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Johannesburg: AI Leader / Executive (AI, ML) – Johannesburg- up to R1.2 mil CTC posted by E-Merge

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This senior leadership role is responsible for defining, architecting, and scaling next-generation AI systems within a highly regulated financial environment. The ideal AI Leader combines deep technical expertise in agentic architectures with hands-on experience building production-grade AI platforms that support real-time decisioning, compliance workflows, and risk-sensitive operations. This position oversees engineering strategy, long-term AI roadmap development, platform governance, and cross-functional alignment with product, security, and regulatory teams.

Responsibilities:

  • Set the technical vision and multi-year roadmap for enterprise AI systems.
  • Guide architecture decisions for autonomous agents, orchestration layers, and intelligent processing pipelines.
  • Partner closely with executives across risk, compliance, and engineering to ensure scalable and audit-ready AI adoption.
  • Lead the design and delivery of core agentic platforms that integrate tool-use, function-calling, and dynamic reasoning methods.
  • Oversee the development of robust AI infrastructure, including retrieval systems, inference layers, monitoring, and platform reliability.
  • Ensure production systems meet high standards for latency, resilience, data integrity, and regulatory transparency.
  • Implement platform-wide guardrails, model oversight, and safety controls for AI-driven workflows.
  • Mentor engineering leaders and scale high-performance AI/ML teams.

Qualifications & Experience:

  • 10+ years in engineering leadership roles with ownership of platform-level architecture.
  • Track record of building high-scale AI systems in complex, regulated industries.
  • Exceptional communication skills and the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
  • Strong background in financial services, payments, lending, or regulatory technology.
  • Proven ability to design AI systems that operate within strict compliance, risk, and audit constraints.
  • Experience with real-time analytics, fraud detection, transactional oversight, or other mission-critical financial applications.
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The Reference Number for this position is NG60926 which is a Permanent Hybrid position based in Johannesburg offering a cost to company of up to R1.2mil CTC negotiable on experience and ability. Contact Nokuthula at .za or call her on (***)***-**** to discuss this and other opportunities.

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