17 Systems Architect jobs in South Africa

As an AI Developer, you'll be instrumental in designing, implementing, and scaling multi-agent systems that drive our creative processes. You'll work with cutting-edge technologies to create autonomous workflows that enhance our creative capabilities.

• Design & Develop: Architect and implement multi-agent systems (MAS) that facilitate agent-driven workflows and API integrations.

• RAG Systems: Develop retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems to enhance content generation and decision-making processes.

• Workflow Automation: Utilize tools like n8n (or similar) to build seamless, efficient integrations and automate complex tasks.
  Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of AI systems into our creative processes.

• Innovation: Contribute to the evolution of our AI framework, incorporating new technologies and methodologies to stay ahead of industry trends.

We are a data-driven social agency focused on effectiveness. Since 2018, we’ve been developing creative content that resonates with target audiences and drives conversions. With deep platform-specific expertise powered by insights into consumer search and viewing behavior, we help brands generate attention, boost preference and achieve results on social media. From YouTube and TikTok content to digital-first commercials and influencer campaigns, we’ve got it all covered.

Operating out of Amsterdam, Stockholm, Cape Town, and Warsaw, we partner with an international network of clients that includes Prime Video, GAMMA, bol, and KPN. Our work has earned us recognition such as SAN Awards, ADCN Lamps, Effie Awards, The YouTube Works, The Webby Awards, The Global Search Awards, and The European Video Awards.

• What We're Looking For

  Expertise in MAS: Proven experience in developing and deploying multi-agent systems, with a deep understanding of agentic workflows. RAG Proficiency: Strong background in building RAG systems, including experience with vector databases and LLMs. API Integration: Demonstrated ability to design and implement API-driven workflows, ensuring seamless communication between systems. Workflow Tools: Hands-on experience with workflow automation tools like n8n or similar platforms. Programming Skills: Proficiency in languages such as Python and JavaScript, with a solid understanding of software development best practices. Team Player: A collaborative mindset with a passion for innovation and problem-solving in a fast-paced environment.

  Bonus Points

  Experience with tools like LangChain, CrewAI, or similar frameworks.Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.Background in the creative industry or a strong appreciation for design and aesthetics.
  

  Why Join Us?

  Innovative Environment: Be part of a team that's pushing the boundaries of AI in the creative industry. Flexible Work Options: Enjoy the freedom of a hybrid work setup. Professional Growth: Access to continuous learning and development opportunities to enhance your skills. Competitive Compensation: Receive a competitive salary and benefits package that reflects your expertise and contributions.

Ready to shape the next generation of AI-powered storytelling for social platforms?
Apply now and bring your vision to life through the perfect fusion of craft and code.

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team5pm Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

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Your Role

As an AI Developer, you'll be instrumental in designing, implementing, and scaling multi-agent systems that drive our creative processes. You'll work with cutting-edge technologies to create autonomous workflows that enhance our creative capabilities.

Your Role

As an AI Developer, you'll be instrumental in designing, implementing, and scaling multi-agent systems that drive our creative processes. You'll work with cutting-edge technologies to create autonomous workflows that enhance our creative capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Design & Develop: Architect and implement multi-agent systems (MAS) that facilitate agent-driven workflows and API integrations.
• RAG Systems: Develop retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems to enhance content generation and decision-making processes.
• Workflow Automation: Utilize tools like n8n (or similar) to build seamless, efficient integrations and automate complex tasks. Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of AI systems into our creative processes.
• Innovation: Contribute to the evolution of our AI framework, incorporating new technologies and methodologies to stay ahead of industry trends.
  
  
  

• What We're Looking For
  
  
  

• Seniority level Not Applicable

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Design
• Industries Design Services

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As an AI Developer, you'll be instrumental in designing, implementing, and scaling multi-agent systems that drive our creative processes. You'll work with cutting-edge technologies to create autonomous workflows that enhance our creative capabilities.

• Design & Develop: Architect and implement multi-agent systems (MAS) that facilitate agent-driven workflows and API integrations.

• RAG Systems: Develop retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems to enhance content generation and decision-making processes.

• Workflow Automation: Utilize tools like n8n (or similar) to build seamless, efficient integrations and automate complex tasks.
  Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of AI systems into our creative processes.

• Innovation: Contribute to the evolution of our AI framework, incorporating new technologies and methodologies to stay ahead of industry trends.

We are a data-driven social agency focused on effectiveness. Since 2018, we’ve been developing creative content that resonates with target audiences and drives conversions. With deep platform-specific expertise powered by insights into consumer search and viewing behavior, we help brands generate attention, boost preference and achieve results on social media. From YouTube and TikTok content to digital-first commercials and influencer campaigns, we’ve got it all covered.

Operating out of Amsterdam, Stockholm, Cape Town, and Warsaw, we partner with an international network of clients that includes Prime Video, GAMMA, bol, and KPN. Our work has earned us recognition such as SAN Awards, ADCN Lamps, Effie Awards, The YouTube Works, The Webby Awards, The Global Search Awards, and The European Video Awards.

