AI Engineering Manager

SUMMARY:
AI Engineering Manager, AI Space, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.

POSITION INFO:

Our client. a Global Leader in the AI Space is seeking to URGENTLY appoint a dynamic AI Engineering Manager to be based in their Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Offices.

MAIN PURPOSE FOR THE ROLE:

Our client is currently building a new AI team which you will be responsible for managing & nurturing. Your value add will be working alongside our Data Science team to integrate and deliver AI-driven features.

As reward and recognition our clients’ employees are afforded the space and freedom in the way that best suits them and their teams - whether at home, in an office, or another place that sparks creativity, focus and collaboration. Our client provides a work environment which is conducive to their employees successfully deliver their work while adequately supporting their lifestyle and preferences.

KEY COMPETENCY REQUIREMENTS:

• At 3+ years’ experience in leading/managing teams
• A strong technical background and deep understanding of software development principles and practices.
• Strategic thinking: a strategic mindset and be able to align the team''''''''''''''''s goals with the company''''''''''''''''s overall objectives.
• Passion for AI.

While our Client''''''''s compensation offerings differ from country to country, they offer their entire global workforce an array of exciting perks and benefits, including:

• Mindfulness and counselling resources
• Multiple tools through which to learn and grow, and an incredible global community.
• Invention/patenting assistance
• Meaningful recognition
• Community impact opportunities

PLEASE NOTE:

Our client is the epitome of global standard for process intelligence and automation. Today they serve the needs of more than 10,000 public and private sector organizations across 90 countries turn to their Process Platform to accelerate progress on their digital transformation journeys by quickly and easily managing, automating, and optimizing business processes.

KEY ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Engineering:

• Know the core concepts in the Service Reliability strategy and manage your team’s services to SLOs and SLIs.
• Work closely with Product Management and User Experience Designers to define required product features and behaviour in detail, sufficient to create the required design, resourcing, and development plans.
• Monitor new code and designs to identify where test coverage needs adjustment. Make sure that the test requirements are met and integrated into pipelines appropriately.
• Champion quality, making sure it is a priority in your team and across projects.
• Follow security best practices, oversee the creation of secure code, and lead teams in threat modelling.

Delivery:

• Understand and run your team according to agile principles and use data (velocity, burn down, etc.) to track status and improve team performance.
• Maintain unobstructed vision of the risk factors in your workload including the amount of change introduced, cross-discipline developments, cross-product integrations, or the introduction of new development tools and methodologies.
• Identify opportunities and contribute to initiatives that reduce and standardize tooling to streamline our processes, “ways of working” and reduce overhead.
• Collaborate with Product Management to prioritize user stories in line with the product roadmap and to plan product release timelines.

Team Management:

• Coach, support, and enable team members in achieving personal growth and career objectives.
• Lead by example by promoting and embodying their Company values.
• Create training plans collaboratively with your team members to produce the skill sets required in the relevant domains.

PLEASE NOTE WELL:

Our client’s engineers are building more than just software and know the impact one line of code can make. They are the experts that build the industry’s most complete process and automation platform to transform the way people work by taking a proactive, solutions-oriented, and collaborative approach in carrying out opportunities for innovation in their business – and their products. They endeavour to make the hard stuff appear easy to anyone with clicks-and-not-code process automation.

Preference will be given to People Living with Disability who are members of the designated groups in line with the Employment Equity Plan and Targets of the Company.

WILLINGNESS TO RELOCATE TO JOHANNESBURG, GAUTENG SOUTH AFRICA IS ESSENTIAL. SHOULD THIS ONCE IN A LIFE-TIME OPPORTUNITY NOT SUIT YOUR CAREER ASPIRATIONS, KINDLY FORWARD IT TO A FRIEND.

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