Tata Consultancy Services, the Indian-owned IT services company, is opening a third global delivery centre in Queretaro, Mexico. TCS expects to hire 500 professionals during the current financial year for its new centre.

At the new Global Delivery Centre, TCS will provide advanced IT services, consultancy, test factory, business process outsourcing, contact centre, IT infrastructure solutions, industrial and engineering services, and solutions based on TCS products to existing and potential customers.

Since TCS established operations in Mexico in 2003, the company now serves more than 30 local clients in addition to international clients across various industries, including telecom, finance, banking, manufacture and retail.

During the opening ceremony, Ankur Prakash, director of TCS Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean said, “This new facility reinforces our global leadership position in Mexico and will help underpin the accelerated growth that we want to sustain in this country and region by delivering certainty of outcomes to our customers.” He added: “We remain committed to Mexico and we continue to invest in developing the skills of the IT professionals here and generating high quality employment in the industry, given our ability to retain and nurture talent.”