Manager - Intelligent Automation

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The requirement is for a Python automation engineer and Intelligent Automation Manager with 5+ years of experience who owns the complete development lifecycle of attended business process automations end-to-end, and is beginning to take on technical leadership within the team. This Python-first specialist combines strong Selenium and web automation skills with solid VBA/Excel competencies, working knowledge of Power Automate and Power Apps, advanced data processing capabilities (Excel, PDF, OCR), and hands-on prompt engineering skills that turn Gen AI into a dependable, production-grade automation component.

Beyond individual delivery, this is someone who is stepping into leadership — supporting the senior technical lead by mentoring junior developers, contributing to team standards and reusable components, and taking ownership of a small workstream or subset of the team's initiatives. They bring solutions rather than problems, escalating the right issues to the senior technical lead while resolving the rest independently. This is a hands-on manager who pairs solid engineering skills with growing judgment, communication, and mentorship, ready to run point on well-defined initiatives with moderate autonomy.

Core Technical Requirements

Python Development

• Strong proficiency in Python 3.x with 5+ years hands-on experience
• Solid understanding of OOP principles, error handling, and modular code design
• Experience packaging Python applications into executables (PyInstaller, cx_Freeze, auto-py-to-exe)
• Working knowledge of virtual environments and dependency management (pip, requirements.txt)

Selenium & Web Automation

• Strong Selenium WebDriver experience, including familiarity with reusable automation frameworks (e.g. Page Object Model)
• Experience handling dynamic content, iframes, pop-ups, alerts, and AJAX calls
• Good command of explicit/implicit waits and locator strategies (XPath, CSS selectors)
• Working knowledge of headless browser operations
• Familiarity with Beautiful Soup, Scrapy, and Requests

Power Platform — Power Automate & Power Apps

• Working proficiency in Power Automate for building cloud and desktop flows that integrate with Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Dataverse, and common connectors
• Experience building basic-to-intermediate canvas or model-driven apps in Power Apps to complement automation workflows with lightweight front-ends
• Understanding of when to route a use case to Power Platform vs. Python/RPA, and how to combine the two effectively
• Working familiarity with Power Platform governance basics (DLP policies, environment strategy) sufficient to operate within IT-defined guardrails

Data Processing & File Handling

• Excel manipulation (openpyxl, pandas, xlwings, xlrd/xlsxwriter)
• PDF processing (PyPDF2, pdfplumber, tabula-py, camelot)
• OCR implementation (Tesseract, pytesseract, EasyOCR, cloud OCR APIs)
• Data transformation and cleansing with pandas and numpy

VBA & Excel Macros

• Working knowledge of VBA for Excel automation; able to read, modify, and maintain existing macros
• Familiarity with the Excel object model: Workbooks, Worksheets, Ranges, PivotTables
• Experience integrating Python and VBA via xlwings or win32com (pywin32)
• Sound judgment on VBA-vs-Python trade-offs
• Understanding of macro security, digital signatures, and programmatic macro enablement
• Experience with Excel events, user forms, and custom functions (UDFs)

Gen AI Integration & Prompt Engineering

• Strong, hands-on prompt engineering skills for data extraction, classification, content generation, entity recognition, and decision logic
• Experience with prompt optimization techniques: few-shot learning, chain-of-thought prompting, role-based prompting, context management
• Solid understanding of prompt limitations, hallucination handling, and output-validation strategies
• Ability to design prompts that produce consistent, structured outputs (JSON, CSV) at scale
• Working knowledge of temperature, token limits, and parameter tuning
• Experience building and maintaining reusable prompt templates
• Hands-on experience with RESTful APIs (authentication, request/response handling, error management, rate limiting)

Professional Competencies

Ownership & Delivery

• Owns the SDLC for their own automations end-to-end, and takes increasing ownership of a small workstream or subset of the team's initiatives
• Proactively identifies improvements within their area of ownership and follows through to completion
• Default response to a blocker is to attempt a solution first, escalating with options rather than just raising problems
• Comfortable taking ambiguous requirements and shaping them into a clear technical approach, checking in with the senior technical lead on higher-risk decisions
• Good documentation habits for code, decisions, and user guides

Mentorship & Team Support

• Supports and mentors junior developers — pairs on problems, reviews code, and helps upskill others in Python, Selenium, and prompt engineering
• Contributes to knowledge-sharing sessions, documentation, and reusable component libraries
• Helps with onboarding of new team members

Version Control & Collaboration

• Solid Git/GitHub skills: branching, merging, conflict resolution
• Participates in and helps facilitate code reviews for peers
• Maintains clean, well-organized repository structures and follows team branching standards

Code Quality & Best Practices

• Follows and helps reinforce coding standards (PEP 8, logging, exception handling, debugging practices)
• Uses config files and environment variables for sensitive data
• Builds reusable functions, classes, and modules, and encourages their use by others
• Flags technical debt within their area of ownership and proposes remediation

Location

On-site –Dalian, LN

If this job description resonates with you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all of the requirements. We’re interested in getting to know you and what you bring to the table!

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