RPA Project Manager

Role: RPA Project Manager

Experience: 10 Yrs - 18 Yrs

Notice Period: Immediate - 30 days

Location: PAN India

Job Description:

Lead end-to-end delivery and run operations of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) programs across multiple business units. Own discovery, design governance, delivery, and production support of attended and unattended automations. Partner with Business, CoE, Technology, Risk/Controls, and Operations to scale automation outcomes (FTE savings, quality, and cycle-time reduction) while maintaining robust change, incident, and compliance practices.

Key Responsibilities

Program & Portfolio Leadership

Define and maintain the automation roadmap, intake, and prioritization aligned to business objectives and funding.

Establish governance (steering, weekly cadences) and report program health, risks, issues, and dependencies.

Own financials: business case, benefits realization, budgets, and vendor/SOW management, ROI calculation.

Discovery & Design Governance

Run discovery and due diligence; validate readiness, controls, and process stability.

Ensure creation and sign-off of PDD/SDD, SOPs, and test strategy; drive standard patterns and reusable components.

Use AI tools to automate requirement gathering

Delivery Management

Plan, execute, and track projects using Agile/Scrum or hybrid methodologies (backlog, sprint goals, velocity).

Coordinate BA, Developers, Testers, Architects, and Production Support; remove blockers and manage dependencies.

Enforce SDLC, CI/CD, code reviews, and quality gates; ensure on-time, on-budget delivery with first-time-right quality.

Technical Platform & Environments

Oversee UiPath Orchestrator/Automation Cloud, Studio, Test Suite environments, credentials, and non-prod/prod segregation.

Coordinate infra provisioning (VMs, queues, storage), access via AD/SSO, secrets, and network integrations (APIs, databases, SAP, web).

Working knowledge in Agentic AI and GenAI

Stakeholder & People Management

Engage business owners, SME, tech controls, InfoSec; communicate status, KPIs, and benefits to executives.

Lead teams (onboarding, coaching, performance management); foster a culture of continuous improvement.

Qualifications

Bachelor's/Master's in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent experience.

10–15 years in technology with 8+ years in intelligent automation/RPA delivery and operations.

Hands-on familiarity with UiPath (Orchestrator, Studio, Test Suite)

Strong SDLC/Agile expertise; exposure to CI/CD, DevOps, and test automation.

Understanding of security, risk, audit, and compliance for automation at scale (PII, secrets, access controls).

Working knowledge of APIs, databases/SQL, ETL, and integration with enterprise apps (SAP/ERP/CRM).

Certifications preferred: PMP, Agile/Scrum, UiPath (Automation Business Analyst/Developer/Orchestrator).

Interview Rubric (for Hiring Teams)

Program Leadership & Governance

Describe an RPA portfolio you led: intake, prioritization, governance, and benefits tracking.

How did you handle a cross-unit dependency or funding constraint

Design & Delivery

Walk through your PDD/SDD standards and review gates.

Share metrics from your last go-live (quality gates, defects, first-time-right).

Run Operations

Explain incident/change management for bots and your MI dashboards.

Example of early detection that prevented a production outage.

Technical Depth

Discuss orchestrator configurations (queues, triggers, credentials) and environment segregation.

Integrations you have implemented (SAP, APIs, databases).

Stakeholder & People

Managing executive expectations in a client round; handling rejection/feedback loops.

Hiring, coaching, and performance evaluation approach for multi-role teams