
Senior Manager, Data Science – GenAI & Agentic AI
Commonwealth Bank
Senior Manager, Data Science – GenAI & Agentic AI
Lead and develop a high-performing team delivering production-grade GenAI and multi-agent AI solutions in the Business Bank's Customer, Channels & Data AI Centre of Excellence. This hands-on leadership role requires technical expertise in agentic AI, strong ownership mindset, and the ability to turn ambiguous business opportunities into measurable outcomes.
Senior Manager, Data Science – GenAI & Agentic AI
Lead and develop a high-performing team delivering production-grade GenAI and multi-agent AI solutions in the Business Bank's Customer, Channels & Data AI Centre of Excellence. This hands-on leadership role requires technical expertise in agentic AI, strong ownership mindset, and the ability to turn ambiguous business opportunities into measurable outcomes.
Salary
Core Qualifications
Technical (Must-have)
Soft Skills
Key Responsibilities
- Lead, coach and develop a high-performing team of Data Scientists and AI specialists
- Own strategic AI and GenAI initiatives from opportunity identification through solution design, build, deployment, adoption and ongoing performance management
- Provide hands-on technical leadership, including solution architecture, prototyping, design and code reviews, technical problem-solving and delivery assurance
- Design and deliver agentic AI solutions, including multi-agent systems that use orchestration, tool calling, retrieval, reasoning, state management and human oversight
- Ensure solutions move beyond proof-of-concept stage and are engineered for production reliability, security, maintainability and scale
- Establish robust approaches to GenAI evaluation, covering solution quality, groundedness, safety, reliability, latency, cost and business effectiveness
- Proactively identify delivery risks, capability gaps and unresolved dependencies, then take ownership of driving them to resolution
- Make effective decisions in ambiguous environments, creating a clear path forward rather than waiting for complete information or detailed direction
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Architecture, Risk, Cyber, Legal and business stakeholders to deliver end-to-end outcomes
- Influence senior stakeholders by translating complex technical concepts into clear choices, trade-offs and business implications
- Define success measures and use data to demonstrate customer impact, operational performance and realised business value
- Promote strong model governance, responsible AI, privacy and risk-management practices throughout the solution lifecycle
- Build reusable AI patterns, platforms and delivery practices that increase the speed and quality of future initiatives
- Foster a culture of curiosity, constructive challenge, continuous learning and shared accountability