Platform Owner – Intelligent Automation – Milton Keynes
About The Role
SALARY: Band 9 from69,300.00 pa dependent on experience
LOCATION: Milton Keynes
HYBRID WORKING: Our current hybrid working policy requires a minimum of 60% of working time to be based in the Milton Keynes office however flexibility is expected to meet the needs of the business and the role.
HOURS / CONTRACT TYPE: Full-time permanent
CLOSING DATE: 14/7/26
An exciting role has opened up in our Software Engineering team as a Platform Owner – Intelligent Automation. You’ll own and evolve our intelligent Automationstrategy.
This high impact, specialistrole will be instrumentalin delivering automation capability through UiPath, Power Apps and Automate, incorporating emerging technologies to drive the optimisation of our internal processes, increase operational agility and, accelerate our digital transformation and deliver value across the organisation.
What youll be doing:
- Own and evolve the Intelligent Automation strategy, with end-to-end responsibility for UiPath and Power Apps and Automate, while incorporating emerging automation technologies to drive efficiency and deliver measurable value across VWFS.
- Lead the automation of complex business processes, ensuring stakeholder alignment and effective dependency management.
- Develop, coach, engage, motivate and manage the team to perform at their best, role modelling effective people leadership and enabling a positive and inclusive culture.
- Provide technical oversight of automated solutions to ensure accurate, efficient, and reliable performance.
- Maintain automation-readiness criteria ensuring solutions meet onboarding standards and, maintain the governance framework.
- Collaborate with key IT functions namely, Governance, Enterprise Architecture and Data and AI to ensure UiPath and Power Platform solutions are secure, scalable, and aligned to IT standards.
- Support governance of AI initiatives, contributing to frameworks for ethical AI use, risk mitigation, and compliance.
- Identify automation and low-code skill gaps and drive targeted upskilling across IT and business teams and develop and implement training plans to address this.
What youll bring:
Youll have demonstrable experience indesigningand implementing automation solutions using at least, one of the following technologies: UI Path, Microsoft Power Apps and Automate to enable you to navigate a rapidly evolving AI landscape and make future-fit technology choices.
Youll have a passion, expert knowledge and relentless curiosity for intelligent Automation and enjoy sharing that passion with teams to support development and influence the organisations adoption of AI.
Essential experience & skills
- You’ll have experience of developing roadmaps, leading PoCs, and bringing innovation into production.
- You’re highly successful at building relationships and managing stakeholders.
- You have experience and enjoy driving and supporting the development of teams through effective coaching, mentoring and performance.
- Simplifying and improving existing processes and end to end experience of the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
- Commercial IT experience with a strong understanding of programming concepts.
- You have experience in business analysis and realisation of benefits.
- Supporting complex change and / or multi-disciplinary projects.
Whats in it for you?
Bonus: Discretionary 10% on-target bonus (based on personal and Group company performance)
Pension: Employer pension contribution of 9% (based on employee contribution of 3%). VWFS will pay 6% if employee chooses a 2% employee contribution.
Car schemes*: Choice of Employee Car Ownership (ECO) scheme for petrol/diesel and hybrid vehicles plus car insurance and fuel card
OR Company Car scheme for Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) plus car insurance cover for you and a partner/eligible family member.
Other benefits:From day 1 we provide income protection, life assurance (4x salary), retail discount vouchers, access to Care Concierge (a service to support carers of adults), along with other salary sacrifice options including a will writing service and cycle to work (subject to scheme restrictions).
Following successful completion of probation, you will have access to private medical insurance for you (with the option to buy additional family cover), access to our loan car scheme for up to 2 cars for your partner or eligible family members (subject to scheme restrictions) and during our annual benefit window you can purchase critical illness cover and dental cover, so you can select the benefits that matter to you.
We invest in our people and are passionate about driving development. Youll have access to LinkedIn Learning via our Degreed platform as well as a host of professional development programmes and opportunities to build your technical and soft skills so you can further develop your career. We also offer mentoring schemes and reciprocal partnerships recognising that we can all learn from each other in the flow of work.
About You
About Us
Why join VWFS UK?
Youll have the opportunity to make a difference by helping us to achieve our mission.
Our mission is straight forward; we want to be ‘The Key to Mobility’. That means we make getting from A-to-B as easy and simple for as many people as possible. To truly meet the mobility needs of people in a changing world, our offering goes beyond traditional vehicle financing. We do this by providing a range of finance and aftersales products on Volkswagen Group vehicles, as well as developing innovative mobility products designed to solve real problems and support our customers.
No candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we’ve identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you!
VWFS is proud to be an inclusive employer and encourages applications from a diverse range of candidates. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion isnt just a statement for us, we encourage and aspire for all our colleagues to be their 100% self. If you need any reasonable adjustments to assist you with the application and/or recruitment processes, please contact our Resourcing Team.
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