AI Payments Automation Architect

Ntt Data; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Ntt Data in Johannesburg, South Africa, is building a next‑generation AI Payments Engineering team to design and deliver an AI‑native Payments Operating System. The role focuses on automating high-risk financial operations, with emphasis on auditability, control integrity, and scalable platform solutions.

You will design production-grade AI workflows, deploy agentic processes for reconciliations, audits, and analytics, and collaborate with Payments Backend, Infrastructure, Compliance, and AI CoE

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing AI automation for payments.
• Strong knowledge of governance and risk management in regulated environments.
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy production-grade AI automation workflows for payments operations.
• Build dashboards and metrics to measure efficiency, cost, risk, and ROI.
• Collaborate with Payments Backend, Infrastructure, Compliance, and AI COE teams.
• Ensure workflows are production-ready, auditable, and compliant; maintain oversight controls.

Skills

AI governance

Stakeholder engagement

Technical storytelling

Tools

Claude / Anthropic APIs

Java (Spring AI)

Python orchestration

n8n

MCP

Job description

Ntt Data in Johannesburg, South Africa, is building a next‑generation AI Payments Engineering team to design and deliver an AI‑native Payments Operating System. The role focuses on automating high-risk financial operations, with emphasis on auditability, control integrity, and scalable platform solutions.

You will design production-grade AI workflows, deploy agentic processes for reconciliations, audits, and analytics, and collaborate with Payments Backend, Infrastructure, Compliance, and AI CoE