Ovations Technologies (Pty) Ltd

Data Engineer AI (OVA5667)

Ovations Technologies (Pty) Ltd  •  Johannesburg, ZA (Hybrid)  •  1 month ago
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Job Description

AI Engineer | Microsoft Copilot Studio & Azure AI Foundry

Location: Johannesburg hybrid 3 days in the office

Employment Type: Independent contract ending December 2026

We are looking for an AI Engineer to design, build and deploy scalable AI-driven solutions using Microsoft Copilot Studio and Azure AI Foundry.

This is an exciting opportunity to work on Generative AI, AI agents, RAG pipelines and enterprise AI integrations, helping automate business processes and deliver innovative AI use cases.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design and develop AI agents and copilots using Microsoft Copilot Studio
  • Build AI solutions and orchestration pipelines using Azure AI Foundry
  • Develop agent-based architectures, multi-step workflows and GenAI solutions
  • Build and optimise RAG pipelines
  • Integrate AI solutions with enterprise systems through APIs, connectors, microservices and data platforms
  • Deploy AI agents across Microsoft Teams and Power Platform
  • Implement security, governance, monitoring and responsible AI practices
  • Optimise model performance, cost and response accuracy
  • Mentor team members and contribute to AI frameworks and best practices

Must-Have Experience:

  • 1–3 years hands-on experience with Microsoft Copilot Studio
  • 1–3 years hands-on experience with Azure AI Foundry
  • Experience building and deploying AI/ML or Generative AI solutions
  • Experience with AI agents / conversational AI
  • Strong Python and API integration skills
  • Experience with Prompt Engineering, RAG, model evaluation and tuning
  • Knowledge of Azure, SQL, APIs and data lakes
  • Experience with GitHub, CI/CD, DevOps and Agile/SAFe

If you have hands-on experience with Copilot Studio + Azure AI Foundry and are passionate about building enterprise AI solutions, we'd love to hear from you

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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