Senior RPA Developer ( six months contract )

SUMMARY:
Senior RPA Developer

POSITION INFO:
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.

• Ensure that completed work adhere to relevant policies, procedures, governance and legislative requirements and report on deviations and discrepancies.

• Provide specialist know-how, support, advice and practice thought leadership in area of expertise.

• 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.

• 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.