Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton TD today announced that HCL Technologies, a leading global technology and IT enterprise company, is to establish a Software Delivery centre in Dublin. The company, which is an IDA Ireland client, will create 80 jobs over 3 years for IT graduates.
HCL Technologies is a leading global IT services company, with over 85,000 employees working across 31 countries and leverages its extensive global offshore infrastructure to provide holistic, multi-service delivery in key industry verticals including Financial Services, Manufacturing, Consumer Services, Public Services and Healthcare.
With this center HCL will service a growing number of HCL clients and prospects in the Financial services, Insurance and Healthcare/Pharmaceutical industries. The plan for the development center was also influenced by the growing economy and rapidly increasing demand forecasted for IT services in this region. This together with the availability of high local IT skillsets and strong graduate programs has made Ireland one of the top countries for HCL to invest in. HCL Technologies also has established global delivery centers in UK, Poland, Finland, US, Brazil, China, India, Malaysia and Northern Ireland.
Minister Bruton said "The real economic success story of Ireland in the mid/late 1990s was based in part on tapping into the global IT boom going on at that time. If we are to get out of the crisis we're in and create the jobs we so badly need, a key part of that will be to build on our established strengths and once again now take advantage of the rapid growth in the global IT industry - particularly coming from countries like India and China.
"HCL is one of India's leading IT companies and a significant player the global industry, and I met them as part of my recent trade mission to India to discuss the possibility of them locating in Ireland. Today's announcement that they are creating 80 graduate IT jobs here is extremely welcome, and I am determined to build tirelessly on this to ensure that similar announcements can be made across the economy in the coming years".
Rajeev Sawhney, President for HCL Europe said “HCL was one of the first Indian companies to establish operations in the UK and now we have over 4,500 employees across Europe. This facility, with its specialist skills in software development including multilingual talent and proximity to our European customers, will add significant value to our global delivery model from which we can provide on- and off-shore support to meet their specific requirements.”
Welcoming the announcement CEO, IDA Ireland Barry O’Leary said “HCL has been a major target for IDA since the establishment of our office in India. This project is a strategic win for Ireland. HCL is one of the biggest brand names in the Indian IT sector and IDA is confident that this will be a catalyst for further projects from Indian multinational companies to establish operations in Ireland.”
Sawhney added, “I would like to acknowledge and thank the assistance of the IDA teams in Mumbai and Dublin who were instrumental in helping us to make the decision to select Ireland as one of the key locations for our European expansion. We look forward to counting Dublin as a pivotal hub of our European presence and expanding our ‘Employees First, Customers Second’ philosophy and message to our local employees.”
