Automation Engineer

• Employment Type: full time continuing role as an Automation Engineer UNSW IT
• Starting salary $148012 plus generous super and leave loading
• Location: Kensington campus in NSW (Hybrid Flexible Working)

About UNSW:

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The primary purpose of the Automation Engineer Digital Process Automation is to serve as the technology subject matter expert (SME) for the Automation Centre of Excellence (CoE) enabling highquality secure and scalable automation solutions across UNSW. The role provides handson engineering and platform administration for Microsoft Power Platform (with a focus on Power Automate) and UiPath supports the implementation of CoE governance frameworks and delivers expert advisory and enablement services to a distributed delivery model (professional developers partners and citizen developers).
Working closely with the Digital Process Automation Lead the Automation Engineer designs and builds complex automations and reusable components establishes and maintains platform guardrails configures environments and pipelines conducts code reviews and quality assurance and ensures operational excellence through monitoring incident/problem resolution and continuous improvement. The role contributes to a catalogue of reusable components promotes best practices and helps uplift capability across the University.

Specific accountabilities for this role include:

Engineering & Delivery

• Design develop and maintain automation solutions using Power Automate (cloud/desktop) Power Apps (as required) Dataverse and UiPath (Studio/StudioX/Assistant) aligned to enterprise architecture security and data governance standards.
• Build robust automations using UiPath ReFramework queues transaction processing modern folders and Orchestrator assets; develop resilient Power Automate flows with retry logic error handling and secure connection management.
• Implement integrations using REST/JSON APIs Azure services (e.g. Functions Service Bus Logic Apps as needed) Connectors/Custom Connectors files and databases.
• Develop and maintain a catalogue of reusable components templates connectors orchestrator assets and patterns to accelerate delivery and reduce duplication.
• Contribute to and curate technical documentation (solution designs support guides runbooks) and knowledge articles for both IT teams and business users.

Platform Administration & Operations

• Administer Power Platform environments (Dataverse DLP policies data loss prevention rules environment security solution layering) and UiPath Orchestrator/Tenant (robots runtimes modern folders assets queues packages).
• Establish and run monitoring and alerting (e.g. Power Platform admin analytics/CoE dashboard Application Insights UiPath Insights) to ensure reliability performance and compliance with SLAs.
• Manage incidents defects and problems; conduct rootcause analysis apply fixes and drive preventive actions.

Governance Quality & Release Management

• Implement CoE guardrails proportionate to solution risk/complexity including code standards solution review checklists security reviews and documentation templates.
• Configure and operate ALM/CICD for Power Platform (managed solutions branching solution segmentation) and UiPath (package management and releases) using Azure DevOps/GitHub.
• Participate in the change approval process ensuring minor noncode changes can flow through streamlined pathways while major releases meet all quality gates.

Advisory Enablement & Stakeholder Engagement

• Provide expert advice on platform fit solution options performance/scalability security/privacy and future pathways as automations become missioncritical.
• Enable and coach citizen developers and professional teams through clinics code reviews communities of practice and showandtell sessions uplifting capability across the University.
• Liaise across IT Units (e.g. Cloud Infrastructure Networks Cybersecurity) to ensure endtoend solutions are secure supportable and costeffective.

Vendor & Partner Collaboration

• Work with delivery partners/managed services to ensure consistent standards robust estimates adherence to CoE frameworks and highquality outcomes.

Continuous Improvement

• Track and promote new release features across Microsoft Power Platform and UiPath; pilot relevant capabilities and recommend safe adoption within CoE guardrails.
• Drive a culture of continuous improvement through postimplementation reviews performance tuning and backlog refinements.

Compliance Values and Safety

• Align with and actively demonstrate the Code of Conduct and Values.
• Cooperate with all health and safety policies and procedures of the University and take all reasonable care to ensure that your actions or omissions do not impact on the psychosocial or physical health and safety of yourself or others.
• Ensure hazards and risks (psychosocial and physical) are identified and controlled for tasks projects and activities that pose a health and safety risk within your area of responsibility.

Who you are:

Qualifications & Background

• Relevant tertiary qualification with subsequent relevant experience or equivalent competence gained through any combination of education training and experience.
• Demonstrated experience delivering enterprisegrade automations in Microsoft Power Platform and UiPath within complex environments.

Technical Expertise

• Advanced handson expertise in Power Automate (cloud and desktop) Power Apps (modeldriven/canvas as required) Dataverse environment strategy DLP policies and Power Platform Admin Center.
• Strong experience with UiPath Studio/StudioX Orchestrator Assistant Robots (Attended/Unattended) Queues Assets ReFramework and package/release management.
• Proficient in REST APIs OAuth2 JSON Custom Connectors webhooks and integration with Azure services (e.g. Functions Service Bus Key Vault Logic Apps).
• Practical knowledge of ALM/CICD using Azure DevOps or GitHub (branching build/release pipelines solution exports/imports environment variables approvals).
• Experience with monitoring/telemetry (e.g. CoE Starter Kit dashboards Application Insights UiPath Insights) and using metrics to drive reliability and cost optimisation.
• Solid understanding of security identity and access management (Azure AD/MS Entra) data classification privacy and compliance in an enterprise setting.
• Scripting skills (e.g. PowerShell Python or C# for UiPath activities) desirable.

Ways of Working & Delivery

• Experience working in Agile environments (Scrum/Kanban) backlog management estimation and iterative delivery.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct code reviews apply standards/patterns and produce highquality technical documentation and runbooks.
• Strong troubleshooting analytical and problemsolving skills with a focus on service reliability and customer outcomes.

Consulting & Collaboration

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex concepts in clear accessible language and to facilitate workshops or clinics for mixed audiences.
• Proven ability to collaborate across IT functions and with partners balancing business urgency with platform governance and risk management.
• Strong business acumen to understand objectives constraints and opportunities and to propose practical costeffective automation approaches.

Values & Safety

• An understanding of and commitment to UNSWs aims objectives and values in action together with relevant policies and guidelines.
• Knowledge of health & safety (psychosocial and physical) responsibilities and commitment to attending relevant health and safety training.

Benefits and Culture

• Flexible Working Options (work from home flexible hours etc)
• Career development opportunities
• 17% Superannuation contributions and additional leave loading payments
• Additional 3 days of leave over Christmas period
• Discounts and entitlements (retail education fitness)

For further details on the benefits please visit to Apply: please apply through the portal we would like you to submit a full application including resume and addressing the who you are section.

Applications close: Sunday 16^th of November

Get in touch

Jen MacLachlan Talent Acquisition UNSW IT

Please apply through the application portal and not via the contact above.

UNSW is committed to equity diversity and inclusion. Applications from women people of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds those living with disabilities members of the LGBTIQ community; and people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent are encouraged. UNSW provides workplace adjustments for people with disability and access to flexible work options for eligible staff. The University reserves the right not to proceed with any appointment.