Wipro to hire over 1,000 IT professionals in Germany

Wipro Ltd, India's third-largest information technology consulting and outsourcing company, today announced plans to hire over 1,000 IT professional in Germany as it expands operations in the key European state.

Wipro plans to triple its employee strength in Germany over the next three years, by hiring over 1,000 professionals.

Bangalore-headquartered Wipro currently employs around 500 professionals in Germany, which serve more than 30 clients.

Wipro's customers in Germany include some major automotive, utilities and telecom companies, among others.

Wipro expects to see significant traction in the retail, automotive, telecom, healthcare, banking and energy and utilities sectors in Germany, over the coming years.

The company is looking to address medium-sized enterprises in the region in order to drive stronger incremental growth, in addition to its existing focus on large global enterprises.

"We believe that Germany is one of our focus geographies that will play a significant role in driving our future growth and are delighted to substantially increase our investment in the region," Rajat Mathur, chief sales and operations officer (growth markets) of Wipro, said.

Wipro has a three-pronged strategy for Germany. "We are making investments in building strong domain knowledge in key growth verticals and are hiring local talent with strong delivery and program management

capabilities. We continue to strengthen our new business hunting approach in order to build a strong and structured pipe-line of business opportunities for the next 3 - 5 years," he added.

In Germany, Wipro has IT development centers in Munich, Meerbusch, Nuremberg and sales offices in Frankfurt, Munich, Cologne and Meerbusch. The company has a data center in Meerbusch that offers a broad

range of IT infrastructure management services to Wipro's European and global customers. Currently, the data center can support up to 15,000 mainframes MIPS and approximately 4,500 servers for its customers.

In addition, it offers cloud centric and remote based infrastructure management services.

In the short to medium-term, Wipro plans to expand this facility into a full-fledged near-shore services center for clients in Germany.

Wipro has also partnered with the University of Munich for a technical talent development programme by providing internships to graduate students from the science/technical stream at its facilities in India.

Industry estimates put Germany's IT market size in 2012 at approximately $80 billion. This is expected to expand further as large enterprises in they increase IT investments to address capacity constraints.

Wipro had over 145,000 employees and clients across 98 countries as of the close of FY'13.