I have been learning how to code, I am wondering what career route can a guy with a banking degree and coding skills choose to pursue?

This post has been edited by cocomaru: Aug 23 2024, 12:09 PM

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I'm in that line, join banking sector.

First step is to choose the correct company to onboard.
Strongly suggest to joint Banking IT sector, software house - banking or IT advisory.

Anyway welcome onboard to IT world

I will do more research into this, and also what languages or skills would you recommend me to learn to increase my chances of getting interviewed and being hired?

Thank you so much, Singleon.

If you have time, i will suggest u to build your own portfolio, demonstrate the website/application you build, your github activities if that's any, action speak louder.
Practical result definitely is more convincing.
Language won't increase your chance of getting hired, but the trending language got more vacancy.

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You want a good paying job, join the BU as their automation specialist. Easy, boring job and pretty good pay.

If you want a challenge, then you might have to join software house, as big banks usually hire people from software house to work on their projects.

We’re a bank, not an IT company. Most of the ITs here are more on network and infra side, not devs

Here are the paths you can potentially take.

1/ Work at a bank - But you need to find a bank which has their own in-house development team if you want to practice your coding and development skills
2/ Work at a software house - Basically you work at a company which provides softwares to banks, they can be a core banking provider, AML, fraud detection, payment gateway, clearing houses and many many more
3/ Work at a Fintech - This would be the most fast paced type role as well
4/ Work at a digital bank - This probably has one of the more better options as now we already have 3 digi banks launched and 1 more coming soon.

If I choose either the 3rd or 4th option, what skills do I need to increase my chances of landing a job in those respective areas?

All tech company use different stake, usually we find job based on the skill set we have instead of getting certain skillset because wanted to enter a certain company, unless thats the company u really dying for wanted to enter...