SAP Engineering AI Specialist (Contract)

About the role

The client seeks an AI Specialist to join the core SAP Engineering and Data Science squads within the Group IT Hub in South Africa. Working inside a structured SAP ecosystem, you will design and operate advanced data‑science pipelines, prompt‑engineered LLM solutions, and end‑to‑end data integration workflows that support global IT and business stakeholders.

Key responsibilities

• Architect and maintain complex data models in SAP Datasphere, using Python‑based transformations and API integrations.
• Design, implement and optimise prompt‑engineering strategies for large language models to drive autonomous conversational agents.
• Build and deploy Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines that automate multi‑step business interactions.
• Manage the full data lifecycle, from mining large, unstructured datasets to delivering actionable insights.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to translate ambiguous business problems into clear technical solutions.

Required profile

• 3+ years of commercial experience delivering SAP Datasphere data models and Python integration layers.
• Proven expertise in prompt engineering and production‑grade LLM integration.
• Strong autonomous work ethic with the ability to own routine integration workflows.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, capable of influencing without direct authority.

Required skills

• SAP Datasphere
• Python
• API integration
• Large Language Models (LLMs)
• Prompt Engineering
• Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines
• Data Modeling
• Data Mining