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AI Agent Agentic Engineer
Job Location:
Job Location:
Johannesburg - South Africa
Monthly Salary:
Not provided by the employer
Monthly Salary:
Posted:
13 July 2026 (30+ days ago)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
10 October 2026
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Vacancies:
Job Summary
Our client in the Telco sector is looking for an AI Agent / Agentic Engineer on a contract duration of 6 months.
Role Purpose
The AI Agent / Agentic Engineer is responsible for designing developing and deploying intelligent AI agents that automate business processes accelerate Agile delivery and enhance enterprise data products. The role develops autonomous and semi-autonomous agents capable of reasoning planning orchestrating enterprise tools and interacting with data platforms to deliver actionable business insights. These capabilities are productised into customer-facing and internal AI-powered solutions that support DataCos analytics and monetisation strategy.Key Responsibilities
- Design develop and deploy AI agents that automate business processes and support intelligent decision-making.
- Build agentic workflows capable of planning reasoning and executing tasks across enterprise systems and data platforms.
- Develop analyst agents that generate insights from enterprise datasets including footfall customer behaviour location intelligence and competitor data.
- Integrate AI agents with LLMs enterprise APIs databases analytics platforms and business applications.
- Design multi-agent solutions that collaborate to solve complex business and analytical use cases.
- Develop reusable agent frameworks and services that can be productised across DataCos portfolio.
- Implement memory tool orchestration and workflow automation to improve agent performance and reliability.
- Monitor evaluate and optimise agent performance accuracy and operational efficiency.
- Ensure AI solutions comply with enterprise security governance privacy and responsible AI standards.
- Collaborate with Product Owners Data Scientists Data Engineers GenAI Engineers and Solution Architects to deliver AI-enabled products.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Software Engineering Data Science or a related field.
- 58 years experience in software engineering AI engineering or machine learning development.
- Experience developing AI agents agentic workflows or intelligent automation solutions.
- Strong Python development skills and experience with agent frameworks such as LangGraph AutoGen CrewAI Semantic Kernel or similar.
- Experience integrating LLMs APIs databases and enterprise applications.
- Knowledge of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) vector databases and prompt engineering.
- Experience with Azure AI Azure OpenAI Databricks AI or equivalent enterprise AI platforms is advantageous.
- Experience deploying AI solutions within cloud environments and Agile delivery teams.
Key Competencies
- AI agent and agentic workflow development
- Autonomous reasoning and task orchestration
- Multi-agent systems
- Python development
- LLM integration and orchestration
- API integration and enterprise automation
- Workflow design and optimisation
- Responsible AI and governance
- Cloud AI platforms
- Agile delivery and collaborative problem-solving
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
About Company
With 15 years of experience in the Telecommunications and Financial Services industry in Africa and the Middle East, we are experts at supporting our clients through their digital transformation journeys. We believe in blending traditional methods with cutting-edge strategies to drive ... View more
