Offshore done right
Offshore development is not about cheap labour. It is about a governed, scalable extension of your engineering org — under your tech leadership, your release cadence, your code-review bar — but with the HR, infrastructure, security and people continuity sitting with us.
We've stood up offshore development centres (ODCs) for enterprises across the USA, UK and Middle East from our hubs in India, Kenya and the UAE, with a 90%+ engineer retention rate. Our ODC clients have stayed 4+ years on average.
How an ODC compares to other engagement models
| Staff Augmentation | Offshore Development Centre | Global Capability Centre | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Engagement length | Weeks to months | 1–5 years | Multi-year, captive |
| Engineers report to | You | You (via our lead) | You (via your captive) |
| HR, infra, payroll | Redian | Redian | You (we set up) |
| Best for | Spike capacity | Long-term capacity | Permanent shore |
| Ramp time | 2 weeks | Scoped after Discovery | Scoped after Discovery |
What's in a Redian ODC
- 5–50+ engineer teams matched to your stack and seniority bar.
- Dedicated team lead on the Redian side — accountable for delivery, attrition and quality.
- Your processes inside — your standups, your Jira, your release cadence, your code-review gates.
- Redian operations — HR, payroll, benefits, infrastructure, security, IT — all handled.
- Quarterly business reviews with the founders and your sponsor.
How we ramp an ODC
1. Scoping — team shape, seniority mix, target stack, governance model.
2. Hiring & vetting — pre-vetted candidates from our 420+ engineer pipeline; you interview the shortlist.
3. Onboarding & integration — engineers learn your codebase under our team lead's supervision.
4. Steady-state delivery — quarterly OKRs, monthly delivery reports, weekly standups with your team.
Where we operate
- India (Noida — Global HQ) — full stack of engineering, AI/ML, BFSI, CRM/ERP, mobile and DevOps talent.
- Kenya (Nairobi — Africa Regional HQ) — BFSI specialists, time-zone overlap with Europe.
- UAE (Dubai — Middle East Regional HQ) — local presence for GCC-region enterprises.
When clients pick an ODC over staff aug
You're hiring offshore for the long term, you want a dedicated team rather than rotating individuals, and you want one accountable lead rather than managing many individual contracts. That's exactly when an ODC pays for itself.
ODC vs staff augmentation — how to pick
Offshore Development Centre (ODC) and staff augmentation look similar from the outside — both give you engineering capacity from India, Kenya or wherever we deliver from. But they solve different problems and price differently.
- Staff augmentation — you own the delivery outcome, we supply engineers. Best when you have strong product management and engineering leadership on your side and need capacity.
- ODC (Offshore Development Centre) — Redian owns the delivery outcome; the ODC runs as a Redian-managed sub-team with its own tech lead, EM and delivery accountability. Best when you want an outcome-oriented engagement without absorbing engineering-management overhead.
- Hybrid — start with staff aug, transition to ODC once the engagement clarity crystallises. Or vice versa — start with ODC to accelerate, transition to staff aug once your side scales up.
Pricing models
- T&M (time and materials) — engineer-day rate. Simplest, most flexible, most common. Rate cards published upfront.
- Fixed price — for well-scoped, well-understood deliverables. We publish assumptions and change-order rates so it is not a black box.
- Managed capacity — flat monthly fee for a defined engineering pod (3–15 engineers), with productivity metrics tracked and reported. Best when scope is stable but the work-shape is variable.
- Outcome-based — for specific transformation programmes where success can be measured; part of the fee ties to hitting the outcome. We only propose this where the outcome is genuinely measurable and controllable.
Locations we deliver in
Same delivery discipline, same MSA, day-rates calibrated for each market — we run IT Staff Augmentation and GCC seed-team engagements from every hub below.
- IT Staff Augmentation in Delhi
- IT Staff Augmentation in Noida
- IT Staff Augmentation in Gurgaon
- IT Staff Augmentation in Mumbai
- IT Staff Augmentation in Pune
- IT Staff Augmentation in Hyderabad
- IT Staff Augmentation in Bengaluru
- IT Staff Augmentation in Chennai
- IT Staff Augmentation in Kenya
- IT Staff Augmentation in South Africa
- IT Staff Augmentation in United States
- IT Staff Augmentation in United Kingdom
- IT Staff Augmentation in Germany
- IT Staff Augmentation in Netherlands
- IT Staff Augmentation in Australia
