Talent Radar · May 2026 — GCC hiring slows in BFSI, AI roles up 14%.

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The engineering leaders your roadmap needs are already employed.

Technology GCCs in India are no longer back offices. They own product, platform, and architecture for the parent. That raises the bar on every senior hire, and puts you in direct competition with product companies for the same engineering directors. We bring the comp read and the off-market reach to win those people.

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Engineering & product · GCC roles
Roles we place into tech GCCs
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Primary hubs
4cities
The Problem

You're hiring against product companies, and paying like a captive.

The mandate has shifted. Your centre now owns systems the parent runs on, so a Director of Engineering here carries the same scope as one in a product org. The candidates know it. They read the comp band, the title, and the reporting line in the first conversation, and decide whether the GCC is a step up or a step sideways.

The hardest roles are not the ones with no candidates. They are the ones with nine credible names in the city, most settled in well-paid seats, none of them answering a job post. Reaching them takes a mapped approach and a reason to move, not a wider funnel.

When a senior engineering search stalls, the band is wrong more often than the brief is.
Across tech GCC mandates
Our Approach

What it takes to land senior engineering talent.

Three things decide a technology hire at this level: the price is right, the approach is discreet, and the person stays. We bring intelligence to all three.

01 · Price it to win
Comp built for the product-company comparison
We benchmark the role against what comparable engineering leaders actually earn across GCCs and product orgs in your city, including the variable and equity-equivalent pieces that move senior people. So the band reads as serious to the candidate you want.
02 · Reach the settled
Off-market search for people who aren't applying
For architecture, platform, and engineering-leadership roles, the best people are not in the active pool. We map the qualified universe across the hubs and approach them discreetly, with a specific reason your centre is the right next move.
03 · Build to last
Retention-aware shortlists, not just fast ones
A senior engineering leader who leaves in year one costs you the roadmap, not just the fee. We weigh tenure signals and motivation, not only the CV, so the shortlist is built for people who stay through the build.
What This Changes

The numbers that move.

Aggregates across technology and engineering mandates we ran in 2024 to 2025. Not promises, the pattern when comp and reach are right.

~7 wks
Typical brief-to-offer on senior engineering and product mandates
Senior time-to-offer
~94%
Of placed leaders still in seat at twelve months
12-month retention, firm-wide
53,000+
VP-and-above leaders we can approach directly, most settled inside peer companies
Off-market senior network
Frequently Asked

Questions we get asked.

If you don't see what you're looking for, the form below is the fastest route. Most enquiries get a response within one working day.

Which technology roles do you place?
Senior individual contributors through to leadership: engineering managers and directors, principal and staff engineers, architects, heads of platform and infrastructure, product and program leaders, and the engineering-leadership layer that runs a GCC's technical mandate.
We compete with product companies for the same people. Can you help us win?
That is the core of this work. We benchmark against the product-company comparison, not just other GCCs, and we frame the centre's real scope so the role reads as a step up. Where the band genuinely can't compete, we tell you that before the search, not after.
Can you find people who aren't actively looking?
Yes. For senior engineering roles, most of the right people are settled and off-market. We map the qualified universe across the hubs and approach them discreetly, which is usually where the best shortlists come from.
Which cities do you cover?
The main engineering hubs, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune, Chennai, and the NCR, with reach into emerging centres as the work requires.
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