Tech careers for Indian engineers

International Data Corp (IDC) projects that by 2024, two-thirds of employees in high-performing Forbes Global 2000 enterprises will move from static, siloed roles and processes to become part of dynamic, multi-disciplinary, outcome-focused reconfigurable teams. Factors such as the proliferation of network-connected devices, the adoption of cloud services, and the exponential rise in security threats have changed the nature of jobs and skills required. 'It's a work transformation that embraces human-machine collaboration, enables new employee skillsets and work experiences, and supports a rapidly changing workspace model independent of physical location or time of day'. The World Economic Forum estimate for 2020 is 44 zettabytes of data in the digital universe, which would mean approx 40 times more bytes than there are stars in the observable universe. Demand will be high for IT workers with an ability to analyse the dizzying amounts of data being generated given that data is the building block of technologies such as Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.