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What they do

DBS is a financial services group in Asia that operates in 19 markets. It started in 1968 as the Development Bank of Singapore. It is headquartered and listed in Singapore. It offers consumer banking, wealth management, and institutional banking. Its 2024 annual report counts over 18.4 million consumer and wealth customers and over 280,000 institutional customers.

What they value

• Purpose-driven: create impact beyond banking, for real people and real businesses.
• Relationship-led: build lasting relationships and strong teams, and be dependable and objective with people.
• Innovative: embrace change and challenge the usual way of doing things.
• Decisive: decide with data, take ownership, and be accountable.
• Everything Fun: celebrate the success of others, and be open-minded and respectful.
• Diversity, equity, and inclusion, which the careers site ties to building the best teams.

Where they hire

Of 1,435 Postings, India holds 411, Hong Kong 315, Singapore 294, Taiwan 216, Indonesia 110, and mainland China 78. Australia and Vietnam hold 5 each. None of the 86 Postings read is remote or mentions visa sponsorship. The careers site offers work from home for up to 40% of the time.

Teams and roles

The board has 1,435 Postings. Most are in branches, sales, and operations, and about one in nine is in technology.

• Relationship management: 343 Postings, the largest group. Many are Treasures Relationship Managers, who serve wealthy customers of the consumer bank.
• Product sales: 257 Postings, such as loan sales and telemarketing roles.
• Operations and customer service: 186 and 94 Postings. They cover payments, trade operations, contact centres, and branch service.
• Technology: 162 Postings, with 80 in Singapore, 33 in mainland China, 20 in India, 17 in Taiwan, and 9 in Hong Kong. Roles include application developers, cloud engineers, site reliability engineers, AI engineers, frontend engineers, and quality assurance engineers.
• Risk and compliance: 57 Postings in risk management and 40 in compliance, such as transaction surveillance and operational risk roles.
• Product, digital, and data: 49 Postings in product management, 38 in digital, and 20 in analytics, which includes data scientists.
• Smaller groups: finance, audit, human resources, marketing, research, procurement, legal, and user experience.

What they look for

Over half of the Postings read ask for a university degree, and most ask for years in the same kind of banking work. Most also ask you to follow bank policy and the rules of the local regulator.

Sales and relationship roles want a proven sales record with wealthy customers. In Hong Kong they require regulator licences and fluent Mandarin and English. Some Taiwan sales roles ask for Mandarin and Taiwanese.

Compliance and operations roles want experience with anti-money laundering (AML) rules, customer due diligence, and controls where one person enters a payment and a second person approves it.

Technology roles name their tools. A Cloud Engineer role wants 8 or more years of platform work, with 5 on Google Cloud, plus Kubernetes and Terraform. A frontend lead role wants React, Angular, TypeScript, and experience with a design system across several regions. A Java role for trading systems wants low-latency and multithreading experience. Quality assurance roles in Hyderabad want Playwright, Appium, Java, and TypeScript. Many technology roles ask for automated build and release pipelines (CI/CD).

A Data Scientist role wants a degree in a quantitative field and 2 or more years in AI or data science, with clear explanations for non-technical people.

The careers site says the hiring process can include an assessment or case study, an interview with scenario questions, and pre-employment checks.