Principal Data Scientist – Financial Crime Model Validation

Commonwealth Bank • Lindfield, New South Wales • Posted July 09, 2026

About the Role

Do Work That Matters
At CommBank, Data Science is evolving quickly, with stronger tooling, reusable assets and AI-enabled support helping teams move from experimentation to production with greater speed, rigour and impact. In this role, you’ll help build a new capability within the model validation team dedicated to financial crime models, supporting a critical transition from traditional rule-based alerting to modern machine learning approaches.

See yourself in our team
You’ll join a model validation team where a new capability is being established to support incoming financial crime model validation work. This team’s work sits at the intersection of data science, governance, financial crime risk and technology, and offers the chance to work on high-priority use cases as the bank moves from traditional rule-based alerting to modern machine learning and AI-driven approaches.

You’ll help shape how advanced analytics, ML, GenAI and agentic AI-enabled ...