As with every other industry, the finance industry needs top-notch talent. As financial systems become more complex and heavily dependent on technology, there is a surge for tech talent within the industry. There are 25,000 open jobs for tech roles in finance today, on LinkedIn alone and finance has emerged as a highly sought-after industry for job-seekers.
Glider AI ran a query on LinkedIn jobs, looking at all the open positions across the largest financial institutions in the US. What does the data tell us?
- LinkedIn data reports 56,478 open jobs at the largest US-based financial firms.
- Despite the high value placed on remote and flexible work with Gen Z candidates, 81% of the jobs listed require on-site work.
- Unsurprisingly, tech accounted for most open roles at 21,197, finance and accounting at 19,203, and sales-related jobs at 17,793 across all the banks included in the research.
| Company | % of open Tech Roles |
| Bank of America | 76.93% |
| Capital One | 54.98% |
| CITI | 27.24% |
| Fannie Mae | 16.67% |
| Freddie Mac | 24.25% |
| Goldman | 56.40% |
| JPMC | 27.92% |
| Morgan Stanley | 17.78% |
| State Street | 17.11% |
| TD Bank | 48.49% |
| Truist | 7.44% |
| US Bank | 19.24% |
| USAA | 10.25% |
| Wells Fargo | 39.41% |
Ensuring that the skills on paper match a candidate’s real world ability is an important step in the hiring process to ensure that the efforts of TA and HR teams don’t go to waste. We’ve listed out the top 5 in-demand tech roles in the finance industry along with some skill assessment questions that should help you in your quest for the best talent:
.NET Developer
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- Top Skills: .Net Core, C#, Rest API, SQL, ASP.NET, Database knowledge, Web technologies (HTML, CSS and Javascript), API development, Front-end frameworks (Angular or React)
Skill Assessment Questions
Topic:. .Net Core
- Match the following statements with their respective correct labels
Topic:. .Net Core
- Complete the following code. In this part, you need to choose the right methods and packages in .net core to start the app.
Android Developer
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- Skills: Android Studio, Android SDK, Java
Skill Assessment Questions
Topic: Android SDK
- In the SharedPreferences code given below, choose the correct options from the drop-down
Topic: Android SDK
- Consider the following fragment of code below for creating a menu. Complete the following code.
Cloud Engineer
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- Skills: AWS Amazon Web Services, Azure, C#, CICD, Google Cloud Platform, NoSQL, SQL, String Searching
Skill Assessment Questions
Topic: AWS
- Following is the BuildSpec file for CodeBuild project, you need to complete the missing command to make it run successfully.
Topic: AWS
- Complete the following commands in CodeBuild BuildSpec files.
Business Analyst
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- Skills: Data Structures, MS Excel, MS Excel Pivot Table, Power BI, SQL, Tableau
Skill Assessment Questions
Topic: MS Excel (Pivot)
- You have an Excel list with details of movies (titles, release year, and genre). Select the correct options from the following drop-downs to create a Pivot table, as shown below.
Topic: SQL
- Consider the given section of a table that contains information about the used cars that a car trading company sells.
Big Data Engineer
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- Skills: Apache Spark, Arrays, AWS, Hadoop, Hadoop Administration, Lambda Function, Scala
Skill Assessment Questions
Topic: Spark SQL
- In the given Spark SQL code snippet select the most appropriate options.
Topic: Hadoop
- The following is a list of default ports that run there and their configuration values. Fill in the missing parts.
