Automation & Innovation Engineer
Pax8We’re seeking an 🚀 AI Automation Engineer 🚀 to design, develop, and manage automations, AI agents, and low‑code/no‑code solutions across critical PX workflows. You’ll build production‑ready automations, maintain shared pattern libraries, ensure observability and compliance, and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to deliver scalable, reliable solutions.
Projects will involve Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, Copilot Studio, n8n, Azure Foundry, and other related technologies. You’ll own the full pipeline: intake → design → build → test → deploy → operate, ensuring alignment with MIO Automation & Innovation standards and PX governance.
🛠 Essential Responsibilities
Solution Design & Development (40%)
- 🔧 Scope, design, and develop automations using Power Platform, Copilot Studio, n8n, Azure Foundry
- 🐍 Build custom automations with Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, LangChain, LangGraph
- 🤖 Develop AI‑powered agents for decision‑making, workflow automation, summarization, and routing
- 🔒 Implement secure, resilient, observable workflows aligned to CoE patterns
- ⚙️ Build CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions
- 📦 Develop modular, reusable components aligned to PX architecture
Performance & Continuous Improvement (30%)
- 📊 Own lifecycle of AI agents: design, prompt/logic, evaluation, deployment, monitoring
- 📚 Maintain agent catalogs, documentation, dependencies, performance baselines
- ✅ Ensure adherence to safety guardrails and quality criteria
- 🧪 Design evaluation frameworks (unit tests, integration tests, benchmarks)
- 🔔 Establish monitoring and alerting with Application Insights
Automation Patterns, Libraries & Frameworks (15%)
- 📂 Contribute to shared pattern libraries and reusable assets
- 🏗 Standardize workflow designs to accelerate delivery
- 🤝 Partner with CoE lead to refine engineering standards
Cross‑Functional Collaboration & Enablement (15%)
- 👥 Partner with PX operations, BI, TPM, Support Engineering, Product teams
- 📖 Provide technical enablement, documentation, and training
- 💡 Support experimentation and innovation pilots
🎯 Ideal Skills & Experience
- 5+ years with Power Platform (Power Automate, Power Apps, Dataverse) or automation frameworks (n8n, Copilot Studio, Azure Foundry)
- Strong coding in Python & JavaScript/TypeScript
- Experience with LangChain, LangGraph for AI agent orchestration
- Proficiency with Git, CI/CD pipelines, IaC practices
- Familiarity with pytest, Jest, TDD
- Knowledge of Copilot Studio and emerging AI systems
- Expertise in Power BI dashboards, Power Apps (Model Driven & Canvas)
- Strong API integration, webhook, REST/GraphQL design skills
- Experience with Docker, Azure/AWS deployments
- Understanding of security, compliance, data privacy in SaaS
- Excellent communication skills and ability to manage multiple projects
🎓 Education & Certifications
- B.A./B.S. in technical or related field (or equivalent experience)
- Power Platform certifications (PL‑900, PL‑400, PL‑600) a plus
- GitHub or Azure DevOps certifications a plus
- AI, automation, or workflow‑orchestration certifications preferred
✨ Why Join Apply for the role?
- Work at the cutting edge of **AI automation**
- Collaborate with diverse, cross‑functional teams
- Drive innovation in PX workflows and enterprise automation
In order to fulfil this role, you should be resident in this country with a valid right to work.
We encourage you to apply for a role at Pax8 even if you don’t meet 100% of the bullet points! We believe in cultivating an environment where there are a diversity of perspectives.
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Why join Pax8?
Well, here are a few points of how we value our greatest assets:
- At Pax8, we want to support you in both work and play. Sometimes there isn't enough time for the latter, which is why Pax8 offers an additional 2 weeks of bonus leave every year! AND YES, the 2 weeks are available from your first day!
- In addition to the above, we offer all our employees Private Health Insurance. Beneficial for when life happens, and also for tax time too!
- Unlimited growth through our learning & development (L&D) programs in an environment that fosters internal promotions, helping you gain the necessary skills to reach the next step in your professional journey!
- Connecting with our community is important – which is why we have our donation matching program, DEI-B events, and our employee resource groups to ensure everyone feels at home at Pax8.
About Pax8:
Pax8 is the technology marketplace of the future, linking partners, vendors, and small to midsized businesses (SMB’s) through AI powered insights and comprehensive product support. With a global partner ecosystem of over 39,000+ managed service providers (our customers), Pax8 empowers SMB’s worldwide by providing software services that unlock their growth potential and enhance their cloud security!
We’ve pioneered simplifying the cloud services journey for thousands of our partners by reinventing the IT cloud model with more than 130+ vendors (software/cloud providers) globally giving customers and partners real choice! Pax8 run a transaction through our Marketplace every 7 seconds and support 700,000+ indirect businesses and more than 22,000,000+ end users around the world!
For the 8th consecutive year running, Pax8 have been listed on the 2025 Inc.5000 list and we have a $2BN+ annual recurring revenue. This has lead us to become recognised as one of the Best Managed Company’s 2025 and our pioneering cloud marketplace earning a 5 star rating in the 2025 CRN awards as a Partner Program Guide winner!
Our Culture:
Culture is important to us, and at Pax8, it’s business, and it IS personal. We embody our behaviours - Compassionate Candour, Seek to Understand, We Before Me, Do What You Say, Light Up Learning and Driven by Passion!
We are passionate, creative, and unconventional. We work hard, keep it fun, and expect the best! Through our 4 core values - We Elev8 each other! We Advoc8 for our partners! We Innov8 continuously! We Celebr8 life!
As we expand across Europe, we have 11 offices supporting 20+ languages and our teams continue to grow! Come and be "work happy" with us! It's an exciting time to join us as Pax8 EMEA enter the next significant stage of our incredible journey! Our purpose is to help every small business turn their dreams into reality through the power of technology! Why not be a part of our success story?
Equal Opportunities:
Pax8 are an equal opportunities employer and welcome individuals who are in possession of the appropriate requirements to work within your country. Offered individuals will be asked to undertake identity, security compliance and reference checks. Your privacy is important to us. Your data will be held in accordance with best practices and processed only in accordance with our recruiting processes.
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