GlobalLogic to spice up India headcount with growth into tier II and III cities

GlobalLogic is ramping up its headcount in India, the place almost 45 per cent of its international workforce relies. The Hitachi Group firm, which has 15,000 staff within the nation, plans to broaden its presence in tier II and tier III cities in India, beginning with Nagpur, to which it’ll add over 400 staff within the subsequent three months. 

At present, the corporate has an workplace presence throughout 10 Indian cities in Noida, Nagpur, Pune, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Gurugram, Mahabubnagar, which is a tier III metropolis, and Kochi by means of the acquisition of Katzion.

“We’re doing main expansions in expertise and can proceed with our hub and spoke technique by internet hosting our applications in tier I cities, and doing sizable forays for mentioned applications in tier II cities to offer expertise there an opportunity to develop,” Piyush Jha, MD and CEO – India & APAC, GlobalLogic instructed businessline. Globally, the corporate has over 30,000 staff.

Externally, GlobalLogic has tied up with seven expertise universities and faculties throughout India by means of an trade academy program the place college students are taught company-recommended or assisted programs and are later employed by means of campus picks. “Beginning this yr, we plan to introduce these GenAI modules into faculties to allow them to be taught GenAI earlier than they be a part of the workstream,” Jha mentioned.

He famous that GlobalLogic has been engaged on AI applied sciences for the final 10 years whereas dabbling in GenAI for nearly three years. “At this level, a minimum of 65 GenAI initiatives are occurring in India. Worldwide, that quantity is extra. Nearly 90% of our engineers perceive GenAI and might code with it; this provides us large headroom in speaking to our clients and collaborating with them on their GenAI journey. We’re speaking to a few of our main product firms to see how GenAI could make their life straightforward,” he defined, including that the corporate could begin utilizing GenAI on virtually all its clients within the subsequent yr or so.

India contributes 30 per cent to the corporate’s international enterprise, and its progress fee has elevated to 30 – 35 per cent. In India and APAC, GlobalLogic goals to attain a income of $1 billion by 2027.

Late final yr, the corporate acquired two firms—Katzion, an engineering agency based mostly in Sydney, and Mobiveil, an organization providing semiconductor engineering companies, silicon mental property, and utility platforms with operations within the US and India.

“We acquired Mobiveil for his or her embedded and VLSI expertise. Most of our embedded work was in Central Japanese Europe and we needed so as to add that muscle within the APAC area. Katzion, however, has a major presence in Kochi,” he mentioned.

Explaining that GlobalLogic’s focus in India has at all times been end-to-end digital transformation, Jha mentioned, “If an organization needs to reinvent itself and do one thing it didn’t earlier than, we step in. We’ve got labored with firms in domains like edtech, media, excessive tech, healthcare, and retail.” A few of GlobalLogic’s clients embrace McDonald’s, Kohl’s, Qualcomm, The Economist, and Nokia.