AI Automation Engineer - Multi-Agent Payments Ops

Ovations Talent Sourcing; Johannesburg; Hybrid; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Part time

Job summary

Ovations Talent Sourcing in Johannesburg is hiring an AI Automation Engineer for a 6-month contract to join a next‑generation AI Payments Engineering Team building an AI-native Payments Operating System.

This role focuses on transforming high‑effort financial operations into scalable, auditable, production‑ready AI workflows, including reconciliations, audits, reporting and analytics, using Python/Java, Claude/Anthropic APIs, Spring AI and multi‑agent orchestration.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience deploying production-grade AI and agentic systems.
• Strong understanding of LLM orchestration and multi-agent systems.
• Experience with AI APIs, including Anthropic/Claude or similar.
• Solid API and systems integration background.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, deploy and maintain production-grade AI automation workflows.
• Build and deploy agentic and multi-agent workflows for reconciliations, audit, reporting and financial analytics.
• Develop solutions using Claude/Anthropic APIs, Spring AI, Java and/or Python.
• Use n8n or equivalent workflow engines and MCP or similar multi-agent coordination layers.
• Integrate internal and external systems through APIs, data pipelines and reporting systems.
• Identify automation opportunities across Payments operations.
• Ensure solutions include appropriate human oversight and approval controls.
• Build reusable AI frameworks, templates and workflows.
• Develop dashboards and metrics to measure efficiency, cost reduction, risk outcomes and ROI.
• Create documentation, standards and training to support adoption.

Skills

LLM orchestration

Multi-agent systems

Python

Java

API integration

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

n8n

Spring AI

Anthropic/Claude APIs

Job description

Ovations Talent Sourcing in Johannesburg is hiring an AI Automation Engineer for a 6-month contract to join a next‑generation AI Payments Engineering Team building an AI-native Payments Operating System.

This role focuses on transforming high‑effort financial operations into scalable, auditable, production‑ready AI workflows, including reconciliations, audits, reporting and analytics, using Python/Java, Claude/Anthropic APIs, Spring AI and multi‑agent orchestration.