Melbourne, CBA has opened a new technology hub that will house up to 500 technology specialists. The specialists include developers, cyber specialists and cloud engineers. Moreover, it has partnered with RMIT and Monash University to offer students job opportunities. Software engineering students will get data, cloud, analytics and software domain jobs. CBA Chief Information officer, Brendan Hopper inaugurated the tech hub. It is located on Collins Street.
100 technology specialists
Hopper told media that Melbourne’’ has a depth of tech skills that we need to access as the bank. It sees to ‘’ rebalance how much work we do inside versus using a partner. Furthermore, the hub has almost 100 technology specialists. It looks to grow by 400 over the next few years.
Hopper added, ‘’ we’re targeting up to 500 workers if the skills are there. That’ll take us a couple of years to get there but definitely, that’s our plan.’’ He said that CBA is ‘’ strategic on who we put where’’ depending on their skill set available in the market.
He also said that the bank is keen to fill cloud, DevOps and platform engineer roles and also hire engineers to build things to make other engineers more efficient.
“That’s an area where the tech giants and tech companies have invested a lot over the past couple of decades,” he said.
More tech hubs are planed across Australia
CBA is optimistic about opening a tech hub portfolio across Australia. Hopper said that the next hub will ‘’definitely’’ always be close to educational institutions’’ with hopes to partner with ‘’ the likes of TAFE’’.
Moreover, he said Melbourne has a very mature established tech sector, lots of cyber experts, lots of data scientists, and amazing cloud engineers that we believe that we can offer opportunities to right now.’’