Team Lead - Intelligent Automation Engineer

Team Lead – Intelligent Automation Engineer

Location: On-site 5 days/week at Scott AFB (O'Fallon, IL area) — not remote or hybrid

Type: Direct Hire / Full-Time

Clearance: U.S. Citizenship required; active Secret clearance preferred

Note: No Third Party or C2C Requests Please

We're hiring a Team Lead – Intelligent Automation Engineer to lead a team of automation engineers on enterprise modernization work for Defense sector clients. The work sits where financial management, cloud platforms, enterprise applications, data integration, and emerging AI meet - a good fit if you like untangling complex process problems and building the automation that fixes them.

You'll own technical leadership across design, development, testing, implementation, and stabilization, connecting financial systems, ERP platforms, cloud data environments, and reporting solutions. You'll also mentor junior engineers, shape automation strategy, and work directly with client stakeholders.

What You'll Do

• Lead design, development, deployment, and support of intelligent automation solutions that improve financial and operational processes
• Run automation assessments — spot high-value opportunities, evaluate process maturity, build the roadmap
• Guide the team through workflow analysis, process redesign, and implementation
• Partner with client leadership, business stakeholders, and program management on requirements and delivery timelines
• Set automation best practices, governance standards, and quality controls
• Mentor engineers, review designs and code, and lead troubleshooting and root cause analysis

What You Need

• 5 years in automation, enterprise applications, data integration, or software development
• 1 year as an Agile Team Lead, Scrum Lead, Technical Lead, or Automation Delivery Lead
• Hands-on RPA experience - UiPath, Automation Anywhere, Blue Prism, Power Automate, or similar
• Programming and scripting: Python, SQL, JavaScript, or comparable
• Experience integrating enterprise applications, databases, APIs, and cloud data environments
• Strong Agile/Scrum background and proficiency with Jira
• Bachelor's in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, Data Analytics, or a related technical field (equivalent experience considered)
• U.S. Citizenship is a must have - active Secret clearance strongly preferred

Nice to Have

• Agile, Scrum, RPA, or cloud certifications (CSM, PMI-ACP, UiPath, Power Platform, AWS, Azure)
• Automation delivery involving ERP, financial management platforms, or enterprise reporting
• Familiarity with Power BI, Databricks, Palantir, Celonis, or AI-enabled automation
• Knowledge of government financial systems such as OneStream or GTAS reporting
• Process mining, business process reengineering, or workflow optimization experience
• Applied AI, generative AI, or machine learning in an automation context

Strong benefits package included — full details shared during the conversation.

No C2C or Third Party Requests Please