Senior Data Scientist: Responsible AI & Agentic Systems

CommBank; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

CommBank is seeking a Senior Data Scientist in the Responsible AI domain to develop and scale capabilities across evaluations, runtime assurance and monitoring for agency AI across the group.

You will collaborate with risk, policy, and engineering teams to design, deploy and govern responsible AI solutions, applying rigorous statistics, Python and cloud-based ML tools, while mentoring colleagues and advancing governance practices.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience designing, developing and evaluating production AI or ML solutions.
• Experience evaluating and managing risk of Generative and Agentic AI systems.
• Strong foundation in statistics, probability and machine learning; ability to explain model behaviour.
• Advanced Python and SQL with ML/DL frameworks.
• Experience with cloud environments (AWS/Azure), version control, CI/CD and containers.

Responsibilities

• Deliver evaluation and assurance capabilities for Generative and Agentic AI across the Group.
• Partner with engineering, data science, risk and policy teams to design Responsible AI capabilities.
• Build and operate formal risk controls for Responsible AI practices.
• Establish executive risk reporting for leadership visibility.
• Apply statistical methods to complex Responsible AI challenges.
• Collaborate with data scientists and developers to identify enhancement opportunities.
• Stay up-to-date with Generative and Agentic AI developments and Responsible AI practices.
• Contribute to best practice frameworks and coding standards.
• Coach and mentor team members to grow AI and data science capability.

Skills

Generative AI

Agentic AI

Python

SQL

ML frameworks

AWS

Azure

Model governance

Risk management

Stakeholder communication

Education

Data Science/Statistics/CS/Engineering degree

Tools

Git

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

CommBank is seeking a Senior Data Scientist in the Responsible AI domain to develop and scale capabilities across evaluations, runtime assurance and monitoring for agency AI across the group.

You will collaborate with risk, policy, and engineering teams to design, deploy and govern responsible AI solutions, applying rigorous statistics, Python and cloud-based ML tools, while mentoring colleagues and advancing governance practices.