Senior Developer RPA

Sun Life Financial, Inc.

$101K — $151K *
Technical Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 7+ years of hands-on enterprise automation experience, specifically with UiPath.
  • Experience delivering automations end-to-end across various phases: design, development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and support.
  • Strong working knowledge of UiPath Studio, Orchestrator, and unattended automation in enterprise contexts.
  • Familiar with secure credential management tools, such as BeyondTrust, and best practices in automation.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain automation solutions using UiPath Studio.
  • Translate business process requirements into scalable automation solutions with effective error handling and logging.
  • Own quality assurance across the delivery lifecycle, ensuring readiness for production and swift defect resolution.
  • Utilize UiPath Orchestrator for managing assets, queues, and promoting environments for secure deliveries.
  • Monitor automation stability through troubleshooting and proactive incident management.
  • Collaborate with infrastructure teams to ensure optimal environments for unattended automations.
  • Guide developers and promote modular design and documentation best practices.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package including health and wellness programs.
  • Flexible working arrangements to support work-life balance.
  • Opportunities for professional development and upskilling.
  • Access to enterprise-level tools and resources for project success.
Full Job Description
Job Description:

Sun Life is seeking a Senior UiPath Developer to design, build, deploy, and support enterprise-grade automations. This is a hands-on development role for a seasoned automation engineer who can deliver high-quality solutions and understands how automation operates within a broader enterprise platform.

Reporting to the Director, Process Automation & Application Delivery, this role owns end-to-end automation delivery across design, development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and support. The focus is primarily on UiPath, with strong expectations around hands-on development, engineering discipline, reusable components, and production-ready solutions.

The Senior UiPath Developer partners with business analysts, infrastructure teams, security teams, and application owners to deliver reliable automation solutions. The role requires a strong understanding of the UiPath platform, including Orchestrator concepts, unattended runtime environments, secure credential access, and AI-enabled automation opportunities such as AWS Bedrock integrations.

Main Accountabilities:
  • End-to-End UiPath Delivery
    • Design, develop, test, deploy, and support automation solutions using UiPath Studio and enterprise patterns such as REFramework or equivalent.
    • Translate process requirements into scalable solutions with strong exception handling, logging, retry strategies, and maintainable code.
    • Own quality across the delivery lifecycle, including testing, deployment readiness, defect resolution, and production support.
  • Platform and Operational Support
    • Work with UiPath Orchestrator capabilities including assets, queues, robots, triggers, schedules, monitoring, and environment promotion.
    • Apply a strong understanding of tenants, folders, role-based access, and runtime configuration to support secure and scalable delivery.
    • Support bot stability through monitoring, troubleshooting, incident triage, and continuous improvement.
  • Environment, Security, and Integration
    • Partner with infrastructure teams to ensure virtual machines and runtime environments are ready for unattended automation.
    • Support secure credential and privileged access patterns, including approved enterprise tools such as BeyondTrust or similar platforms.
    • Build integrations across APIs, databases, enterprise applications, and AI-enabled services such as AWS Bedrock where relevant.
  • Technical Leadership and Best Practices
    • Promote best practices including modular design, code reviews, reusable components, documentation, and release discipline.
    • Guide developers and contribute to solution design decisions while remaining hands-on in delivery.
    • Collaborate with business analysts, security teams, architects, and application owners to deliver practical, scalable solutions.

Core Competencies:
  • Deep hands-on UiPath development expertise, including workflow design, selectors, exception handling, logging, and reusable automation patterns.
  • Strong understanding of UiPath platform concepts including Orchestrator, tenants, folders, assets, queues, robots, triggers, and role-based access.
  • Strong troubleshooting skills across automation code, runtime environments, credential access, and infrastructure dependencies.
  • Ability to guide developers, influence solution quality, and contribute to design decisions while staying hands-on.
  • Commitment to secure development, documentation quality, and enterprise best practices.

Education, Experience & Technical Competencies
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 7+ years of hands-on enterprise automation experience, with strong UiPath expertise.
  • Strong experience delivering automations end to end across design, development, testing, deployment, monitoring, and support.
  • Experience with UiPath Studio, Orchestrator, unattended automation, queues, assets, schedules, deployment, and bot support in enterprise environments.
  • Experience applying best practices such as modular design, source control, peer reviews, reusable components, and supportable exception handling.
  • Experience with virtual machines or hosted runtime environments for automation execution.
  • Familiarity with secure credential and privileged access patterns, including BeyondTrust or similar tools.
  • Experience with ICR, document understanding, or AI-assisted workflows is preferred.
  • Exposure to AWS services, including Amazon Bedrock, is preferred.
  • UiPath certification is preferred.
  • Strong communication, collaboration, and documentation skills.


Salary Range: $101,000 - $151,500

At our company, we are committed to pay transparency and equity. The salary range for this role is competitive nationwide, and we strive to ensure that compensation is fair and equitable. Your actual base salary will be determined based on your unique skills, qualifications, experience, education, and geographic location. In addition to your base salary, this position is eligible for a discretionary annual incentive award based on your individual performance as well as the overall performance of the business. We are dedicated to creating a work environment where everyone is rewarded for their contributions.

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Job Category:

IT - Application Development

Posting End Date:

04/09/2026

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