Lead Automation Engineer

Salary: £65,000 - 65,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong hands-on experience delivering enterprise automation solutions.
• Expertise with UiPath, Power Automate and related automation technologies.
• Experience with Playwright, Selenium or similar test automation frameworks.
• Practical experience integrating AI services and APIs into business processes.
• Good understanding of software engineering principles, security best practices and API integrations.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, build, testing, deployment and support of automation solutions.
• Develop solutions using UiPath, Microsoft Power Automate, APIs and scripting technologies.
• Integrate AI capabilities where they deliver measurable business benefits.
• Build and maintain automated test frameworks using Playwright, Selenium and API testing tools.
• Ensure production-ready solutions with monitoring, alerting, error handling and audit controls.
• Drive automation best practice, mentor colleagues and influence technical standards.
• Work closely with stakeholders to identify and deliver high-value automation opportunities.

Technologies:

• AI
• API
• Support
• Playwright
• Security
• Selenium
• UiPath

More:

Our client is a leading professional services organisation based in Edinburgh and Glasgow, offering a hybrid working model with a competitive salary and benefits. We are investing heavily in technology, automation and AI, and this role gives you the opportunity to shape a growing capability, work with modern technologies and make a genuine impact within a collaborative and forward-thinking environment.

last updated 34 week of 2026