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  • Posted: Nov 4, 2022
    Deadline: Not specified
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  • MultiChoice South Africa's activities involve the operation of Pay-Television and internet subscriber platforms. The MultiChoice South Africa group includes the digital satellite Pay-Television business ("DStv"), which has been in operation since 1995. Other businesses in the group are; M-Net (delivers thematic channels and exclusive content to DSt...
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    Senior AI Engineer

    Purpose of the Position:

    • Full stack development: To design, build and maintain the most dynamic, scalable, maintainable, and high performing AI solutions using latest technologies and frameworks.

    Key Performance Objectives

    System development

    • Design and maintain technical system requirements based on business needs.
    • Create prototypes, mockups, and staging apps for review and feedback
    • Develop backend and frontend applications based on approved specifications and prototypes.
    • Develop, test, debug and maintain application code.
    • Develop, update and maintain technical documentation.
    • Integrate existing as well as new applications onto Online, Mobile, Broad band & Broadcast platforms.
    • Participate in the entire application lifecycle, focusing on coding and debugging.
    • Write clean code with tests to develop functional backend and frontend applications in line with industry best practices and principles.
    • Integrate to application monitoring tool to be able troubleshoot and debug applications.
    • Continuously review and improve application performance.
    • Support and improve legacy applications.
    • Gather and address technical and design requirements.
    • Build reusable code and libraries for future use.
    • Liaise with developers, designers and system administrators to identify new features

    Technology research

    • Keep up to date with the latest offerings from vendors across the range of AI solution opportunities
    • Act as an internal SME on AI solutions available in the market
    • Consistently monitor the market to look for opportunities to improve the technology stack being used within the group
    • Product evaluation and reporting
    • Develop and implement a repeatable process for product evaluation, benchmarking and reporting
    • Provide product evaluation reports as and when required
    • Experimentation and solution development
    • Run experiments to test hypotheses with the team members including business stakeholders, researchers and engineers
    • Collaborate cross-functionally with machine learning experts across the group
    • Provide hands-on implementation expertise when required, for key strategic projects

    Community involvement

    • Establish communities of practice for key AI themes and capabilities
    • Coordinate technical events according to the published group AI calendar
    • Contribute to open-source projects and public good initiatives when appropriate
    • Contribute to thought leadership in AI by regularly speaking or publishing at local and international conferences

    Qualifications Essential:

    • Bachelor's degree in IT or Computer Science or related discipline with a minimum of 7 years of related experience; Master's degree in similar disciplines with a minimum of 5 year of related experience; or PhD with a minimum of 3 year of related experience in similar disciplines

    Experience

    • Experience in cloud native development which includes DevOps, continuous delivery, microservices and containers. Cloud certification would be an advantage.
    • You have exceptional knowledge of Webservice, JSON, WCF, SOAP and REST Web Services.
    • Experience in wide application of principles, theories, concepts, and techniques in modern programming languages such as C#, C++, Python, Java, Hadoop map-reduce, R, Ruby, SAS, Artificial Intelligence Techniques and concepts.
    • good experience working on the spring framework
    • Good MVC knowledge
    • Tomcat, Apache
    • CI/CD knowledge. Experience with the likes of Jenkins, Selenium, Maven, JBehave, Puppet
    • Test Driven Development (TDD) and/or Behavior Driven Development (BDD)
    • Solid understanding of Agile methodologies, SCRUM experience would be advantageous.
    • RDBMS experience (MySQL, MSSQL)
    • NoSQL knowledge would be a definite advantage (MongoDB, Neo4J)
    • You also have previous exposure to full life cycle systems development
    • You also understand XML data driven applications and object orientated programming
    • good understanding of Web Servers, IIS and Web Site setup and configuration
    • Knowledge of Reactive Programming (ReactiveX or Rx) would be a great advantage.
    • Demonstrable portfolio of released applications on the Apple App Store or the Android Play Store
    • You also understand object-oriented programming
    • You have experience in development practices like test-driven development, continuous integration, and continuous deployment
    • Excellent analytical skills with a good problem-solving attitude
    • Knowledge of Java backend development would be an advantage
    • Eager to learn new technologies and excited by change
    • Knowledge in one or more related fields of the following areas would be an advantage: artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision, risk models, decision theory, and probabilistic methods.

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