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IT Project Managers plan, execute, and close technology projects — from ERP rollouts and infrastructure migrations to custom software delivery for clients — within defined scope, timeline, and budget constraints. In India, the role is dominant in IT services firms (TCS, Infosys, Wipro, Cognizant, HCL Technologies) where PMs manage client-facing delivery under T&M or fixed-price contracts, and increasingly in product companies (Razorpay, PhonePe, Freshworks) where the title is often Programme Manager or Delivery Manager. Unlike a Product Manager (who owns the why and the roadmap) or a Scrum Master (who facilitates the Agile ceremony), the IT PM owns the triple constraint — scope-time-cost — and is accountable to the client or sponsor for delivery governance, risk mitigation, and stakeholder communication from project initiation to post-go-live support handoff. PMP from PMI and PRINCE2 are the most recognized credentials in the Indian IT services context; CSM or SAFe certifications matter in Agile-heavy product companies.

SOC 2 Auditors perform AICPA-standard attestation engagements for service organizations — SaaS, cloud infrastructure, fintech, and BPO providers — examining whether their controls satisfy the Trust Services Criteria (TSC): Security (CC1-CC9), Availability, Confidentiality, Processing Integrity, and Privacy. In India the practice is concentrated at Big-4 attestation groups (KPMG, EY, Deloitte, PwC) and boutique firms (BDO India, Grant Thornton, Pingsafe, Dhruva Advisors) that serve GCC-heavy corridors in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, and Pune. A SOC 2 Auditor plans the engagement scope, conducts control walkthroughs, selects and evaluates evidence samples, documents exceptions, communicates deficiencies to management, and issues a Type I (point-in-time design effectiveness) or Type II (6–12 month operating effectiveness) opinion letter under SSAE 18 and AT-C Section 205.

Transportation Engineers in India plan, design, and deliver the geometric, pavement, drainage, and traffic systems that underpin the country's roads, highways, metros, and airport ground-side infrastructure. Day-to-day work spans IRC-compliant geometric design (sight distances, super-elevation, vertical curves under IRC SP-73 and IRC 86), flexible pavement design following IRC 37 against design traffic in msa, cross-drainage structure hydraulics, traffic volume studies and Level-of-Service analysis, preparation of MORTH-format BOQs, and software-intensive production in AutoCAD Civil 3D, MX Road, VISSIM, SIDRA, and GIS. The Indian employer universe splits into three tiers: private EPC contractors and concessionaires running NHAI HAM/BOT corridors (L&T GeoStructure, IRB Infra, Adani Roads, Tata Projects, HG Infra, Dilip Buildcon, Ashoka Buildcon); specialist transportation consultancies delivering DPRs, Detailed Design reports, and PMC mandates (Egis India, AECOM India, Louis Berger, Mott MacDonald, SNC-Lavalin ATKINS, Systra, STUP); and PSU authorities (NHAI, NHDP PMUs, DMRC, BMRCL, MMRDA, AAI) that absorb IES and GATE-ranked engineers into project management and independent engineering roles. Specialization tracks — highway, urban transport planning, metro civil, airport landside, traffic engineering — diverge sharply by year 4-5.

CSR Managers in India operationalise the mandate created by Section 135 of the Companies Act 2013 — the world's first statutory CSR law — which requires companies above a specified threshold to spend 2% of average net profit (3 preceding years) on Schedule VII activities. At TCS Foundation, Infosys Foundation, Tata Trusts, Wipro Foundation, RIL CSR, and ITC's social initiatives, this means building multi-year programmes in education, livelihood, health, environment, and rural development; selecting and monitoring NGO implementation partners; conducting impact assessments; and filing the mandatory CSR-2 annual return with MCA. The role spans both strategy (Schedule VII alignment, board CSR committee secretarial) and execution (budget disbursement, audit coordination, BRSR disclosure). Unlike philanthropy roles, Indian CSR Managers work inside a compliance-and-governance framework — impact without audit trails and proper disclosure is a legal liability.

Agile Coaches operate at the organizational layer above Scrum Masters — they coach portfolios of teams, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Engineering Managers, and C-suite leaders on agile ways of working at scale. In India, the role is concentrated in three clusters: Agile CoEs inside IT services giants (Infosys Agile Academy, TCS Pace Port, Wipro Lab45, Capgemini Invent), product unicorns that are scaling delivery models (Razorpay, Flipkart, CRED, Swiggy, Zepto), and SAFe/LeSS partner consulting firms (Agile42, Accenture SolutionsIQ, Valtech, Thoughtworks India, Scaled Agile partner network). Day-to-day work is running PI Planning events for 50-500 people, facilitating Lean Portfolio Management sessions, coaching leadership on Cynefin-informed decision-making in complex domains, and reducing ART-level dependencies via dependency mapping and system demos. The most effective Indian Agile Coaches hold SAFe SPC, ICP-ACC (ICAgile Certified Professional in Agile Coaching), or CSP-SM combined with deep delivery experience — not just certifications acquired in classroom weekends.

