Specialist Intelligent Automation Architect

Location: Netherlands

SIRE® is the market leader in Life Sciences recruitment. We believe the recruitment market needs to gear up in technology and continuous innovation. We like technology, in a Life Sciences market driven on science, we couldn’t stay behind; we drive Recruitment Science. Investing a majority of our turnover in technology enables us to use unique Resource Technologies. By using highly advanced algorithms, we enable our team of Resource & Data Strategists© to maintain the most advanced, detailed and complete Life Sciences network in Europe. This big data enables us to work Reverse Recruitment©: we first analyze the market in-depth before we go out to the market. Because we analyze the whole market, we can compare facts and data. This enables us to do Facts & Big Data Recruitment©, making sure we, or better yet, you find the right career!Our client is a professional Pharmaceutical organisation, based in Noord-Brabant Netherlands.

The Company

This client is an international pharmaceutical organization, specialized in the packaging and distribution of medicines with a powerful sense of shared purpose toward their mission: to serve patients.

Role Description

The Specialist Intelligent Automation Architect is a critical role in the Intelligent Automation Product team that partners with Intelligent Automation Process Analysts to understand the automation requirements and produces, tests, and implements RPA or other Intelligent Automation solutions for production deployment. The candidate will ensure alignment of business and technology requirements, provide SME support to the team of Developers and resolves robot training issues. The candidate will partner with business functions to understand their processes, optimize their processes for Intelligent Automation delivery, document the discrete steps and activities to be performed by RPA and other Intelligent Automation solutions, and transfer that knowledge and documentation to the Intelligent Automation Developers for implementation. Top candidates will have an entrepreneurial spirit, excellent problem-solving skills, and strong technical capabilities in process automation. Agile Training is preferred.

Responsibilities

- Ensures alignment of business and technology requirements, and provides IA SME support to the team of IA Developers and resolves robot training issues;
- Manages the Re-Usable Object Library and highlights those that can be re-purposed for planned IA implementations;
- Create or update documentation including architecture diagrams and design documents (i.e. Technical Design Document) in support of development efforts;
- Estimate development efforts and provide guidance on development timelines;
- Hands-on RPA development and development of shared components/objects. Drive the strategic and tactical roll-out of RPA solutions;
- Identify reusable components and patterns as well as ensure consistently in design across use-cases built using RPA;
- Contribute to the development of procedures to continually improve a rapid and repeatable delivery channel of RPA solutions;
- Conduct code reviews with peers to ensure each increment adheres to original version as designed in the user story (or Process Definition Document) and adheres to highest quality standards;
- Respond to support inquiries for use-cases in order to make quick repair to keep use-cases running in production;
- Mentor Automation Developers, Testers and Service manager on RPA Concepts/Design patterns;
- Identify areas of improvement on code quality, code reusability, development methodologies, and other technical fields and drive them to implementation;
- Own the Solution Design and Delivery using industry standard frameworks meeting security, scalability, functional and non-functional requirements;
- Advise, configure, size and provision RPA infrastructure to meet functional and non-functional requirements;
- Ensure the source code and documentation management tools and concepts (E.g. Jira, Confluence, GitHub, Kanban, etc) are applied correctly and consistent by the team;
- Oversee the design, scoping, implementation and testing in short agile release cycles of in-house development and vendor implementations end-to-end;
- Participates in the intelligent automation Product Team;
- Participates in development, promotion and utilization of Intelligent Automation best practices;
- Continuously learns and stays informed on emerging automation technologies and provides recommendations to Intelligent Automation Product Team.

Requirements

- Master’s degree and min 1 year of Information Systems experience OR Bachelor’s degree and 2 years of Information Systems experience;
- Certified Automation Anywhere accreditation (or other equivalent RPA industry leading platform accreditation);
- RPA framework experience and/or experience with building and retiring RPA are a big plus.

Other information

- Experience and certifications for leading automation software platforms (e.g., Automation Anywhere, Blue Prism, UiPath);
- Proficiency with Macros, coding languages such as Java and VBA preferred;
- Scripting languages (e.g., python, perl, powershell, bash, vbs, etc.);
- Knowledge of SQLite, MySQL or similar database management system;
- Experience on web service integration (SOAP, REST, JSON, XML);
- Understanding of HTML5, JavaScript, jQuery, Ajax and PHP;
- Basic Knowledge of Cloud Based platforms such as AWS, Google;
- Understanding of machine learning/AI and practical experience in building some models or leveraging Cloud based API’s;
- Knowledge of chat bots, OCR technologies that can be leveraged;
- Experience with RPA and other Intelligent Automation development and deployment;
- Expert knowledge of internal support systems (e.g., Workday, SFDC, Oracle);
- Experience with Enterprise Resource Planning Systems – SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, IFS;
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills with the ability to investigate and identify the source of an error;
- Excellent communication (both verbal and written) and interpersonal skills;
- Ability to present technical details to a non-technical audience;
- Knowledge of architectural patterns both in software and infrastructure;
- Knowledge of Security protocols that impacts design considerations;
- Certifications in AWS, TOGAF preferred;
- Agile training preferred;
- Advanced proficiency in Object Oriented Design (ODD) and analysis;
- Advanced proficiency in application analysis/design engineering functions.

Are you interested and do want to apply for this role, please fill out your application via the apply button below and contact Michelle Tang.