Senior Ai Automation Developer

Overview

SS&C is seeking a Senior AI Automation Developer to lead the technical design and implementation of our Intelligent Automation (IA) strategy. This role supports transitioning infrastructure toward an AI-first model, blending traditional RPA stability with Generative AI and agentic orchestration.

Locations: London, Essex | Hybrid: 6 days a month travel to office

Responsibilities

• AI-Driven Development: Build, optimise, and maintain scalable automation workflows using Claude Code and modern AI development tools to accelerate software delivery and agentic workflows.
• GenAI & Agentic Orchestration: Develop and deploy autonomous AI agents and skills that interact with advanced Large Language Models via the SS&C AI Gateway, blending them with WHQ Agents and Digital Workers.
• Modern UI Automation: Design and build robust automation frameworks targeting desktop applications via FlaUI and modern web systems using Playwright, moving away from legacy application spying techniques.
• Enterprise Work Queue Management: Design and optimise high-throughput automation architectures using Blue Prism v7 Work Queues to manage transactional data, case locking, and exception handling for hybrid AI-human workflows.
• Hybrid Solution Architecture: Lead the technical design of end-to-end IA solutions, incorporating Blue Prism Chorus for BPM and GenAI orchestration where human-in-the-loop intervention is required.
• Prompt Engineering & Fine-Tuning: Design, evaluate, and refine complex prompt structures and system instructions to ensure predictable, structured outputs from AI models.
• Standards, Governance & Trust: Adhere to best practices to ensure automation components, WHQ Agents, and generative AI integrations comply with security, data privacy, and ethical AI guardrails.

What You Will Bring

Critical Software Engineering Skills

• Python: Expert proficiency for AI/LLM tooling, data processing, and scripting agentic or web-based automation workflows.
• C# .NET: Robust experience for building enterprise-grade backend integrations and handling native desktop interactions via FlaUI.
• TypeScript: Strong proficiency in modern web-based automation with Playwright, cloud functions, and front-end/API orchestration.

Mandatory Database & SQL Competency

• PostgreSQL: Advanced experience in designing, querying, and managing relational databases for transactional logging, configuration, and enterprise scaling.
• MS SQL: Deep proficiency with Microsoft SQL Server, complex queries, indexing, and stored procedures.
• AI Development Tools: Hands-on experience with Claude Code, Anthropic APIs, and open-source AI frameworks.
• Platform Integration: Proficiency in integrating enterprise environments with cloud-based AI ecosystems (e.g., AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, Google Vertex AI).
• Prompt Engineering: Deep understanding of advanced prompting techniques and token management.

Core Platform & Framework Infrastructure

• UI Automation Libraries: Experience with Playwright for web automation and FlaUI for desktop automation.
• Blue Prism Ecosystem: Experience with Blue Prism Enterprise v7.x with emphasis on Control Room management, deployment, and backend API usage.
• Queue Architecture: Mastery of Work Queues configuration, priority tagging, and multi-robot queue consumption models.

Preferred Experience

• Vector Databases: Experience with vector storage systems (e.g., Pinecone, Milvus, pgvector) for semantic search and RAG patterns.
• Blue Prism Professional Developer Certification.
• Experience transitioning traditional RPA architectures to code-first, AI-driven automation that integrates hybrid WHQ Agents and Digital Workers.
• Familiarity with Agile, CI/CD, and LLMOps/DevOps practices.
• Understanding of VPC environments (Azure / AWS).

Why You Will Love It Here

• Flexibility: Hybrid Work Model
• Your Future: Professional Development Reimbursement including SS&C University access
• Your Wellbeing: Competitive benefits designed to support staff wellbeing
• Diversity & Inclusion: Commitment to welcoming and thriving on diversity
• Training: Hands-on, team-customized throughout your career

We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds to enable diverse perspectives in thinking and conversation.

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