OCBC announces mass hiring of 1,500 tech workers with majority in S’pore

OCBC introduced on Friday (Mar 25) options to accelerate its electronic transformation by hiring about 1,500 technology staff members more than the subsequent a few yrs.

The company expects this initiative to build larger worth for clients and elevate their consumer expertise.

In accordance to a statement by Lim Khiang Tong, Group Main Operating Officer at OCBC Financial institution, the new roles include application developers, cyber protection specialists, blockchain professionals, and info experts, amongst some others.

The the vast majority of these positions will be dependent in Singapore, with the rest in its overseas entities in China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Indonesia.

This update will come amid the backdrop of a international scarcity of tech abilities, and the banking group, which operates throughout East and Southeast Asia, is aggressively choosing as levels of competition for tech expertise heats up.

Existing staff members retrained with digital capabilities

Some of the bank’s employees are also being retrained and redeployed, and the financial institution has been growing its spending on training and advancement for staff in tech functions about the previous 5 a long time.

Lim told Vulcan Submit that the bank released the OCBC Upcoming Smart Programme in 2018 to practice and develop the electronic skills of its workers, with an expenditure of S$20 million, the major scale and most formidable electronic transformation initiative by a Singapore bank.

These programmes incorporate the Facts Certification Pathway, accredited by the Institute of Banking and Finance, and give in-depth coaching for workforce in info analytics. A different programme is the Cyber Certification Pathway which supplies cybersecurity teaching. Extra than 200 staff members have accomplished both of those pathways considering that.

OCBC is also employing a new e-studying platform to preserve its tech workers up to date with new abilities in software advancement, cloud computing, machine mastering, and synthetic intelligence (AI). In accordance to the lender, these assist expose staff to spots exterior of what they experienced initially been hired for and have verified successful in staff members retention.

OCBC included that it stays dedicated to contributing to Singapore’s talent pipeline, owning welcomed 20 third-calendar year pupils from Ngee Ann Polytechnic for a a person-year internship, and launching a postgraduate AI scholarship 3 yrs in the past.

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