Building a Tech Career in Financial Services

In this episode of Oracle Academy Tech Chat, we welcome Shashika Ramsany, Oracle Consulting Sales Director for Banking & Insurance in the Africa Region. Shashika shares insights from her career journey at the intersection of technology and financial services, offering a unique perspective on the evolving landscape of fintech. Listeners will gain valuable firsthand knowledge about the pathways, challenges, and opportunities available to tech professionals in the dynamic world of financial services.

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Episode Transcript:

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Welcome to the Oracle Academy Tech Chat. This podcast provides educators and students in-depth discussions with thought leaders around computer science, cloud technologies, and software design to help students on their journey to becoming industry ready technology leaders of the future. Let's get started.

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Hello! Welcome to Oracle Academy Tech Chat, where we discuss how Oracle Academy prepares the next generation's workforce. I'm your host for today, BigQuery Amazon. In this episode, we will be discussing building a tech career in financial services. Our guest, Shashi Karam Saini, is consulting sales Director, Banking and Insurance for the Africa Region in Oracle, and she will be sharing valuable insights on the most exciting and in-demand roles in the sector today.

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And she would also discuss how these positions as shifted with technological advancements. She explores the essential technical and soft skills students and aspiring professionals need to succeed, and offers actionable advice to educators aiming to prepare the next generation for trends such as artificial intelligence and blockchain in finance. I guess Shikha has deep experience in the financial services industry.

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She has supported commercial and retail banks in rethinking their operations, customer engagement and decision making processes through strategic data and AI transformation initiatives. How work has spanned process optimization, customer analytics and regulatory reporting, which enables institutions to unlock the value of their data assets and move towards intelligent, insights driven operations. She has helped bridge the gap between business objectives and emerging technologies, guiding clients through complex transformations and in an increasingly data centric world which is now being led by idiotic AI for various business objectives.

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