Head – Intelligent Engineering & AI Enablement

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OtherAi Enablement Lead

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OtherAi Enablement Lead

With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

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Job Summary

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.The mandate is not to replace development partners.

It is to establish a bank-owned engineering capability that uses AI, automation and modern engineering practices to materially improve speed, quality, resilience and engineering economics, while strategically leveraging partners where they add value.

The role reports directly to the Head of Digital Transformation & Technology and works horizontally across Digital Transformation, Technology & Run, Product, Architecture, Cyber & Risk, Group Technology/AI teams and strategic development partners.

Strategic Context

The role is central to the bank’s shift from a traditional Build → Hand-off → Run model towards a Build → Run → Learn → Improve model. Digital Transformation remains accountable for what the bank builds and the business/customer outcomes; Intelligent Engineering & AI Enablement owns how technology is engineered; Technology & Run remains accountable for application and service ownership, production operations, infrastructure, resilience and technology governance.

The successful candidate will therefore be a builder of capability and a catalyst for change – creating the engineering standards, platforms, practices, automation and talent required to make AI-native engineering a practical operating model rather than an isolated technology initiative.

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.
Define the right Build / Buy / Partner / Automate / AI approach for engineering capabilities and technology delivery.
Drive measurable improvements in engineering productivity, speed, quality, resilience and cost.
Establish engineering performance measures and continuously improve the engineering operating model.