Lead Product Engineer

Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time.

With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

Build high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications & build capability in others to do the same. This includes but is not limited to applying critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills in an agile team environment to solve complex technical problems (Front End, Back End and Integration) with high quality solutions & leading all phases of the development lifecycle to deliver.

• Apply critical thinking, design thinking, and problem-solving skills in an agile team environment to deliver high-quality automation solutions using Ui Path and related RPA technologies.

• Lead all phases of the UiPath automation lifecycle:
  process assessment, solution design, development, testing, deployment, and ongoing support .

• Design and develop scalable, secure, and maintainable UiPath workflows using REFramework and best practices.

• Quickly produce well-organized, optimized, and documented UiPath automation scripts and workflows.

• Ensure automation designs support principles of reusability, modularity, testability, scalability, and resilience .

• Apply UiPath best practices for workflow development, Orchestrator configuration, and enterprise deployments .

• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines for Ui Path (e.g., automated packaging and deployment using UiPath Orchestrator, Jenkins, or Azure Dev Ops).

• Implement robust monitoring and observability for UiPath bots using UiPath Insights , custom dashboards, and logging frameworks.

• Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting (e.g.,
  Power Shell, Python ) to complement UiPath capabilities.

• Debug existing UiPath workflows and optimize performance and reliability.

• Collaborate with process owners, business analysts, and technical SMEs to improve and evolve automation solutions and standards.

• Apply unit testing frameworks and perform integration, validation, and verification testing for UiPath workflows.

• Apply version control (e.g., Git) for managing UiPath automation code and assets.

• Align all automation development and deployment processes to Group Architecture, Security, and Infrastructure guidelines .

• Stay ahead of the curve on emerging UiPath features (e.g., AI Center, Document Understanding, Task Mining) and intelligent automation trends.

• Contribute to the design and evolution of Group Automation Architecture, Infrastructure, and associated technical standards .

• UiPath Expertise
  :

• • UiPath Studio, Orchestrator, REFramework
  • UiPath Insights, AI Center, Document Understanding
  • Strong experience in publishing and managing packages in Orchestrator

• RPA Knowledge
  :

• • Process analysis and optimization
  • Best practices for bot scalability and resilience
  • Integration with APIs, databases, and enterprise systems

• Technical Skills
  :

• • Scripting languages (Power Shell, Python)
  • CI/CD tools (Azure Dev Ops, Jenkins)
  • Version control (Git)

• Certifications
  :

• • UiPath Advanced RPA Developer Certification (mandatory)
  • UiPath Orchestrator or Automation Hub experience (preferred)

Bachelor's Degree:
Information Technology

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised