DBS Triples Vacancies at Female-Focused Job Fair

The second edition of the bank’s virtual career fair sees vacancies for women technologists almost treble to 140.

The bank is focusing its outreach efforts on filling five engineering roles: Engineering Lead; Solution Architect; ReactJS Developer; Full Stack Developer; and Software Development Engineering in Test, at its Women in Tech» career fair, which is returning in June 2021.

We believe that by driving diversity in our engineering roles we will be able to incorporate a multiplicity of views and perspectives upstream so as to deliver outstanding digital experiences for our customers, Soh Siew Choo, DBS head of big data/AI and consumer banking technology, said in an announcement on Tuesday.

Candidates must complete an online assessment by June 8, and shortlisted applicants will be invited to an online hiring day on 12 June 2021.

According to DBS. there is a strong pipeline for of women for technology roles. The bank received more than 500 applications for 50 job opportunities at its inaugural virtual career fair, held amid the pandemic in October 2020.

Among the new hires from last year’s edition was Lo Man Ling, vice president of consumer banking digital platform, who joined the bank after more than nine years in the public sector.

DBS said the share of applications from women rose to over 30 percent, as compared to 5 percent in previous years, and the number of offers made to women also increased about five times, as a result of its efforts to reach out to women.