• Serve as the primary technical SME for the RPA program, advising on solution architecture, design patterns, reusable components, and enterprise standards. • Lead technical assessments and feasibility evaluations for new automations, enhancements, and integrations. • Oversee and enforce development best practices across UiPath Studio, Orchestrator, Insights, and supporting tools. • Ensure alignment with security, compliance, and SDLC/SAFe processes. • Act as the technical point of contact for leadership, translating business needs into actionable technical plans. • Support weekly/monthly reviews, demos, and briefings; communicate risks and progress clearly, concisely, and professionally. • Navigate shifting priorities and evolving requirements while maintaining delivery discipline. • Build trust with government counterparts through transparency, predictability, and strong technical judgment. • Provide day-to-day guidance to developers, BAs, and testers; ensure tasks are clear, achievable, and aligned with client goals. • Manage workload distribution, sprint planning, code reviews, and peer mentoring. • Maintain team velocity by removing blockers, clarifying requirements, and escalating issues appropriately. • Foster a collaborative, accountable, and high-performance team culture. • Lead hands-on development for high-priority, complex, or sensitive automations as needed. • Oversee integration of RPA solutions with client systems (e.g., Oracle, SAP, ServiceNow, Shared Services, internal APIs). • Ensure automations meet quality standards through rigorous testing, code review, and end-to-end validation. • Support Hypercare, production deployments, O&M activities, and defect resolution. • Ensure compliance with Enterprise DevOps, Cybersecurity, and SDLC policies. • Oversee creation and maintenance of PDDs, SDDs, SOPs, test plans, and user guides. • Maintain full traceability throughout the automation lifecycle. • Enforce adherence to configuration management and release protocols. • Identify opportunities for automation reuse, optimization, standardization, and scaling. • Evaluate and recommend capabilities across AI/ML, document understanding, OCR, LLMs, and API-driven automation. • Collaborate with client and contractor leadership to mature the overall RPA program.