Application Engineer
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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Job Description
About the Role
We are seeking a highly technical Application Engineer with strong expertise in automation to design, evaluate, and implement scalable automation solutions across enterprise systems.
Responsibilities
- Creating, reviewing, and validating Process Design Documents (PDDs) to ensure they are complete, technically accurate, and suitable for automation.
- Assessing processes for automation feasibility, identifying gaps, edge cases, exception scenarios, and system dependencies.
- Guiding teams in developing high-quality, automation-ready PDDs.
- Translating process requirements into technical workflows, building and deploying automations, and integrating APIs and external systems.
- Ensuring solutions are reliable, maintainable, and production-ready.
- Defining and enforcing best practices for automation design and documentation.
Tools & Technologies
- Hands-on experience with enterprise automation platforms such as UiPath, Blue Prism (BP), Quick Automate, or similar workflow automation tools.
- Designing workflows, managing orchestration, implementing exception handling, and deploying and monitoring automations in production environments.
- Strong proficiency in Python for developing custom automation scripts, integrating with REST APIs, processing and transforming data, and extending automation capabilities.
- Experience using Python libraries such as requests or httpx for API integrations, pandas for data handling, and logging frameworks.
- Familiarity with REST APIs, JSON, webhooks, Git for version control, Postman for API testing, and basic SQL for data validation and testing.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or above in computer science, computer engineering, or related field, or MS degree.
- 2+ years of building production software experience.
- 2+ years of professional front end development experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in business analysis and functional roles, including requirements gathering, and creating/deploying solutions to end users.
- Experience automating a complex process.
- UiPath Certified Professional Developer certification.
Our Inclusive Culture
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Key skills/competency
- Automation
- Application Engineer
- Python
- REST APIs
- UiPath
- Process Design Documents (PDDs)
- Workflow Automation
- API Integration
- Software Development
- Enterprise Systems
How to Get Hired at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Tailor your resume: Highlight your automation experience, Python proficiency, and API integration skills relevant to the Application Engineer role.
- Showcase relevant projects: Quantify your achievements in building production software and front-end development.
- Demonstrate technical skills: Emphasize your experience with automation platforms like UiPath and your ability to work with REST APIs and Python libraries.
- Prepare for interviews: Be ready to discuss your process for assessing automation feasibility and your experience with PDDs and workflow design.
- Research Amazon's culture: Understand their commitment to innovation and customer obsession.
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