Jun 22, 2018
Full time
The Automation Developer (ICR/OCR) will join our Process Automation team and will develop automation and advanced data extraction solutions using ABBYY FlexiCapture, Blue Prism and related technologies to support and streamline business processes. The ideal candidate will be a creative thinker grounded in object oriented design concepts with experience developing automation and data extraction solutions.
Essential Key Responsibilities:
System analysis, training and implementation of solutions that meet business needs using ABBYY OCR/ICR.
Design solutions utilizing data extraction best practices
Implementation planning - determining rollout schedule and assisting with implementation of RPA applications process roll-out.
Policies and procedures recommendations and documentation.
End to end process testing and change management.
Methodically solve business and technical problems using innovative and well-planned approaches with well-documented, supportable and extensible development practices
ABBYY FlexiCapture administration
Lead process improvement, technology and strategic change projects as assigned
Effectively provide ideas and solutions to personnel at all levels of the organization
Identify issues and risks
Understand business processes and create process flow diagrams
Understand the bigger picture from an overall integration architecture perspective
Understand process design documents and technical design documents within the automation space
Ability to interpret and visualize business process flows, user stories, and related requirements and translate the same into automation solutions
Ability to work effectively in both a team environment and independently
Required Skills:
Hands on experience with and knowledge of OCR/ICR data extraction products – ABBYY FlexiCapture 12 hands-on experience a plus
Identify innovations in OCR, computer vision, text analytics and NLP leveraging ML/AI and deep learning to help advance automation, knowledge discovery, decision-making and insights, and streamline business processes or enable new capabilities in document understanding and knowledge extraction from text and unstructured data.
A problem solver with an entrepreneurial mindset using new technologies like RPA, Machine Learning, NLP and OCR/ICR.
Experience with Object oriented system design and development
Experience working in an agile environment
Must be customer driven, have the ability to work within a team environment, and be focused on providing high quality service to the customer
Solid understanding of infrastructure and operational processes
Exceptionally well organized, with excellent follow-through skills
Ability to communicate effectively (written and verbal)
Excellent interpersonal skills. This position requires significant amounts of time educating and training customers {internally} and patience will be key
Ability to meet deadlines while achieving high levels of accuracy
Ability to gather and compile information and prepare reports
Must have the ability to communicate effectively and tactfully with management and other levels within the organization
Understanding of ITIL processes
Experience with robotic process automation is a plus
Required Work experience:
At least 3 years of relevant experience with ABBYY FlexiCapture (for version 11 or 12) OCR software for automation and data extraction.
OCR software implementation for automated data extraction experience with implementing OCR software for a large (over 200,000 documents annually) organization
At least 3 years of experience with developing and/or supporting applications with at least one of the following: Java, .NET, HTML, VB, C++.
A deep understanding of automation principles and industry best practices is required.
Robotic process automation (RPA) software experience a plus (Blue Prism experience even better)
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