Senior AI & Data Engineer
Tumaini Consulting · Johannesburg, Gauteng
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Requirements: * Demonstrated experience designing and shipping production grade ML and AI platforms end-to-end: data ingestion and feature engineering, model training and fine tuning, deployment, monitoring and retraining. * Hands on experience building LLM and agentic applications that run in production: RAG, multi agent orchestration (LangGraph, CrewAI or equivalent), tool use and MCP integrations, guardrails and evaluation frameworks. * Proven data engineering track record: batch and streaming pipelines (Kafka, Spark, Airflow or equivalent), ETL and ELT into enterprise data warehouses, and data quality, validation and reconciliation at scale. * Experience deploying ML workloads on cloud MLOps platforms (AWS SageMaker or Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, GCP Vertex AI, Databricks) with infrastructure as code and CI/CD. * Evidence of technical ownership of components, workstreams or platforms within larger systems, with measurable business outcomes such as cost reduction, accuracy, latency or revenue uplift.
If you would like to apply for this position, please send transcripts with applications. Should you meet the requirements for this position, please email your updated CV attached to it .jobs@tumaini.co.za , alternatively contact XXX-XXXX or visit our website, www.tumaini.co Correspondence will only be conducted with short listed candidates. Should you not hear from us within 3 days, please consider your application unsuccessful.