Business Process Automation Engineer

About the role

This role is on site in Lake County, IL, with flexibility to work from home 2 days per week. Ideal candidates are business-savvy technologists, forward thinkers, strong technical leaders, creative and quick-to-value developers, and highly agile.

Responsibilities

• Engage deeply with Corporate Services stakeholders to understand current-state processes, pain points, constraints, to-be business requirements, and success metrics, and translate these into technical solution designs that deliver measurable efficiency gains.
• Engineer and implement scalable automation solutions, delivering clean, scalable, production-ready code that integrates with enterprise systems and optimizes business partner workflows.
• Prioritize rapid prototyping and iterative development by building working MVPs quickly to validate solutions with stakeholders, then refining based on feedback to accelerate time to value.
• Partner with the business to analyze processes and needs, recommend the most effective solutions, and simplify complex work procedures and job methods.
• Lead and facilitate meetings effectively with customers and technical team members.
• Be deliverables focused and detail oriented, demonstrate exceptional teamwork, and maintain a strong customer focus.
• Bring hands-on expertise with Microsoft Power Platform tools, especially Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power BI, along with a solid understanding of how to apply AI to streamline workflows and improve business outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 2 years of experience or Master's degree with 0 years of experience.
• Experience with AI/ML frameworks and tools, and understanding of LLM orchestration, agentic workflows, and prompt engineering.
• Proven ability to deliver and maintain production-grade software in enterprise environments, including ongoing support, monitoring, and iterative improvements.
• Strong ability to translate complex business requirements into technical solutions.
• Demonstrated track record of delivering measurable efficiency gains and ROI through automation and AI implementations.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and diagnostic skills with the ability to understand business processes and identify automation opportunities.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience with Microsoft Power Platform tools, including Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and SharePoint, with the ability to apply AI-driven automation to improve business processes and operational efficiency.