Principal GenAI Data Scientist – Financial Crime

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

Job summary

Commonwealth Bank in Australia seeks a Principal Data Scientist to lead GenAI and agentic AI initiatives in Financial Crime. You will design, prototype, deploy, and monitor advanced AI solutions, guiding the team on technically demanding Fin Crime problems as AI evolves.

You’ll collaborate with engineers and domain experts to translate complex ideas into high-impact outcomes for customers and colleagues, fostering curiosity, inclusion, and continuous learning across squads.

Qualifications

• Experience leading GenAI and agentic AI design and development in financial crime or security domains.
• Proven ability to prototype and deploy ML models in production with monitoring.
• Strong collaboration across cross-functional squads with engineers and data scientists.

Responsibilities

• Lead GenAI and agentic system design and development across the domain.
• Develop and monitor ML models for detection and investigation of financial crime.
• Identify AI opportunities within Fin Crime to guide future focus.
• Drive continuous improvement and measurable business outcomes with stakeholders.

Skills

GenAI

Agentic systems

ML model design

NLP

RAG

LangChain

LangGraph

GitHub

Docker

Spark

Python

R

TensorFlow

PyTorch

SQL

Data engineering

AWS

Azure

Tools

LangChain

LangGraph

GitHub

Docker

Spark

TensorFlow

PyTorch

SQL

AWS

Azure

Job description

Commonwealth Bank in Australia seeks a Principal Data Scientist to lead GenAI and agentic AI initiatives in Financial Crime. You will design, prototype, deploy, and monitor advanced AI solutions, guiding the team on technically demanding Fin Crime problems as AI evolves.

You’ll collaborate with engineers and domain experts to translate complex ideas into high-impact outcomes for customers and colleagues, fostering curiosity, inclusion, and continuous learning across squads.