Ovations Technologies (Pty) Ltd

Data Architect (D)

Ovations Technologies (Pty) Ltd  •  Johannesburg, ZA (Onsite)  •  2 hours ago
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Job Description

This is a 6 – month contract with our client in the Fintech industry

Our client is seeking an AI Data Architect
to design, govern, and evolve their end-to-end enterprise artificial intelligence landscape. In this strategic role, you will bridge the gap between business vision and advanced technology—ensuring that machine learning, GenAI, and intelligent automation platforms are scalable, production-grade, and seamlessly integrated into the core cloud and data ecosystems.

As the technical authority for AI, you will champion a "responsible-by-design" approach, embedding ethics, security, and governance into every blueprint.

Responsibilities include

  • Enterprise Blueprinting: Define and own the end-to-end AI architecture. Translate product strategies into production-grade solution designs covering data ingestion, feature engineering, model serving, and API integrations.
  • Platform & Core Capabilities:
    Architect scalable platforms supporting advanced MLOps and LLMOps capabilities, including CI/CD pipelines, observability, drift detection, and automated retraining.
  • Responsible AI Governance: Establish robust frameworks for model risk management, evaluation, fairness, transparency, and regulatory compliance throughout the full AI lifecycle.
  • Technical Leadership: Act as the ultimate subject matter expert for AI initiatives, mentoring data science and engineering teams while driving enterprise-wide AI transformation.
  • Strategic Change Sign-off: Lead strategy roadmaps, propose SLA policies, manage process escalations, and provide architectural sign-off for changes impacting the data and AI environments.

Requirements include:

  • Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Management, or a related technical field. Professional certifications are a distinct advantage.
  • Experience: 5+ years in AI, data, or solution architecture roles with a proven track record of delivering enterprise-grade AI solutions in large, regulated environments.
  • Industry Edge: Strong preference for Financial Services, Banking, or Telecommunications experience—ideally with exposure to Mobile Money and cross-geography operations.
  • Technical Mastery: Deep conceptual and practical understanding of cloud data platforms, big data ecosystems, structured/unstructured data processing, LLMs, AI agents, RAG patterns, and orchestration.
Ovations Technologies (Pty) Ltd

About Ovations Technologies (Pty) Ltd

Enabling the Digital Enterprise

South African business leadership has always been early adopters and significantly used information technology to improve productivity, efficiency, reach new markets and optimize supply chains. What is significant in recent years is that customer expectations have changed radically from the past. The challenge facing all South African and global organisations for that matter is:

• How can they best respond to this paradigm shift?

• How can they take advantage of the opportunity to innovate and grow through technology adoption? And,

• How can they do all this as cost effectively as possible?

This in Ovations’ opinion is the highly strategic journey of Digital Enablement including the critical intersection with Cloud Adoption as the strategic enabler. We, at Ovations, believe that digital enablement incorporates the change associated with the application of modern technology in all aspects of business and society, whereby Cloud Adoption is the way in which all business will implement and accelerate digital enablement.

Ovations has core domain expertise in process automation, content services, data & analytics and financial crime and risk prevention solutions. As Ovations, we provide guidance to our clients through an entire lifecycle of the cloud adoption process including initiatives to mitigate strategic workloads to the cloud deployment models encompassing IaaS, PaaS, FaaS and SaaS. We provide the following summary core cloud adoption services in this regard:

• Enterprise architecture and cloud adoption

• Cloud adoption architecture design

• Cloud people structures, roles and change management

• Cloud governance models and business cases

• Cloud adoption platform and public cloud selection

• Cloud data security and privacy

• Cloud migration strategies

• Cloud operational SLA and platform management

• DevSecOps design and implementations

Industry
IT & Software
Company Size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
Johannesburg, ZA
Year Founded
1998
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