Principal Data Scientist - GenAI & Financial Crime

Coleambally; Australia; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Commonwealth Bank of Australia is seeking a Principal Data Scientist in Financial Crime AI. You will lead hands-on technical work with engineers to design, build and monitor GenAI and agentic AI solutions that improve detection and investigation of financial crime, while guiding best practices across the domain.

You will translate complex ideas into high-impact outcomes, stay ahead of emerging AI technologies, and foster curiosity and continuous learning within cross-functional squads across the

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with Generative AI, prompt engineering and governance.
• Experience deploying GenAI/agentic AI in financial crime or similar regulated domains.
• Ability to design scalable AI systems across data and software teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead GenAI and agentic system design for financial crime prevention and investigation.
• Develop and deploy ML models and monitor performance in production.
• Identify AI opportunities across Fin Crime and drive adoption to improve outcomes.

Skills

GenAI

RAG

LangChain

LangGraph

NLP

ML

Docker

Spark

Python

R

TensorFlow

PyTorch

SQL

ETL

CI/CD

GitHub

AWS

Azure

Tools

LangChain

LangGraph

Job description

Commonwealth Bank of Australia is seeking a Principal Data Scientist in Financial Crime AI. You will lead hands-on technical work with engineers to design, build and monitor GenAI and agentic AI solutions that improve detection and investigation of financial crime, while guiding best practices across the domain.

You will translate complex ideas into high-impact outcomes, stay ahead of emerging AI technologies, and foster curiosity and continuous learning within cross-functional squads across the