Senior Data Scientist, People Intelligence & AI

Commonwealth Bank; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Commonwealth Bank in Sydney is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to apply advanced analytics, machine learning, and Generative AI to workforce challenges. You will partner with HR leaders and enterprise stakeholders to design and deploy data-driven solutions that improve planning, capability, and employee experiences.

You'll work with large enterprise data, translate insights into executive-ready recommendations, and contribute to responsible AI practices while mentoring colleagues across the team.

Qualifications

• Experience in applied data science with production-ready ML solutions.
• Strong coding skills in Python, R, SQL and cloud experience (AWS).
• Ability to work with large enterprise datasets and build reusable assets.
• Understanding responsible AI, privacy and ethical data use.

Responsibilities

• Partner with HR, leaders and CoEs to solve workforce challenges via data science and AI.
• Design, build and deploy ML and Generative AI solutions delivering measurable value.
• Analyze complex workforce datasets to support planning, capability and employee experience.
• Translate analyses into executive-ready recommendations.
• Apply responsible AI, privacy and ethical data practices with sensitive data.
• Collaborate with data engineers, platform teams and MLOps to deliver scalable solutions.
• Embed analytics and AI into HR decision-making and self-service experiences.
• Contribute to analytical assets and coding standards across the team.
• Coach and mentor team members to grow AI and data science capability.

Skills

Data science

Statistical modelling

Machine learning

Generative AI

Agentic AI

Tools

Python

R

SQL

AWS

Cloud analytics

AI tools

Job description

Commonwealth Bank in Sydney is seeking a Senior Data Scientist to apply advanced analytics, machine learning, and Generative AI to workforce challenges. You will partner with HR leaders and enterprise stakeholders to design and deploy data-driven solutions that improve planning, capability, and employee experiences.

You'll work with large enterprise data, translate insights into executive-ready recommendations, and contribute to responsible AI practices while mentoring colleagues across the team.