Robotics (RPA) Engineer


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Lloyds Banking Group

Listed on

15th February 2019

Location

London

Salary/Rate

£57000 - £67000

Type

Permanent

Start Date

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As the UK's largest Retail, Digital and Commercial bank our Group has a huge responsibility to support the UK economy and help it prosper whilst putting customers at the heart of everything we do. And with over 30m customers we're harnessing the data we hold to ensure we become the best Bank for customers through our products and services.

We're now embarking on a three year, £3bn, transformation programme - putting unprecedented levels of investment into our platforms, people and data capabilities to build the bank of the future. One key area of focus is our investment in removing the mundane and repetitive tasks colleagues undertake and replacing these with Robotic Process Automation (RPA).

We're growing one of the largest RPA workforces in the country - enabling colleagues to reinvest their time into more meaningful work for our business and customers. Together we'll make it possible... Our RPA 'Centre of Excellence' team sits within Applied Sciences - Machine Intelligence. They're a team of intelligent automation specialists who safeguard & support the delivery of RPA initiatives for an amazingly diverse variety of business areas.

We're looking for an RPA Engineer with the ability to lead and work with other specialists within the team and undertake both "Run" and "Change" activities. With this flexibility you'd gain a deep understanding of the underlying RPA technologies with the overall goal of improving the service offered to customers of the RPA estate.

What would your focus be?

Based out of one of our key Edinburgh or London offices you can expect to work with teams from across the business to make sure we're building and deploying safe & resilient robots which deliver real value.

You'd support the development teams to ensure both build quality and pace of deployment corresponds to business aspirations.

You'd become the go-to Technical person where bot issues are identified or need improving

You'll also get exposure beyond RPA - to Chatbots, Intelligent Optimal Character Recognition (OCR), Machine Learning, biometrics and more...

To do this you'll work on: .

Server deployment, configuration and basic administration, with an understanding of database optimisation techniques.

Monitoring and analysis of the VDI /Server infrastructure and system logs, allowing diagnostics and configuration of the Windows devices, including Windows Firewalls and IIS.

Creating Transact SQL, Batch and PowerShell scripts

Nurturing a team in the investigation of incidents and underlying root causes

Using the Elastic stack to ingest large amount of log data, by creating data transform and load scripts

Performing data discovery and analysis to provide insight into systems operation and efficiency.

Making the most of opportunities to take part in RPA+ experimentation and investigating the use of DevOps Tools and techniques in an RPA environment.

You'd also travel to visit our RPA Hubs which are based across the UK and you may also get opportunities to travel internationally.

About you...

You're highly articulate, confident at communicating adeptly at all levels across a huge business and influencing appropriately as you coach, inform and consult in the RPA space.

You'll have the skills to challenge where needed, and respond positively to challenge from others.

You'd take ownership of technical aspects of our RPA platform, leading on pieces of work within the technical team to continuously improve the RPA service offering to our customers.

And the skills you'd bring...

You'll need extensive knowledge of Blue Prism scripting, with the practical experience of creating production-ready code.

Blue Prism Developer Accreditation and/or Accredited Installation Engineer is desirable although you'll be expected to obtain these shortly after starting the role.

You'll possess some years' experience of deploying and administrating Blue Prism for large scale environments with a good knowledge of architecture patterns for Blue Prism RPA software.

You'll ideally also have knowledge and experience of working across a number of the following areas:

Windows Server and Client Infrastructure

SQL Database Server and/or Big Data Concepts

Elastic Stack (ELK) * DevOps Principles and Tooling

With knowledge of Load Balancing (F5) and Xen App / Desktop Visualization being really useful.

So what can we offer you in return?

You're going to be stretched and get the opportunity to use your creativity and curiosity to bring about some amazing RPA solutions at scale to this huge organisation.

You're also going to get some horizon-expanding exposure to a host of wider technologies and processes to automate.

You'll enjoy an energising and intellectually challenging environment where you'll see our real passion for innovation and robotics.

You and your RPA colleagues will receive genuine opportunities to flourish and we're passionate about our people representing the communities we serve - we're a leader when it comes to diversity and equal opportunity. You'll also receive a package that includes a c15% performance related bonus, generous pension contribution and £4k car/allowance along with 30 days holiday (plus bank holidays) and range of wider benefits.

So if joining us at a critical and exciting time in our RPA future appeals to you and you have the background we're seeking then get in touch and apply today...

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