Company overview
- Sector
- Industrial, Machinery & Engineering
- Sub-sector
- Machinery
- Mandate (derived)
- Technology & Engineering
- Parent headquarters
- Moline, Illinois, United States
- Parent revenue (USD)
- $44,700,000,000
- Parent headcount
- 25,951
- India headcount
- Not disclosed
GCC locations
- Pune
- Bengaluru
GCC notes
Agricultural equipment software, IoT, digital farming and precision ag R&D
Department mix
Global department counts, used as a proxy for the India mandate. These are not India team counts.
Technology stack
- .NET
- ABAP
- ABB Robotics
- AC500 PLC
- AGFA ORBIS
- AI
- AMP
- ANSYS
- ARIS Simulation
- ASP.NET
- AT&T
- AVEVA InTouch HMI
- AWS Analytics
- AWS CloudFormation
- AWS Lambda
Public leadership
Abhay Dhokte
Managing Director
Public leadership listed in the dataset; the role is not necessarily the India GCC head.
Research overview
Deere & Company (NYSE: DE), headquartered in Moline, Illinois, is the world's largest manufacturer of agricultural machinery and a major producer of construction, forestry, and turf-care equipment, operating in over 100 countries. The company is mid-transition toward precision agriculture, autonomy, and AI-driven equipment while navigating a cyclical downturn in farm-equipment demand through 2024-2025.
- India launch
- 2005
- Maturity
- Multi-Function / Full-Stack GCC (Innovation & R&D Hub)
JDTCI delivers full-stack capability across IT, Engineering Services, Manufacturing Services, Embedded Systems, and Technical Information Authoring - spanning IT shared services through product R&D and embedded engineering.
Location rationale
Pune hosts John Deere's main India engineering/technology campus (Magarpatta City) co-located with long-standing tractor and electronics manufacturing plants, giving proximity to Pune's automotive/mechanical-engineering talent base. Bengaluru supplements this as part of a 'Global IT Centre' footprint for IT application development and digital-agriculture software.
Timeline
- 1998
John Deere establishes tractor manufacturing/commercial operations in India (John Deere India Private Limited, Pune).
- February 2005
John Deere Technology Center India (JDTCI) established as a small incubation center in Pune.
- December 2005
Center relocates to Tower XIV, Cybercity, Magarpatta City, Pune.
- January 11, 2006
JDTCI officially inaugurated at the Magarpatta City campus.
- February 2023
John Deere marks 25 years of operations in India, citing Global IT Centre presence in both Pune and Bengaluru alongside the Pune Engineering Centre and Enterprise Technology Centre.
- October-November 2024
Leadership transition: Rajesh Kumar Sinha appointed Managing Director, succeeding Shailendra Jagtap.
Leadership context
On-file head 'Abhay Dhokte, Managing Director' could not be confirmed as the JDTCI leader - records identify him as MD of John Deere Financial India (a separate NBFC subsidiary). Corporate-registry sources instead show Rajesh Kumar Sinha as MD of John Deere India Pvt. Ltd. (JDTCI) since Oct/Nov 2024. Sinha is a mechanical engineer (Amravati University) who joined John Deere in July 2010 after Tata Cummins, rising through VP-Manufacturing and Senior VP roles.
Real estate
Primary technology campus at Cybercity, Tower XIV/Tower 10, Magarpatta City, Hadapsar, Pune (JDTCI headquarters since December 2005). A Bengaluru office forms part of John Deere's 'Global IT Centre' footprint, though no separate address or opening date could be verified.
Hiring signal
- Open roles
- Not disclosed
- As of
- 2026-08-27
- Software/IT application development
- Embedded systems
- Engineering services
- Manufacturing/quality engineering
- Data analytics, cloud, AI/ML for precision agriculture
News and developments
Leadership change at John Deere India / JDTCI
Rajesh Kumar Sinha, a long-tenured John Deere India manufacturing executive, was named Managing Director of John Deere India Pvt. Ltd. (JDTCI), succeeding outgoing MD & Country Manager Shailendra Jagtap.
2024-11 TheCompanyCheck / TractorGyan ↗
John Deere marks 25 years of operations in India
John Deere highlighted 25 years in India, listing Pune manufacturing plants, India Engineering Centre, Enterprise Technology Centre, and a Global IT Centre spanning Pune and Bengaluru.
2023-02 Agriculture Post ↗
Sources
Sources and research notes
Source: Indian GCC 2026 Master Compendium, Company Master and research records. Sector, mandate and public leadership are derived fields. Missing values are shown as not disclosed. Revenue and global headcount describe the parent company, not the India centre.