Chapter Lead: Responsible & Agentic AI Leadership

Commonwealth Bank of Australia; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Commonwealth Bank of Australia seeks a Chapter Lead to steer Responsible AI capabilities across evaluation, runtime assurance and ongoing monitoring. You will lead a specialist data science chapter, shaping technical direction and delivering scalable AI capabilities across the Group.

You will work hands-on to move ideas from concept to build, test and delivery, enabling AI developers across the Group to implement Responsible AI at scale while partnering with risk, policy, engineering and data

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading teams or significant technical leadership across ML initiatives.
• Strong foundation in statistics, probability and machine learning with ability to interpret model behaviour.
• Hands-on experience designing, developing and evaluating production AI/ML solutions including LLMs, NLP or conversational AI.
• Practical knowledge of cloud environments such as AWS or Azure, version control, CI/CD, containerization, monitoring and observability.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of data scientists through coaching, knowledge sharing, technical guidance and collaboration.
• Lead the design, development and implementation of evaluation and assurance capabilities for Generative and Agentic AI across the Group.
• Partner with engineering, data science, risk and policy teams to design and deliver Responsible AI capabilities.
• Partner with risk and policy teams to build and operate formal risk controls for responsible AI practices.
• Establish executive risk reporting for responsible AI outcomes to senior leadership.
• Apply statistical methods and structured problem solving to complex challenges in Responsible AI.
• Work with data scientists and developers to gather requirements and identify enhancement opportunities.
• Keep up to date with industry developments in Generative/Agentic AI and responsible AI.

Skills

Team leadership

Statistics

Machine Learning

Python

SQL

Cloud (AWS/Azure)

CI/CD

Containerization

Monitoring/Observability

Communication

Stakeholder influence

Data Science

Education

Tertiary qualification in Data Science/Statistics/CS/Engineering/Math

Tools

SQL

Job description

Commonwealth Bank of Australia seeks a Chapter Lead to steer Responsible AI capabilities across evaluation, runtime assurance and ongoing monitoring. You will lead a specialist data science chapter, shaping technical direction and delivering scalable AI capabilities across the Group.

You will work hands-on to move ideas from concept to build, test and delivery, enabling AI developers across the Group to implement Responsible AI at scale while partnering with risk, policy, engineering and data