Principal Data Scientist - GenAI & FinCrime Leader

Commonwealth Bank of Australia; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Commonwealth Bank of Australia is seeking a Principal Data Scientist to lead GenAI and Agentic AI initiatives within Financial Crime. You will architect and deliver high-impact AI solutions, mentor teams, and steer model development from prototype to production while ensuring responsible AI practices.

You will collaborate with engineers and domain experts to translate complex financial crime problems into transformative AI outcomes, advancing the bank's capabilities across detection,

Qualifications

• Experience designing and deploying GenAI/Agentic AI systems at scale.
• Ability to lead cross-functional squads and balance technical and business outcomes.
• Strong understanding of AI ethics, governance and risk considerations.

Responsibilities

• Lead GenAI and Agentic system design and development, prototype and deploy AI solutions for financial crime.
• Develop and monitor machine learning models across the Fin Crime domain.
• Identify AI opportunities and translate them into actionable projects with measurable outcomes.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to drive adoption and improve detection and investigations.

Skills

GenAI

Agentic AI

Machine Learning

NLP

Data Engineering

Cloud Architecture

CI/CD

GitHub

Spark

Python

R

TensorFlow

PyTorch

SQL

LangChain

LangGraph

Tools

Docker

AWS

Azure

Spark

Python

R

TensorFlow

PyTorch

SQL

GitHub

Job description

Commonwealth Bank of Australia is seeking a Principal Data Scientist to lead GenAI and Agentic AI initiatives within Financial Crime. You will architect and deliver high-impact AI solutions, mentor teams, and steer model development from prototype to production while ensuring responsible AI practices.

You will collaborate with engineers and domain experts to translate complex financial crime problems into transformative AI outcomes, advancing the bank's capabilities across detection,