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

Job Description

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.