As hiring talent continues to be a challenge for leading enterprises, ANZ launched its new engineer career program ANZ Engineering Career Pathways, aimed at “building engineering excellence”. The program will “strengthen technical excellence and build a team of world-class engineers”, noted ANZ.
The career pathway program is expected to provide an alternative to the more traditional people-manager-centric career path.
The program will provide engineers with support to develop technical proficiency across critical engineering areas including cloud, security, data and software.
ANZ Chief Technology Officer, Tim Hogarth said: “This program is about investing in our future and ensuring we attract and retain the very best engineers.
We recognise that a ‘traditional’ leadership pathway is not necessarily suited to an engineer, so we saw an opportunity in which eight different engineering specifications over seven levels will be created, differentiating engineers from other careers in the bank and creating new choices for them.
“This will build an environment where our engineers can grow and be recognized for their technical mastery, and we will have more opportunity to retain the engineers we need to deliver critical outcomes for the bank.
We want to make ANZ a destination of choice for leading engineers
ANZ CTO Tm Hogarth
The Engineering Career Pathway program will start rolling out in February 2023. It could be available to around 3000 engineers globally.
Other leading enterprises have unleashed similar initiatives to recruit and retain talent. Highlighting the need to upskill employees, NAB CEO Ross McEwan said “Upskilling and Skilled Migration key to addressing talent crisis”.
Addressing the AFR Banking Summit, CEO of National Australia Bank Ross McEwan said “Restoring migration is critical to easing labour and skill shortages as well as contributing to economic growth”.
In other news, ANZ recently highlighted the growing importance of DeFi and the opportunity to work on Central Bank Digital Currencies (CDBCs). Read more here.
