It’s not all one-way traffic between banks and big tech in Singapore. Wilkinson Chew is a recent case in point – he’s just left Amazon Web Services (AWS) to become OCBC’s new head of cloud service engineering.
Chew had been with AWS since 2017, most recently as a senior solutions delivery manager, focused on cloud program delivery for the financial services and government sectors, according to his LinkedIn profile.
His move comes amid surging demand for cloud talent in the Singapore finance sector. OCBC is hiring cloud engineers into a “growing team that builds the bank’s cloud-native platforms and enables the organisation to build and run their applications in this new environment”, according to its careers website. Standard Chartered, Citi, DBS, and UOB are also recruiting.