Tech companies face talent crunch in cloud, data - Times of India

BENGALURU: Cloud architects, data scientists, storage systems & management specialists, and software architects are the hardest to find technology talent in India. And over the past year, the shortage of data scientists has increased dramatically because of a surge in demand. A talent supply index (TSI) developed by recruitment company Belong puts the TSI for these roles at 0.2 -- in other words, if there are 10, say, cloud architect opportunities, there are only 2 relevant cloud architects available. A cloud architect is an IT professional responsible for overseeing a company's cloud computing strategy. The TSI for data scientists has dropped dramatically from 0.7 in 2017 to 0.2 this year.