Head – Intelligent Engineering & AI Enablement

Absa Mauritius is embarking on the next phase of its technology transformation – moving beyond traditional, supplier-led software delivery towards a modern, AI-enabled engineering model.

We are looking for a transformational technology leader to establish and lead our Intelligent Engineering & AI Enablement capability. This is a new strategic leadership role with a mandate to fundamentally change how the bank builds, tests, deploys and continuously improves technology.

The successful candidate will build a small, high-calibre engineering capability spanning AI and agentic engineering, product engineering, platform engineering, quality engineering, DevSecOps, SRE/AIOps and engineering automation.

Engineering Strategy & Transformation

• Define and execute the Intelligent Engineering & AI Enablement strategy aligned to the bank's technology and digital transformation priorities
• Establish an AI-native, product-centric engineering operating model across the software development lifecycle
• Transform supplier-led delivery towards a bank-owned, AI-augmented engineering model while retaining strategic partner capacity where appropriate
• Drive measurable improvements in engineering productivity, speed, quality, resilience and cost

AI & Agentic Engineering

• Lead adoption of AI-assisted software engineering, coding assistants and coding agents across the SDLC
• Establish practical agentic capabilities across development, testing, documentation, operations and engineering workflows
• Define reusable AI engineering patterns, components and reference architectures
• Leverage Absa Group capabilities including the AI Gateway, Databricks, Bedrock and Foundry to accelerate local adoption
• Establish AI engineering standards, evaluation approaches, guardrails and governance with Group Technology, Architecture, Cyber, Risk and Responsible AI stakeholders

Product Engineering, Platform & Quality

• Build a high-performing AI-native product engineering capability to rapidly prototype, build and productionise digital solutions
• Establish modern engineering platforms, developer tooling and reusable engineering capabilities; drive CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code and security automation
• Establish continuous quality engineering across the SDLC with automated and AI-assisted testing
• Partner with Technology & Run to establish modern SRE and AIOps capabilities, including AI-assisted incident and root-cause analysis