Citizens Financial Group set to expand GCC in Hyderabad

U.S-based fiscal instauration Citizens Financial Group connected Monday (May 18, 2026) said its global capableness centre (GCC), located wrong Cognizant’s caller campus, successful Hyderabad, has touched 1,000 hires and entering the adjacent signifier of enlargement focused connected precocious AI, data, and integer engineering.

Hiring crossed AI, cloud, information and integer engineering roles

Launched successful 2025, the GCC has scaled into a high‑impact innovation hub helping Citizens Financial Group beforehand its cardinal priorities crossed unreality modernisation, AI platforms, cybersecurity and integer merchandise engineering. Citizens Financial Group said it volition proceed hiring, for the GCC, crossed AI, cloud, information and integer engineering roles implicit the adjacent 2 years.

“The GCC is simply a halfway portion of our planetary engineering engine, with teams successful India moving side-by-side with our US teams... reaching the 1,000th prosecute successful Hyderabad successful conscionable 1 twelvemonth reflects some the spot of our strategy and the exceptional endowment we’ve built here,” main accusation serviceman and caput of Enterprise Technology and Security astatine Citizens Financial Group, Michael Ruttledge said.

Citizens Financial Group said it is supporting Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Residential Degree College for Women successful Telangana done investments successful integer infrastructure, AI training, and vocation readiness. The programme, aimed astatine strengthening the aboriginal endowment pipeline successful Hyderabad, volition equip much than 700 pistillate students from underserved communities with the skills and resources needed to prosecute careers successful technology.

During the motorboat successful April 2025, Cognizant said arsenic Citizens Financial Group’ strategical spouse it volition physique and run the GCC with programme governance provided by Boston Consulting Group (BCG). The GCC is expected to standard up to 1,000 IT and Data and Analytics professionals by March 2026.