Senior Engineer - AI

Job Classification

Technology/Domain Specialist I: 143808

TA: Luthando Bower

Closing date: 24 February 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, we’d love to hear from you.

Job Responsibilities

• Design cloud‑native, distributed architectures on Azure (scalable, secure, resilient)
• Produce component and integration designs; ensure alignment with enterprise standards
• Develop high‑quality software across multiple stacks (front‑end, back‑end, data/services)
• mplement robust APIs, message‑driven integrations, and event‑based 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 spec‑driven 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 secure‑by‑design 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

Preferred Qualification

Degree or Diploma in IT

Preferred Certifications

Certificate in relevant Technology or Domain

Minimum Experience Level

Min 5 IT Experience  with 3 years in relevant technology or domain

Technical / Professional Knowledge

Behavioural Competencies