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The Focus Group

AI Development Specialist - Azure (Contract)

The Focus Group

  • R100 - R800 per month
  • Contract Senior position
  • Kramerville
  • Posted 27 Jan 2026 by The Focus Group
  • Expires in 34 days
  • Job 2631887
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About the position

Our client is seeking an experienced AI Development Specialist (Azure) to lead the design, development, and deployment of enterprise-grade AI solutions. This role owns the full lifecycle—from data ingestion to model deployment—ensuring scalability, security, and compliance within the Microsoft Azure ecosystem.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and deploy production-ready AI solutions using Azure AI services (Azure OpenAI, AI Search, Azure ML).
  • Architect and implement secure APIs and integrations using Azure API Management, Event Hub, and enterprise systems.
  • Containerize AI workloads and deploy via AKS, Azure Functions, or App Service using modern CI/CD pipelines.
  • Implement observability practices including logging, monitoring, telemetry dashboards, and performance optimization.
  • Conduct cost optimization and resource governance for Azure-based AI workloads.
  • Collaborate across engineering, product, and data teams to deliver scalable AI features.
  • Produce detailed architectural documentation, runbooks, and best-practice guidelines.
  • Drive MLOps strategy and pipeline automation using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
  • Ensure solutions adhere to Responsible AI, security, and compliance standards.
Technical Skills

  •  Strong expertise in Azure AI services: Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Studio, Azure AI Search, Azure ML.
  • Advanced programming experience in Python (mandatory); knowledge of C#/.NET or TypeScript/Node.
  • Experience building RAG architectures, prompt engineering, and model optimisation.
  • Integration experience with Data Lake, Synapse/Fabric, Data Factory, Event Hub, API Management.
  • Proficiency in containerization (Docker), orchestration (AKS), and serverless computing (Functions).
  • Infrastructure-as-Code: Bicep, ARM templates, Terraform.
  • MLOps tooling: MLflow, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions.
  • Strong data engineering and secure integration design capabilities.
  • Knowledge of Responsible AI principles and Azure governance standards.
  • Familiarity with LangChain or Semantic Kernel (advantageous).
Nice-to-Have

  • Experience with Microsoft Fabric and Databricks on Azure.
  • Sector exposure in financial services.
  • Azure AI Engineer Associate or similar certification
Qualifications

  • Degree in Computer Science/Engineering/Math or equivalent industry experience.
 

Desired Skills:

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Azure Databricks
  • CI/CD
  • Data Modeling
  • Development
  • DevOps
  • Docker

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The Focus Group

About the agency

THE FOCUS GROUP was formed in 1989 and has offices in Johannesburg and Cape Town. We are a full service Human Resource Consulting Company, encompassing Black Empowerment joint venture partner Focus Kamoso, and offering a comprehensive range of integrated recruitment, assessment, employee relations, training and development, HR, employee benefit and payroll management services to a wide range of South African, African and international business organisations. Our commitment is to enter into a partnership with you, the Client, which adds value to your business and profit to your bottom line, by tailoring solutions that assist you to • Source, assess and select the best possible human resources. • Design and implement competency based training programmes, which ensure that your employees are capable of delivering the service excellence that your clients demand, and the competitive edge which you seek to maintain. • Create a business environment in which you manage change to your advantage and an organisational climate that allows your team to perform to its maximum potential. • Design employee benefit and remuneration structures which ensure that your people take ownership of your business and which protect you against losing your most valuable resource to your competition. • Implement an employee relations framework that promotes workplace harmony and minimises the occurrence of disruptive legal disputes.

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