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ScienceSoft's Technology & Competency Center of Excellence

Our Technology and Competency CoE takes top talents and makes them sharper, faster, and context-aware. Your team arrives fully aligned with your workflows, tech stack, and compliance needs, ready to deliver results from day one.

Mary Zayats, Head of Technology and Competency Development, ScienceSoft

Mary Zayats

Head of Technology and Competency Development at ScienceSoft

Key Qualities of CoE-Backed Teams

Technically ahead of the curve

The CoE keeps our engineers, architects, business analysts, and DevOps specialists ahead of the curve by deliberately building skills that are soon to be in demand. We continuously track technology platform roadmaps (cloud providers, enterprise software platforms, frameworks, and tools), market and analyst reports, pre-sales demand, industry shifts, and direct signals from the engineering community — often the first to encounter new technical challenges in real projects. These insights flow directly into the CoE’s internal R&D agenda, working-group focus areas, certification paths, and targeted upskilling programs, ensuring our teams are ready before new technologies become mainstream.

Industry- & project-aware

Having spent decades serving demanding industries like healthcare and BFSI, we know how to train our teams on niche domain standards and workflows. But systems, integrations, and data flows can vary widely even within the same industry. Without project-specific preparation, teams lose time early and miss delivery risks. Our CoE ensures ScienceSoft teams learn your environment upfront, so engineers don’t burn project time figuring out how your world works.

Delivery-ready from day one

Understanding the environment is one thing; delivering valuable output fast is another. Thanks to the CoE, ScienceSoft’s teams arrive already organized, with clear roles, processes, and access to tools, templates, and reusable assets. They can avoid ramp-up delays and maintain high productivity throughout the project.

Stable and high-performing

A strong team that leaves halfway through the project is worse than a weak one. The CoE ensures specialists stay engaged, growing, and committed through individual development plans, challenging projects and R&D, recognition, fair compensation, and career growth. For you, this means low team turnover and minimal risk of losing a valuable engineer at the worst possible time — you get a reliable team that finishes what it started.

Resilient by design

No team is insured against all risks — unexpected events happen. Our CoE is built for continuity: multidisciplinary engineers, shared ownership of work, and disciplined knowledge-sharing and documentation prevent single-person dependency. If a key specialist becomes unavailable, another qualified engineer will be ready to step in within days without knowledge loss, delivery slowdowns, or added risk for your project.

How the Technology & Competency CoE Works

At the heart of the CoE is a core team of 100+ senior technology experts: software engineers, project managers, business analysts, quality assurance engineers, DevOps and security specialists, data analysts, and more. These are the people with the deepest technical and domain expertise and years of hands-on project experience. They lead technical interviews and assessments, mentor others, solve the toughest challenges, and act as the backbone of ScienceSoft’s talent pool.

The CoE also closely collaborates with ScienceSoft’s PMO, Architecture & Solutions CoE, and resource managers:

  • Alongside PMO, the CoE monitors team performance and evolving skill needs, stepping in with coaching, mentoring, or targeted upskilling when gaps arise.
  • Working with the architects, the CoE converts proven designs, frameworks, and R&D results into immediately usable assets for project teams.
  • Collaborating with resource managers, the CoE ensures the right people are trained and retained across the company.

How Technology & Competency CoE Works

Working groups (WG) are focused clusters of talent drawn from the CoEs’ core teams and other top performers across delivery. They serve as living hubs of knowledge and innovation and are primarily organized around business domains such as Healthcare and BFSI. Within each domain, technology verticals (e.g., AI engineering, cybersecurity, analytics) provide specialized expertise to address domain-specific challenges.

PMO

Architecture & Solutions CoE

Resource managers

Working groups

How units collaborate. Technology & Competency CoE
  • Strategic talent vetting and skills matching, with rapid upskilling as project needs change.
  • Ongoing monitoring of project team performance and skill fit, with targeted coaching and support.
  • Sharing templates, lessons learned, and R&D outputs with project teams, while strictly protecting client data and NDAs.
  • Conducting peer reviews and project audits to ensure technical quality and delivery consistency.
  • Anticipating potential project challenges and equipping teams with skills and resources to address them before they have an impact.
  • Defining which technologies to develop, maintain and retain.
  • Co-developing internal R&D initiatives and sharing reusable solutions, frameworks, and design patterns with project teams (fully protecting client data and NDA obligations).
  • Maintaining up-to-date employee skills, certifications, and prior project experience.
  • Creating and managing individual development plans, conduct level-up assessments, and provide ongoing mentoring.
  • Leading technical onboarding, define learning paths, and organize targeted trainings.
  • Maintaining high employee engagement and retention.
  • Leading technical hiring.
  • Sponsoring and enabling domain- and technology-focused exploration through dedicated time, governance, and expert support.
  • Receiving early insights from working groups on emerging technologies, domain challenges, and delivery pain points.
  • Incorporating validated reusable assets, patterns, and lessons learned from working groups into CoE-maintained repositories and standards.
  • Using working group feedback to refine skill frameworks, learning paths, and capability priorities across delivery.

What ScienceSoft's Clients Say About Our Teams

They are reliable, thorough, smart, available, extremely good communicators and very friendly. We would recommend hiring ScienceSoft to anyone looking for a highly productive and solution-driven team. We look forward to working them with over the long-term.

I can see that they really think through the lens of their client, which is priceless in this domain. They've found answers to many undefined challenges and suggested dozens of impactful improvements for our IT environment.

ScienceSoft offers resources of high caliber skilled in Microsoft Azure, .NET, mobile, and Quality Assurance. For accelerated project timelines which require skilled resources, ScienceSoft is a company that your team should consider.

ScienceSoft demonstrated a deep understanding of our requirements, and their developers needed minimal supervision. What stood out was ScienceSoft's proactive suggestions for cost-saving architecture design and tech stack solutions. Their input ensured we stayed within budget without compromising on software quality.

Working with ScienceSoft was a pleasure from A to Z. Their deep knowledge of the healthcare industry specifics and DICOM standard helped us create the back end of the software for our ultrasound scanner. We are grateful for their can-do attitude, responsiveness, and straightforward communication.

Get the Right Skills and Culture Match From Day One

Our Technology & Competency CoE helps align ScienceSoft teams with your environment in advance, so they’re ready to contribute and collaborate effectively from the start, without unnecessary ramp-up or friction.