Why do you need to choose between doing important work and having a fulfilling life? At Ardent, we have both. Ardent employees are committed to solving our customers’ most difficult problems—and we are committed to the well-being, personal goals, and professional development of our employee. We are “All In.” We put forth our strongest effort possible to get the mission accomplished and we do it together. We respect the skills and experience you bring to the Ardent team. And we provide a rewarding environment to help you succeed. 

We offer highly competitive benefits, professional development opportunities, and an exceptional culture that embraces flexibility, innovation, collaboration, and career growth. A collective service mindset underpins our work, and a shared camaraderie to serve clients, colleagues and our communities set us apart. Our full commitment to being "All In" for our employees and our clients is not just our approach, it is our standard. If this sounds like the perfect fit for you, choose Ardent and make a difference with us. 

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Ardent is seeking a RPA Engineer to join our team.  

This is a Remote position.

Position Description:

Ardent is seeking a RPA Engineer. As the RPA Engineer, you will offer the ability to analyze user needs to determine functional requirements and define problems and develop plans and requirements in the subject matter area for moderately complex to complex systems related to information systems architecture, networking; telecommunications, automation, communications protocols, risk management/electronic analysis, software, lifecycle management, software development methodologies, and modeling and simulation.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Perform functional allocation to identify required tasks and their interrelationships.
• Identify resources required for each task.
• Respond to and resolve emergent problems; write software and build automation to prevent problem recurrence
• Leverage knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and design patterns to write software in a full-stack Java & web technology environment, including but not limited to Gradle, JDBC, Hibernate, Spring, Kafka, Quartz, Typescript, Redux and React.
• Utilize both object-oriented as well as functional programming approaches in different technologies to implement features effectively.
• Leverage relevant software development experience to radiate best practices and faster development.
• Manage availability, latency, scalability, and efficiency of the product by designing reliability into software and systems.
• Collaborate with team members to define, analyze, understand, and document RPA business and technical requirements
• Create RPA process, technical architecture, design, and user guide documentation
• Be a strong contributor to team feature breakdowns/sizing and design of new feature implementations.
• Have a high degree of personal responsibility for the overall performance of the team, including capabilities, quality, stability, and velocity.
• Mentor others & perform code reviews which provide feedback not only on code quality, but on design and implementation.
• Seek to identify opportunities for code refactoring and performance optimizations on a regular basis and champion these efforts within the team.
• Effectively communicate technical designs verbally and/or in writing for small to medium sized technical audiences.

Requirements: 

• 7+ years’ experience building and delivering enterprise grade software applications
• Must be able to build robots utilizing UiPath RPA solution 
• Possess requisite knowledge and expertise so recognized in the professional community that the government is able to qualify the individual as an expert in the field for an actual task order
• Experience in CI/CD in Cloud environments, like AWS/Azure/Google and continuous integration systems, like Jenkins
• 4+ years of experience working with UiPath RPA solutions in an enterprise environment
• 4+ years using of UiPath RPA development/implementation/administration experience (including but not limited to MS Office, Visio, Microsoft .NET, and Visual Basic, Java, C++, SOAP/REST Web Services, and Database Administration)
• 3+ years of experience integrating UiPath with enterprise systems (including but not limited to MuleSoft, ServiceNow, Oracle EBS, SQL)
• Excellent understanding of the Agile software testing process and lifecycle, from smoke test to integration to production deployment
• Ability to obtain core technology certifications (UiPath) aligned to position
• Demonstrate exceptional oral and written communication skills
• Commensurate experience in IT and in new and related older technology that directly relates to the required area of expertise

Due to the nature of the work we support, all candidates in consideration for this role must be U.S. Citizens willing to undergo the government issued background investigation process.

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Ardent is an equal opportunity employer. We will not discriminate in employment, recruitment, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, upgrading, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the bases of race, color, gender, national origin, age, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or any other basis protected by state, local, or federal law.