Senior Manager - Intelligent Automation

Job description

JLL empowers you to shape a brighter way.   Our people at JLL are shaping the future of real estate for a better world by combining world class services, advisory and technology for our clients. We are committed to hiring the best, most talented people and empowering them to thrive, grow meaningful careers and to find a place where they belong.  Whether you’ve got deep experience in commercial real estate, skilled trades or technology, or you’re looking to apply your relevant experience to a new industry, join our team as we help shape a brighter way forward.    The requirement is for a Senior Manager – Intelligent Automation with 7+ years of experience who not only owns the complete development lifecycle of attended business process automations end-to-end, but also drives technical direction, standards, and delivery quality for the wider team. This Python-first specialist combines architect-level Selenium and web automation expertise with strong VBA/Excel competencies, advanced data processing capabilities (Excel, PDF, OCR), and expert-level prompt engineering skills that turn AI into a dependable, production-grade automation component. Beyond individual delivery, this is a person who takes initiative and leads - proactively identifying opportunities for improvement across the portfolio (not just their own assignments), designing reusable frameworks that raise the whole team's velocity, and stepping in to unblock, coach, and uplift co-developers. They are the person who brings solutions rather than problems: when challenges surface, they arrive with options and a recommendation, not just an escalation. This is a senior technical leader who pairs hands-on engineering excellence with the judgment, communication, and mentorship needed to run point on complex initiatives with full autonomy. Core Technical Requirements Python Development (Expert / Must-Have) • Expert-level proficiency in Python 3.x with 7+ years hands-on experience, including experience reviewing and elevating the code of others • Deep, applied mastery of OOP principles, design patterns, error handling, and modular architecture — able to architect frameworks and libraries that get reused across the team • Proven experience packaging Python applications into executables (PyInstaller, cx_Freeze, auto-py-to-exe), and defining packaging/release standards for others to follow • Strong command of virtual environments and dependency management (pip, requirements.txt, poetry) — sets and enforces environment standards across projects Selenium & Web Automation (Critical) • Expert-level Selenium WebDriver experience, including designing reusable automation frameworks (e.g. Page Object Model) for team-wide adoption • Deep experience handling dynamic content, iframes, pop-ups, alerts, and AJAX calls — including the edge cases that get escalated by others • Advanced use of explicit/implicit waits and robust locator strategies (XPath, CSS selectors); sets best-practice standards and reviews others' scripts for reliability • Strong grasp of headless browser operations, including evaluating and piloting new tools and techniques • Broad familiarity with Beautiful Soup, Scrapy, and Requests, with the judgment to recommend the right tool for a given use case and guide others' choices Data Processing & File Handling • Advanced Excel manipulation (openpyxl, pandas, xlwings, xlrd/xlsxwriter) — designs reusable utilities and templates for team-wide use • Advanced PDF processing (PyPDF2, pdfplumber, tabula-py, camelot), including solving edge cases that block other developers • OCR implementation and optimization (Tesseract, pytesseract, EasyOCR, cloud OCR APIs), with a track record of improving accuracy/performance across the wider portfolio • Expert data transformation and cleansing with pandas and numpy, and mentors others on efficient, scalable patterns VBA & Excel Macros (Important) • Strong working knowledge of VBA for Excel automation, able to guide others through complex or legacy macro migrations • Ability to read, refactor, and maintain existing VBA macros, with the judgment to decide when to retire or replace them with Python • Deep familiarity with the Excel object model: Workbooks, Worksheets, Ranges, PivotTables • Experience integrating Python and VBA via xlwings or win32com (pywin32), and setting integration standards for the team • Sound judgment on VBA-vs-Python trade-offs, shared proactively as guidance for junior developers • Understanding of macro security, digital signatures, and programmatic macro enablement • Experience with Excel events, user forms, and custom functions (UDFs) Microsoft Power Platform (Important) • Working knowledge of Power Automate (cloud flows and desktop flows) for building and orchestrating automations, with sound judgment on when Power Automate is the better fit versus Python/Selenium • Experience building Power Apps (canvas and/or model-driven) to deliver lightweight front-ends and approval workflows around automated processes • Familiarity with Dataverse and Power Platform connectors, including creating custom c