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Job Title: Data Scientist
Location: Bengaluru, India
Business and Team: Financial Crime AI Team, COO
At the heart of the Chief Operations Office, we’re driving CBA’s ambition to detect, deter, and ultimately eliminate Financial Crime through transformative AI solutions.
As a Data Scientist in the Financial Crime AI team, you’ll lead and collaborate with data scientists, ML engineers, software engineers, and domain experts to build scalable, high-impact AI solutions across AML, fraud, scams, and risk intelligence.
You’ll stay at the forefront of emerging AI technologies, helping shape innovative, responsible, and impactful solutions for the future of Financial Crime prevention.
Impact and Contribution:
CommBank is redefining the future of banking through AI, data, and innovation. We’re investing in modern technology, scalable platforms, and world-class talent to build smarter and safer customer experiences.
Within the Financial Crime AI team, you’ll work on meaningful problems at scale — leveraging AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics to help combat fraud, scams, and financial crime. You’ll have the opportunity to innovate, influence strategy, and deliver solutions with real customer impact.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Develop and deploy AI/ML models for Financial Crime use cases including AML, fraud, scam detection, and risk intelligence
Work with large-scale structured and unstructured datasets using Python, SQL, and PySpark to build scalable data and ML pipelines
Build and optimise cloud-native AI solutions and workflows on AWS
Apply statistical analysis, feature engineering, experimentation, and model evaluation techniques to improve model performance
Collaborate with engineers, product owners, and domain experts to solve complex business problems and deliver impactful AI solutions
Support model deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement of production ML systems
Contribute to best practices across responsible AI, model governance, and ML Ops.
Essential Skills:
5+ years of experience in Data Science, Machine Learning, or Applied AI
Strong hands-on experience with Python, PySpark, SQL, and AWS
Experience working with large-scale datasets and distributed data processing frameworks
Experience building, evaluating and deploying machine learning models in production environments
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder communication skills
Exposure to Financial Crime, Fraud, AML, Risk, or Banking domains is highly regarded.
Experience in building and shipping Generative and Agentic AI based systems.
Education Qualifications:
Bachelors, Masters or PhD in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Computer Science, or related disciplines.
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Commonwealth Bank Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — The bank offers additional Life Leave, the option to purchase up to four extra weeks, pet leave, and paid volunteering leave alongside flexible-working options. Public materials indicate these leave features compare well within Australian banking.
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Parental & Family Support — Permanent employees can access up to 18 weeks of paid parental leave, and superannuation is paid for up to 34 weeks of unpaid parental leave. These provisions extend support for new parents beyond standard settings.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Access includes CBHS Health Fund, Fitness Passport, a 24/7 wellbeing platform with telehealth, an Employee Assistance Program, and employer‑paid income protection for up to two years, alongside staff banking perks and share plans. This combination provides day‑to‑day value across health, protection, and financial perks.
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