Transformational Automation Strategist (Mid - Senior Level)

Location: Hybrid in Allen, Texas, United States; candidates must live within approximately 70 miles of the Allen office and work onsite once a week. Travel: 5%.

Company

hirify.global provides secure digital banking and payments technology for community banks and credit unions.

What you will do

• Create a strategy for prioritizing and developing technical automations aligned with business needs, corporate strategy, and scalability.
• Map current and future-state enterprise processes, standardize cross-functional workflows, and define automation readiness.
• Select and implement AI, machine learning, OCR, RPA, workflow, orchestration, and other automation methods and controls.
• Design AI-enabled tools, agentic workflows, human-machine controls, integrations, testing, and safeguarding for complex processes.
• Measure baseline performance and productivity gains, monitor production solutions, and optimize reliability and outcomes.
• Build and maintain the enterprise process framework and promote a culture of transformation and hyper-automation.

Requirements

• At least 4 years of experience in systems automation, software development, production operations, application support, systems integration, or a related technical field.
• Experience developing and supporting automation in business-critical Unix, Linux, or AIX environments using Perl, Shell, Python, PowerShell, or another relevant scripting language, including batch processing, workload scheduling, file processing, or managed file transfer.
• Experience applying APIs, structured data, authentication, error handling, logging, source control, automated testing, and software-release practices.
• Experience designing or implementing AI-enabled automation, tool-based workflows, or intelligent solutions with enterprise knowledge, integrations, exception handling, human review, and production monitoring.
• Experience analyzing complex operational processes, documenting dependencies, and designing future-state solutions that complement production platforms and controls.
• Ability to evaluate complex problems independently, prioritize competing demands, and select methods based on business value, scalability, reliability, and operational risk.
• Strong emotional intelligence and ability to build trusted relationships, facilitate cross-functional discussions, communicate technical concepts clearly, and collaborate with business and technology stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, business analytics, data science, or a related discipline.
• Experience with AIX, OpCon, Perl, Shell, SFTP, NDM, or comparable operating-system, workload-automation, scripting, and managed-file-transfer technologies.
• Experience with batch-job dependencies, scheduling logic, file-arrival controls, exception handling, rerun procedures, controlled recovery, and duplicate-processing safeguards.
• Experience with Power BI or comparable reporting, observability, telemetry, distributed tracing, Jira, Confluence, Agile delivery, Lean Six Sigma, process mapping, and quantitative or qualitative improvement measurement.
• Experience designing agentic workflows with enterprise knowledge retrieval, tool calling, structured outputs, multistep orchestration, approval gates, and escalation paths.
• Experience with enterprise AI development platforms such as Vertex, Model Context Protocol concepts, reusable connectors, REST APIs, AI-assisted development tools, semantic search, embeddings, source grounding, and content-access controls.
• Experience supporting high-availability, business-critical, financial-services, or regulated production environments and mentoring less-experienced automation professionals.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangement with weekly onsite attendance; onsite interviews or in-person onboarding may be required regardless of location.
• Comprehensive benefits supporting physical, mental, and financial health.
• Culture centered on collaboration, inclusion, sustainability, community impact, and continuous transformation.
• Work focused on technology modernization, secure data access, fraud mitigation, and integration for financial institutions.