Automation Specialist

Job Title: Automation Specialist (Document Parsing) – 3 Month Contract

About the Role

We are seeking a skilled Document Parsing Specialist on a contract basis with hands-on experience in automation technologies such as UiPath, Low-Code platforms, iPaaS (Integration Platform as a Service), or BPM (Business Process Management) tools. This role will focus on building and maintaining solutions that convert unstructured and semi-structured documents into usable data for business operations.

You will work closely with business analysts, data engineers, and process owners to automate document workflows and extract meaningful data from PDFs, scanned images, forms, invoices, contracts, and other documents.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain automation workflows for document ingestion and parsing using RPA platforms like UiPath or equivalent.
• Build document understanding solutions using OCR, AI-based extraction, and classification techniques.
• Integrate parsing solutions with downstream systems via APIs, databases, or iPaaS tools.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define parsing rules, test accuracy, and fine-tune extraction logic.
• Use Low-Code tools to design user interfaces or workflows that support end-to-end document handling.
• Monitor and maintain document processing solutions, ensuring high accuracy and low error rates.
• Continuously evaluate and enhance parsing strategies using machine learning or pre-trained models.

Required Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in RPA, BPM, Low-Code, or iPaaS technologies (UiPath, Power Automate, Automation Anywhere, Appian, Mendix, Boomi, etc.).
• Strong experience working with document parsing, OCR tools (e.g., ABBYY, UiPath Document Understanding, Tesseract), and AI-based data extraction.
• Experience integrating with APIs, databases, and enterprise systems.
• Proficiency in building robust automation workflows with exception handling and logging.
• Familiarity with XML, JSON, and document schema standards.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with machine learning-based document classification or extraction models.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP) and their AI/ML services.
• Basic understanding of scripting (e.g., Python, VB.NET) for custom automation logic.

Contract Details

• Contract Position: 3 months with possible extension
• Location: London (hybrid/remote)