AI-Driven Payments Automation Architect

NTT DATA; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT DATA in Johannesburg is building a next-generation AI Payments Engineering Team to design and deliver an AI-native Payments Operating System. This team will combine AI engineering, payments domain expertise, and production automation to transform high-effort, high-risk financial operations into scalable, intelligent, and auditable systems.

Responsibilities include designing and deploying AI automation workflows, automating reconciliations, and building dashboards to measure efficiency, cost

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy production-grade AI automation workflows that drive immediate operational impact.
• Build and deploy agentic workflows for reconciliations.
• Use modern AI tooling such as Claude / Anthropic APIs and orchestration in Java (Spring AI) / Python.
• Integrate internal and external systems via APIs, data pipelines, and reporting, ensuring production readiness, auditability and compliance.

Job description

NTT DATA in Johannesburg is building a next-generation AI Payments Engineering Team to design and deliver an AI-native Payments Operating System. This team will combine AI engineering, payments domain expertise, and production automation to transform high-effort, high-risk financial operations into scalable, intelligent, and auditable systems.

Responsibilities include designing and deploying AI automation workflows, automating reconciliations, and building dashboards to measure efficiency, cost