AI Automation Engineer - Payments

Executive Placements · North Riding

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The bank is building a next-generation AI Payments Engineering capability to design and deliver an AI-native Payments Operating System. The AI Automation Engineer will combine AI engineering, systems integration and production automation to transform high-effort, high-risk Payments processes into scalable, intelligent and auditable workflows. The objective is efficiency with control integrity, not automation speed alone.

Core Focus

Design, build, test, deploy and maintain production-grade AI automation workflows that deliver measurable operational impact across Payments.

Illustrative Use Cases

  • Payments reconciliations and exception handling.
  • Audit and reporting preparation.
  • Financial analytics and operational insight.
  • Incident detection, triage and response automation.
  • Least-cost routing and related Payments decision processes.
  • Agentic workflow engineering: Design and deploy multi-step AI workflows using LLM orchestration, tools, agents and workflow engines.
  • Software engineering: Build orchestration services using Java with Spring AI and/or Python-based frameworks.
  • Model integration: Integrate Claude or Anthropic APIs and comparable enterprise AI services.
  • Workflow orchestration: Use n8n or equivalent engines to coordinate reliable, supportable automation.
  • Agent and tool integration: Use MCP or comparable context, tool and agent-coordination approaches where appropriate.
  • Systems integration: Connect internal and external services through APIs, data pipelines and reporting systems.
  • Automation discovery: Identify high-value opportunities to reduce manual effort across Payments operations.
  • Production ownership: Test, deploy, monitor, maintain and optimise solutions and supporting platform components.
  • Human oversight: Design human approvals and intervention points for high-risk or judgement-dependent activities.
  • Classify proposed automation by risk tier before development.
  • Ensure every solution has a named Process Owner and documented data flows.
  • Implement appropriate access controls, audit logging and traceability.
  • Understand and mitigate LLM and agent failure modes in high-stakes environments.
  • Preserve control integrity, compliance and auditability throughout the automation lifecycle.
  • Develop reusable frameworks, templates, components and workflow patterns.
  • Create engineering documentation and standards that support adoption at scale.
  • Build dashboards and metrics covering efficiency gains, cost reduction, risk outcomes and return on investment.
  • Train Payments teams on AI-enabled workflows and tools.
  • Hands-on experience deploying production-grade AI, GenAI or agentic systems.

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