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Senior Data Scientist (AI & Agentic Systems)


Job Location:

Pretoria - South Africa

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Experience Required: 5years
Posted: 14 July 2026 (30+ days ago)
Application Deadline: 11 October 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Are you passionate about Artificial Intelligence Generative AI and building intelligent systems that solve real business problems

Were looking for a Senior Data Scientist who thrives on designing enterprise-scale AI solutions building autonomous AI agents and creating intelligent platforms that deliver meaningful impact. This is an opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI technologies with a global team while helping shape the future of enterprise AI.

If youre someone who enjoys solving complex technical challenges leading architectural decisions and turning innovative ideas into production-ready solutions this could be the perfect role for you.

As a Senior Data Scientist youll play a key role in designing building and supporting enterprise AI platforms. Your responsibilities will include:

  • Designing and building agentic AI system architectures using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and modern agent frameworks
  • Creating intelligent multi-step reasoning workflows with tool integration and orchestration
  • Defining AI model strategies including architecture selection fine-tuning inference and performance optimisation
  • Designing scalable and resilient AI deployments using Docker and Kubernetes
  • Building secure low-latency networking architectures for AI workloads
  • Conducting systems performance engineering including hardware selection load testing stress testing and capacity planning
  • Establishing MLOps and GenAI Ops practices including CI/CD pipelines model versioning and deployment automation
  • Implementing monitoring logging observability and incident response for production AI environments
  • Building enterprise Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions and intelligent AI workflows
  • Providing technical leadership mentoring engineers and influencing architecture and engineering best practices

Requirements

Essential Skills

  • Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
  • Agent frameworks such as LangChain LangGraph or Strands Agents
  • Designing agentic AI architectures
  • Multi-agent orchestration and workflow automation
  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • Python
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Production API development
  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
  • MLOps and GenAI Ops
  • CI/CD for Machine Learning
  • Model versioning and deployment automation
  • AI observability and monitoring
  • Networking for machine learning workloads
  • Systems performance engineering

Advantageous Skills

  • Amazon Bedrock
  • Terraform or Terragrunt
  • AWS Lambda
  • Step Functions
  • EventBridge
  • Cloud security and IAM best practices
  • Data Engineering and ETL pipelines
  • Feature Stores
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • CloudWatch
  • Hybrid or multi-cloud AI deployments
  • Model optimisation techniques such as batching quantisation and distillation
  • Enterprise environments operating within regulated industries

Qualifications and Experience

  • A degree in Computer Science Engineering Statistics or a related field
  • A proven track record of delivering enterprise-scale AI solutions
  • Experience owning AI architecture from design through to production
  • Strong stakeholder management and technical leadership experience

Benefits
  • Cutting edge global IT system landscape and processes
  • Flexible working of 1960 hours in a 12-month period
  • High Work-Life balance
  • Remote / On-site work location flexibility
  • Highly motivating energetic and fast-paced working environment
  • Modern state-of-the-art offices
  • Dynamic Global Team collaboration
  • Application of the Agile Working Model Methodology



Required Skills:

amazon bedrock LangChain LandGraph AI Architectures Python Agentic system architectures