Barclays Capital, the investment banking division of Barclays Bank PLC, announced today it has chosen Kyiv as the location for its third global technology centre, adding to those already established in Singapore and Prague. EPAM Systems, the largest and most experience software engineering services provider in Eastern Europe, has been selected as the partner to build and operate Ukraine’s most advanced and secure IT facility, with a team of up to 500 IT professionals in Kyiv by the end of 2012.
Ukraine was chosen because of the exceptional local technical talent and strong analytical skills available. This investment in Kyiv allows Barclays Capital to further diversify its workforce locations and the firm will grow globally by 800 IT professionals in 2010 with continued growth anticipated over the coming years.
“Kyiv is a key strategic centre within our technology growth plans going forward. Utilising the most advanced hardware, software tools and security infrastructure available, the Kyiv centre will be at the leading edge of global competitiveness for quality and for innovation. We are exceedingly impressed with the 50 plus engineers that have already started,” said Sarah Grave, Head of IT EMEA, Prague and Kyiv at Barclays Capital.
The teams will focus on Application Development for in-house projects in C++, Java or C# for a wide range of business applications across the bank, ranging from electronic trading applications to risk management systems. The Kyiv facility has been built by EPAM to operate within the bank’s highly secure continuous service environment, providing 24/7 services to maintain business applications and provide support to the firm’s business users for many mission critical applications.
Barclays Capital and EPAM are investing in Kyiv for the long term, with the technology centre not only providing excellent working conditions, but very clear long-term career paths for the team members in product and application development, management, operation, support, and testing software. Russia along with Ukraine are the two leaders in the CEE region in terms of a number of annual IT graduates and steady rise in the popularity of IT jobs.
“The Kyiv centre will provide the essential front-line services necessary for the operation of Barclays Capital’s global banking business,” said Karl Robb, President EPAM Europe. “This reflects our client’s strong faith in Ukrainian IT talent and in EPAM Systems proven track record of establishing large software engineering teams operating in highly secure environments to the world’s top technology firms and financial institutions.”
Through EPAM, Barclays Capital will make an initial capital investment of more than US$2 million in the highest standard of technology infrastructure from Hewlett Packard, Cisco and Microsoft among others, creating the most secure and state-of-the-art facility in the Ukraine, within EPAM’s premises. The very latest workstation and network equipment will be deployed along with power equipment providing business continuity to operate 24/7.
Ukraine was chosen because of the exceptional local technical talent and strong analytical skills available. This investment in Kyiv allows Barclays Capital to further diversify its workforce locations and the firm will grow globally by 800 IT professionals in 2010 with continued growth anticipated over the coming years.
“Kyiv is a key strategic centre within our technology growth plans going forward. Utilising the most advanced hardware, software tools and security infrastructure available, the Kyiv centre will be at the leading edge of global competitiveness for quality and for innovation. We are exceedingly impressed with the 50 plus engineers that have already started,” said Sarah Grave, Head of IT EMEA, Prague and Kyiv at Barclays Capital.
The teams will focus on Application Development for in-house projects in C++, Java or C# for a wide range of business applications across the bank, ranging from electronic trading applications to risk management systems. The Kyiv facility has been built by EPAM to operate within the bank’s highly secure continuous service environment, providing 24/7 services to maintain business applications and provide support to the firm’s business users for many mission critical applications.
Barclays Capital and EPAM are investing in Kyiv for the long term, with the technology centre not only providing excellent working conditions, but very clear long-term career paths for the team members in product and application development, management, operation, support, and testing software. Russia along with Ukraine are the two leaders in the CEE region in terms of a number of annual IT graduates and steady rise in the popularity of IT jobs.
“The Kyiv centre will provide the essential front-line services necessary for the operation of Barclays Capital’s global banking business,” said Karl Robb, President EPAM Europe. “This reflects our client’s strong faith in Ukrainian IT talent and in EPAM Systems proven track record of establishing large software engineering teams operating in highly secure environments to the world’s top technology firms and financial institutions.”
Through EPAM, Barclays Capital will make an initial capital investment of more than US$2 million in the highest standard of technology infrastructure from Hewlett Packard, Cisco and Microsoft among others, creating the most secure and state-of-the-art facility in the Ukraine, within EPAM’s premises. The very latest workstation and network equipment will be deployed along with power equipment providing business continuity to operate 24/7.
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For further information please contact:
Jon Laycock, Barclays Capital Communications +44 207 773 4324 jon.laycock@barcap.com
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