📍 Location: Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (4001)
🏢 Company: Ignition Group

⭐ Position Details

• Job Type: Permanent

• Reference Number: AR-DBN-10

• EE Position: No

• Salary: Market Related

🎯 Role Summary

The Intermediate Automation Engineer will be responsible for designing, developing, and optimising automated workflows that streamline business operations across multiple systems. This role sits at the intersection of IT, data engineering, and business process improvement — ideal for a highly technical problem-solver who enjoys delivering measurable value through automation.

You will lead medium-complexity automation projects, mentor junior engineers, and ensure all solutions are reliable, secure, scalable, and aligned with business requirements. This position offers the opportunity to own large automation initiatives end-to-end, especially high-impact accounts payable and cross-system integrations.

🛠️ Key Responsibilities

🔹 Automation Design & Development

• Build an end-to-end Accounts Payable (AP) automation system capable of ingesting PDFs, extracting data using OCR/LLMs, validating against the ERP through APIs, and triggering payment approvals with zero manual intervention.

• Create intelligent workflows that integrate across multiple business systems (Finance, E-commerce, CRM, etc.) to remove duplication, reduce errors, and improve processing time.

• Replace manual verification steps with automated, real-time cross-system validations via APIs.

🔹 Stakeholder Engagement & Analysis

• Collaborate with business process owners to identify automation opportunities and define business needs.

• Translate business requirements into clear technical specifications and automation blueprints.

• Present ROI analysis to justify automation benefits and help prioritise initiatives.

🔹 Project Delivery & Governance

• Ensure all deployed automations meet compliance, quality, and security standards.

• Produce detailed technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, dashboards, and KPI tracking reports.

• Act as the link between Business and IT teams during solution rollout and adoption.

🔹 Continuous Improvement

• Monitor automation performance and recommend enhancements to improve speed, reliability, or accuracy.

• Share best practices and mentor junior automation developers.

⚙️ Automation Projects You Will Own

1️⃣ Data Sync & Duplication Reduction

Implement bi-directional data flows to eliminate repeated data capture across Finance, CRM, E-commerce, and mobile systems.

2️⃣ Automated Cross-System Validation

Create real-time API-driven checks to replace slow manual compliance and inventory checks.

3️⃣ Intelligent Invoice Automation

Develop an AI-powered invoice processing engine with OCR, LLM extraction, ERP API validation, and automated approval routing.

📌 Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree: Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field

• 3–5 years of experience in RPA development or automation engineering

• Solid experience with:

  • REST/SOAP APIs

  • n8n or other low-code automation tools

  • Python and/or JavaScript/TypeScript scripting

  • CI/CD pipelines and agile delivery

• Experience with ROI analysis, dashboards, and technical documentation

• Strong eagerness to learn new automation tools and frameworks

🧠 Core Competencies

• Analytical problem-solving

• System thinking and process design

• Strong communication skills

• Ability to work with cross-functional teams

• Adaptability and continuous learning

📄 CV Tips for This Automation Engineer Role

✔ Highlight automation projects you built — list tools used, APIs integrated, and business impact delivered.
✔ Showcase examples of n8n, UiPath, Power Automate, or custom workflow automation.
✔ Emphasise your scripting skills (Python/JS) with short project descriptions.
✔ Include any performance dashboards or analytics solutions you created.
✔ Add measurable achievements (e.g., “reduced processing time by 60%”).
✔ Demonstrate experience collaborating with business teams and IT.
✔ If you have ERP or finance process automation experience, make it very visible.