Metro group transferred to Romania its entire software development and application operation business from Germany, with the process recently completed after two years. Metro operates more than 2,200 stores in 31 countries, which generated EUR63 billion revenue in October 2013-September 2014.
“We moved the in-house software development and all the international application operation activities from Germany to Romania in a transition program conducted over the last two years, and this is a big responsibility for Metro Systems Romania,” Sorin Lapadat, the Romanian who runs Metro Systems Romania together with German executive Juergen Boekholt, told ZF in an interview.
The company handles all the necessary operations for the running of the IT systems of the Metro group worldwide, from design, development, delivery and implementation of IT solutions to quality assurance, infrastructure operation, support and maintenance services.
Metro Systems Romania is currently employing 800 people. Most of them work in the Bucharest office and the rest in the Brasov center opened last year.
“We already have a 20 employee team in Brasov and will get to 30 people by September,” Juergen Boekholt said.
The staff in Brasov currently provides helpdesk support for the Metro campus in Germany and first level support for a number of business solutions.
Metro Systems plans to increase the number of employees by about 10% by September, following the transfer of the software development division from Germany to Romania. The move is necessary in order to cope with the growing complexity and volume of software development projects, Boekholt said.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)