Senior Data Scientist (AI & Agentic Systems)
Pretoria - South Africa
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.
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
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
- 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