Robotics Process Automation Developer - Thompson Gray Inc.
Newport News, VA
About the Job
Thompson Gray is seeking a highly motivated individual with a strong work ethic to support the United States Army Futures Command. The position Swill be responsible for the design, development, testing, and production of automations using Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software. The developer will support a Federal client on site with flexible remote opportunities. Successful candidates will have excellent communication, research, and analytical skills in addition to the following skills and experience.
Job Duties:
- Achieve and maintain proper certification levels as recommended by RPA software vendors.
- Obtain required system access and roles, as necessary, to test and run automations.
- Ensure a thorough understanding of the development requirements and proposed RPA process solutions.
- Work with cross functional technical teams, business analysts and key stakeholders to determine viable process candidates for automation, the mapping and modeling of process automation and maintaining the environment to ensure it remains highly available for business-critical processes.
- Proactively lead and develop the library automation projects.
- Maintain software version control and procedures governing usage.
- Develop and maintain automation development schedule; brief the project manager on a regular basis to track completion of automation milestones.
- Enforce Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) usage and best practice adoption and usage throughout the development process, including proper execution of exception handling, metric reporting, use of global variables, and other 'wrapper' techniques.
- Lead and participate in the design, development, testing, and troubleshooting of all automations.
- Complete and review documentation for library and production automations; create, manage, and maintain file folders. Upload final versions of documents into the management tool.
- Write test reports and conduct testing when necessary.
- Manage and run automations in production, as required. Run the robot manager software and manage the server environment.
- Provide metrics on testing and production activities as necessary.
- When directed by the project manager, collaborate and coordinate with other agencies, military personnel, civilians, and contractors with regard to RPA (automation development, best practices, lessons learned, etc.).
- Develop training plan/schedule and conduct regular RPA training for analysts and select others (clients, project manager, etc.) on UiPath and other RPA software as needed.
Minimum Qualifications
- Must be a US citizen able to obtain a Secret-level clearance. Candidates with a current Secret clearance are highly desired.
Programming experience with applications such as .NET, C#, HTML/CSS, Javascript, ETL, Visual Studio, and SQL databases. Expert in Microsoft Excel (VBA, macros). Coursework may be substituted for work experience.
Bachelor's degree (Computer Science or Information Technology preferred)
Strong communication skills and ability to brief Senior Civilian and Military personnel.
Thompson Gray is an Equal Opportunity Employer and VEVRAA Federal Contractor. This contractor and subcontractor shall abide by the requirements of 41 CFR 60-1.4(a), 60-300.5(a) and 60-741.5(a). These regulations prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on their race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation or national origin. Moreover, these regulations require that covered prime contractors and subcontractors take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation national origin, protected veteran status or disability. Thompson Gray, Inc. welcomes minority and veteran applicants.