Lead UiPath Engineer

About the role

Merkle, a dentsu company, is looking for a Lead Business Automation Engineer in Leiria. The role is a hands-on technical leader who ensures that automations are delivered with high quality, scalability and consistency, bridging architecture and execution. It covers business automation technologies including AI, robotic process automation (RPA), business process management (BPM), event automation (iPaaS) and other intelligent automation tools.

Key responsibilities

• Design and implement UiPath automations according to agreed architecture, covering orchestration, exception handling, monitoring and logging, and security and compliance.
• Ensure high-quality, reusable and performant automation code, and help solution architects turn architectural designs into executable automation frameworks.
• Act as technical lead for automation workstreams or projects, review code and workflows against best practices, and coach and mentor junior and confirmed automation engineers.
• Support onboarding and upskilling of team members on UiPath and automation patterns.
• Work closely with Business Automation Architects, Consultants, Business Analysts, DevOps and IT teams, and take part in client technical discussions when needed.
• Support estimation, technical feasibility assessments and delivery planning.

Required profile

• Proven ability to lead and mentor automation engineers.
• Strong analytical skills: assessing process automation feasibility and technical risks, designing robust solutions and troubleshooting complex issues.
• Clear communication with architects, consultants and delivery managers, able to turn high-level requirements into technical designs.
• Experience in Agile delivery (Scrum/Kanban), familiarity with CI/CD, version control and release management, and awareness of quality gates and documentation standards.

Required skills

• Deep hands-on expertise with UiPath (Studio, Maestro, Robots, APIs, Agents).
• C#/.NET and Python.
• RPA frameworks, reusable components and enterprise automation patterns.
• Integrating automations with APIs (REST/SOAP), databases and enterprise systems (ERP, CRM).
• AI-powered automations such as document understanding and intelligent extraction and decision automation.
• Cloud platforms (Azure preferred; AWS acceptable).

What we offer

• 25 vacation days, 3 extra wellness days and volunteering days.
• Health insurance (also possible for family members).
• Hybrid working with an expectation of 1 day per week in the office, plus a digital nomad policy.
• Agile and flexible working hours, focus on career development and access to Dentsu Academy.
• Team and company events, employee discounts, referral bonus and free breakfast every second Wednesday of the month.