Job Classification
Senior Automation Design Practitioner - 143002
TA : Luthando Bower
Closing Date : 28 November 2025
Job Family
Information Technology
Career Stream
IT Application Development
Job Purpose
The Senior Automation Design Practitioner is responsible for designing developing and maintaining advanced automation solutions that drive operational efficiency and innovation. The practitioner will champion the adoption of automation and low-code platforms across the organization ensuring alignment with governance standards and best practices set by the Center of Excellence (CoE).
Job Responsibilities
- Application of business process evaluation and mapping techniques to describe current business processes and identify the feasibility of optimising business results through automation
- DevelopSupport & Maintenance AutomationSolutions
- Involvement in POT / POC evaluation of new technologies and functionalities
- Drive adoption of Technologies
- EnsureCoEgovernance and Standards are applied and maintained
- Determine the current productivity using existing business processes
- Apply evaluation and estimation techniques to estimate and project the possible productivity improvements using automated processes
- Calculate the cost benefits of automation
- Document required business case information including potential risk and risk reduction
- Application of process re-engineering techniques to optimise business processes.
- Evaluate business process performance
- Develop business process improvements
- Test and verify improvements
- Develop implementation processes
- The application of specific process constructor techniques to describe the ideal and feasible automated process indicating the expected productivity improvements
- Define the automated process
- Develop a solution design
- Improve design to mitigate / eliminate risks
- Interpret the solution design and define process and object design instructions
- Use development techniques and programming language to build the required objects
- Conduct peer coding reviews
- Facilitate user acceptance testing
Core Technical Skills
Camunda (Expert)
Advanced proficiency in Camunda : workflow design development orchestration and operationsPower Platform (Expert)
Power Apps : building canvas and model-driven appsPower Automate : building medium to complex flowsPower BI : data modeling DAX and dashboard creationCopilot Agents : chatbot development and integrationDataverse and connectors : understanding of data architecture and integrationRobotic Process Automation (Proficient)
Advanced proficiency in Blue Prism : process design object development control room operationsFamiliarity with UiPath or Automation Anywhere is a plusAgentic AI & Intelligent Automation (Proficient)
Understanding of agentic AI concepts : autonomous task execution goal-oriented agents and LLM integrationExperience with Azure OpenAI or custom GPT-based agentsKnowledge of prompt engineering orchestration frameworks and AI governanceIntegration & Development (Proficient)
REST APIs webhooks and custom connectorsScripting : Python JavaScript or C# for extending automation capabilitiesFamiliarity with Azure services (Logic Apps Function Apps Cognitive Services)Essential Qualifications - NQF Level
Advanced Diplomas / National 1st DegreesPreferred Qualification
NQF Level 7 Qualification in Business Analysis
Preferred Certifications
CamundaPower PlatformAzure Blue Prism etc
Minimum Experience Level
3 - 6 years
5 years practical experience in business process analysis; 2 years practical experience in analysing processes to identify automation opportunities; Competent software developer with experience on different languages (Java C# C SQL) ; Experience testing product functionality; Experience with performance and / or security testing; Ability to Design Solutions
Technical / Professional Knowledge
Banking knowledgeBanking proceduresBusiness principlesBusiness terms and definitionsData analysisGovernance Risks and ControlsMicrosoft OfficeRelevant Software and system KnowledgeBusiness writing skillsCluster Specific Operational KnowledgeBehavioural Competencies
ExecutionDriving InnovationFacilitating ChangeOperational Decision MakingCustomer FocusCommunicationBuilding PartnershipsPlease contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at
Required Experience :
Senior IC
Key Skills
Continuous Integration,APIs,Jenkins,Junit,Distributed Control Systems,Testng,GAMP,Test Automation,CI / CD,Cucumber,Programmable Logic Controllers,Selenium
Employment Type : Full Time
Experience : years
Vacancy : 1