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Job Title :- Data Scientist

Location :- Manyata Tech Park , Bangalore

Business & Team :-

Retail Banking Services (RBS) is the public face of CommBank, delivering a seamless banking experience for the future, to more than 10 million individuals and small businesses. We offer market-leading products and services, supported by some of the world’s best systems and processes.

The Chief Data and Analytics Office (CDAO) group delivers the groups data and AI solutions to ensure the highest levels of customer service through excellent insights, process excellence and AI innovation.

We deliver available, reliable, consistent technology solutions for our internal and external customers, essential tools for our people and innovative product platforms for our customers across the bank.

We put the customer at the center of everything we do and measure our performance against the groups’ external customer satisfaction measures.

Our team is composed of data scientists, engineers, and technology leaders, who bring in the right mix of skills to enable this transformation. We also work very closely with our business and operations colleagues to support these services which are critical to the Australian and Global economy.

Impact & contribution :

The Senior Associate Data Scientist will use technical knowledge and understanding of business domain to deliver moderate or highly complex data science projects independently or with minimal guidance.

You will also engage and collaborate with business stakeholders to clearly articulate findings to solve business problems.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Lead AI driven initiatives, from problem formulation to model deployment, leveraging Gen AI, NLP, Computer Vison, Deep Learning, advanced statistical techniques, and machine learning algorithms.
• Drive the development and implementation of scalable AI solutions, ensuring accuracy and reliability of models.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to define project goals, prioritize tasks, and deliver actionable insights.
• Opportunity understanding/ problem formulation and suggest AI/ ML solutions to help the business for maximum impact  
• Design and execute experiments to evaluate model performance and optimize algorithms for maximum efficiency.
• Develop and deploy production-grade AI/ machine learning models in cloud-based and on-prem platforms.
• Lead cross-functional teams in the design and execution of AI/ data science projects, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and industry trends, continuously enhancing expertise in AI/ data science methodologies and tools.
• Drive innovation by exploring new approaches and techniques for solving complex business problems through data analysis and AI/ ML modelling.
• Mentor junior team members, providing guidance on best practices and technical skills development.
• Strongly support the adoption of AI/ data science across the organization.
• Identify problems in the products, services and operations of the bank and solve those with innovative research driven solutions.

Essential Skills:

Must have:

• Strong hands-on programming experience in Python (mandatory), R, SQL, Hive and Spark.
• Ability to write well designed, modular and optimized code.
• Knowledge of AI, Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computer Vision, Large Language Models (LLM), Generative AI (e.g., Open-source models & GTP’s, RAG, Guardrails for fairness / privacy).
• Knowledge and hands-on experience in developing solutions with Large Language Models.
• Solid foundation of Boosted Trees, Time Series, Statistics and core ML algorithms at a mathematical (under the hood) level.
• Must have been part of projects building and deploying AI/ predictive models in production (financial services domain preferred) involving large and complex data sets.
• Model Deployment Experience (MLOps)
• Knowledge of commonly used data structures and algorithms.
• Strong problem solving and critical thinking skills.
• Curious, fast learning capability and team player attitude is a must.
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively.
• Demonstrated expertise through blogposts, research, participation in competitions, speaking opportunities, patents and paper publications.
• Most importantly - ability to identify and translate theories into real applications to solve practical problems.
• Innovation mindset blended with pragmatic thinking

Good to have:

• Knowledge of H2O.ai, GitHub, Big Data and ML Engineering.
• Knowledge of Snowflake, AWS, Azure etc.
• Built and deployed large scale software applications.
• Understanding of principles of software engineering.
• Experience in Data Science in Sales and Marketing, Campaign Analytics, Ecommerce Retail or banking products for retail or business banking is preferred.

Qualification:-

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering Or Master’s degree Or Ph.D. in Data Science, Machine Learning, Computer Science, Computational Linguistics, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Physics.
• More than 7 years of relevant experience.

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