Canonical Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

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Canonical Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

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Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200 colleagues in more than 80 countries and very few office based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.

The company is founder led, profitable and growing.

We are hiring an Information Systems Architect to define the best practice in infrastructure as code at a global scale. Join us to advance the state of the art, and shape the infrastructure behind tens of millions devices running Ubuntu.

The Information Systems (IS) team is responsible for all IT operations at Canonical, including the infrastructure for building, packaging and distributing Ubuntu globally. As the IS architect, you will own the design of hardware and software implementation from PCI lanes to CDN and everything in between. Our goal is to be a reference operation, using the latest capabilities in Ubuntu and open source more generally, with the most modern operating principles. Your choices will impact the Ubuntu user experience for millions of users, and drive how Canonical's engineers engage with compute and network resources in a devops setting.

As the IS Architect, you'll be in a unique position to improve Canonical products and the open-source technologies they're based on. You do this by leading System Reliability Engineers (SRE) and Data Center Engineers (DCE) to embrace best practices, and make informed decisions on technology choices in all aspects of cloud infrastructure and services. You will coach the IS team on automation, reliability, operational/technical scalability, network infrastructure and security.

This is a home based position, with twice-annual travel to company events totaling around 4 weeks per year.

Location: This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region

The role entails

• Define, get buy-in and implement the holistic vision of a world class internal cloud
• Setup, maintain and update the technical design roadmap and guidelines for the SREs within IS, with the aim of improving reliability, resilience, operational scalability, and technical scalability
• Collaborate with, and provide the cloud-ops software development teams with input for roadmap, requirements and prioritization to build a world-class, highly standardized and automated operation
• Provide the IS management with input and advice with regards to technology, reliability, resilience and business cases
• Lead technical choices to implement solutions as self-service products, ensuring scalable operation
• Collaborate with product security as well as operations security to set best practice and mitigate new threats in a timely manner
• Automate operations for reuse across the world's largest companies, taking into consideration the complexities of distributed systems
• Collaborate with development teams to design service architecture, documentation, playbooks, policies and operational procedures
• Analyze incidents and events, and establish what the reason behind the reasons are, and what structural improvements can be made to minimize the chance of them reoccurring
  
  

• Exceptional academic track record from both high school and university
• Undergraduate degree in a technical subject or a compelling narrative about your alternative chosen path
• Confidence to respectfully speak up, exchange feedback, and share ideas without hesitation
• Track record of going above-and-beyond expectations to achieve outstanding results
• Extensive knowledge of cloud computing concepts, technologies & operation
• Practical knowledge of Linux networking, routing, and firewalls, internet transit and large scale/bandwidth networking.
• Experience dealing with significant production outages, incident response and postmortems
• A passion for writing, sharing, and maintaining enterprise open-source software solutions
• Able to communicate clearly and effectively in English over email, chat, video or voice calls and in-person
• Be familiarized and passionate about open-source, especially Ubuntu or Debian
  
  

• Modern software engineering background (peer-review, unit testing, SCM, CI/CD, Agile)
• Hands-on experience of automatic administration of enterprise Linux servers at scale
  
  

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Program
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass, and travel upgrades for long haul company events
  
  

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Engineering and Information Technology
• Industries Software Development

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We’re looking for a Process Architect (Business Systems Analyst) to bring clarity, structure, and scalability to our franchise business. You’ll work at the heart of our operations, mapping every task across the business, assigning responsibility, identifying role gaps, and ensuring we’re set up to grow efficiently. If you’re a systems thinker who thrives on fixing broken processes and building lean operational frameworks, this role is for you.

Key Responsibilities :

• Analyse and document business processes across departments and franchise operations.
• Map out all recurring and critical tasks in the business and align them with the correct roles.
• Identify inefficiencies, overlaps, and missing responsibilities within existing structures.
• Recommend new roles or role adjustments to meet current and future business needs.
• Build scalable processes and workflows to support franchise growth and brand consistency.
• Collaborate with leadership and department heads to understand operational pain points.
• Create clear, practical documentation including Standard Operating Procedures, role outlines, and process maps.
• Support HR and leadership with role clarity, org chart design, and hiring plans.
• Drive continuous improvement by proposing structural and process refinements.
• Guide change management when implementing new processes or systems.

Skills & Competencies :

Process & Systems Thinking

• Strong ability to visualise complex operations and translate them into structured workflows.
• Proficient in analysing and optimising processes for clarity, efficiency, and scalability.
• Familiarity with tools like Lucidchart, Miro, Visio, or similar platforms like SweetProcess.

Role Definition & Organisational Design

• Skilled in aligning tasks with appropriate roles and identifying structural gaps.
• Experience in building or restructuring org charts and defining role responsibilities.

Strategic Mindset

• Able to anticipate future business needs and design structures that scale.
• Practical problem-solver with the ability to balance immediate fixes with long-term solutions.

Change Management & Communication

• Strong communicator, able to simplify complex ideas and gain buy-in across teams.
• Experience rolling out new processes in a collaborative and effective way.
• Skilled at coaching teams through operational changes.

