Automation Engineer

What You'll Do

The Innovate Team, part of CCO Business Excellence, is looking for an Automation Engineer with expertise in DB and Data Structure. You will collaborate with Business Analysts and BPI leads from several teams within CCO, and Engineering and Product teams at Avalara. The Automation Engineer will design, develop, and implement automation workflows and bots, providing end-to-end automation solutions for a diverse range of processes across CCO.

What You'll Need to be Successful

• Deliver successful process automations using DB knowledge & Data structures solution.
• Monitor and work with Business Analysts and BPI Leads to understand the functional and technical design of new automations.
• Develop new processes that are efficient, well structured, maintainable, and easy to understand.
• Ensure quality of coded components by performing unit testing.
• Work with test teams during the Product test and User Acceptance Testing phases to fix assigned bugs.
  
  
  

About The Team

• You should have 3 years of experience with any programming language, DB knowledge & Data structures
• You should have 1 year of experience in AWS EC2 environment for automation deployment
• 1 year of experience in Intelligent OCR
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant subject
• Experience with Macro/VBA or Python
• Independently determine methods and procedures on new assignments and may coordinate with other personnel; management skills
• Experience with complex Data Structure, requiring in-depth analysis of variable factors and the use of automation tools, methods, and techniques
• Ability to network with key contacts outside own area of expertise
• Experience translating requirements into functional and non-functional specifications
• Deliver pragmatic business and operational design solutions that maximise benefits while achieving desired outcomes
  
  
  

How We'll Take Care of You

Total Rewards

In addition to a great compensation package, paid time off, and paid parental leave, many Avalara employees are eligible for bonuses.

Health & Wellness

Benefits vary by location but generally include private medical, life, and disability insurance.

Inclusive culture and diversity

Avalara strongly supports diversity, equity, and inclusion, and is committed to integrating them into our business practices and our organizational culture. We also have a total of 8 employee-run resource groups, each with senior leadership and exec sponsorship.

Flexible hybrid working

We support hybrid work and flexible schedules for our employees.

Learn more about our benefits by region here: https://careers.avalara.com/

About Avalara

We’re Avalara. We’re defining the relationship between tax and tech.

We’ve already built an industry-leading cloud compliance platform, processing nearly 40 billion customer API calls and over 5 million tax returns a year.

Last year, we became a billion-dollar business, and our tribe expanded by a cool thousand people - there’s nearly 5,000 of us now. Our growth is real, and we’re not slowing down - not until we’ve achieved our mission - to be part of every transaction in the world.

We’re bright, innovative and disruptive, like the orange we love to wear. It captures our quirky spirit and optimistic mindset. It shows off the culture we’ve designed, that empowers our people to win. Ownership and achievement go hand in hand here. We instill passion in our people through the trust we place in them.

We’ve been different from day one. Join us, and your career will be too.

EEO Statement

We’re an Equal Opportunity Employer. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a cornerstone of our company — we don’t want people to fit into our culture, but to enrich it. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.