Rebuilding an offshore engineering centre: twice the teams, 200+ apps to the cloud
Client: A global investment firm in the private-equity sector, headquartered in the USA.
Leadership experience: this programme was delivered by a member of Robral's leadership team during a previous role at another organisation, and is shared with their permission. It is not a Robral Technologies engagement. Client identity is withheld.
- Industry
- Financial services · PE
- Region
- USA + offshore
- Scope
- COE, cloud, DevOps
- Programme
- Multi-year, enterprise-scale
The challenge
The incumbent offshore vendor could not scale teams fast enough or deliver consistent quality.
Weak engineering and organisational processes held back aggressive product timelines.
Delays and inefficiency put the client's long-term digital roadmap at risk.
What was built
Set up a new offshore Centre of Excellence and moved the incumbent's team across without disrupting day-to-day delivery.
Defined engineering, HR, recruitment, onboarding and training processes, plus performance and governance models.
Led an AWS migration of 200+ applications, 1,400+ servers and 2 TB of data.
Introduced Agile and DevOps practices and drove test automation to 90% API coverage within 18 months.
- 12 → 25Scrum teams in two years
- 200+applications migrated to AWS
- 15,000+regression tests automated
Outcomes
- Engineering capacity grew 110%, from 12 to 25 Scrum teams, with trained and certified people.
- Significantly fewer delivery delays and more predictable releases.
- A stable, scalable COE able to deliver cloud, automation and transformation work at enterprise scale.
Technology & capabilities
- AWS
- Java
- C#/.NET
- Microservices
- Selenium
- API Automation
- Salesforce
- Agile/DevOps
Relevant forEnterprises unhappy with an offshore vendor, or setting up or scaling a captive or partner-run engineering centre.
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