AI Payments Platform Lead

The Focus Group; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

The Focus Group in Sandton 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. You will deploy agentic workflows for reconciliations, audit, and analytics using Claude/Anthropic APIs, Java Spring AI, and n8n.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience deploying production-grade AI/agentic systems.
• Strong understanding of LLM orchestration and multi-agent architectures.
• Proficiency in Spring AI and Python-based orchestration.
• Experience with AI tooling and API integrations for payments.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy production-grade AI automation workflows.
• Build agentic workflows for reconciliations, audit, and analytics.
• Integrate internal and external systems via APIs and data pipelines.
• Ensure workflows are auditable, compliant, and risk-aware.
• Collaborate with Payments, Infra, Compliance, and AI teams.

Skills

AI workflow design

LLM orchestration

Multi-agent systems

Python orchestration

Spring AI

n8n

Tools

Claude API

Anthropic APIs

n8n

Spring AI

Python

Job description

The Focus Group in Sandton 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. You will deploy agentic workflows for reconciliations, audit, and analytics using Claude/Anthropic APIs, Java Spring AI, and n8n.