Senior Manager, AI Engineering at FinSense Africa

Job Description

As the Senior Manager, AI Engineering, this role provides enterprise-wide architectural and people leadership for the AI platform and the multi-year AI Workforce Transformation. Beyond owning the end-to-end AI architecture from the AI Orchestration Layer to a unified LLM Gateway, the role sets the organisation-wide AI architecture strategy, standards and governance, and leads the AI Engineering team (Principal AI Engineers, AI Engineers and the AI Adoption & Enablement Lead).

The position requires authoritative expertise in modern AI/ML platforms and enterprise architecture, operating at a principal level. It exists to elevate operational productivity through data-centric AI enablement at scale, leveraging unique datasets to build proprietary AI solutions that augment human capabilities across every domain.

Education & Experience

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field (a Master’s degree in AI/ML or Data Science is strongly preferred), with 12+ years in software engineering or architecture – including at least 6 years designing and leading AI, data or cloud architectures at scale, with demonstrable enterprise / transformation leadership and peoplemanagement experience.