Senior Data Scientist

Do work that matters:

As a Senior Data Scientist within the Customer Engagement and Digital Area, you will play a key role in the use of AI and Gen AI to help our customers having the best banking experience imaginable. This role involves designing clever data science solutions that can be integrated in one of the best banking App in Australia reaching millions of customers every day. 

You will work closely with key stakeholders and cross-functional teams within the Retail Bank to ensure our customers can fully benefit from and feel rewarded by banking with us. You will come with a strong business acumen along with demonstrable experience in using statistics, machine learning and Gen AI to predict the next best thing we can do for our customers. 

See yourself in our team:

We focus on developing advanced AI capabilities at CBA, working closely with business teams and analytics communities across the bank. We use data and AI to enhance the financial wellbeing of our customers and communities, create next generation experience with deep insights, improve productivity and reduce risk. 

We are seeking people who are: 

• Passionate about building and validating market leading responsible AI capabilities, practises and models  

• Excited about tackling new challenging business problems in data science by using AI and Gen AI responsibly

• Adept with using a combination of statistics, AI and analytics to find unique solutions that add strategic value to the business

• Collaborative in nature to work alongside risk, product and technical teams, proactive in solving data problems and courageous in positively influencing stakeholders

• Curious and excited about the latest AI tools and techniques

Tech skills:

• Ability to think deeply about problems and apply imaginatively your statistical and technical skills

• Strong coding skills to be able to quickly implement ideas and write production code using Python, SQL, R and other languages

• Substantial experience in developing, validating, deploying and monitoring statistical and machine learning models

• Expert-level skills in SQL, with experience in data warehousing solutions like Snowflake and able to deal with very large datasets

• Experience building and testing Generative AI and agentic solutions

• Strong Stakeholder Management with excellent communication skills and a refined ability to simplify complex technical concepts and collaborate with non-technical stakeholders

• Understanding of model governance best practices

• Practical experience with python, command line tools, GitHub, AWS and CI/CD pipelines

Working with us: 

Whether you’re passionate about customer service, driven by data, or called by creativity, a career here is for you. At CommBank, we advocate and facilitate a culture of inclusion and respect, celebrating all cultures, abilities, genders, expressions of gender and sexual orientation. Read more about our commitment to inclusion and diversity on our careers website. 

Our people bring their diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives to build a respectful, inclusive and flexible workplace. We are working hard to recruit people who represent the diversity of our customers and our society. If you're excited about this opportunity but you don't meet every single requirement, or your experience doesn't align perfectly, we still want to encourage you to send in your application. You may just be the perfect candidate for this opportunity or another within CommBank. 

At CommBank we will inspire you with work that makes a difference, surround you with talented people that respect and value each other, and empower you to grow professionally and personally. Most of all, making a positive impact for customers, communities and each other is part of our every day.

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