GCC export revenue grew 40% last year. The centers are here. The capability often isn't.
Typical time for a new GCC to reach a production-grade data platform when built from scratch, in-house.
Cost per GCC FTE is rising through 2030. Every month at low maturity gets more expensive.
Most India GCCs are still execution arms. The gap between "we have headcount" and "we ship trusted data products" is where global mandates are won or lost.
Four ways we accelerate your center
Same spine as everything we do: Audit → Sprint → Operate. Pick your entry point.
GCC Data Readiness Audit
2–3 weeks · Fixed fee
- Platform, pipeline and data-quality assessment against Tier-1 GCC engineering standards
- Team skills and hiring-bar review — what to hire, what to upskill, what to stop doing
- DPDP and data-residency exposure check for cross-border data flows
Deliverable
Gap report scored across 8 capability dimensions, plus a costed 90-day roadmap.
90-Day Capability Sprint
90 days · Fixed scope, fixed fee
- A senior pod embeds with your team and ships your first production lakehouse: ingestion, medallion layers, quality gates, CI/CD
- Engineering standards documented as we build — coding, testing, on-call, incident playbooks
- Your engineers pair with ours from day one; the knowledge stays when we leave
Deliverable
A production data platform your team runs, plus the standards to keep it that way.
Fractional Data Leadership
Monthly retainer · 2–3 days/week
- A 20+ year data platform architect as your interim Head of Data
- Owns architecture decisions, vendor selection, and the hiring bar for your first 20 data hires
- Represents your center in global architecture forums — credibility with HQ from week one
Deliverable
Senior data leadership at a fraction of a full-time leadership hire, until you're ready to make one.
Micro-GCC (BOT)
12–18 months · Build fee + monthly run rate + transfer
- For firms below full-GCC scale: we build and run your 10–30 person Bengaluru data pod
- Our entity, our compliance, our management overhead — your roadmap, your IP
- Clean transfer at month 12–18: people, platform and processes move to your entity
Deliverable
A GCC without the setup risk. Walk in on transfer day to a running team.
We're not consultants who read about GCCs. We built inside them.
Founding team spent 25 years building data platforms inside banking and retail GCCs in Bengaluru — the same centers global firms benchmark against.
We know the failure modes: platforms that pass demos and fail audits, hiring sprees that lower the bar, "temporary" pipelines that run for six years.
We build to the standard a Tier-1 bank's architecture review board would sign off — because we sat on those boards.
Data residency and DPDP compliance are not an afterthought bolted on for the India market; they\'re the default in everything we ship.
UK retail bank GCC, Bengaluru · 2016–2024
Commonwealth banking group · GCC data platform lead · 2014–2019
European investment bank · Bengaluru data ops · 2018–2022
Who this is for
Setting up a new center?
You have board approval, a site, and a headcount plan. What you don\'t have is 18 months. Start with the Audit or go straight to a Capability Sprint and open your center with a working platform, not a slideware roadmap.
Start with the AuditRunning a center stuck in execution mode?
Your center delivers tickets. HQ keeps the interesting mandates. Fractional leadership plus one Sprint is usually what it takes to win your first end-to-end product ownership.
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Book a GCC readiness call
45 minutes. Bring your current-state architecture or your setup plan. You'll leave with our honest read on where you are and what 90 days can change.