Collinson is the global, privately-owned company dedicated to helping the world to travel with ease and confidence. The group offers a unique blend of industry and sector specialists who together provide market-leading airport experiences, loyalty and customer engagement, and insurance solutions for over 400 million consumers.

Collinson is the operator of Priority Pass, the world’s original and leading airport experiences programme. Travellers can access a network of 1,500+ lounges and travel experiences, including dining, retail, sleep and spa, in over 650 airports in 148 countries, helping to elevate the journey into something special. We work with the world’s leading payment networks, over 1,400 banks, 90 airlines and 20 hotel groups worldwide.

We have been bringing innovation to the market since inception – from launching the first independent global VIP lounge access Programme, Priority Pass to being the first to sell direct travel insurance in the UK through Columbus Direct and creating the first loyalty agency of its kind in the travel sector with ICLP. Today we still invest heavily in innovation to ensure that we continue to deliver superior customer experiences.

Key clients include Mastercard, American Express, Cathay Pacific, British Airways, LATAM, Flying Blue, Accor, EasyJet, HSBC, Chase, HDFC.

Our mission is focused on doing good beyond profit, which for us means we seek out opportunities for our people to share in our success and that we give back to the communities and people within which we work.

Never short of ambition, the success of our business is delivered through the diverse and talented team of over 2,200 global colleagues.

Purpose of the job
The role of the Automation Delivery Lead, at Collinson is to deliver automations that drive successful adoption of automation within the company. This includes building automations and owning deliverables across the automation journey to ensure that use cases and scenarios are properly built and documented.

The role will define and lead on the development standards to create governance and control. This role also involves line management responsibilities and platform support, ensuring that the automation solutions are effectively integrated and maintained within the company's systems. The role is the “go to” person for the Automation Centre of Excellence .

Key Responsibilities

• Defining and governance of Automation Standards for the Centre of Excellence to ensure that all software development is done to a high standard, and that it is fully tested and deployed in a secure and reliable manner.
• Lead the team of developers (2) in the advancement of the Centre of Excellence practice across all tools and manage any 3rd Party “overflow” resource.
• Lead the designs and implements automation solutions from business and technical requirements. Partners with Business Analysts to define the manual rules used to govern the process, and then translating those rules into automated commands.
• Responsible for scripting and coding in UiPath to build automation, and for creating technical documentation following best practices.
• Rigorously execute automation testing, including unit testing, user acceptance testing, and bug fixes.
• Responsible for peer code assessments and knowledge transfer.

• Continues to participate in trainings to further enhance skills and abilities, including tools and best practices to maintain a knowledge of the platforms and adoptions of new tools / solutions

Knowledge, skills and experience required

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, etc.
• 4-6 years of experience with software development and/or RPA technologies.
• Experience working with the UI Path automation platform (highly desirable).
• Associate Automation Developer certification.
• Automation Developer Professional Certification
• Experience with Uipath minimum 5 years
• Experience in .NET, HTML, JavaScript, and advanced automation tools (OCR, IDP, AI/ML) preferred.
• Ability to break down business problems into logical tasks and think creatively.
• Ability to perform code analysis to understand how code is implemented.
• Cross-functional business and application knowledge.
• A self-starter that can take a product problem and develop a working technical solution.
• Strong understanding of software development best practices.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills.
• This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing company and work on cutting-edge technology. If you are a highly motivated, results-driven individual with a passion for technology, we encourage you to apply.

Collinson is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes differences in all their forms including: colour, race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, neurodivergence, family status, age, individuals with disabilities and people from all backgrounds, cultures and experiences as we strongly believe this contributes to our on-going success.

We are focused on continually evolving our purpose driven, high performing culture, providing an environment where our people have the opportunity to achieve their full potential and do interesting and meaningful work. Our company values are: Take Action, Do the right thing, One team and Be insight led. These help guide everything we do internally in terms of how we think, act and interact, right through to how we deliver value to our customers and clients.

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