RPA Engineering Manager

Position Overview

Autodesk is looking for a passionate individual that wants to be part of a fast-moving company transforming how it delivers value to its customers through people, processes, and technology.

The Engineering Manager on the Robotic Process Automation team will be responsible for driving excellence in delivering automation solutions within Autodesk’s Finance organization by collaborating with both business and technology teams. The role will ensure the finance automation portfolio as well as new automation opportunities are designed, developed, deployed, and maintained to ensure that business process automation is highly available, secure, resilient, and delivers the outcomes our world-wide finance teams require.

Responsibilities
 

• Delivery Management: ensure all work on automations and workflows (new opportunities, enhancements, bug fixes) flows unblocked through the software development lifecycle

• Incident management: identify continuous improvement opportunities by reviewing incidents requiring the team’s intervention to resolve

• Test management: ensure all automation work has been properly tested and documented before automations are deployed to production

• Change Management: in collaboration with the team’s senior manager, ensure all automation work deployed to production has been approved via the enterprise service management tool

• Continuous Improvement: in collaboration with senior manager and product manager, develop data-driven tools to identify continuous improvement opportunities

• Documentation management: ensure all technical documentation is up to date and conforms to Autodesk engineering documentation standards and best practices

Minimum Qualifications
 

• Master’s degree in computer science, Information Systems or related field, plus 12 years of experience in managing software development teams, including 5 years managing automation development teams

• Minimum of 5 years of experience using low-code development tools especially UiPath, Alteryx and Power Platform automation development products

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in high level language development such as Python, Java, C#, etc

• Experience using Kanban as a workflow management tool for software development

Preferred Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience with UiPath, Microsoft Power Platform, and Alteryx automation development tools

• Experience with software engineering practices using such as GitHub, CI/CD pipelines and cloud devo's tools used in AWS and Azure

• Experience with generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, Experience with ML tools such as Azure Search and Document Intelligent Services. Understands agentic AI and appropriate use cases automation solutions

• Experience using automated testing tools such as Selenium, Xray, Test rails, and UiPath Test Suite. Experience writing unit tests, integration tests, UAT test plans

• Software architecture, data flow and network/infrastructure diagrams as well as product requirement documents using tools such as Lucid chart and Confluence

• Managers of Professional roles – and/or managers of people that manage Support roles

• Manages work for medium size team, or multiple small teams and achieves results by directing work through supervisors/team leads and professional employees

• Typically focused on areas of subject matter expertise within one discipline

• Keep their teams organized, efficient, effective, productive, and motivated through professional leadership techniques

• Responsible for managing deliverables against expected results with a timeline that is typically longer than a quarter

• Focus is more operational, and decisions are typically made within established policies, procedures and objectives

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