Luxoft, a leading global provider of advanced application and product development services, today announced the opening of its technical development centre in the UK. The new facility, located in Welwyn Garden City, near London, is a significant investment in the company’s growth strategy and further expansion of its global delivery capabilities.

The Luxoft Development Centre has been set up to provide product realisation services for large telecom equipment vendors. One of Luxoft’s major partners, Avaya, will help kick off the opening of the development centre by continuing its relationship with Luxoft at the UK facility, jointly working on the development of Avaya’s IP Office product range.

Luxoft’s Centre opens with a team of over 50 highly skilled engineers, with capacity for growth. With a larger presence in the UK, Luxoft will be able to better serve existing UK-based customers such as Deutsche Bank, UBS and Areva, as well as establish new partnerships in the region. The full portfolio of services to be provided by the Development Centre includes: software engineering, complete product development, detailed trouble shooting of equipment, as well as customer support services and account management for UK–based customers.

Luxoft’s Welwyn Garden City Development Centre complements Luxoft’s current delivery sites located in Eastern Europe and Southeast Asia, enabling the company to offer blended onshore / offshore delivery capabilities to deliver highly skilled innovations and developments, cost effectively and with a customer-centric approach.

“The opening of the UK Development Centre demonstrates our continued commitment to providing our European and US customers with engineering development and outsourced customer support services to manage the complete product lifecycle from ideation through sustaining engineering and first line customer support,” said Vasily Suvorov, vice president of technology strategy at Luxoft.

Jayesh Govindarajan, Senior Director of Engineering, Avaya Inc. commented on the opening of the new Centre: “We are pleased to be working with Luxoft’s new Development Centre to continue our development relationship. We have been impressed with Luxoft’s willingness to work with us in cost effectively crafting specific co-development solutions.”