Automation Engineer

Nicolet National Bank•Minneapolis, MN

6d•$80,000 - $100,000

About The Position

The Automation Engineer designs, develops, deploys, and supports scalable automation solutions that improve operational efficiency, reduce manual effort, strengthen controls, and improve business processes across Nicolet National Bank. The role partners with business analysts, subject matter experts, product owners, and technology teams to understand and validate business requirements and select appropriate approaches, including APIs, integrations, workflow automation, RPA, data pipelines, or native application capabilities. The engineer applies sound engineering practices to deliver maintainable, supportable, and secure solutions and manages them throughout their lifecycle. This position is initially an individual contributor role, with potential to evolve into technical leadership or direct supervisory responsibility as the automation program grows. The role also helps establish engineering standards, supports production automations, ensures compliance with security and regulatory requirements, and evaluates emerging automation capabilities.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
At least 4 years of experience developing and supporting enterprise automation, RPA, workflow, or integration solutions.
Hands-on experience with automation platforms such as UiPath and Microsoft Power Automate.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and process-design skills, including the ability to translate business requirements into sound automation designs.
Experience integrating automation solutions with enterprise applications, APIs, databases, and data platforms.
Working knowledge of SQL and data integration concepts, with exposure to data platforms.
Understanding of SDLC, source control, CI/CD, automated testing, and release management practices.
Understanding of automation architecture, exception handling, monitoring, logging, and production support.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including eliciting and clarifying requirements from subject matter experts and explaining technical options to non-technical audiences.
Ability to maintain strict confidentiality and appropriately handle sensitive information.

Nice To Haves

Experience establishing automation development, quality assurance, or governance standards.
Financial services or other regulated-industry experience.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, test, deploy, and support scalable automation solutions across enterprise applications and business processes, managing their full lifecycle, including enhancements, dependencies, technical debt, platform upgrades, and retirement.
Assess automation opportunities and provide technical feasibility, level-of-effort, and risk input to support prioritization.
Partner with product owners and subject matter experts to clarify business requirements, confirm process and data details, and validate proposed designs before development.
Evaluate APIs, integrations, workflow automation, RPA, and native system capabilities to select maintainable and scalable solutions.
Integrate automations with enterprise applications and data platforms using APIs, SQL, Snowflake, Alteryx, and other appropriate technologies.
Establish and maintain automation engineering standards for architecture, source control, documentation, testing, peer review, CI/CD, deployment, monitoring, and lifecycle management in coordination with the development team.
Monitor production automations, troubleshoot failures, manage exceptions, conduct root cause analysis, and improve reliability and performance.
Develop reusable automation components, integrations, frameworks, and design patterns to improve consistency and accelerate delivery.
Ensure automations comply with information security, access management, data protection, audit, change management, business continuity, and regulatory requirements.
Partner with application, infrastructure, security, data, and support teams to ensure solutions are documented and supportable.
Evaluate emerging automation capabilities and recommend improvements to the bank's automation platform and engineering practices.
Maintain appropriate controls and comply with applicable laws and regulations, upholding Nicolet's philosophy and policies.
Support equal employment opportunity and inclusion policies, and work successfully with others without regard to non-job-related classifications.
Perform other duties as assigned.