Overview

Senior Automation Developer role at Pearson. Remote - UK, Poland or India. HR Operations Department. We are building the HR automation team of the future — a small, high-impact group with technology at its heart, focused purely on HR needs. We work side-by-side with HR teams, listening closely, understanding their challenges, and delivering smart, scalable solutions that create exceptional employee experiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead high-impact, high-visibility automations from concept through to release, ensuring they deliver measurable employee experience improvements.
• Advise on solution design across multiple projects, influencing technical approaches and guiding priorities.
• Scan the horizon for new tools, features, and techniques, and introduce those with clear business value.
• Act as a quality gatekeeper, reviewing peer work to maintain exceptional technical and user-experience standards.
• Drive optimisation of existing automations to improve performance, reliability, and maintainability.
• Actively mentor colleagues, sharing deep technical insights and helping them tackle their most complex challenges.

Required Skills & Experience

• Deep expertise in UiPath and/or Microsoft Power Platform (Power Automate, Power Apps, Copilot Studio).
• Proven ability to deliver complex, business-critical automations with significant impact.
• Strong capability in reviewing and improving the work of others at both technical and design levels.
• Experience identifying and introducing new tools or practices that lift team capability and results.
• Skilled in cross-team collaboration, with the ability to influence decisions and priorities.

Desirable

• Experience with ServiceNow HR Service Delivery or other HR platforms.
• Background in AI-driven automation or agent-based solutions.
• Track record of delivering innovations that materially improve employee experience.

Who We Are

At Pearson, our purpose is simple: to help people realize the life they imagine through learning. We are Pearson, the world\'s lifelong learning company. For us, learning isn\'t just what we do — it\'s who we are.

Pearson is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a member of E-Verify. Employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit and business need. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status or any other group protected by law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act. If you are an individual with a disability and are unable to use our career site, you may request reasonable accommodations by emailing TalentExperienceGlobalTeam@grp.pearson.com.

Job: Engineering
Job Family: TECHNOLOGY
Organization: Corporate Human Resources
Schedule: FULL_TIME
Req ID: 20779

Job Details

• Seniority level: Not Applicable
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Quality Assurance
• Industries: Education Administration Programs and E-Learning Providers