Agronomists in India bridge crop science and commercial outcomes — advising farmers on soil fertility, pest and disease management, irrigation scheduling, and variety selection for agri-input companies (Tata-Rallis, UPL, Syngenta India, Bayer CropScience, Coromandel, IFFCO) and agtech platforms (DeHaat, Cropin, Ninjacart, BharatAgri). On the input side, the role is equal parts field science and sales support: running demonstration plots, validating product claims in trial conditions, and translating research into farmer-ready language. On the agtech side, agronomists build crop advisory engines, interpret satellite NDVI and weather data (Skymet, Cropin SmartFarm), and train field agents who reach millions of smallholders. Entry is typically M.Sc. Agriculture with agronomy specialisation from a state agricultural university (PAU Ludhiana, TNAU Coimbatore, PJTSAU Hyderabad, GBPUAT Pantnagar, UAS Bangalore), often followed by ICAR-JRF or an ARS-NET attempt for those pursuing the research track.

Databricks Engineers design and operate lakehouse architectures on the Databricks Unified Data Analytics Platform — authoring PySpark and SparkSQL pipelines on Delta Lake, tuning Photon-engine query plans, managing Unity Catalog data governance, and running Databricks Workflows for multi-task job orchestration. Unlike a generic Data Engineer who may span Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift, the Databricks Engineer is the Spark-native, ML-adjacent specialist: they own Delta table design (OPTIMIZE, VACUUM, liquid clustering, Z-ordering), build Delta Live Tables (DLT) streaming pipelines, track ML experiments in MLflow, and evaluate serverless compute versus all-purpose clusters for cost-to-latency trade-offs. In India, the role concentrates at Flipkart, Walmart Global Tech, Swiggy, Cred, Adobe India, Infosys Cloud & Data, TCS, Tiger Analytics, Mu Sigma, Deloitte GCC, and an expanding set of product companies that chose Databricks over Snowflake for its tighter ML/AI integration. Databricks-certified engineers are among the most in-demand data specialists in India through 2027 as enterprise migration from legacy Hadoop stacks accelerates.

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IoT Engineers build the full stack of connected devices — from C/C++ firmware running on ESP32, STM32, and Nordic nRF52 microcontrollers to the MQTT/CoAP messaging layer, AWS IoT Core or Azure IoT Hub cloud backend, and time-series ingestion pipelines in InfluxDB or TimescaleDB. In India, the role spans smart-home hardware at Atomberg, Havells, Legrand, boAt, and Wakefit; industrial IoT at Honeywell, Siemens, Bosch, L&T Technology Services, and Tata Elxsi; asset tracking and telematics at Jio, Reliance Jio Platforms, and Tata; and government-grade smart-city/smart-grid IoT at BEL, BSNL, and ECIL. Unlike pure embedded engineers, IoT Engineers must simultaneously own low-power radio link budgets (BLE, Wi-Fi, LoRa, NB-IoT, Zigbee), device identity and certificate provisioning, over-the-air (OTA) update security, and cloud-side data pipelines — the role is inherently cross-layer.

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Browser Extension Developers build software that lives inside Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari — injecting UI into third-party websites, intercepting and modifying network requests, and orchestrating background logic through Manifest V3 service workers. In India, the role spans Grammarly's Bengaluru team (writing assistant overlay on every page), cashback extension startups modeled on Honey (declarativeNetRequest rules + affiliate-link rewriting), AI-overlay products like Twin AI and Bardeen, and a growing wave of solo indie devs who build extension SaaS products sold globally via Chrome Web Store subscriptions. The distinguishing technical demand is mastery of the browser extension security model — isolated worlds, content script sandboxing, message passing across extension contexts, and the Manifest V3 migration constraints — which are fundamentally different from standard web or Node.js development.

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Write the firmware that makes physical devices work — the C / C++ / Rust running on microcontrollers (STM32, ESP32, NXP, TI) and SoCs (NVIDIA Jetson, Qualcomm) inside cars, drones, IoT sensors, medical devices, and consumer electronics. Day-to-day work spans bring-up of new boards from a hardware engineer's schematic, writing device drivers and HAL layers, RTOS task scheduling (FreeRTOS, Zephyr, AUTOSAR), debugging with JTAG / oscilloscopes / logic analyzers, and meeting hard real-time and power constraints. In India, the role is concentrated in the EV stack (Ola Electric, Ather, TVS, Mahindra), defense and aerospace (BEL, ISRO, DRDO, HAL, Bharat Forge), automotive Tier-1s (Bosch India, Continental, Aptiv, Tata Elxsi), consumer hardware (boAt, Noise, OnePlus India), and global semiconductor GCCs (Qualcomm, NVIDIA, Texas Instruments, Microchip).

Senior: ₹55.0L

Node.js Developers build the JavaScript/TypeScript backend that powers India's fastest-growing internet products — Razorpay's payment APIs, Cred's rewards engine, Zomato's order-routing service, Swiggy's logistics coordination, PhonePe's UPI switch, and Flipkart's catalogue microservices all run significant Node.js workloads. The role is distinct from generic backend development: the entire runtime is single-threaded with non-blocking I/O powered by libuv and the V8 engine, so correctness demands understanding the event loop, async/await patterns, stream backpressure, and clustering — not just REST endpoint boilerplate. Day-to-day work centers on Express.js, NestJS, or Fastify server code; Mongoose/Prisma ORM for MongoDB or Postgres; JWT + Passport auth; Socket.io real-time layers; and gRPC-based microservice communication. In India, Node.js backend specialists are hired by every tier of company — services firms (Infosys Node.js practice, TCS digital), product unicorns (Zerodha, Meesho, ShareChat), GCCs (Microsoft, Amazon India), and a dense startup ecosystem in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Pune, and remote — making this one of the most liquid job markets for any specialized backend role.

Senior: ₹60.0L