Lead Product Engineer (AWS)

About the position

Work Location: Hybrid - Preference would be CPT or JHB.

One of our leading clients in the banking industry is looking for a Lead Product Engineer AWS on a 6 month contract.

More about the project: Lead / manager with hands on technical experience taking OCR / IDP tooling into an organization, and stakeholder management.

A software Developer / Engineer with experience with OCR/IDP systems.

We are looking to bring an AWS based vendors OCR/IDP solution into the organization and are building a new team who will 1) assess vendor products to use 2) once assessed, integrate the system into our organization 3) extend the system into our broader AI Strategy.

Job Description / Responsibilities:

AWS Environment (required). EC2, ECS, Lambda, Step functions, IAM, etc.)

Experience in OCR & IDP tooling and projects

• AWS Textract (optional)
• AWS Comprehend (optional)
• AWS A2I (optional)
• LLM-based Q, LLM-based QA A, LLM and vision models based OCR extraction, summarization, decision-making for IDP
• HuggingFace and Open source AI vision models exposure (optional)
• Technical Evaluation techniques of OCR & IDP projects

Background and experience required: 5-10 years of experience as a Lead Software Developer.

• OCR & IDP experience
• AWS experience

Must-have Skills (Mandatory Skills):

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

Mandatory Skills:

• AWS Environment (required). EC2, ECS, Lambda, Step functions, IAM, etc.) Experience in OCR & IDP tooling and projects /Team lead experience or experience in peer code reviews at a senior level

Desired Skills:

• AWS Textract (optional) / WS Comprehend (optional) / AWS A2I (optional)

Desired Skills:

• AWS
• Lambda
• IAM
• OCR and IDP tooling
• Team Lead