Hyderabad GCC surge

Redwood Software has opened a new global capability center in Hyderabad, adding another multinational tech operation to the city’s fastest-growing office corridor. (thehindu.com) The U.S.-based company said on April 22 that the 30,000-square-foot facility in HITEC City will handle full-stack engineering, product innovation and global operations for its AI-powered automation business. Redwood said the site will support customers in more than 150 countries. (telanganatoday.com) Redwood plans to add more than 300 jobs in Hyderabad by the end of 2027 across engineering, cloud and business operations. Chief executive Kevin Greene said India is expected to account for nearly one-third of the company’s global workforce over time. (economictimes.indiatimes.com) A global capability center is a company-run overseas hub that handles work once kept near headquarters, from software engineering to finance and research. NASSCOM and Zinnov said India had more than 1,700 such centers in fiscal 2024, generating $64.6 billion in revenue. (nasscom.in) Hyderabad has been taking a larger share of that expansion. Xpheno said Telangana drew 40% of all new greenfield global capability facilities set up in India over the previous 30 months, with Hyderabad the main landing ground. (deccanchronicle.com) Industry trackers now describe Hyderabad as one of India’s fastest-growing GCC hiring markets. A Business Standard report this week, citing staffing data, said nearly 60% of new GCC roles were tied to AI, data and platform skills, while talent gaps in AI-related roles reached 42%. (business-standard.com) That hiring mix helps explain why companies keep choosing Hyderabad even as recruiting gets harder. Zinnov said 2026 GCC talent strategies are shifting toward skill-based pay, lateral career moves in artificial intelligence and cloud, and tighter retention plans for high performers. (zinnov.com) Redwood’s opening fits that pattern: a global company is not using Hyderabad only for support work, but for product building tied to automation software and what it calls “agentic orchestration,” or software that coordinates complex digital tasks across systems. The company said the new center will be a strategic innovation hub for that roadmap. (rediff.com) For Hyderabad, the latest addition keeps the city’s GCC story moving in the same direction: more engineering-led mandates, more AI hiring, and more pressure on companies to find and keep specialized talent in a market that is still expanding. (thehindu.com)