Documentation & Operational Clarity

• Exceptional attention to detail with the ability to write clear SOPs and guidelines.
• Highly organised and methodical in tracking processes, responsibilities, and updates.

Collaboration & Adaptability

• Comfortable working across multiple departments and levels of the business.
• Approachable, curious, and people-savvy — good at reading the room and adapting style.
• Bonus : experience in franchising, retail, hospitality, or service-based environments.

Requirements :

• Degree in Industrial Engineering, Operations Management, Business Administration or Business Management.

We’re looking for a Process Architect (Business Systems Analyst) to bring clarity, structure, and scalability to our franchise business. You’ll work at the heart of our operations, mapping every task across the business, assigning responsibility, identifying role gaps, and ensuring we’re set up to grow efficiently. If you’re a systems thinker who thrives on fixing broken processes and building lean operational frameworks, this role is for you.

Key Responsibilities:

• Analyse and document business processes across departments and franchise operations
• Map out all recurring and critical tasks in the business and align them with the correct roles
• Identify inefficiencies, overlaps, and missing responsibilities within existing structures
• Recommend new roles or role adjustments to meet current and future business needs
• Build scalable processes and workflows to support franchise growth and brand consistency
• Collaborate with leadership and department heads to understand operational pain points
• Create clear, practical documentation including Standers Operating procedures, role outlines, and process maps
• Support HR and leadership with role clarity, org chart design, and hiring plans
• Drive continuous improvement by proposing structural and process refinements
• Guide change management when implementing new processes or systems

Skills & Competencies:

Process & Systems Thinking

• Strong ability to visualise complex operations and translate them into structured workflows
• Proficient in analysing and optimising processes for clarity, efficiency, and scalability
• Familiarity with tools like Lucidchart, Miro, Visio, or similar platforms like Sweet process.

Role Definition & Organisational Design

• Skilled in aligning tasks with appropriate roles and identifying structural gaps
• Experience in building or restructuring org charts and defining role responsibilities

Strategic Mindset

• Able to anticipate future business needs and design structures that scale
• Practical problem-solver with the ability to balance immediate fixes with long-term solutions

Change Management & Communication

• Strong communicator, able to simplify complex ideas and gain buy-in across teams
• Experience rolling out new processes in a collaborative and effective way
• Skilled at coaching teams through operational changes

Documentation & Operational Clarity

• Exceptional attention to detail with the ability to write clear SOPs and guidelines
• Highly organised and methodical in tracking processes, responsibilities, and updates

Collaboration & Adaptability

• Comfortable working across multiple departments and levels of the business
• Approachable, curious, and people-savvy — good at reading the room and adapting style
• Bonus: experience in franchising, retail, hospitality, or service-based environments

Requirements:

• Degree in Industrial Engineering, Operations Management, Business Administration or Business Management

Canonical Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

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Canonical Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

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Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.

The company is founder led, profitable and growing.

We are hiring a senior design manager to play a key role making open source software available to the world. Our Design function ensures the experience of the software and infrastructure we build is true to our intentions, and delivers the tools our community and customers need. The Design Manager makes this possible through leadership within, and beyond, our teams.

As a Senior Design Manager, you bring both experience managing design teams and have expertise in a deeply technical domain. This enables you to coach designers in creating tools for developers and cloud engineers, and cross-context to move towards tangible outcomes and lift the quality of their work. You will manage expectations and ensure deadlines are met in a timely manner against your roadmap. You will be able to communicate clearly and actively listen to product and engineering stakeholders, and your team, to drive sustainable quality improvements and guide individuals towards meaningful growth.

Leading the Infrastructure Design team, you will take responsibility for the products that help to build cloud experiences and software distribution mechanisms, and you will help to evolve the security of how software is packaged and delivered.

Location: This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region

What the role entails

• Reviewing the work of your design team for quality
• Working with individual designers to support their professional growth
• Continuously improving operational workflows, including production outsourcing and collaboration with Web Engineering
• Working with stakeholders, especially the Engineering organization, to clearly define and validate outcomes
• Evolving design systems and guidelines to drive consistent quality and improve efficiency
• Coordinating with the rest of design leadership to mature our collective practice
• Bringing your team and others together to share their work and strengthen culture
• Engaging the open source community to learn and make the value of our work legible
  
  

• A portfolio demonstrating outstanding quality in UX design and savviness in technology
• Exceptional educational achievements in design or related behavioral science discipline
• Full lifecycle experience from user needs discovery through validation and implementation guidance
• Commitment to transparent project delivery and owning team deadlines
• Experience of managing a team that interacts with technical stakeholders
• Familiarity with quantitative optimisation approaches
• A passion for balancing consistency and innovation
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events
  
  

• Fully remote working environment - we've been working remotely since 2004!
• Personal learning and development budget of 2,000USD per annum
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Parental Leave
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues at 'sprints'
• Priority Pass for travel and travel upgrades for long haul company events
  
  

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology
• Industries Software Development

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