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Roche GCC in India

Roche is listed in GCC Universe under Education & Research. Its recorded India locations are Hyderabad and Chennai.

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Company website ↗ Company LinkedIn ↗Sources and research notes ↓

Company overview

Sector
Education & Research
Sub-sector
Research
Mandate (derived)
Technology & Engineering
Parent headquarters
Grindelwald, Valais, Switzerland
Parent revenue (USD)
$77,500,000,000
Parent headcount
33,767
India headcount
1,000+

GCC locations

  • Hyderabad
  • Chennai

GCC notes

Clinical trial data, diagnostics platform and digital health engineering

Department mix

Global department counts, used as a proxy for the India mandate. These are not India team counts.

Engineering
7,015
Operations
3,691
Business Development
3,236
Information Technology
2,664
Finance
2,536
Support
2,291
Sales
2,193
Marketing
1,842
Human Resources
1,525
Consulting
1,162
Data Science
1,109
Product Management
1,033
Legal
953
Accounting
830
Media And Commmunication
709
Arts And Design
501
Administrative
407
Education
58
Entrepreneurship
12

Technology stack

  • .GIS
  • .NET
  • 24-7 Media
  • 3M 360 Encompass - Health Analytics Suite
  • A2Z Inc
  • ABAP
  • ABB Robotics
  • AC500 PLC
  • ACL
  • ADVA Optical
  • AI
  • AMP
  • ANGEL LMS
  • AT&T
  • AVEVA PDMS

Public leadership

Caroline Rodrigues

Office of the Managing Director

Public leadership listed in the dataset; the role is not necessarily the India GCC head.

Key roles

Data Engineers (Clinical Trials); Bioinformatics Scientists; Software Engineers (Diagnostics Platforms); Product Managers; Regulatory Data Analysts

Research overview

Roche is a Swiss healthcare company operating through two global divisions, Pharmaceuticals and Diagnostics, that research, develop and market medicines and in-vitro diagnostic tests worldwide.

India launch
2018
Maturity
Multi-Function / Full-Stack GCC

The India operation spans clinical trial data engineering, bioinformatics, diagnostics platform software engineering, product management and regulatory data analytics across two cities with 1,000+ staff, plus separate analytics/ERP/biostatistics hubs - a breadth of mandates beyond a single center-of-excellence function.

Location rationale

Roche's Chief Data & AI Officer said Hyderabad was chosen as "a destination for exceptional talent," tapping the city's data and technology ecosystem to build scalable data-driven healthcare innovations.

Timeline

  1. 2018

    Roche establishes its first GATE (Global Analytics and Technology Excellence) center in Chennai, starting with 3 employees.

  2. 2022

    Roche opens a second GATE center in Hyderabad (Oct 18-19, 2022), reaching about 100 employees across its India centers by end of 2022 with plans to grow to ~140 by mid-2023.

  3. 2026

    Roche announces a second Digital Tech Hub in Hyderabad (its first being in Pune), targeting Q1 2027 for operations covering biostatistics, ERP and medical safety.

Hiring signal

Open roles
1000
As of
2026-08-26
  • Data Science & Data Engineering
  • Software Engineering (Product Development, Integration, Quality)
  • Cloud, Platform & Infrastructure

News and developments

Roche to establish second Digital Technology Hub in Hyderabad

Roche announced a second Digital Tech Hub in Hyderabad (after Pune), targeting Q1 2027 operations focused on AI, data analytics, ERP, biostatistics and medical safety.

2026-07-01 BioSpectrum India ↗

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.