Solution Engineer Ai — Pretoria (On-Site)

Cohesionx; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 300 000 - 400 000; Full time

Job summary

A specialized AI advisory firm is looking for a Solution Engineer AI to design and implement scalable technical solutions in Johannesburg. The role entails translating client requirements into robust architectures while leveraging cloud technologies and ensuring production readiness. The ideal candidate will possess strong experience in cloud platforms like Azure and have skills in API integration and programming languages, alongside a proactive problem-solving approach.

Qualifications

• Proven experience with Microsoft Azure or similar cloud platforms.
• Strong ability to design scalable and secure technical solutions.
• Experience in API integration and microservices architecture.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end technical solutions for AI-driven products.
• Translate business needs into modular architectures.
• Collaborate with teams to ensure successful solution delivery.

Skills

Cloud platforms experience

Experience with integration patterns

Programming in Python, Java, C#, or C++

API testing and usage

Excellent communication skills

Education

Degree in relevant field

Tools

Microsoft Azure

Postman

CI/CD tools

Job description

CohesionX City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Solution Engineer AI — Pretoria (On-site)

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CohesionX is a highly specialised AI advisory firm dedicated to helping large enterprises unlock maximum value from their AI investments.

Focused on generative AI, cognitive analytics, and machine learning, the company provides thought leadership and innovative solutions to navigate the complexities of exponential technologies.

Based in Gauteng, South Africa, CohesionX plays a pivotal role in driving the continent's digital transformation.

With over 30 years of expertise and hundreds of successful global projects, CohesionX delivers cutting‑edge AI solutions, empowering businesses to achieve a competitive advantage in the digital era.

Position Overview

We are seeking a talented Technical Solution Engineer to join our growing team.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast‑paced environment, enjoys solving complex technical challenges, and wants to make a meaningful impact on enterprise AI solutions.

You’ll work at the intersection of architecture, engineering, and client delivery, designing and implementing scalable solutions that power our AI platform.

Job Purpose

The Technical Solution Engineer is responsible for designing, documenting, and delivering end‑to‑end technical solutions that enable CohesionX’s AI‑driven products and platform.

This role bridges the gap between business requirements and technical implementation, translating client needs into scalable, secure, and performant architectures.

The successful candidate will work hands‑on with cloud infrastructure, AI products, and integration systems whilst maintaining high standards of quality, documentation, and production readiness.

This position requires both strategic architectural thinking and practical delivery execution to support our growing portfolio of enterprise clients.

Key Responsibilities

• Design scalable, secure, and performant end‑to‑end technical solutions across cloud, data, and application layers to enable AI‑driven products and platforms.
• Translate business and client needs into modular, future‑proof architectures, leveraging technologies such as Azure, AWS or other, and modern integration patterns.
• Establish and enforce architecture patterns, coding standards, and design principles to support rapid iteration and production‑grade AI deployments.
• Act as a hands‑on technical lead, resolving blockers and guiding teams through architectural decisions in fast‑moving delivery cycles.
• Drive the integration of APIs, data services, and AI components to ensure seamless orchestration, performance, and interoperability across solutions.
• Perform quality assurance releases to ensure production readiness and stability.
• Support ad‑hoc development work as needed to accelerate delivery, enable experimentation, and ensure customer success in critical solution areas.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to ensure solution designs support genAI solution deployment, ingestion, and inference pipelines.
• Present solution approaches to stakeholders, clearly articulating the impact and rationale behind design choices in business‑aligned terms.
• Participate in and contribute to all scheduled sprint planning, reviews, and daily stand‑ups.
• Review and approve solution documentation, including architecture diagrams, data flows, and interface contracts for AI‑centric systems.
• Maintain up‑to‑date and comprehensive documentation for all solutions delivered.
• Proactively identify and communicate areas for technical or process improvement.
• Stay current with emerging AI technologies, infrastructure trends, and tooling to inform architectural direction and innovation strategy.
• Support delivery velocity, platform stability, and the continuous evolution of our AI technology stack.

Knowledge and Skills

Technical Knowledge

• Strong experience with cloud platforms, preferably Microsoft Azure.
• Understanding of microservices patterns.
• Experience with modern integration patterns and API usage.
• Experience in process engineering and business logic unpacking to stitch together technical solutions.
• Programming proficiency in at least one language: Python, Java, C#, or C++.
• Understanding of version control systems, including repositories, commits, and branching strategies.
• Basic SQL querying skills.

Solution Design and Architecture

• Solution design and documentation skills using tools such as draw.io, Visio, or Lucid.
• Ability to create architecture diagrams, data flows, and interface contracts.
• Understanding of scalable, secure, and performant system design principles.
• Experience in establishing and enforcing architecture patterns and coding standards.

Technical Delivery Skills

• Experience with API testing and usage, including tools like Postman.
• Ability to quality‑assure releases and ensure production readiness.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Ability to build presentations, create project updates and articulate technical concepts to business customers.

Communication and Collaboration

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Ability to translate technical concepts into business‑aligned terms.
• Strong collaborative mindset and team‑player attitude.
• Client‑facing skills for technical presentations and demos.

Problem‑Solving and Initiative

• Proactive problem‑solving approach.
• Ability to work effectively in fast‑paced delivery cycles.
• Capacity to identify and communicate areas for improvement.
• Experience with vector databases and embeddings.
• Knowledge of SQL.
• Experience with workflow automation tools such as NodeRED, n8n, Langflow, LiteGraph, or similar.
• Previous experience in consulting or client‑facing roles.

Values and Behaviours

• Ownership: Take responsibility for your actions and be accountable for achieving results, take ownership of mistakes and learn from them, deliver on commitments and honour agreements.
• Integrity and Respect: Be honest and respect each other, do the right thing for the right reason, challenge issues constructively whilst honouring commitments.
• Innovation and Courage: Believe that innovation is a way of life, have a passion to win with the freedom to fail, be fearless with nerves of steel, be part of the solution, not part of the problem, believe in teamwork and partnership, be diverse yet united, be involved yet independent, believe in learning and continuous improvement, proactively seek ways to improve processes and solutions.

What We’re Looking For

The ideal candidate will be someone who can quickly get up to speed with our core technology stack, contribute to technical delivery in a client‑facing capacity, and demonstrate strong initiative in identifying solutions.

You should be comfortable with both hands‑on development work and high‑level architecture discussions, and be able to work collaboratively across teams to deliver production‑grade AI solutions.

Salary Range

Based on experience and qualification from R – R pm.

How to Apply

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Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

Technology, Information and Internet