AI Practice Lead – Enterprise AI Delivery & Strategy

E-Solutions; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

E-Solutions seeks an AI Practice Lead to architect and deliver enterprise-scale AI and Agentic AI solutions. The role combines hands-on engineering with client-facing consulting, solution architecture, and leadership across delivery teams.

Location: Cape Town / Johannesburg, South Africa. Permanent full-time position with open package and opportunities to shape AI strategy, governance, and enterprise integrations.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering production AI solutions at scale.
• Proven background in pre-sales, solution architecture or delivery leadership.
• Ability to translate business needs into technical AI solutions.
• Experience leading enterprise AI initiatives and teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of production-grade AI and Agentic AI solutions.
• Design and implement LLMs, RAG, multi-agent systems and orchestration frameworks.
• Architect distributed systems, cloud APIs, data stores and CI/CD pipelines.
• Lead client workshops, proposals and AI transformation roadmaps.
• Advise on AI strategy, governance and operating models.
• Mentor AI engineering teams and develop reusable frameworks.

Skills

End-to-end delivery

LLMs & AI

Distributed systems

Cloud architecture

APIs & databases

CI/CD

Stakeholder engagement

Pre-Sales

Tools

LangGraph

CrewAI

Job description

E-Solutions seeks an AI Practice Lead to architect and deliver enterprise-scale AI and Agentic AI solutions. The role combines hands-on engineering with client-facing consulting, solution architecture, and leadership across delivery teams.

Location: Cape Town / Johannesburg, South Africa. Permanent full-time position with open package and opportunities to shape AI strategy, governance, and enterprise integrations.