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Decision Engineer

Capitec Bank All 4 months ago
Full-time
Engineering

About the role

As a Decision Engineer within the Decisioning team, you will design and implement automated decision systems that translate analytical models and business rules into scalable, production-ready logic. Working at the intersection of data science and engineering, you will build and optimize decision flows, integrating real-time data and predictive models to drive consistent, explainable outcomes.

You will contribute across the full decisioning lifecycle, from development and deployment to monitoring and improvement ensuring performance, reliability, and governance. Collaborating with cross-functional teams (Decision Scientist, Data Engineers, Business Analysts), you will help deliver efficient, auditable decision solutions that enable real-time, data-driven business decisions.

Our ideal candidate has:

6+ years of experience in any Engineering role (Software, Data, ML/AI, Analytics) or in any Data role (Data Science or Decision Science)

Master's degree or higher.

Experience with any of the credit bureau's would be preferred.

Language and frameworks experience: Python or C#, SQL, Rest API, JSON

Decisioning platform experience: SAS Viya Decision Manager, Drools, IBM ODM, Pega or equivalent.

Data and cloud experience: AWS or Azure or GCP

Integration experience: API gateway, Postman, microservices architecture

Automation & CI/CD experience: Jenkins, GitHub, Docker, Kubernetes

Testing experience: NUnit/xUnit, PyTest, regression harnesses for decision logic

Monitoring experience: Grafana, Prometheus, or custom dashboards

Competencies:

Systems thinking

Collaboration

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Adaptability

Education

Completed a master's degree or higher