AI Platform Architect & Engineering Leader

Communicate Finance; Wes-Kaap; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Communicate Finance seeks a Principal Engineer to build the AI engineering foundations enabling AI-assisted software delivery across multiple teams. You will design and deploy platforms, tooling, standards, and guardrails to help engineers work more effectively with AI.

You’ll influence a 150-person engineering function while remaining a hands-on technical contributor, mentoring senior engineers and driving architectural direction.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS/SE or related field.
• 10+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
• Production experience in two or more listed technologies.
• Experience with AWS, microservices, APIs and CI/CD practices.
• Experience building developer platforms and internal tooling.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders without line authority.
• Exposure to regulated, high-availability environments is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Design and build AI engineering platforms, tooling, and guardrails.
• Drive AI adoption across engineering teams with reference implementations.
• Create context, retrieval, and knowledge systems to boost productivity.
• Define technical standards and best practices for AI software development.
• Build telemetry and measurement systems for engineering insights.
• Evaluate emerging AI platforms and technologies.
• Mentor senior engineers and influence technical direction across teams.
• Prototype innovative solutions and reduce technical risk.

Skills

10+ years of software engineering

Education

Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering / related field

Tools

Java

NET

React

Flutter

AWS

Microservices

API design

CI/CD

Job description

Communicate Finance seeks a Principal Engineer to build the AI engineering foundations enabling AI-assisted software delivery across multiple teams. You will design and deploy platforms, tooling, standards, and guardrails to help engineers work more effectively with AI.

You’ll influence a 150-person engineering function while remaining a hands-on technical contributor, mentoring senior engineers and driving architectural direction.