Senior Data & Document Ingestion Engineer (AI)

Location: Remote for candidates based in Poland, Czechia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Romania, or France; potential future hybrid work in Prague

Company

hirify.global is a boutique consultancy providing IT professional services and engineering talent solutions.

What you will do

• Design and build scalable document ingestion pipelines for PDFs, scans, emails, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files.
• Integrate and optimize OCR and document extraction technologies for accurate text and layout extraction.
• Develop text cleaning, normalization, semantic chunking, metadata tagging, and validation workflows.
• Build enterprise connectors for SharePoint and email systems.
• Design data schemas and retrieval mechanisms for downstream AI and RAG use cases.
• Implement logging, testing, monitoring, and operational controls to meet security, reliability, and latency requirements.

Requirements

• 5–10 years of professional data engineering or backend/data-platform experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Python and SQL.
• Experience building data ingestion and document-processing pipelines for unstructured content.
• Experience with OCR or document extraction tools, such as AWS Textract, and public cloud data-processing platforms.
• Experience with AWS services including S3, Step Functions, and CloudWatch, or comparable cloud services.
• Strong development practices with Git, CI/CD, automated testing, and fluent English.

Nice to have

• Experience with Azure, AWS, or Databricks in enterprise data environments.
• Experience with vector databases, embeddings, or RAG architectures.
• Experience designing connectors for SharePoint, email, or other enterprise content systems.
• Background in insurance, financial services, or regulated-data environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Contractor assignment expected from October 2026 through July 2027, with potential extension.
• Full-time commitment.
• Remote work across the listed European locations, with possible future hybrid work in Prague.
• Work on AI-driven transformation, automation, advanced analytics, and financial crime prevention for financial institutions.

Hiring process

• Initial qualification.
• Technical interview followed by a client interview.