Intelligent Automation Lead

Location: Sacramento, CA – 95814 (100% Remote)
Duration: 12+ months contract with possible extension

About the Role

The Intelligent Automation Governance Lead - SAP S4 is responsible for readying the Finance automation estate and AI platform for the SAP S/4HANA migration and future scale, ensuring that production automations complete the transition with no-to-minimal business interruption. This role owns the end-to-end assessment, disposition, and remediation of the automation portfolio (retain / redesign / retire / replace) and establishes the reference architecture and release-governance controls that safeguard automation continuity through S4 design, cutover, and hypercare. Working in close partnership with the SAP S4 project team, SAP IT teams, and the internal Finance AI & Automation team, the role finalizes and maintains the automation redesign / re-delivery roadmap in sync with the S4 implementation framework.

Responsibilities

• Ensure automation continuity throughout the S4 transition, executing remediation and re-delivery with no-to-minimal business interruption to Finance operations.
• Assess and disposition the full Finance automation portfolio for S4 readiness, classifying each automation as retain, redesign, retire, or replace.
• Ready the Finance automation estate and AI platform for S4 migration and scale, ensuring automations remain resilient through the transition.
• Remediate high-impact automations ahead of the relevant S4 design and cutover gates, prioritizing based on business criticality and migration risk.
• Partner closely with the SAP S4 project team, relevant SAP IT teams, and the internal Finance AI & Automation team to finalize and maintain the automation redesign / re-delivery roadmap, kept in sync with the S4 implementation framework and timelines.
• Establish and maintain a reference architecture for S4-compatible automations, including reusable patterns, standards, and design guardrails.
• Define and enforce release-governance checks so that 100% of production releases are routed through governance controls.
• Maintain a live disposition tracker and readiness dashboard providing visibility into portfolio status, remediation progress, and risk exposure.
• Coordinate impact analysis for T-Code, BAPI, Fiori app, interface, and integration changes introduced by S4, and translate these into automation remediation requirements.
• Define release management, versioning, and change-control standards across Dev/Test/Prod environments.
• Act as a trusted advisor to Finance leadership on automation continuity risk, governance posture, and S4 readiness.

Requirements

• 7+ years of overall experience in Intelligent Automation / RPA delivery, platform governance, or enterprise automation lifecycle management.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with UiPath-based automation solutions, including architecture and governance roles.
• Proven experience assessing and remediating large automation portfolios through major ERP or platform migrations.
• Hands-on experience through a full or in-flight SAP ECC to S/4HANA migration journey (strongly preferred) - including how ECC-to-S4 changes (T-Codes, BAPIs, Fiori, table/data model changes, interfaces) impact existing automations and the sequencing of remediation across design, cutover, and hypercare.
• Strong understanding of Finance business processes including Procure-to-Pay, Record-to-Report, Order-to-Cash, and Shared Services operations.
• Demonstrated experience defining and operating release-governance and change-control frameworks in a production environment.
• Prior experience as a Solution Architect, Automation Lead, Senior Engineer, or Principal Engineer in enterprise or large-scale AI/Automation environments.
• Experience collaborating with distributed development teams and global stakeholders across multiple time zones.

Skills

Intelligent Automation & Agentic AI (Mandatory)

• Deep hands-on experience with UiPath Studio, Orchestrator, and Enterprise RPA architecture.
• Strong proficiency in UiPath Agentic AI capabilities, including:
  • UiPath Maestro Action Center & Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) frameworks
  • UiPath AI Center
  • Intelligent Xtraction Platform (IXP)
  • Integration Services
  • Conversational Agents in UiPath
• Good to Have: UiPath Apps, Data Fabric, Healing Agents, Screenplay, Autopilot.
• Ability to design and review UiPath libraries, reusable components, and enterprise automation frameworks.

SAP S4 Integration & Continuity

• Strong understanding of SAP Joule and SAP Business AI, including how Joule complements UiPath agentic automation in an S/4HANA landscape, and its implications for automation redesign.
• Hands-on experience with SAP Fiori applications, including how Fiori app changes in S4 impact UI-based and transactional automations.
• Strong working knowledge of BAPIs, RFC-enabled function modules, IDocs, and OData/REST APIs for building resilient, API-first automation integrations with SAP.
• Familiarity with SAP T-Codes, GUI transactions, and backend tables, and the ability to map their S4 equivalents for automation remediation.

Platform, Release Governance & Cloud

• Release management, versioning, environment governance (Dev/Test/Prod), and CI/CD for automation deployments.
• Automation monitoring, exception handling, and production support governance practices.
• Hands-on experience designing and architecting automations using UiPath, including agent lifecycle management (Dev/Test/Prod configuration, governance, and cross-tenant migration).
• Strong experience with API-based integrations, SharePoint Lists, Microsoft Graph APIs, MySQL / SQL Server, MongoDB, and structured/unstructured data sources.

Added Advantage (Optional)

• Exposure to UiPath Bring-Your-Own-Model (BYOM).

Leadership & Communication

• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to engage both technical teams and Finance business users across time zones.
• Proven ability to lead governance boards, design reviews, and readiness checkpoints across cross-functional teams.
• Ability to translate migration risk and automation impact into clear, executive-ready recommendations.
• Strong ownership mindset with end-to-end accountability for automation continuity through S4.
• Consulting mindset capable of balancing speed, risk, governance, scalability, and business value.
• Willingness to continuously learn and adopt emerging AI, agentic, cloud, and automation technologies and bring them into the team's roadmap.