Job Description: Technical Solution Engineer

Location: Pretoria, South Africa

Employment Type: Full-time

Department: Technical Delivery

Reports To: Technical Delivery Manager / Chief of Delivery / Head of Customer Solutions

 Apply Here: https://cohesionx.co.za/careers/technical-solution-engineer/

Position Overview

We are seeking a talented Technical Solution Engineer to join our growing team. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, enjoys solving complex technical challenges, and wants to make a meaningful impact on enterprise AI solutions. You’ll work at the intersection of architecture, engineering, and client delivery, designing and implementing scalable solutions that power our AI platform.

Job Purpose

The Technical Solution Engineer is responsible for designing, documenting, and delivering end-to-end technical solutions that enable CohesionX’s AI-driven products and platform. This role bridges the gap between business requirements and technical implementation, translating client needs into scalable, secure, and performant architectures. The successful candidate will work hands-on with cloud infrastructure, AI products, and integration systems whilst maintaining high standards of quality, documentation, and production readiness. This position requires both strategic architectural thinking and practical delivery execution to support our growing portfolio of enterprise clients.

Key Responsibilities

Solution Architecture & Design

• Design scalable, secure, and performant end-to-end technical solutions across cloud, data, and application layers to enable AI-driven products and platforms
• Translate business and client needs into modular, future-proof architectures, leveraging technologies such as Azure, AWS or other, and modern integration patterns
• Establish and enforce architecture patterns, coding standards, and design principles to support rapid iteration and production-grade AI deployments

Technical Delivery

• Act as a hands-on technical lead, resolving blockers and guiding teams through architectural decisions in fast-moving delivery cycles
• Drive the integration of APIs, data services, and AI components to ensure seamless orchestration, performance, and interoperability across solutions
• Quality assurance releases to ensure production readiness and stability
• Support ad hoc development work as needed to accelerate delivery, enable experimentation, and ensure customer success in critical solution areas

Collaboration & Stakeholder Management

• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to ensure solution designs support genAI solution deployment, ingestion, and inference pipelines
• Present solution approaches to stakeholders, clearly articulating the impact and rationale behind design choices in business-aligned terms
• Participate in and contribute to all scheduled sprint planning, reviews, and daily stand-ups

Documentation & Knowledge Sharing

• Review and approve solution documentation, including architecture diagrams, data flows, and interface contracts for AI-centric systems
• Maintain up-to-date and comprehensive documentation for all solutions delivered
• Proactively identify and communicate areas for technical or process improvement

Continuous Learning & Innovation

• Stay current with emerging AI technologies, infrastructure trends, and tooling to inform architectural direction and innovation strategy
• Support delivery velocity, platform stability, and the continuous evolution of our AI technology stack

Knowledge and Skills

Technical Knowledge

• Strong experience with cloud platforms, preferably Microsoft Azure
• Understanding of microservices patterns
• Experience with modern integration patterns and API usage
• Experience in process engineering and business logic unpacking to stitch together technical solutions
• Programming proficiency in at least one language: Python, Java, C#, or C++ and other
• Understanding of version control systems, including repositories, commits, and branching strategies
• Basic SQL querying skills

Solution Design and Architecture

• Solution design and documentation skills using tools such as draw.io, Visio, or Lucid
• Ability to create architecture diagrams, data flows, and interface contracts
• Understanding of scalable, secure, and performant system design principles
• Experience in establishing and enforcing architecture patterns and coding standards

Technical Delivery Skills

• Experience with API testing and usage, including tools like Postman
• Ability to quality assure releases and ensure production readiness
• Any experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
• Ability to build presentations, create project updates and articulate technical concepts to business customers
• Ability to logically run a project in the absence of a Project Manager, but

Communication and Collaboration

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to translate technical concepts into business-aligned terms
• Strong collaborative mindset and team player attitude
• Client-facing skills for technical presentations and demos

Problem-Solving and Initiative

• Proactive problem-solving approach
• Ability to work effectively in fast-paced delivery cycles
• Capacity to identify and communicate areas for improvement

Desirable Experience

• Experience with vector databases and embeddings
• Knowledge of SQL
• Experience with workflow automation tools such as NodeRED, n8n, Langflow, LiteGraph, or similar
• Previous experience in consulting or client-facing roles

Values and Behaviours

At CohesionX, we expect all team members to embody our core values and behaviours:

Ownership

• Take responsibility for your actions and be accountable for achieving results
• Take ownership of mistakes and learn from them
• Deliver on commitments and honour agreements

Integrity and Respect

• Be honest and respect each other
• Do the right thing for the right reason
• Challenge issues constructively whilst honouring commitments

Innovation and Courage

• Believe that innovation is a way of life
• Have a passion to win with the freedom to fail, but only fail if you’ve at least tried
• Be fearless with nerves of steel
• Be part of the solution, not part of the problem

Collaboration

• Believe in teamwork and partnership
• Be diverse yet united
• Be involved yet independent

Continuous Improvement

• Believe in learning and continuous improvement
• Proactively seek ways to improve processes and solutions

What We’re Looking For

The ideal candidate will be someone who can quickly get up to speed with our core technology stack, contribute to technical delivery in a client-facing capacity, and demonstrate strong initiative in identifying solutions. You should be comfortable with both hands-on development work and high-level architecture discussions, and be able to work collaboratively across teams to deliver production-grade AI solutions.

Non Negotiable Requirements :

• Work in person from our office in Hazelwood Pretoria
• Degree completed from major university (not BCom spongebob from University of Bikini bottom)
• Hardworking and Committed

How to Apply

To apply for this position, please submit:

• Your current CV/resume
• Proof of your degree
• Links to any relevant portfolio work or GitHub repositories (optional)
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https://cohesionx.co.za/careers/technical-solution-engineer/