Remote Senior Data & Document Ingestion Engineer - OCR-RAG

Gramian Consulting Group; Polska; Remote; PLN 389,000 - 632,000; Full time

Job summary

Gramian Consultancy is seeking a Senior Data & Document Ingestion Engineer for a contractor assignment with a Europe-wide remote setup. You will design and implement high-volume, unstructured document pipelines, focusing on OCR, parsing and metadata extraction to feed downstream AI systems.

Responsibilities include building scalable ingestion workflows for PDFs, Word, Excel and emails, integrating AWS Textract or similar tools, and ensuring security, reliability, and low latency.

Qualifications

• Approximately 5–10 years of professional data engineering or backend/data-platform experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Python and SQL.
• Proven experience building data ingestion and document-processing pipelines.
• Experience processing unstructured documents such as PDF, Word, Excel, PPT, scans, or emails.
• Experience with OCR/document extraction tools such as AWS Textract or equivalent.
• Professional experience building data-processing pipelines on public cloud platforms.
• Experience with AWS services such as S3, Step Functions, and CloudWatch, or comparable cloud services.
• Strong development practices including Git, CI/CD, and automated testing.

Responsibilities

• Design and build scalable document ingestion pipelines for PDFs, scans, emails, and office documents.
• Integrate and optimize OCR and document extraction technologies for high-accuracy text and layout extraction.
• Build workflows for text cleaning, normalization, semantic chunking, and metadata tagging.
• Process unstructured formats including PDF, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Develop connectors for enterprise sources such as SharePoint and email systems.
• Design data schemas and retrieval mechanisms for downstream AI and RAG use cases.
• Build validation and monitoring loops to detect low-confidence OCR or extraction results.
• Ensure ingestion pipelines meet enterprise security, reliability, and latency requirements.
• Implement logging, testing, and operational monitoring across data-processing workflows.
• Apply Git, CI/CD, and software-engineering best practices to pipeline development.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data ingestion

OCR technologies

Cloud platforms

AWS

Git

CI/CD

Testing

Tools

AWS Textract

SharePoint

Databricks

AWS S3

Step Functions

CloudWatch

Job description

Gramian Consultancy is seeking a Senior Data & Document Ingestion Engineer for a contractor assignment with a Europe-wide remote setup. You will design and implement high-volume, unstructured document pipelines, focusing on OCR, parsing and metadata extraction to feed downstream AI systems.

Responsibilities include building scalable ingestion workflows for PDFs, Word, Excel and emails, integrating AWS Textract or similar tools, and ensuring security, reliability, and low latency.