MassMutual to hire over 1,000 techies

Hyderabad: US-based life insurer MassMutual has accelerated its hiring plan for its newly opened Hyderabad GCC (global capability centre) and expects to hire over 1,000 people before the end of December 2021, its India head said.
The company has already hired close to 450 people, all of them virtually. in less than four months of the GCC’s becoming operational, said Ravi Tangirala, head, India GCC, MassMutual, said.
Pointing out that the company had announced an investment of Rs 1000 crore over five years and was initially targeting hiring around 550 people this year when the GCC was inaugurated in January 2021, seeing the availability of skilled talent and the GCC’s capability to deliver, it has had to accelerate its growth plans.
“As the headquarter started realising and recognising the talent available on the ground and the capability this GCC can provide to the parent organisation, they said they would like to move more work here. Our partners also realised they can utilise our services. Considering all this, our demand and growth plans are changing very rapidly,” he explained.
Tangirala said the US-based insurer is scouting for talent in full stack development & support, DevOps, auality assurance, security & cloud engineering, data science, among other areas.