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Regardless of where you work within our organization, your initiative, talent, ideas and energy all contribute to the impact that we can make with our work. Together we can build tomorrow’s bank today.
Job Title: Senior Associate Data Scientist
Location: Bengaluru, India
Business and Team: Financial Crime AI Team, COO
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:
Design, develop, and deploy scalable AI/ML models for Financial Crime use cases including AML, fraud, and scam detection
Work with large and complex datasets using Python and PySpark to build high-performance data and ML pipelines
Build and optimise cloud-native AI solutions on AWS
Collaborate with cross-functional teams including engineers, product owners, and risk stakeholders to solve complex business problems
Translate business challenges into data-driven solutions and actionable insights
Drive experimentation, model evaluation, monitoring, and continuous improvement of AI solutions
Contribute to best practices across responsible AI, model governance, software engineering, and M L Ops
Essential Skills:
3+ 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 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, master's or PhD in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Computer Science, or related disciplines.
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