Industry practice
IT & Technology Recruitment in India
Hiring in Information Technology
IT is NM's largest practice and the sector our recruiters know best. We hire across product companies, IT services organisations, global capability centres and technology teams inside non-technology businesses.
The defining problem in Indian technology recruitment is not finding profiles. It is separating the eight years of experience from the one year repeated eight times. Our screening includes a functional conversation about architecture decisions, trade-offs and ownership, so what reaches you has already been filtered on substance.
What makes IT & Software hiring difficult
Keyword-matched shortlists
A CV containing the right framework name proves nothing. We screen on how a candidate has used it, what they owned and what they would do differently.
Counter-offers and multiple processes
Strong engineers run three processes at once. We track competing offers honestly and tell you when speed matters more than another interview round.
Compensation inflation
Expectations move fast in specific skill pockets. We benchmark at kick-off so the budget and the brief are compatible before we start.
Long, unstructured interview loops
Five-round processes lose candidates. We help compress and structure the loop without lowering the assessment bar.
Roles across the sector
Grouped by function. Adjacent roles are almost always in scope.
Engineering
- Backend Engineer
- Frontend Engineer
- Full Stack Engineer
- Mobile Engineer (iOS / Android)
- Engineering Manager
- Software Architect
Data & AI
- Data Engineer
- Data Scientist
- Machine Learning Engineer
- Analytics Lead
- MLOps Engineer
- Data Architect
Platform & Security
- DevOps Engineer
- Site Reliability Engineer
- Cloud Architect (AWS / Azure / GCP)
- Cybersecurity Analyst
- Security Architect
- QA & Automation Engineer
Product & Design
- Product Manager
- Technical Program Manager
- UI/UX Designer
- Product Designer
- Business Analyst
- Scrum Master
Leadership
- CTO
- CIO
- VP Engineering
- Head of Product
- Head of Data
- Director of Technology
How we hire for IT & Software
Permanent Recruitment
Specialist hiring for professional and mid-management roles.
RPO Services
Your recruitment function, run by us, embedded in your team.
Staffing Services
Contract, temporary and payrolled talent, compliantly managed.
Executive Search
Confidential, research-led search for roles that define a business.
What we are seeing in IT & Software
- 01
Bengaluru, Pune and Hyderabad hold the deepest product engineering pools; Mumbai skews toward fintech and enterprise IT.
- 02
Notice periods of 60–90 days remain standard at services organisations and are the single biggest cause of timeline slippage.
- 03
AI/ML and cloud security carry the sharpest compensation premiums relative to general engineering.
- 04
Remote and hybrid expectations vary widely by company stage. This needs to be settled before approaching candidates, not at offer.
Open IT & Software roles
Senior Data Engineer
Build and own the data platform for an enterprise analytics team working on cloud-native pipelines.
- Location
- Hyderabad
- Experience
- 5–9 yrs
- Compensation
- ₹28-42 LPA
- Reference
- NM-DAT-1048
Technology Lead, Java
Technical leadership of a backend engineering pod delivering enterprise integration platforms.
- Location
- Chennai
- Experience
- 8–13 yrs
- Compensation
- ₹26-40 LPA
- Reference
- NM-ENG-1068
Information Technology recruitment, frequently asked
Across engineering, data and AI, cloud and platform, security, QA, product and design, plus technology leadership up to CTO and CIO level.
Our recruiters run a functional screening conversation covering architecture decisions, ownership and trade-offs before a profile is shared. Where a client requires it, we also arrange independent technical assessment.
Yes. GCC build-outs are handled through our turnkey recruitment practice, covering leadership first and then the engineering, product and support layers behind it.
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Hiring in IT & Software?
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