- Company Name
- ace
- Job Title
- Senior Automation Specialist (RPA & AI)
- Job Description
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**Job Title**
Senior Automation Specialist (RPA & AI)
**Role Summary**
Lead end‑to‑end delivery of production‑grade Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and AI solutions for a global hedge fund’s operational functions. Design, build, test, deploy, and support UiPath automations integrated with Gemini/LLM capabilities, ensuring compliance controls, auditability, and resilience in regulated legal and compliance environments.
**Expectations**
- Deliver high‑output, production‑ready automations on schedule.
- Own the entire automation lifecycle from intake to handover.
- Operate independently, making day‑to‑day implementation decisions.
- Escalate issues only by exception with clear options.
- Maintain rigorous controls, traceability, and human‑in‑the‑loop design for AI components.
**Key Responsibilities**
- Intake, process mapping, solution design, build, test, release, hyper‑care, and BAU handover of attended and unattended UiPath workflows.
- Develop resilient automation patterns: retries, idempotency, exception handling, monitoring, logging, and supportability.
- Integrate Gemini/LLM for extraction, classification, summarisation, and triage, embedding controls and audit trails.
- Act as product owner: manage backlog, define acceptance criteria, prioritize delivery, track measurable benefits.
- Collaborate with Operations, Finance, Treasury, and Legal/Compliance to embed approvals, evidence capture, audit trails, and segregation‑of‑duty controls.
- Establish continuous assurance: automated regression checks, control validation routines, and health monitoring.
- Produce documentation: solution design documents, SOPs/runbooks, release notes, evidence packs, support procedures.
- Identify and remediate automation risk (breakpoints, failure modes, data quality, access/credential risks).
**Required Skills**
- Extensive hands‑on UiPath expertise (Studio, Orchestrator, queues, exception frameworks).
- Proven experience delivering production‑grade automations in financial services, preferably buy‑side.
- Practical knowledge of AI/LLM integration (Gemini preferred) with controls and auditability focus.
- Strong delivery discipline: fast pace, ambiguity tolerance, reliability under pressure.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management.
- Understanding of governance, controls, and operational risk in regulated environments.
- Bonus: familiarity with Legal/Compliance processes, evidence‑driven governance, and equities/fixed‑income operations.
**Required Education & Certifications**
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Finance, or related field.
- UiPath Advanced RPA Developer certification (or equivalent) is mandatory.
- Certification in AI/LLM integration or relevant AI platform is preferred.