Tech recruitment in 2019: IT engineers may reap benefit with advent of newer technologies

With government initiative to give a thrust for digitisation of economy and technology inclusion, the new year 2019 is likely to bring new job opportunities for IT engineers and technology graduates. The technology firms across India will increase recruitment from the IT space in the New Year in the wake of transformation in businesses, changes in customer requirements and advent of newer technologies, said an Economic Times report. 
 
Job opportunities are likely to emerge from major sectors including automakers, banking and financial services firms, consumer goods, manufacturers and drugmakers, which would step up the recruitment for tech graduates, the report said. 
 
The report said that surge in hiring would be witnessed for roles and positions related to robotics and cognitive automation, blockchain, decision thinking, decision science, enterprise architecture, machine learning, cloud and digital transformation consulting. The recruitment for solutions specialists, natural language processing and artificial intelligence may also see an upsurge, the report said, citing experts. 
 
Further, jobs having focus on design and architecture experts, analytics leads, advanced technologies developers, product managers, data science and data governance experts, digital solution architects, business analysts and domain SMEs, digital delivery leaders, information security experts and digital transformation consultants may be in greater demands, the report added.
 
The newspaper recently reported that PSU banks would hire one lakh people within the current financial year 2018-2019. Of these, several state-owned banks including State Bank of India, Bank of Baroda, Canara Bank and Syndicate Bank are likely to go ahead with recruitment to cope up with the requirement of new-age banking needs and grow their business.
 
Citing estimates of TeamLease Services, a staffing company, the report said that the number is more than double the number the banks hired in the last two years. Notably, PSU banks collectively hired 95,000 in last two years for positions like clerk, management trainees and probationary officers, the ET said, adding that this doesn't include lateral hiring.