Automation Engineer
Company
Location
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
9/5/2025
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Description
Job Type
Fixed Term (Fixed Term)
Closing Date
25/09/2025
Schroders Personal Wealth aims to improve the way financial advice is offered, by making it more affordable, accessible and powerful for more people. We want to change lives for the better.
This is a fantastic opportunity for you to progress your career in IT within a fully cloud based business. As an Automation Engineer you will interact with both internal colleagues and external suppliers to develop, implement and support automated solutions and applications across the organisation.
Location: Leeds
Salary: £ 34,297 to £37,726
Type: Fixed Term Contract until 31/12/2026
About The Role
As an Automation Engineer, you’ll play a key role in advancing SPW’s strategic goals by helping to streamline processes and enhance client service through automation. You’ll be part of our Cloud Engineering team, which manages cloud infrastructure, collaborative tools and SaaS applications. Within this team, our Automation function is focused on developing and implementing Automation and AI capabilities to improve efficiency across the business.
We’re looking for someone who’s passionate about technology, eager to learn, and excited to contribute to a collaborative and forward-thinking team.
Key Focus
Supporting, monitoring, and maintaining Power Automate solutions.
What You’ll Be Doing
This job vacancy may close earlier than the advertised date if a suitable candidate is found. We encourage interested applicants to submit their applications as soon as possible.
Some fantastic benefits SPW colleagues enjoy:
We support flexible working:
At SPW, we know how important it is to be able to achieve a balance. We want to support your lifestyle as well as meeting our business needs, so will always aim to be flexible. As well as traditional working patterns, we have colleagues who work informal flexible hours, reduced working hours, and have job-sharing arrangements. Many colleagues work from home, or in a hybrid way.
Ready to restart your career?
We warmly welcome applications from those returning to work after a period of leave, providing appropriate support and training where required.
You belong here:
At SPW, we embrace individuality and diversity of identity, experience, and thought. We actively strive for inclusive behaviours and actions, making appropriate adjustments for disabilities, health conditions and neurodiversities. We ensure equal opportunities for all and transparently report on gender pay to promote fairness.
Schroders Personal Wealth operates under the Senior Managers and Certification Regime as a solo-regulated firm and if this role is classed as a Certified Role under that regime you will be subject to enhanced vetting and will have a number of additional conduct and regulatory duties to adhere to, as well as certifying at least annually that you are fit and proper to perform this role.
Fixed Term (Fixed Term)
Closing Date
25/09/2025
Schroders Personal Wealth aims to improve the way financial advice is offered, by making it more affordable, accessible and powerful for more people. We want to change lives for the better.
This is a fantastic opportunity for you to progress your career in IT within a fully cloud based business. As an Automation Engineer you will interact with both internal colleagues and external suppliers to develop, implement and support automated solutions and applications across the organisation.
Location: Leeds
Salary: £ 34,297 to £37,726
Type: Fixed Term Contract until 31/12/2026
About The Role
As an Automation Engineer, you’ll play a key role in advancing SPW’s strategic goals by helping to streamline processes and enhance client service through automation. You’ll be part of our Cloud Engineering team, which manages cloud infrastructure, collaborative tools and SaaS applications. Within this team, our Automation function is focused on developing and implementing Automation and AI capabilities to improve efficiency across the business.
We’re looking for someone who’s passionate about technology, eager to learn, and excited to contribute to a collaborative and forward-thinking team.
Key Focus
Supporting, monitoring, and maintaining Power Automate solutions.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Monitoring and managing Power Automate flows to ensure reliability and performance
- Responding to incidents and applying minor configuration changes
- Maintaining documentation and operational inventories
- Collaborating with internal stakeholders and external suppliers to resolve issues
- Supporting the development of our Automation Centre of Excellence Platform
- Familiarity with Microsoft Power Platform for automation and process improvement
- Understanding of MS365 tools (Teams, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business)
- Exposure to Office Engineering (Telemetry, Add-On management & governance)
- Experience or interest in scripting/coding (PowerShell, Power Platform, GraphAPI, JSON, Terraform)
- Working knowledge of Jira and Confluence
- Enthusiasm for process improvement using Automation and AI
- Interest in working within cross-functional technical teams
- Willingness to develop incident management and resolution skills
- Strong problem-solving mindset and stakeholder engagement
- Self-motivated with a desire to grow and learn
- Team-oriented with a positive and proactive approach
This job vacancy may close earlier than the advertised date if a suitable candidate is found. We encourage interested applicants to submit their applications as soon as possible.
Some fantastic benefits SPW colleagues enjoy:
- Generous Holiday Entitlement: 30 days of annual leave plus bank holidays, with the option to buy or sell 5 days.
- Health & Wellbeing: Company-paid Private Medical Insurance, Life Insurance, and Health Screening.
- Company Pension Contribution: A matched pension contribution of up to 15% of your base pay.
- Cash Allowance: Flexible allowance to spend on additional benefits personal to you, including: dental cover, paid sabbatical leave, gym membership, menopause support.
- Bonus Opportunity: Dependent on individual/company performance (eligible after 3 months’ service)
- Financial Advice: Access to free financial advice to help secure your financial future.
We support flexible working:
At SPW, we know how important it is to be able to achieve a balance. We want to support your lifestyle as well as meeting our business needs, so will always aim to be flexible. As well as traditional working patterns, we have colleagues who work informal flexible hours, reduced working hours, and have job-sharing arrangements. Many colleagues work from home, or in a hybrid way.
Ready to restart your career?
We warmly welcome applications from those returning to work after a period of leave, providing appropriate support and training where required.
You belong here:
At SPW, we embrace individuality and diversity of identity, experience, and thought. We actively strive for inclusive behaviours and actions, making appropriate adjustments for disabilities, health conditions and neurodiversities. We ensure equal opportunities for all and transparently report on gender pay to promote fairness.
Schroders Personal Wealth operates under the Senior Managers and Certification Regime as a solo-regulated firm and if this role is classed as a Certified Role under that regime you will be subject to enhanced vetting and will have a number of additional conduct and regulatory duties to adhere to, as well as certifying at least annually that you are fit and proper to perform this role.
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