Senior IA Developer

About the Role

The number 1 Top Employer in South Africa. Certified by the Top Employer Institute 2026.

Responsibilities

• Design and build end-to-end RPA workflows from approved process and business requirements.
• Convert process design documents, business requirements and technical designs into maintainable automation components.
• Develop reusable libraries, templates and components to reduce duplicated effort and improve cross-use-case reuse.
• Configure robust exception handling, retries, logging, queues, assets, credentials and operational alerts.
• Integrate automations with enterprise applications, databases, APIs, e-mail, SharePoint, file systems and approved cloud or AI services.
• Use UI automation, selectors and approved computer-vision techniques where APIs or stable technical interfaces are unavailable.
• Contribute technical estimates, delivery plans, dependency identification and MVP sequencing before build commitments are made.
• Create and execute unit, integration, regression and negative test scenarios, including business and application exceptions.
• Perform peer code reviews and resolve quality findings before release.
• Support system testing, user acceptance testing, business validation and production-readiness reviews.
• Prepare release artefacts, deployment instructions, rollback considerations and handover documentation.
• Validate that successful robot execution also produces the intended business output, reports, notifications and downstream updates.
• Support hypercare after release and clearly distinguish hypercare results from stable production performance.
• Monitor automation health, investigate failed jobs and perform root-cause analysis across development, test and production environments.
• Resolve defects and production incidents in collaboration with support, application, infrastructure and business teams.
• Maintain automations when applications, authentication methods, data structures or business rules change.
• Use operational data and stakeholder feedback to improve stability, utilisation, cycle time, straight-through processing and exception rates.
• Maintain technical documentation, version history, support guides and known-error information.
• Comply with Vodacom architecture, cyber-security, privacy, access-management, source-control and release-governance requirements.
• Secure credentials and sensitive configuration outside code and prevent unauthorised exposure of business or customer data.
• Ensure AI or LLM components used within an automation have the required assessments, approvals, guardrails and human checkpoints.
• Maintain traceability between requirements, Jira work items, source code, test evidence, approvals and production releases.
• Escalate design, data, access, licensing and control risks that could affect delivery or production stability.
• Work alongside business analysts and process engineers to clarify process logic, data, controls, exceptions and acceptance criteria.
• Partner with solution architects, software engineers, data scientists, AI engineers and platform teams on integrated solutions.
• Provide technical input during discovery without prescribing technology before the business problem and process are understood.
• Coach associate developers and citizen developers on development standards, solution quality and safe deployment practices.
• Demonstrate completed solutions to stakeholders and communicate technical issues in accessible business language.
• Relevant tertiary qualification in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, Software Engineering or a related discipline.
• Hands-on experience designing, developing, testing and supporting enterprise automation solutions.
• Experience with the complete automation SDLC, including requirements clarification, technical design, development, testing, release, hypercare and support.
• Experience integrating automations with enterprise applications, databases, REST or SOAP APIs, document repositories and e-mail platforms.
• Experience diagnosing production incidents and maintaining automations across controlled environments.
• Experience working in Agile delivery teams and using source control and work-management tools.
• UiPath Studio and Orchestrator, including queues, assets, triggers, logging and exception handling.
• REFramework or equivalent enterprise automation framework patterns.
• UI automation, selectors, browser automation and computer-vision-assisted automation.
• Document and data extraction, OCR and document-understanding concepts.
• Programming and scripting capability in one or more of C#, VB.NET, Python or JavaScript.
• SQL and relational database concepts.
• API integration, JSON, XML, authentication and secure service consumption.
• Git-based source control and CI/CD concepts.
• Windows, Microsoft 365, SharePoint and enterprise application integration.
• Testing, debugging, monitoring and root-cause analysis.
• Working knowledge of cloud services and intelligent-automation patterns is advantageous.
• Analytical problem solving and attention to detail.
• Engineering discipline and quality orientation.
• Business-value focus and ability to distinguish activity from realised impact.
• Adaptability in a changing RPA, AI and agentic-automation landscape.
• Clear written and verbal communication.
• Collaboration across business and technology teams.
• Ownership, accountability and timely escalation.
• Learning agility and willingness to coach others.
• Judgement when balancing speed, control, usability and maintainability.

Preferred Qualifications

• UiPath Certified Professional Automation Developer Associate or equivalent.
• UiPath Automation Developer Professional learning path or advanced developer certification.
• Microsoft Power Platform, Azure, Google Cloud or relevant DevOps certification, where aligned to the delivery environment.
• Agile, Scrum or software-testing certification is advantageous.
• Process Engineers and Business Analysts.
• RPA Architects, Software Engineers and Automation Support teams.
• Data Scientists, AI Engineers and Data Engineers.
• Cyber Security, Privacy, Risk and Architecture governance teams.
• Business owners, subject-matter experts and Finance Business Partners.
• Platform, infrastructure, application and service-management teams.
• Citizen Developers and automation communities of practice.
• Enticing incentive programs and competitive benefit packages
• Retirement funds, risk benefits, and medical aid benefits
• Cell phone and data benefits, advantages fibre connection discounts, and exclusive staff discounts offered in collaboration with partner companies