Lead Software Engineer: AWS at Sabenza IT & Recruitment
DCV Sabenza IT and Recruitment
- R1.00 - R2.00 per hour
- Contract Management position
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Johannesburg (Work From Home)
- Posted 03 Jun 2025 by DCV Sabenza IT and Recruitment
- Expires in 28 days
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Job 2612613 - Ref 878000005951839
About the position
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, we're 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:
Lead vendor evaluation for OCR/IDP systems
Integrate selected solutions into our AWS-based architecture
Extend and optimize IDP systems as part of our enterprise AI roadmap
Collaborate with stakeholders to align solutions with business and data goals
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 you're 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.
Desired Skills:
Desired Qualification Level:
About The Employer:
DCV Sabenza IT and Recruitment
About the agency
Dedicated to the recruitment of IT professionals
Sabenza iT is a South African registered business focusing on Finance, Engineering, SAP and general iT recruitment. We have over 18 years' experience in recruiting in South Africa, Australia, Europe, South America and Asia and have worked with a number of large companies offering the best service. We at Sabenza iT understands the changing market and we mold our services around each of our client's needs to offer a personal service. Sabenza iT has forged strong relationships with both Clients and Consultants by ensuring both parties get the most out of every placement. Our Head Office is based in South Africa and we have a satellite office in the UK so that we can keep in contact with expats who may consider returning to South Africa and so that we can offer our services globally for Consultants looking to go to South Africa and Consultants who are looking for opportunities abroad.
We at Sabenza recognize the difference it makes to maintain good client relationships and we are keeping our client base niche and manageable in order to give the best service possible. We have gained a good reputation in the market place and have built a very large network and database of consultants that we draw from for each role. We are able to send applications within 24 hours of receiving a role profile or spec. We use one of the best Database software tools available to keep our database up to date and very fast to search.
Sabenza iT does not only use job-sites, we headhunt and we use our network to find our clients the right Candidates. We have a strong Facebook presence and we have over 12,000 LinkedIn connections.
For further information, please visit our website www.sabenzait.co.za or call me at any time on Tel: 0330040131.
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