Senior Specialist, AI & Digital Tools

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We’re seeking a future team member for the role of Senior Specialist, OPS Data Transfer, Integration & Quality to join our team. This role is located in Manchester, UK.

Contract job title: Senior Specialist, OPS Data Transfer, Integration & Quality

How you’ll make an impact

In this role, you’ll make an impact in the following ways:

• Acts as a senior RPA UiPath Developer responsible for designing, developing, testing, deploying, and supporting automation solutions across Wealth Services Operations.
• Works closely with Business SMEs, Operations teams, and Engineering partners to understand business requirements and deliver scalable automation solutions.
• Provides technical expertise in identifying, evaluating, and developing automation solutions that are efficient, controlled, reusable, and aligned to business requirements.
• Supports operations with a data-first and automation-first approach to proactively identify process improvement opportunities.
• Delivers meaningful change for the operation by building digital tools, UiPath automations, API-enabled solutions, and AI-enabled automation capabilities.
• Ensures automation solutions are reliable, secure, well-documented, and suitable for production use by business users.
• Acts as a technical partner for the platform group by supporting process assessment, solution design, development standards, and production readiness.

In this role, you’ll oversee the below tasks:

• Delivery
• Collaborate with Business SMEs, Operations users, and Technology partners to understand business needs, assess automation feasibility, and deliver scalable UiPath automation solutions.
• Plan, prioritize and deliver assigned automation work items in line with agreed timelines, business priorities, quality standards, and production readiness requirements.
• Requirements / Stories
• Gather, analyze and convert business requirements into clear process documentation, functional requirements, acceptance criteria, and technical design inputs.
• Validate requirements with cross-functional stakeholders to identify process gaps, control risks, dependencies, exception scenarios, and opportunities for process improvement.
• Development / Technical Implementation
• Design and develop automation workflows using UiPath Studio, reusable components, UiPath Orchestrator capabilities, and structured exception handling.
• Build automation solutions across Excel, Outlook, web applications, desktop applications, SharePoint, APIs, PDFs, and internal business systems, including AI-enabled automation opportunities where applicable.
• Testing / Implementation
• Perform unit testing, support system testing and user acceptance testing, and review test results to ensure outcomes meet the defined acceptance criteria.
• Analyze testing failures to identify defects, missed requirements, process gaps, or additional exception scenarios before production implementation.
• Production / Operational Readiness
• Support production deployment, release readiness, run books, support documentation, and handover activities.
• Monitor production automations, troubleshoot failures using logs and exception reports, and support defect fixes, enhancements, and change requests.
• Process Improvement / AI Enablement
• Partner with Operations teams to identify opportunities for process simplification, risk reduction, efficiency improvement, and automation expansion.
• Support the use of AI capabilities such as document understanding, intelligent extraction, AI-assisted development, and agentic automation solutions to improve business outcomes.

To be successful in this role, we’re seeking the following:

• Technical skills:
• UiPath, VB/C#.net/Python
• Experience in API, SQL, building Attended and unattended Automations.
• Demonstrable AI expertise and additional tools like Power Automate, Alteryx, Power BI is an advantage.
• Desired - business acumen / knowledge of:
• Wealth Management, Wealth Services and Transfers of ISAs and other EMEA investment wrappers
• Wealth product knowledge
• Research skills
• Critical thinking skills
• Stakeholder management: Should have strong experience in managing senior stakeholders as part of Projects.
• Communication skills: Strong written and verbal communication skills required.

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Our Benefits and Rewards:

BNY offers highly competitive compensation, benefits, and wellbeing programs rooted in a strong culture of excellence and our pay-for-performance philosophy. We provide access to flexible global resources and tools for your life’s journey. Focus on your health, foster your personal resilience, and reach your financial goals as a valued member of our team, along with generous paid leaves, including paid volunteer time, that can support you and your family through moments that matter.