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Our people at JLL are shaping the future of real estate for a better world by combining world class services, advisory and technology to our clients. We are committed to hiring the best, most talented people in our industry; and we support them through professional growth, flexibility, and personalized benefits to manage life in and outside of work. Whether you’ve got deep experience in commercial real estate, skilled trades, and technology, or you’re looking to apply your relevant experience to a new industry, we empower you to shape a brighter way forward so you can thrive professionally and personally.
UDA Developer Requirements for Automation Role
P2 — Manager, Intelligent Automation
Python, VBA, Power Platform & Gen AI
The requirement is for a Python automation engineer and Intelligent Automation Manager with 5+ years of experience who owns the complete development lifecycle of attended business process automations end-to-end, and is beginning to take on technical leadership within the team. This Python-first specialist combines strong Selenium and web automation skills with solid VBA/Excel competencies, working knowledge of Power Automate and Power Apps, advanced data processing capabilities (Excel, PDF, OCR), and hands-on prompt engineering skills that turn Gen AI into a dependable, production-grade automation component.
Beyond individual delivery, this is someone who is stepping into leadership — supporting the senior technical lead by mentoring junior developers, contributing to team standards and reusable components, and taking ownership of a small workstream or subset of the team's initiatives. They bring solutions rather than problems, escalating the right issues to the senior technical lead while resolving the rest independently. This is a hands-on manager who pairs solid engineering skills with growing judgment, communication, and mentorship, ready to run point on well-defined initiatives with moderate autonomy.
Core Technical Requirements
Python Development
Strong proficiency in Python 3.x with 5+ years hands-on experience
Solid understanding of OOP principles, error handling, and modular code design
Experience packaging Python applications into executables (PyInstaller, cx_Freeze, auto-py-to-exe)
Working knowledge of virtual environments and dependency management (pip, requirements.txt)
Selenium & Web Automation
Strong Selenium WebDriver experience, including familiarity with reusable automation frameworks (e.g. Page Object Model)
Experience handling dynamic content, iframes, pop-ups, alerts, and AJAX calls
Good command of explicit/implicit waits and locator strategies (XPath, CSS selectors)
Working knowledge of headless browser operations
Familiarity with Beautiful Soup, Scrapy, and Requests
Power Platform — Power Automate & Power Apps
Working proficiency in Power Automate for building cloud and desktop flows that integrate with Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Dataverse, and common connectors
Experience building basic-to-intermediate canvas or model-driven apps in Power Apps to complement automation workflows with lightweight front-ends
Understanding of when to route a use case to Power Platform vs. Python/RPA, and how to combine the two effectively
Working familiarity with Power Platform governance basics (DLP policies, environment strategy) sufficient to operate within IT-defined guardrails
Data Processing & File Handling
Excel manipulation (openpyxl, pandas, xlwings, xlrd/xlsxwriter)
PDF processing (PyPDF2, pdfplumber, tabula-py, camelot)
OCR implementation (Tesseract, pytesseract, EasyOCR, cloud OCR APIs)
Data transformation and cleansing with pandas and numpy
VBA & Excel Macros
Working knowledge of VBA for Excel automation; able to read, modify, and maintain existing macros
Familiarity with the Excel object model: Workbooks, Worksheets, Ranges, PivotTables
Experience integrating Python and VBA via xlwings or win32com (pywin32)
Sound judgment on VBA-vs-Python trade-offs
Understanding of macro security, digital signatures, and programmatic macro enablement
Experience with Excel events, user forms, and custom functions (UDFs)
Gen AI Integration & Prompt Engineering
Strong, hands-on prompt engineering skills for data extraction, classification, content generation, entity recognition, and decision logic
Experience with prompt optimization techniques: few-shot learning, chain-of-thought prompting, role-based prompting, context management
Solid understanding of prompt limitations, hallucination handling, and output-validation strategies
Ability to design prompts that produce consistent, structured outputs (JSON, CSV) at scale
Working knowledge of temperature, token limits, and parameter tuning
Experience building and maintaining reusable prompt templates
Hands-on experience with RESTful APIs (authentication, request/response handling, error management, rate limiting)
Professional Competencies
Ownership & Delivery
Owns the SDLC for their own automations end-to-end, and takes increasing ownership of a small workstream or subset of the team's initiatives
Proactively identifies improvements within their area of ownership and follows through to completion
Default response to a blocker is to attempt a solution first, escalating with options rather than just raising problems
Comfortable taking ambiguous requirements and shaping them into a clear technical approach, checking in with the senior technical lead on higher-risk decisions
Good documentation habits for code, decisions, and user guides
Mentorship & Team Support
Supports and mentors P1 developers — pairs on problems, reviews code, and helps upskill others in Python, Selenium, and prompt engineering
Contributes to knowledge-sharing sessions, documentation, and reusable component libraries
Helps with onboarding of new team members
Version Control & Collaboration
Solid Git/GitHub skills: branching, merging, conflict resolution
Participates in and helps facilitate code reviews for peers
Maintains clean, well-organized repository structures and follows team branching standards
Code Quality & Best Practices
Follows and helps reinforce coding standards (PEP 8, logging, exception handling, debugging practices)
Uses config files and environment variables for sensitive data
Builds reusable functions, classes, and modules, and encourages their use by others
Flags technical debt within their area of ownership and proposes remediation
If this job description resonates with you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all of the requirements below. We’re interested in getting to know you and what you bring to the table!
Personalized benefits that support personal well-being and growth:
JLL recognizes the impact that the workplace can have on your wellness, so we offer a supportive culture and comprehensive benefits package that prioritizes mental, physical and emotional health.
About JLL –
We’re JLL—a leading professional services and investment management firm specializing in real estate. We have operations in over 80 countries and a workforce of over 102,000 individuals around the world who help real estate owners, occupiers and investors achieve their business ambitions. As a global Fortune 500 company, we also have an inherent responsibility to drive sustainability and corporate social responsibility. That’s why we’re committed to our purpose to shape the future of real estate for a better world. We’re using the most advanced technology to create rewarding opportunities, amazing spaces and sustainable real estate solutions for our clients, our people, and our communities.
Our core values of teamwork, ethics and excellence are also fundamental to everything we do and we’re honored to be recognized with awards for our success by organizations both globally and locally.
Creating a diverse and inclusive culture where we all feel welcomed, valued and empowered to achieve our full potential is important to who we are today and where we’re headed in the future. And we know that unique backgrounds, experiences and perspectives help us think bigger, spark innovation and succeed together.
