What are the best RPA career paths for Process Automation?

?? What is the best career path for someone interested in Robotic Process Automation? Process Design. This is foundational. Learn how to design and improve business processes based on some of the most established methodologies and frameworks. Look up courses on LinkedIn Learning and online for Lean Six Sigma Green Belt courses to get started. You can’t be effective at automating processes that are not designed well to work with automation. Start with the fundamentals of process design and work your way into automation design. You’ll make 10% to 20% more, at minimum, with process design expertise, compared to those that don’t have it. Your automations will also be more resilient. Good luck with your career! ?? Like to support this

Na área de Automa??o de Processos Robóticos (RPA), os planos de carreira promissores abrangem desde posi??es técnicas até estratégicas. Inicialmente, os profissionais podem come?ar como desenvolvedores de RPA, focando na constru??o e implementa??o de bots de automa??o. Com a experiência, podem avan?ar para papéis como analistas de processos de negócios, onde a análise e a otimiza??o de processos s?o cruciais. A progress?o natural pode levar a cargos de lideran?a, como gestores de projetos de RPA, que supervisionam a implementa??o de solu??es de automa??o em toda a organiza??o.

Having started my career as an RPA Analyst, I can say that for this role it is required a good understanding of the characteristics of the technology and of the business and processes in general. This figure is a sort of middle-man that needs to be able to speak both the technical language of the developer, and the business language of the process owner. It also must have a clear understanding of how a project is carried on to give guidance and provide a precmise timeline. This applies not only for RPA, but for Intelligent Automation in general, so also when implementing solution with AI, ML and Process Mining.

L'automatisation via des outils de RPA peut commencer simplement grace à des taches simples, sur Excel, effectuées grace à Power Automate.

As an RPA Consultant it is really important to have mastered the knowledge of technologies (e.g. RPA, AI, ML) with a clear understanding of its features, and an high level of understanding of the main characteristics of processes suitable for automation. In my experience, all the operative and granular issues are owned by this figure that has the responsibility to solve them and guide the RPA Analyst and RPA Developer to success.

Having lead multiple Intelligent Automation and RPA implementations I endorse what written in the article. As a Manager in this area, the main responsibilities shift from an operative to a managerial level; it is not as important to dig into the details of the solutions/process, rather to understand the vision, the reasons supporting the implementation of the automation, and the key metrics to consider it successful. Being a manager implies (but this is agnostic from RPA or automation), to build harmony across the Team, creating a positive environment where everyone can express the best version of himself/herself.