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Overview

Schroders Personal Wealth aims to improve the way financial advice is offered, by making it more affordable, accessible and powerful for more people. We want to change lives for the better.

This is a fantastic opportunity for you to progress your career in IT within a fully cloud based business. As a Senior Automation Engineer you will interact with both internal colleagues and external suppliers to develop, implement and support automated solutions and applications across the organisation.

Location: Leeds

Salary: £50,395 - £55,434

Type: Fixed Term Contract to 31/12/2026

As a Senior Automation Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in supporting SPW’s strategic goal of increasing efficiency through process automation.

The Cloud Engineering team is responsible for the management and maintenance of cloud infrastructure, collaborative tools and SaaS applications at SPW. The team includes a thriving Automation function that plays a key role in designing and integrating Automation and AI solutions to enhance business processes and drive efficiency. We’re looking for an experienced Automation Engineer to help shape the future direction of this dynamic and evolving team.

Responsibilities

• Configure and deploy automation solutions based on predefined patterns
• Tailor reusable templates to meet business-specific requirements
• Contribute to the documentation and enablement of automation patterns
• Validate and refine patterns based on implementation feedback
• Interact with internal stakeholders and external suppliers to develop and support solutions across the organization
• Implement solutions to time and quality standards, aligning with business requirements
• Participate in cross-organizational squads to develop capabilities and gain advocacy for solutions
• Discuss solutions with business customers, technical experts, and vendors to deliver collaborative solutions
• Work with the wider team to stand up the Automation Centre of Excellence Platform

Technical Experience

• Using the Microsoft PowerPlatform for automation and process improvement
• Experience with Azure AI and Copilot
• MS365 Product Suite (MS Teams, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business)
• Office Engineering (Telemetry, Add On management & governance)
• MS365 Security Tooling
• Microsoft Entra
• Scripting/coding (PowerShell, Power Platform, GraphAPI, JSON, Terraform)
• Experience with Jira and Confluence toolsets
• Interest in process improvement using Automation and AI

Skills & Experience

• Participation in cross-disciplined technical teams
• Agile working
• Working with 3rd party technical suppliers and coordinating development and support activities
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to advocate change and influence technical direction
• Self-starting ability with excellent organizational skills

We understand not everyone will meet 100% of the requirements, however we encourage you to apply if you think your skills are a good fit for this role.

This job vacancy may close earlier than the advertised date if a suitable candidate is found. We encourage interested applicants to submit their applications as soon as possible.

Benefits

• Generous Holiday Entitlement: 30 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, with the option to buy or sell 5 days
• Health & Wellbeing: Company-paid Private Medical Insurance, Life Insurance, and Health Screening
• Company Pension Contribution: A matched pension contribution of up to 15% of your base pay
• Cash Allowance: Flexible allowance to spend on additional benefits personal to you, including: dental cover, paid sabbatical leave, gym membership, menopause support
• Bonus Opportunity: Dependent on individual/company performance (eligible after 3 months’ service)
• Financial Advice: Access to free financial advice to help secure your financial future

We support flexible working: At SPW, we know how important it is to be able to achieve a balance. We want to support your lifestyle as well as meeting our business needs, so will always aim to be flexible. As well as traditional working patterns, we have colleagues who work informal flexible hours, reduced working hours, and have job-sharing arrangements. Many colleagues work from home, or in a hybrid way.

Ready to restart your career? We warmly welcome applications from those returning to work after a period of leave, providing appropriate support and training where required.

You belong here: At SPW, we embrace individuality and diversity of identity, experience, and thought. We actively strive for inclusive behaviours and actions, making appropriate adjustments for disabilities, health conditions and neurodiversities. We ensure equal opportunities for all and transparently report on gender pay to promote fairness.

Schroders Personal Wealth operates under the Senior Managers and Certification Regime as a solo-regulated firm and if this role is classed as a Certified Role under that regime you will be subject to enhanced vetting and will have a number of additional conduct and regulatory duties to adhere to, as well as certifying at least annually that you are fit and proper to perform this role.