Senior Python Data Engineer (OCR & Document Processing)- remote

Mission

Design, build, and optimize scalable data ingestion and document processing solutions that transform large volumes of unstructured insurance data into structured, AI-ready information. Enable downstream AI and retrieval systems by leveraging OCR, document intelligence, vector databases, and cloud-native data pipelines.
Responsibilities:

- Design and implement scalable data ingestion pipelines for processing high volumes of unstructured documents, including PDFs, scans, emails, and Office files.

- Integrate, configure, and optimize OCR and document extraction technologies to maximize text extraction accuracy and document understanding.

- Build automated workflows for document parsing, text cleaning, normalization, semantic chunking, and metadata enrichment.

- Develop connectors and integrations for document sources such as SharePoint, email systems, and enterprise repositories.

- Design and maintain vector database schemas and retrieval mechanisms to support Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions and AI applications.

- Ensure document processing pipelines meet enterprise security, compliance, performance, and availability requirements.

- Implement monitoring, validation, and quality-control mechanisms to identify and manage low-confidence OCR and extraction results.

- Optimize data processing workflows for scalability, reliability, and low-latency operations.

- Collaborate with AI Engineers, Backend Engineers, and Platform teams to deliver end-to-end AI-powered document processing solutions.

- Develop and maintain cloud-native data ingestion solutions on public cloud platforms.

Profile
Professional Experience

- 5-10 years of experience in Data Engineering, Data Processing, Document Intelligence, or related fields.

- Proven experience building scalable data ingestion and processing pipelines.

- Experience working with large volumes of unstructured and semi-structured data.

- Experience designing cloud-based data solutions.

Technical Skills

- Strong programming skills in Python.

- Strong SQL knowledge.

- Hands-on experience with AWS services, including:
- S3

- Step Functions

- CloudWatch

- Experience processing unstructured documents such as:
- PDF

- Word

- Excel

- PowerPoint

- Email content

- Experience building connectors and integrations with enterprise content repositories (e.g., SharePoint).

- Experience with OCR and document extraction tools (AWS Textract or equivalent).

- Experience designing and implementing data ingestion and transformation pipelines.

- Familiarity with vector databases and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) concepts.

- Experience with software development best practices:
- Git

- CI/CD

- Automated testing

Nice to Have

- Experience with Vector Databases.

- Experience with RAG architectures and AI/LLM-based applications.

- Experience with Azure cloud services.

- Experience with Databricks.

- Experience in Insurance, Banking, or other regulated industries.

Benefits

- Full access to foreign language learning platform

- Personalized access to tech learning platforms

- Tailored workshops and trainings to sustain your growth

- Medical insurance

- Meal tickets

- Monthly budget to allocate on flexible benefit platform

- Access to 7 Card services

- Wellbeing activities and gatherings

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