Lead Software Engineer - OCR/IDP (AWS Environment)

Recruiter:

Penny The Recruiter

Job Ref:

PR000618/RN

Date posted:

Monday, June 2, 2025

Location:

Johannesburg, South Africa

Salary:

Monthly

SUMMARY:
Psybergate is an IT company that builds bespoke software solutions and provides highly skilled resources to its clients.
We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer – OCR/IDP & AWS Integration to join our financial services client based in Johannesburg for a 6-months contract role.

We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer with strong hands-on experience in OCR (Optical Character Recognition) and IDP (Intelligent Document Processing) solutions, alongside a solid background in AWS cloud infrastructure. You will lead the technical effort to evaluate, integrate, and scale an OCR/IDP system as part of our enterprise AI strategy.

This role requires a mix of technical leadership, software engineering, and stakeholder engagement, and offers the opportunity to build a team from the ground up to drive this key transformation.

POSITION INFO:
What you will be doing:

Lead the evaluation and selection of OCR/IDP vendor solutions
Architect and integrate the selected solution into our AWS-based infrastructure
Extend the system into broader AI-driven workflows, including document intelligence, summarization, and automation
Manage stakeholder engagement and align technical deliverables with strategic goals
Provide technical mentorship and leadership to the development team
Design scalable, secure, and high-performing solutions leveraging AWS services
Apply modern evaluation techniques for OCR/IDP tooling to ensure optimal solution performance

What we are looking for:

Completed IT degree / BSc degree or other related fields
5 - 10 years of experience as a Lead Software Engineer or Technical Lead
Proven experience with OCR/IDP tools and end-to-end projects
Strong hands-on expertise in AWS Cloud Services, especially:
EC2, ECS, Lambda, Step Functions, IAM
Solid understanding of solution integration, architecture, and system scaling
Experience leading software development teams and working across departments
Familiarity with AWS Textract, Comprehend, and Amazon A2I
Exposure to LLM-based OCR, document QA, or intelligent decision-making
Experience with HuggingFace or open-source computer vision models
Background in implementing or evaluating modern IDP/OCR architectures and frameworks

Please note that if you do not hear from us within 3 weeks, consider your application unsuccessful.

Please note that most of our positions are remote however candidates should be residing within the traveling distance as circumstance of the opportunity can change.

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