Automation Design Practitioner

Requisition Details & Talent Acquisition Contact

Requisition nr: 144364
Talent Acquisition Specialist: Tshego Semenya
Location: 135 Rivonia Road, Sandown
Closing date: 8 March 2026 

Cluster

Personal and Private Banking

Career Stream

IT Technical Specialists

Leadership Pipeline

Manager of Self

Position

Automation Design Practitioner II

Why join the team!

Join one of South Africa’s most innovative automation teams as an Automation Design Practitioner II in Nedbank’s PPB Cluster. This intermediate-level role is ideal for professionals with 3–5 years of hands-on Blue Prism experience, a relevant degree, and a passion for solving complex business challenges through smart automation. You’ll work with minimal supervision, applying design thinking, agile principles, and business analysis to build scalable, sustainable solutions. What sets this opportunity apart is the team itself—award-nominated, collaborative, and known for pushing boundaries beyond “vanilla coding.” Here, innovation isn’t just encouraged—it’s expected. You’ll be part of a dynamic environment that values adaptability, continuous learning, and career growth over titles. If you’re ready to contribute to one of the top robotics teams in the country and build a meaningful career in intelligent automation, this is your chance to make a lasting impact.

Job Purpose

To contribute towards Nedbank’s aspirations of being world class at managing risk and to achieve excellence in execution by applying analytical insights, innovative thinking and automating the business need.

Job Responsibilities

Expectations of a Design Practitioner II is to have the cognitive ability to grasp more complex automation concepts, have more intermediate practical automation experience through the build of some medium level processes, can help themselves around the concept of requirement gathering/analysis, have previously shown how innovative thinking can lead to alternative ways of solving a business need, and will have the ability to work on more complex processes. Little to none work supervision will be required. Dual tasking will be required as well as the incorporation of previously taught skills/tools.

• With guidance of a senior, perform requirements analysis to understand, structure, organize and specify the business need.


• Conduct the process walkthrough sessions to ensure correct interpretation of the business need and to eliminate any uncertainties. Seek guidance from a senior where needed.


• Head up requirements sign off session with your business stakeholders. Seek guidance from a senior where needed.


• Apply design thinking skills, problem-solving skills & out-of-the-box thinking to define a dynamic, sustainable and re-usable solution. Seek guidance from a senior where needed.


• Scrutinise the business need to identify additional opportunities to add business value. Run ideas past a senior before engaging Stakeholders.


• Document requirements with quality and using your own words to ensure perfect understanding. Seek guidance from a senior where needed.


• Maintain the integrity of all current and future requirements for processes you are responsible for.


• Use visual diagrams to model scope, process flows, and dependencies.


• Writing requirements using business language in order to ensure your SME’s is in alignment with WHAT they expect the automated process should do.


• Writing your design using technical language to ensure it reflects HOW the automation will satisfy the Business need.


• Creating all necessary artifacts and ensuring that the necessary signoffs are obtained. Seek guidance from a senior where needed.


• Develop according to RPA best practices and principles, within an agile framework.


• Deliver processes that is high in quality, adaptable, reusable, sustainable, dynamic and stable processes


• Testing both positive and negative scenarios. During testing small bugs are identified, scenarios surface that has not been catered for and gaps in exception handling become evident. Ensure stress testing is done to confirm the automated process can handle very high case volumes


• Seek development guidance when needed.


• Conduct peer code reviews and testing.


• Debug and fix running processes in your portfolio. Seek guidance when needed.


• Provide quality business support for processes your team is accountable for.


• Continuous awareness of your running processes to identify potential issues or enhancements.


• Share experiences to avoid reinventing the wheel, be open for critique, be eager to learn from others, be resourceful to try solve your problem first but be confident to admit when you failed and ask when you need help.


• With guidance, drive cross team collaboration to optimise and refine a solution.

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level

Preferred Qualification

• Diploma or Degree in Computer Science or Information Technology

Certifications

Essential (Non negotiable):

• Blue Prism Associate Developer Certificate

Preferred:

• Blue Prism Developer Certificate


• Blue Prism Solution Designer Certificate

Minimum Experience Level

• Ability to develop processes at a medium to high complexity under supervision


• 2 – 4 years Blue Prism development


• Business Analysis techniques and practices experience


• Tester experience

Technical / Professional Knowledge

Disclaimer

Preference will be given to candidates from the underrepresented groups

Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at +27 860 555 566