AI Product Engineering Lead

Network Finance • Recruiting & Staffing • Executive Search • C# • 12 days ago

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Salary

≈ $43k – $106k per year (Estimated)

Location

In office (South Africa)

Seniority

Staff

Employment

Full-Time

First seen by Alion on Oct 12, 2026. Network Finance scores C on the Alion truth index.

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Network Finance

Founded in 1987, Network Finance is a specialized recruitment and talent solutions agency operating as a key division of Network Recruitment (part of ADvTECH Group). Headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa, the company provides executive search, permanent placement, and contract staffing tailored specifically to the finance, accounting, auditing, taxation, and actuarial sectors. Through its niche industry focus and global network spanning Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, it enables corporate clients and multinational enterprises to source highly qualified financial leaders and Chartered Accountants.

networkfinanceinternational.com • HQ: Johannesburg, South Africa • Executive Search • Recruiting & Staffing • 5000+ employees • Est. 1987

Tech stack of Network Finance

Key Duties & Responsibilities:

Own and drive the AI roadmap alongside Product Owners.
Design and deliver production-grade AI capabilities that create measurable business outcomes.
Build, evaluate, and improve agentic solutions, retrieval systems, organisational knowledge capabilities, and learning loops.
Work directly with users to understand operational challenges and translate them into intelligent product features.
Mentor and uplift engineering teams through patterns, standards, reviews, and best practices.
Remain hands-on, writing code and shipping improvements in a modern Microsoft technology stack.

Essential Skills, Experience & Qualifications:

Strong commercial experience with C#/.NET (ASP.NET Core)

Experience building AI solutions using:

Azure OpenAI
Azure AI Foundry
Microsoft AI SDKs
Microsoft Agent Framework
MCP (Model Context Protocol)
Agent evaluation and production-grade LLM implementations

Ability to bridge the gap between business problems and AI solutions

Experience owning product outcomes, not just technical components

Strong understanding of organisational knowledge, retrieval systems, governance, and AI reliability

Comfortable working in Agile, cross-functional product teams.

Bonus Experience

Multi-agent / agent-to-agent architectures
Event-driven systems (Azure Service Bus)
API-first product environments
AI governance, capability gating, and auditability.

Why Join?

Own and shape the AI direction of a live, growing product.
Work at the intersection of software engineering, AI, business operations, and product strategy.
Build intelligent systems that customers use every day.
Join a high-impact team where innovation, ownership, and delivery matter.
Help define how organisations leverage AI to improve execution, decision-making, and operational performance.

If you are passionate about applying AI to solve real business challenges and want to lead from the front while remaining hands-on technically, we'd love to hear from you.

Apply Now.

For more IT jobs, please visit www.networkrecruitmentinternational.com/

I also specialise in recruiting in the following:

Software Development

Data Engineer

Data Analyst

Infrastructure

Architecture

... and more!

If you have not had any response in two weeks, please consider the vacancy application unsuccessful. Your profile will be kept on our database for any other suitable roles / positions.

For more information contact:

Evandria Rademeyer

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