Senior Engineer AI
Johannesburg - South Africa
Job Summary
Job Classification
Technology/Domain Specialist I: 143808
Closing date: 11 May 2026
Job Family
Information Technology
Career Stream
Application Development
Leadership Pipeline
Manage Self: Technical
Job Purpose
Seeking a forward-thinking IT professional with proven expertise in leveraging AI tools to drive measurable efficiency gains across business analysis process engineering coding testing and beyond. The ideal candidate will combine deep technical knowledge and extensive coding experience with a passion for innovation using AI to streamline workflows enhance accuracy and accelerate delivery. If you thrive on transforming complex challenges into smart automated solutions wed love to hear from you.
Job Responsibilities
- Design cloudnative distributed architectures on Azure (scalable secure resilient)
- Produce component and integration designs; ensure alignment with enterprise standards
- Develop highquality software across multiple stacks (frontend backend data/services)
- mplement robust APIs messagedriven integrations and eventbased workflows
- Own CI/CD pipelines infrastructure as code environment provisioning and release automation
- Implement automated testing (unit integration contract performance security)
- Use agentic development vibe coding and specdriven AI to speed up design coding test generation documentation and operations
- Evaluate and integrate AI tools to streamline workflows and reduce cycle time
- Define patterns templates starter kits coding standards and governance guardrails
- Coach teams; document playbooks; champion adoption across squads
- Implement observability (logs metrics traces) SLOs/SLIs and performance tuning
- Ensure fault tolerance graceful degradation and securebydesign principles
- Evaluate and influence technology decisions
- Mitigate risk by evaluating risks and impacts on technology or domain
- Update the asset knowledge base
- Support the achievement of the business strategy objectives and values
- Stay abreast of developments in field of expertise
- Ensure personal growth and enable effectiveness in performance of roles and responsibilities
- Contribute to the Nedbank Culture building initiatives (e.g. staff surveys etc.).
- Participate and support corporate responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy
- Seek opportunities to improve business processes models and systems though agile thinking.
- Conduct self development both by mentoring others and being mentored
Essential Qualifications - NQF Level
- Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees
Preferred Qualification
Degree or Diploma in IT
Preferred Certifications
Certificate in relevant Technology or Domain
Minimum Experience Level
Min 5IT Experience with 3 years in relevant technology or domain
Technical / Professional Knowledge
- Asset management
- IT Assets management processes
- Data Warehousing
- Information Technology (IT) Architecture
Behavioural Competencies
- Decision Making
- Courage
- Stress Tolerance
- Quality Orientation
- Technical/Professional Knowledge and Skills
- Emotional Intelligence Essentials
- Resolving Conflict
Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at
Required Experience:
Senior IC
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