Automation Professional
Posting Date: 16 Jan 2025
Function: Software Engineering
Unit: Finance & Business Services
Location: 1500 Aviator Way, Manchester, United Kingdom
Salary: Attractive salary & benefits
Locations: London & Manchester
Our hybrid working means in this role you are required to be in the office 3 days per week with the option of working from a place of your choice 2 days per week.
What you’ll be doing:
• Delivering the E2E development and delivery of processes from planning and tracking of deliverables and ensuring stakeholders are regularly appraised of status and progress requirements analysis through to support of live processes. You will lead on driving automation initiatives to improve customer satisfaction, increase revenues and decrease costs and defining the standards across our automation capability, keeping up to date with BT Security policies and work in a way that ensures data protection by design.
• Representing GBS by working closely with various cross functional teams for automation and work end to end automation support & solutions covering requirements gathering, design, development, UAT, deployment and maintenance with their support. You will plan and track of deliverables and ensure stakeholders are regularly appraised of status and progress throughout.
• Learning new technologies – In a fast moving technology space you will have the opportunity to use your experience in automation to learn new intelligent automation technologies then taking this knowledge you will train the new capabilities out to your team, defining BTs automation strategy going forward.
• Leading on evolving our service to ensure we excel in meeting requirements, KPI’s, and customer satisfaction, through the maintenance of our live automations and leadership in taking forward ideas. You will also be supporting the delivery of new solutions including future technologies (AI etc) which may include managing third party vendors.
• Ensuring all code released into production is reviewed and meets the specified design standards set out by the CoE, leading on the control of releases into production, ensuring that all governance is followed and there is no impact to existing DB & live automations.
The experience you’ll need:
• Experience with delivering robotic process automations.
• Experience and knowledge of project management in a structured environment.
• An understanding of, and a willingness to adhere to, formal change control procedures and disciplines.
• Ability to liaise with senior level stakeholder representatives in a rational and measured manner and to communicate project progress, issues, risks and solutions.
• An aptitude for problem solving, with the ability to take a logical route to the source of an error.
• Good written skills with the ability to produce clear and concise documentation.
• Background in software delivery advantageous.
• A self-starter who delivers high quality work and can adapt to new challenges, either on their own or as part of a team.
The skills you’ll have:
• Design, build, testing and support of automations.
• An understanding of configuration/scripting type technologies, such as excel macros / c#.
• Quick learner (picking up skills on the job).
• Aptitude for problem solving and logical thinking.
• Customer Engagement/ Business Analysis.
• Robotic Process Automation (Blue Prism).
• Excel Macro / Access (VBA).
• R scripting.
• SQL scripting.
• Microsoft Technologies (.Net).
• Web Development.
What's in it for you? What are the benefits?
• 25 days’ annual leave, plus bank holidays, and additional days for length of service.
• 10% on target bonus.
• Life Assurance.
• Pension scheme - If you pay in a minimum of 5% of your pensionable salary every month we will pay in 10%.
• 50% off BT and EE mobile pay monthly or SIM only plans.
• Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages.
• BT TV, including BT Sport and the NOW Entertainment membership, and 25% off NOW Sport, Cinema and Kids.
• Shared Parental leave - maximum amount of leave you can share with your partner is 50 weeks.
• 3 volunteering days per year.
• Competitive employee discount on BT/EE products.
• Competitive friends and family discount on EE Mobile.
About us:
BT is part of BT Group, along with EE, Openreach, and Plusnet. Millions of people rely on us every day to help them live their lives, power their businesses, and keep their public services running. We connect friends to family, clients to colleagues, people to possibilities. We keep the wheels of business spinning, and the emergency services responding.
We value diversity and celebrate difference. ‘We embed diversity and inclusion into everything that we do. It’s fundamental to our purpose: we connect for good.’
We all stick to the same values: Personal, Simple, and Brilliant. From day one, you’ll get stuck in to tough challenges, pitch in with ideas, make things happen. But you won’t be alone: we’ll be there with help and support, learning and development.
This is your chance to make a real difference to the world: to be part of the digital transformation of countless lives and businesses. Grab it.
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