classification, validation, and processing of structured and unstructured documents.
• Implement Computer Vision automation capabilities to support automation of legacy applications, virtual environments, and systems with limited integration capabilities.
• Develop reusable automation components, workflows, frameworks, and best practices to support enterprise automation scalability.
• Support automation infrastructure configuration, Orchestrator administration, bot scheduling, credential management, and operational monitoring activities.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to document requirements, process flows, automation opportunities, technical designs, and implementation approaches.
• Support technical discovery sessions and process assessments to evaluate automation feasibility and define implementation roadmaps.
• Support automation testing, user acceptance testing, production deployment, and post-implementation support activities.
• Identify automation risks, dependencies, operational constraints, and integration considerations throughout the project lifecycle.
• Maintain positive working relationships with clients, delivery teams, business stakeholders, and technical teams while supporting mission-critical business operations.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 4 years of relevant experience.
• An additional 2 years of experience with an Associate's Degree.
• An additional 4 years of experience with a high school diploma.
• Experience designing, developing, implementing, or supporting UiPath automation solutions.
• Experience supporting attended and unattended automation deployments within enterprise environments.
• Experience troubleshooting, maintaining, and enhancing existing RPA solutions.
• Experience gathering requirements, documenting business processes, and translating business needs into automation solutions.
• Experience developing technical documentation, workflow diagrams, solution designs, and implementation documentation.
• Experience working with APIs, application integrations, databases, web services, or enterprise applications.
• Experience supporting software development lifecycle activities, testing, deployment, and production support.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills.

Preferred Qualifications or Skills

• UiPath Automation Solution Architect Professional certification.
• UiPath Automation Developer Professional certification.
• UiPath Business Analyst certification.