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5years

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Johannesburg - South Africa

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Job Description

This is a remote position.

We are building a cutting-edge data-driven platform to enable insight generation across teams business units and value streams. As part of our digital transformation were integrating an AWS-based OCR/IDP (Intelligent Document Processing) solution and seeking a hands-on Technical Lead to join our team.

This is a strategic and technical leadership role where you will evaluate lead and implement advanced document understanding technologies becoming a key contributor to our broader AI and data strategy.


Mandatory Skills & Experience
  • Strong AWS Cloud Experience including:

    • EC2 ECS Lambda Step Functions IAM

  • 5 10 years as a Senior/Lead Software Developer

  • Hands-on OCR & IDP Project Experience

  • Proven track record in:

    • Peer code reviews

    • Technical mentorship or team leadership

  • Experience integrating OCR/IDP tooling into enterprise systems



Highly Desirable / Bonus Skills

  • AWS Textract AWS Comprehend AWS A2I

  • Exposure to LLM-based QA or AI vision models for OCR and document understanding

  • Experience with HuggingFace or other open-source vision/NLP libraries

  • Knowledge of technical evaluation techniques for OCR/IDP tooling



You Will:

  1. Lead vendor evaluation for OCR/IDP systems

  2. Integrate selected solutions into our AWS-based architecture

  3. Extend and optimize IDP systems as part of our enterprise AI roadmap

  4. Collaborate with stakeholders to align solutions with business and data goals

  5. Work in a team responsible for interpreting and visualizing data to inform strategic decisions



Skill Matrix (Ideal Candidate)

Skill
Experience
Programming
9 10 years
Web Development
9 10 years
AWS Environment
5 years
OCR/IDP Tooling & Projects
5 years
Microsoft Azure (optional)
9 10 years (nice-to-have)


Why Join Us

  • Be at the forefront of AI/ML adoption

  • Shape the way our organization uses document intelligence

  • Collaborate with forward-thinking data and engineering teams

  • Enjoy a role with strategic impact and technical depth



Apply Now

If youre passionate about building intelligent systems that drive business insights and have the AWS and OCR chops to prove it we want to hear from you.



WS Environment (required). EC2, ECS, Lambda, Step functions, IAM, etc. Experience in OCR & IDP tooling and projects

Employment Type

Full Time

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