Engineer III - Automations Senior Developer

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Job Details
Role Name: Automations Senior Developer
Purpose: To drive the successful execution of Automation projects with a specific range of technologies within the Enterprise Automation team, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives and delivering operational excellence.
What This Role Will Be Doing:
The Automation Senior Developer plays a critical role in managing and executing Automation projects, emphasizing people management and fostering an innovative team environment. This position ensures alignment with strategic goals while overseeing diverse technical squads within the Automation team.
As a key driver of enterprise-wide transformational change, the Senior Developer builds strong cross-functional relationships to integrate Automation initiatives seamlessly. The role involves guiding projects from conception to deployment, ensuring timely delivery within scope and quality standards. By cultivating a culture of productivity and innovation, the Senior Developer strengthens the organization's strategic capabilities.
This resource must demonstrate strong hands-on technical expertise and exceptional communication skills, with a keen attention to detail. They must effectively blend technological foundations with a broad understanding of business objectives. Collaboration with Business Analysts, Architects, Operations and Platform teams, as well as external stakeholders, is essential for successful project integration. The role also involves vendor management to ensure effective partner contributions.
The Senior Developer must be a change advocate, promoting innovative practices and new ways of working across teams and processes while keeping senior leadership appraised regularly on project status and risks.
Key Responsibilities include:
Technical Expertise and Guidance:

• Provide hands-on expertise in developing robust, scalable Automation solutions.
• Encourage knowledge sharing and peer reviews to maintain quality and foster continuous learning.
• Implement cutting-edge Automation solutions to enhance capabilities and maintain competitive advantage.
• Engage with stakeholders to understand and report the business value and ROI for each BOT build, ensuring alignment with strategic goals

End-to-End Delivery and Risk Management:

• Own the end-to-end lifecycle of Automation projects (including non Automation systems like SAP, SalesForce, Esker, EDI, BW), ensuring seamless integration and timely, within-scope delivery.
• Implement initiatives to refine processes, enhance quality, and increase efficiency, with a focused effort on improving both BOT cycle time and build robust Automations.
• Proactively identify and mitigate risks for minimal disruption. Ensure regular updates to senior leadership on project status, risks, and mitigation strategies

Proactive Communication and Collaboration:

• Build strong cross-functional relationships with Business Analysts, Architects, and non-Automation teams (e.g., SAP, SalesForce, Esker).
• Lead outcome-focused communication strategies and facilitate proactive collaboration for project planning and execution.
• Ensure regular status reporting and updates to senior leadership and stakeholders.

Change Advocacy and Continuous Improvement:

• Promote innovative practices to drive continuous improvement and process optimization.
• Implement initiatives to refine processes, enhance quality, and increase efficiency.

Service Excellence and Customer Focus:

• Instill a customer-centric mindset, ensuring solutions deliver exceptional value and align with stakeholder needs.
• Build and nurture strategic partnerships with key stakeholders, advocating for Automation as a catalyst for business transformation

Reports To: Enterprise Automation Solutions Manager
Work Experience:

• 6-8 Years of experience.

Must Have:

• Major Experience with Appian
• Proficiency in Python and SQL
  Solid programming skills in Python for automation and data manipulation, along with strong SQL knowledge for querying and managing relational databases.
• Basic Knowledge of Integration Platforms
• Cross-Platform Automation Mindset

Good to Have:

• Understanding of Agentic AI Concepts Experience with Automation Anywhere 360 Knowledge on Process Mining & Mapping Tools Exceptional Contributions or Projects
• Candidates who have led or contributed to innovative automation projects, built custom tools, or delivered measurable impact through technology are highly valued. Frontend or Backend Development Skills
• Working knowledge of JavaScript or C# for building or integrating automation solutions with web or desktop applications Basic Understanding of Microsoft Power Platform
• Exposure to tools like Power Automate, Power Apps, and Power BI to support low-code/no-code automation initiatives.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology or any other related discipline or equivalent related experience.

Preferred Certifications:

• Android Development Certification
• Microsoft Asp.Net Certification
• Microsoft Certified Engineer
• Application/Infrastructure/Enterprise Architect Training and Certification, e.g. TOGAF
• Certified Scrum Master
• SAFe Agile Certification
• DevOps Certifications like AWS Certified DevOps Engineer

Skills & Knowledge:
Behavioral Skills:

• Critical Thinking
• Detail Oriented
• Impact and Influencing
• Interpersonal Communication
• Multitasking
• Problem Solving
• Time Management

Technical Skills:

• API Design
• Cloud Computing Methodologies
• Integration Testing & Validation
• Programming/Coding
• Database Management
• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Technical Documentation
• Web Application Infrastructure
• Web Development Frameworks

Tools Knowledge:

• Cloud Computing Tools like AWS, Azure, Google cloud
• Container Management and Orchestration Tools
• Big Data Frameworks like Hadoop
• Java Frameworks like JDBC, Spring, ORM Solutions, JPA, JEE, JMS, Gradle, Object Oriented Design
• Microsoft Office Suite
• NoSQL Database Platforms like MongoDB, BigTable, Redis, RavenDB Cassandra, HBase, Neo4j, and CouchDB
• Programming Languages like JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Python, SQL
• Operating Systems & Servers like Windows, Linux, Citrix, IBM, Oracle, SQL

What Cencora offers
Benefit offerings outside the US may vary by country and will be aligned to local market practice. The eligibility and effective date may differ for some benefits and for team members covered under collective bargaining agreements.
Full time
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Affiliated Companies: CENCORA BUSINESS SERVICES INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED
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