Fiat Chrysler setting up $150 million global digital hub in Hyderabad.

Automotive major Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) is setting a global digital hub in Hyderabad with an investment of $150 million. The FCA ICT India facility will be its largest such hub outside of North America as well as EMEA.

"It will create nearly 1,000 technology jobs by the end of 2021. The employees will get to work on products and concepts that will define future of mobility at FCA," the company said.

The global digital hub will serve as a transformation and innovation engine for FCA and drive global IT strategy and deliver excellence through a robust platform, technology and service centres of excellence. It will focus on building strategic competencies in niche technology areas such as connected vehicle programmes, AI, data accelerators and cloud technologies, a statement from the company said after its senior leadership virtually announced the decision to set up the hub.

“One of the key objectives of FCA ICT India is to digitalise every aspect of FCA’s automotive operations globally and within India and to shift from legacy to digital through adoption of emerging technologies,” said Mamatha Chamarthi, CIO, FCA, North America and Asia Pacific.

“While reviewing our strategy our last year, we knew next step was to set up a global digital hub which would serve as a transformation and innovation engine. Over the coming years, we will ramp up our presence through our new centre in Hyderbad and in Chennai, where we recently expanded our engineering operations,” she said.

THE HINDU