US-based IT services consultancy firm Xebia will drive workforce expansion by hiring about 1,500 engineers in India in 2025, by tapping into talent from tier-II cities, Global CEO Anand Sahay. The company has close to 6,500 employees across 16 countries, 3,000 of whom are from across India from the company’s seven centres – Gurugram, Chennai, Pune, Jaipur, Bhopal, Bangalore and Hyderabad.

“We look at companies in areas we are not in. We continue to look for companies in India. Currently, our idea is to look for companies with a big customer base in America and delivery centres in India because that serves two purposes,” Global CEO Anand Sahay said.

Xebia was set up in India in 2006, with operations starting in 2007. Xebia offers services, including software development, cloud computing, DevOps, AI & machine learning, and has the largest revenue share coming from banking and insurance at 30 percent; 16 percent comes from retail and hi-tech each, with other sectors including pharma, healthcare, and media.

“We realised we needed to also look at tier-II cities and so, have built (centres in) Jaipur and Bhopal. Jaipur has grown a lot and we are examining Bhopal while strengthening ourselves in Hyderabad and Chennai – a city where we are beginning to find good talent. We will not shy away from Coimbatore either. Since we keep hearing about different cities having smart talent, from our perspective, we must hire them, and if it means opening new centres, we’ll do that,” he further stated.