Job Title:  UiPath Automation Engineer

What You Need To Know

Shape a remarkable future with us. Build a career working for an industry leader that truly invests in their people – and equips them with leading technology, continuous learning, and the ability to bring their best selves to work. As North America's largest total beverage distributor, Southern Glazer’s isn't just one of Forbes’ Top Private Companies; it's a family-owned business with deep roots dating back to 1933.

Southern Glazer’s is proud of its well-earned positive reputation, continually achieving accolades for our outstanding workplace culture. We take pride in creating a culture where our people are valued, supported, and provided opportunities for growth and belonging.

As a full-time employee, you can choose from a wide-ranging menu of our Top Shelf Benefits, including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage, dental and vision plans, tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts, disability coverage, life insurance plans, and a 401(k) plan. We also offer tuition assistance, a wellness program, parental leave, vacation accrual, paid sick leave, and more.

By joining Southern Glazer’s, you would be part of a team that values excellence, innovation, and community. This is more than just a job – it's an opportunity to build the future of beverage distribution and grow with a company that truly cares about its people.

Overview

Primary Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain enterprise RPA solutions using UiPath Studio and the UiPath Automation Platform.
• Translate business requirements and process documentation into scalable, reliable, and maintainable UiPath workflows.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and process owners to understand existing processes, identify automation opportunities, and determine appropriate automation approaches.
• Develop workflows using UiPath best practices, including appropriate use of variables, arguments, activities, workflows, reusable components, selectors, data manipulation, and exception handling.
• Develop automations that interact with a variety of business applications, including web applications, desktop applications, ERP systems, Microsoft Office applications, databases, APIs, files, and other enterprise systems.
• Utilize UiPath Orchestrator to deploy, configure, schedule, monitor, and manage automation processes, including Robots, Jobs, Assets, Queues, and Processes.
• Implement robust logging, exception handling, retry mechanisms, and business-rule validation to improve automation reliability and maintainability.
• Develop automations using appropriate UiPath frameworks and design patterns, including the Robotic Enterprise Framework (REFramework) when applicable.
• Create and maintain reusable components, libraries, templates, and development standards to improve consistency and accelerate automation delivery.
• Integrate UiPath solutions with APIs, databases, and other enterprise technologies when appropriate to deliver efficient and resilient automation solutions.
• Conduct unit testing, integration testing, user acceptance testing support, and production validation of automation solutions.
• Troubleshoot and resolve automation failures, application changes, selector issues, data exceptions, and other production incidents.
• Monitor production automations and proactively identify opportunities to improve performance, reliability, scalability, and business value.
• Maintain technical documentation, including solution designs, process definitions, workflow documentation, deployment procedures, support documentation, and exception-handling requirements.
• Participate in automation implementation, migration, and modernization initiatives, including evaluating existing automations for opportunities to improve architecture, maintainability, and performance.
• Research and evaluate new UiPath capabilities, features, tools, and technologies to expand the organization's automation capabilities.
• Follow established software development lifecycle, change management, security, and governance standards.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, security, application development, data, and other technology teams to ensure automation solutions are secure, supportable, and aligned with enterprise standards.
• Serve as a technical subject matter expert for UiPath and RPA-related issues and provide advanced support for escalated automation incidents.
• Contribute to organizational learning by sharing UiPath development techniques, automation best practices, reusable solutions, and lessons learned across teams.
• Identify opportunities to reduce manual effort, operational toil, processing time, and errors through intelligent and scalable automation.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Typically, 3+ years of experience developing, implementing, and supporting software or automation solutions.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience developing RPA solutions using UiPath, including UiPath Studio and UiPath Orchestrator.
• Experience designing, developing, testing, deploying, and supporting production-grade UiPath automations.
• Strong understanding of UiPath development concepts, including workflows, activities, variables, arguments, selectors, exception handling, logging, debugging, and reusable components.
• Experience working with UiPath Orchestrator, including Robots, Jobs, Processes, Assets, Queues, and scheduling.
• Experience integrating automation solutions with web and desktop applications, Microsoft Office, databases, APIs, file systems, and other enterprise applications.
• Experience with structured development methodologies, source control, testing practices, and software development lifecycle processes.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate business processes and requirements into technical automation solutions.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Native-level proficiency/fluent in English.
• Experience working in Agile and/or DevOps environments preferred.
• UiPath certification(s), such as UiPath Certified Professional Developer, preferred.
• Experience with SQL, APIs, .NET, C#, VB.NET, JavaScript, PowerShell, or other programming/scripting technologies preferred.
• Experience with cloud technologies and/or cloud-based automation environments preferred.
• Experience with process discovery, process analysis, or RPA governance preferred.

Preferred Technical Skills

• UiPath Studio
• UiPath Orchestrator
• UiPath Robots
• UiPath Queues and Assets
• REFramework
• UiPath Integration Service
• UiPath Document Understanding and/or AI Center
• REST APIs and web services
• SQL and relational databases
• Microsoft Excel, Outlook, Word, and other Microsoft 365 applications
• JSON, XML, and data transformation
• .NET / C# / VB.NET
• Git or other source-control platforms
• Agile development methodologies
• CI/CD and DevOps practices

Physical Demands

• Physical demands include a considerable amount of time sitting and typing/keyboarding, using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor), or adding machine
• Physical demands with activity or condition may include walking, bending, reaching, standing, squatting, and stooping
• May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 20lbs

EEO Statement

Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits, an Affirmative Action/EEO employer, prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. SGWS complies with all federal, state and local laws concerning consideration of a qualified applicant's arrest and/or criminal conviction records. Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides competitive compensation based on estimated performance level consistent with the past relevant experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and education of employees. Unless otherwise expressly stated, any pay ranges posted here are estimates from outside of Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits and do not reflect Southern Glazer's pay bands or ranges.

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