# Senior AI & Data Engineer

My client is looking for a Senior AI & Data Engineer to join their dynamic team. Requirements: * Demonstrated experience designing and shipping production grade ML and AI platforms end-to-end: data ingestion and feature engineering, model training and fine tuning, deployment, monitoring and retraining. * Hands on experience building LLM and agentic applications that run in production: RAG, multi agent orchestration (LangGraph, CrewAI or equivalent), tool use and MCP integrations, guardrails and evaluation frameworks. * Proven data engineering track record: batch and streaming pipelines (Kafka, Spark, Airflow or equivalent), ETL and ELT into enterprise data warehouses, and data quality, validation and reconciliation at scale. * Experience deploying ML workloads on cloud MLOps platforms (AWS SageMaker or Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, GCP Vertex AI, Databricks) with infrastructure as code and CI/CD. * Evidence of technical ownership of components, workstreams or platforms within larger systems, with measurable business outcomes such as cost reduction, accuracy, latency or revenue uplift. If you would like to apply for this position, please send transcripts with applications. Should y

- **Id**: 3792171
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/tumaini-consulting-senior-ai-data-engineer>
- **Role**: Data Science
- **Role family**: Data Science
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: South Africa
- **Countries**: ZA
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-28T11:29:02Z
- **Last verified at**: 2026-10-28T11:29:02Z
- **Board verified**: no
- **Days open**: 15
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1528
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 4497292
- **Name**: Tumaini Consulting
- **Domain**: tumaini.co.za
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/tumaini-consulting-2>
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 100
- **Open postings**: 4
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 17
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Amazon SageMaker** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **AWS Bedrock** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **CrewAI** — Optional: no
- **Databricks** — Optional: no
- **ETL/ELT** — Optional: no
- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: no
- **Function Calling** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **LangGraph** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **Multi-Agent Systems** — Optional: no
- **OpenAI** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Vertex AI** — Optional: no
- **LangChain** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: not_scored
- **Days open**: 15

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T06:57:55Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 32
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 0.85
- **P active**: 0.503
- **P room**: 0.75
- **Age days**: 14
- **Expected fill days**: 17
- **Reasons**: seen:14, agency, velocity, win:late
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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