Join this virtual session and meet some of the top digital female talent at Yorkshire Building Society.
During this session, our inspiring female colleagues from digital will talk about their experiences and challenges in the Digital Industry including career highlights as well as career lowlights. They’ll talk about their journeys so far and what they see the development and future of women in Digital/Tech and their Vision for women in tech at YBS.
– Discussion 1 – Is the female experience of progressing and developing a career in tech different to that of a male peer?
– Discussion 2 – Is tech really a male dominated industry?
Our colleagues will close the session by sharing the advice they would give their younger selves. A must join session for anyone wanting to learn about the female experience in the tech industry or for anyone looking to start a career in the tech industry.
This is a virtual event, once you have registered for a ticket – you will receive a Microsoft Teams invite.
Katherine Langlands is a Senior Solutions Delivery Manager at YBS with a background in digital delivery, digital engineering, and digital platform management. She has worked across aviation, insurance and asset management industries building and leading agile development teams. Kath is driving forward agile ways of working and digital engineering practice at YBS.
Marianne Kay is a digital leader, author, speaker, and mentor who works on digital projects in large, complex organizations. Marianne’s areas of expertise are digital transformation, agile, leadership, mobile apps and web content management. Marianne currently works as an IT Delivery Lead at YBS. She previously led web development team at the University of Leeds, consulted on web content management projects at Digital Clarity Group and worked as a web developer at Fuse8 digital agency.
Kirsten Armstrong has always had a keen interest in Software Development and graduated university with a degree in Interactive Systems and Video Games Design. She has worked at YBS as a Development Engineer for over a decade and is now the Reliability Engineer within the Savings and Payments domain. Her goal is to continue to introduce new ways of working through DevOps and automation.
Nicola Brown is a Business Analysis Lead in the Digital Tribe at YBS. She manages the team of Digital business analysts, working with them to develop Agile ways of working. Working at YBS has given her the opportunity to broaden her experience of Digital Transformation and Financial Services, building on her previous roles as a business design consultant on major IT enabled change programmes in Utilities and Government sectors.
Lauren has been with YBS for 8 years now and started her career as a Case Manager in Mortgage Underwriting. Since joining YBS, Lauren took steps to progress her career into Project Management in IT and Transformation. Lauren now manages a variety of different projects from Regulatory change to implementing new functionality.
