Python Software Engineer – Data Automation & OCR

U. S. Sentencing Commission; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

U.S. Sentencing Commission seeks a Software Engineering and Data Automation Specialist to join the Information Systems team.

You will design, develop, and maintain applications, data-processing workflows, data warehouse solutions, and analytics systems with emphasis on document and data extraction, processing, transformation, validation, integration, and automation. The role requires hands-on experience with Python, ETL/ELT processes, OCR/document parsing, and delivering reliable, scalable data

Qualifications

• Experience developing Python applications with modular design and secure practices.
• Experience transforming and loading data from relational databases.
• Experience extracting data from PDFs/text using OCR or regex.
• Experience developing ETL/ELT workflows and system integration.
• Experience implementing logging, testing, monitoring for reliability.
• Ability to analyze user needs and design maintainable solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, integrate, and maintain applications and data workflows.
• Create data warehouse solutions and analytics systems.
• Automate document and data extraction, processing, and validation.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and technical staff to implement solutions.
• Ensure production reliability through logging and monitoring.

Skills

Python development

Data transformation

Document processing

ETL/ELT

Production monitoring

System design

Tools

SQL

Oracle

OCR

Job description

U.S. Sentencing Commission seeks a Software Engineering and Data Automation Specialist to join the Information Systems team.

You will design, develop, and maintain applications, data-processing workflows, data warehouse solutions, and analytics systems with emphasis on document and data extraction, processing, transformation, validation, integration, and automation. The role requires hands-on experience with Python, ETL/ELT processes, OCR/document parsing, and delivering reliable, scalable data