At MiniMed, you can begin a lifelong career of exploration and innovation, while helping make a difference in the lives of people living with diabetes around the globe. You'll lead with purpose, breaking down barriers to innovation for a more connected, compassionate world.
About The Role
The Principal RPA CoE Lead will be responsible for establishing and scaling an enterprise-grade RPA Center of Excellence at the Pune GCC, supporting global automation initiatives for Minimed. This role combines hands-on RPA expertise, CoE capability building, and strategic stakeholder engagement.
The role requires deep expertise in UiPath (mandatory), exposure to Automation Anywhere (preferred), and proven experience setting up an RPA practice from the ground up for a global organization—covering governance, delivery, platform ownership, and value realization.
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Responsibilities may include the following and other duties may be assigned:
- Having relevant or total 12+ years of experience
- Responsible for evaluating and designing, developing or modifying programs for internal functional areas including finance, human resources, and marketing.
- Analyze existing programs and/or formulate logic for new systems.
- Develop system design documentation (including GUI design, if required), perform coding, and test/debug programs.
- Create ad hoc or bolt-on programs for integrations or functional business teams as needed.
- Develop conversion and system implementation plans.
- Prepare and obtain approval of system and programming documentation.
- Recommend changes in development, maintenance, and system standards.
- Train users in system enhancements and modifications.
- Provide patch and software upgrades to existing systems as required.
- Correct program errors, prepare operating instructions, compile documentation for program support.
- Analyze system capabilities to resolve questions of program intent, output requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques, and controls.
- Works closely with functional users to enhance and maintain programs
- Acts as a hands-on leader and capability builder.
- Balances strategic thinking with execution ownership.
- Influences global stakeholders without formal authority.
- Builds a sustainable, scalable RPA practice, not just individual automations.
Key Responsibilities
- RPA CoE Setup & Operating Model
- Establish and operationalize a global RPA CoE from the Pune GCC.
- Define the CoE operating model, including:
- Demand intake and prioritization
- Delivery and support model
- Governance, standards, and controls
- Build a scalable automation factory to support multiple global functions and geographies.
- RPA Platform Ownership & Technical Leadership
- Own the RPA platform strategy and implementation, with primary focus on:
- UiPath (Studio, Orchestrator, Attended/Unattended Bots)
- Automation Anywhere (as an additional/complimentary platform)
- Define and enforce standards for:
- Bot architecture and development
- Exception handling, resiliency, and reusability
- Security, credential management, and access controls
- Work closely with IT, Infrastructure, and Security teams to ensure platform stability and compliance.
- End-to-End Automation Delivery
- Lead the full automation lifecycle, including:
- Opportunity identification and process assessment
- Business case and ROI definition
- Solution design, build, test, deploy, and hypercare
- Ensure consistent, high-quality delivery of:
- Attended and unattended automations
- Integrations with enterprise systems (ERP, CRM, Quality, Finance, Supply Chain, etc.)
- Track and report value realization (cost savings, productivity, cycle-time reduction).
- GCC Team Build & Capability Development
- Build and mentor a high-performing RPA team in Pune, including:
- RPA architects
- Developers
- Business analysts
- Bot support/operations resources
- Define skill frameworks, role clarity, and career paths within the CoE.
- Drive training, certification, and upskilling programs (UiPath certifications preferred).
- Establish strong engineering discipline and automation best practices.
- Global Stakeholder Engagement
- Act as the primary RPA partner for global business and IT stakeholders.
- Work with senior leaders to:
- Identify and prioritize automation opportunities
- Align automation initiatives with enterprise strategy
- Provide regular visibility into:
- Automation pipeline and delivery status
- Benefits realization and KPIs
- Risks, dependencies, and mitigation plans
- Governance, Risk & Compliance
- Establish CoE governance covering:
- Intake, prioritization, and funding
- Change, release, and bot lifecycle management
- Production support and monitoring
- Ensure automations comply with:
- IT security standards
- Audit and regulatory expectations (especially relevant for med-tech environments)
- Define support and monitoring models for bots in production (including L2/L3 support).
- Innovation & Intelligent Automation
- Expand the CoE beyond traditional RPA by introducing:
- Process and task mining
- OCR, document understanding, and AI capabilities
- Workflow and low-code integrations
- Evaluate and adopt new features within the UiPath and Automation Anywhere ecosystems.
- Drive continuous improvement in automation maturity across the enterprise.
SPECIALIST CAREER STREAM: Typically an individual contributor with responsibility in a professional discipline or specialty. Delivers and/or manages projects assigned and works with other stakeholders to achieve desired results. May act as a mentor to colleagues or may direct the work of other lower level professionals. The majority of time is spent delivering and overseeing the projects – from design to implementation - while and adhering to policies, using specialized knowledge and skills normally acquired through advanced education.
DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS
Autonomy: Recognized expert, managing large projects or processes .
Exercises considerable latitude in determining deliverables of assignments, with limited oversight from manager .
Coaches, reviews and delegates work to lower level specialists.
Organizational Impact: Contributes to defining the direction for new products, processes, standards, or operational plans based on business strategy with a significant impact on work group results .
May manage large projects or processes that span outside of immediate job area.
Innovation and Complexity: Problems and issues faced are difficult, moderately complex and undefined, and require detailed information gathering, analysis and investigation .
Develops solutions to moderately complex problems, and/or makes moderate to significant improvements of processes, systems or products independently to enhance performance of job area. Implements solutions to problems.
Communication and Influence: Represents organization as a primary contact for specific projects and initiatives; communicates with internal and external customers and vendors at various levels .
May negotiate with others to reach understanding or agreement, and influence decision-making.
Leadership and Talent Management: Typically provides guidance, coaching and training to other employees within job area.
Typically manages major / moderately complex projects, involving delegation of work and review of work products, at times acting as a team leader.
Required Knowledge and Experience: Requires mastery of a specialty area and full knowledge of industry practices, typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience.
Physical Job Requirements
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this position, but they are not an exhaustive list of all the required responsibilities and skills of this position.
Benefits & Compensation
MiniMed offers a competitive salary and flexible benefits package
At MiniMed, we put people first. A commitment to our employees lives at the core of our values: We recognize their contributions. They share in the success they help create. We offer a wide range of benefits, resources, and competitive compensation plans designed to support you at every stage of your career and life.
About MiniMed
We want to make every day a better day for people living with diabetes. Our team of creative innovators around the globe share a passion for finding the simplest solutions to the problems that people with diabetes face on a daily basis. For more than 40 years, we've been redefining what's possible, from intelligent dosing systems designed for real life to predictive insights that stay a step ahead, and we're dedicated to continuing to support our customers through every step of their journey — meeting them where and how they need it.
