Dallas based Crossvale is creating 12 new jobs as it extends its software engineering team with a new centre in Belfast. The company, which develops integrated software and professional services solutions, for financial services, telecoms and retail customers, is extending its engineering capabilities to support its growth. The Crossvale Group was established in 2001 by local entrepreneur, Conor Brankin, who started his working career with British Telecom in Northern Ireland in 1992. “Our new engineering centre in Belfast will support our company’s growth and help service both our existing US clients, as well new clients in the UK, Republic of Ireland and the Middle East,” said Brankin, CEO of Crossvale. “We spent a lot of time considering where the right location for our new software centre should be.  The local talent here is hard to beat and we are keen to recruit both experienced developers and recent graduates,” added Ian Purdy, Crossvale Europe managing director. “Once again it is the availability of high quality software engineers that has attracted this US company to Northern Ireland.  This, combined with low staff turnover, low costs and Invest NI support has secured this mobile project and the new developer roles for Northern Ireland,” said Alastair Hamilton, chief executive of Invest NI. “The new roles, with an average salary of £38,000, will be created over the next two years, with the majority of roles in place by the end of 2017.  Invest NI has offered the company support towards the new jobs, helping to leverage nearly £500,000 of investment in the economy through annual salaries.”