RPA roles drifting into platform admin

In the last month I interviewed for three “RPA Lead” roles in Tokyo, and two were essentially Power Automate tenant caretakers with little say in workflow redesign. Is this the new normal, or are you still seeing roles that own end-to-end process improvement and orchestration (think 30+ unattended UiPath bots) instead of just license and connector maintenance?

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Ask who owns COE budget and ‘30+ unattended UiPath bots’ SLAs; otherwise it’s admin…

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Quick litmus test I use: ask to see the automation roadmap and the last two incident postmortems — if it’s mostly DLP and connector patches, you’re a tenant custodian; if it covers queue design, SLA tiers, and value tracking, it’s a real RPA lead. Some shops do split lead/admin on purpose, but building on @thompson_89, check who owns runbooks and change windows for unattended bots; if Ops and the CoE co-sign, you’ll have process authority. Are you seeing any Tokyo roles with a documented CoE charter and Orchestrator queue SLAs, or is it mostly Power Platform caretaking?

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But in Tokyo, I ask for the ROI on the last ‘30+ unattended UiPath bots.’ No value tracking = admin.

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