Specialities · IT and Technology
IT and technology recruitment for financial services and GCCs
From software and product engineers to cloud, DevOps, platform and infrastructure specialists, architects and IT leaders, we help insurers, banks, consultancies and capability centres build the technology teams that run modern financial services. Specialist hiring, with the financial services context that generalist tech recruiters lack.
What technology roles does EliteRecruitments recruit for?
EliteRecruitments recruits across the technology stack for financial services and capability centres: software and product engineering, cloud, DevOps, platform and site reliability, infrastructure and networks, solution and enterprise architecture, data and integration engineering, and IT leadership up to CIO and CTO. Cyber and technology risk are covered as risk disciplines on the firm’s Risk and Financial Advisory page, and IT audit on its Audit page.
Since 2014
financial services technology depth
80%
screening ratio, candidates we submit get interviewed
85%
joining ratio, offers that become joiners
GCC led
where engineering and cloud demand is scaling fastest
Our technology depth
A specialist discipline, not a generic one
Technology runs modern financial services, and the firms that hire well treat it as a specialist discipline. A platform engineer in an insurer, a cloud architect in a bank, a product engineer in a capability centre, each needs the right technical skill and an understanding of the regulated, data heavy environment they work in. We recruit for exactly those roles, bringing the financial services context that a generalist technology recruiter does not have.
We keep the boundaries clear. This is technology hiring: the people who build, run and lead systems. The risk side of technology, cyber risk and technology risk, is a risk discipline, and we cover it on our risk practice. IT audit sits with our audit practice. That way you get genuine depth in each, and a recruiter who knows where technology, risk and audit meet rather than blurring them.
The technology roles we recruit
From the engineers to the leaders
We recruit across the technology functions financial services organisations and their capability centres depend on. The fastest growing demand, especially inside capability centres, is for platform, cloud and engineering talent, and our emphasis reflects that.
Cloud, platform and DevOps engineering
Cloud engineers and architects across the major platforms, platform engineers, DevOps engineers and site reliability engineers who build the pipelines, automation and internal platforms modern engineering runs on. Among the most in demand profiles, and exactly what capability centres scale fastest.
Software and product engineering
Software engineers, full stack and backend developers, mobile developers, and the product engineering and engineering management roles around them. The people who build and ship the applications and platforms the business runs on, from developers to engineering leads.
Architecture
Solution architects, enterprise architects and technical architects who design how systems fit together, set technical direction, and make the decisions that shape a platform for years. Senior, judgement heavy roles that connect technology to the business.
Data and integration engineering
Integration engineers, ERP functional and technical consultants, and the data and platform engineering roles that overlap with our analytics practice. Where a role sits more in the data world, our analytics practice leads, and we work the two together.
Infrastructure and systems
Infrastructure and systems engineers who keep core platforms running reliably and securely. Still business critical in financial services, though increasingly cloud based.
IT leadership
Heads of engineering, engineering managers at scale, IT directors, and technology leaders up to CIO and CTO, including the leadership capability centres need as they grow. Confidential, senior searches connecting to our leadership hiring work.
Where technology meets risk and audit
Handled by the right specialists
Technology hiring rarely sits entirely on its own in financial services. Two areas sit right next to it, and we handle each with the right specialist rather than treating everything as generic IT. Cyber risk and technology risk are risk disciplines, often reporting into the risk function and the board, and we recruit for them on our risk practice. IT audit, where technology controls meet assurance, sits with our audit practice.
So when a client is building across technology, risk and audit, we can cover all of it, with genuine depth in each rather than one team stretched across three very different markets.
A capability centre driven market
Competitive, and increasingly built in India
Technology talent is among the most competitive to hire anywhere, and financial services adds its own demands: regulated environments, legacy systems alongside modern platforms, and a high bar on security and reliability. India’s capability centres are a major part of the picture. International insurers, banks and consultancies are building serious engineering, cloud and platform capability in their India centres, not just support functions, and that has created strong demand for exactly the technology talent we recruit.
Who we serve, and how we assess
Can they build well in a regulated environment?
We hire for insurers and banks modernising their technology teams, consultancies needing talent for client delivery, and the capability centres scaling engineering, cloud and platform capability in India. A CV can list every framework and still not tell you whether someone can build well in a real, regulated environment. We assess genuine technical depth, the ability to work in financial services conditions, and fit with the team, before any profile reaches you. That discipline is why our placements last: we screen at an 80 per cent rate and our candidates join at an 85 per cent rate, and since 2014 we have had to return fewer than fifteen fees.
Founder led
Shagun Gupta
Founder, stays close to the specialist work
EliteRecruitments is led by its founder, Shagun Gupta, who built the firm out of actuarial and stays close to the specialist work across the practice. Technology hiring sits closely alongside our analytics and data practice, which Kanishka Gupta leads, because modern data and platform teams overlap so much, so contact routes to Shagun and Kanishka. So when you talk to us about a role here, you reach people who understand the work and the market for it, not a generalist passing on a brief.
Proof
Representative technology searches
Shown as role, sector and location, without names, counts or salaries:
Cloud Architect
Engineering Manager
Solution Architect
Platform Engineer
Illustrative of the role types we recruit.
Related specialities
Technology connects to several practices
It overlaps with our analytics practice, where data and platform engineering sit, with our risk practice, which owns cyber and technology risk, and with our audit practice, which owns IT audit. A large share of our technology hiring comes from capability centres scaling engineering teams in India.
How to work with us
A model that fits, with a 90 day guarantee
We recruit technology talent on the basis that suits the role: retained search for senior and business critical hires, contingency for active roles, and capability build recruitment when you are standing up a technology function in a capability centre. Whichever way we work, our placements come with a 90 day guarantee, and since 2014 we have had to return fewer than fifteen fees. Explore Capability Build Recruitment →
Common questions
Frequently asked questions
What technology roles does EliteRecruitments recruit for?
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Speak to us about technology hiring
Whether you are scaling an engineering team in a capability centre, hiring a hard to find cloud architect or platform engineer, or weighing your own next move in technology, we would like to help.
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