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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.

Design, simulate, manufacture, and validate the mechanical systems that keep Indian industry running — automotive engines and chassis, industrial pumps and compressors, HVAC systems, machine tools, defence and aerospace assemblies, robotics and automation, oil-and-gas equipment, and the consumer durables Indian households buy. Day-to-day work spans CAD modeling in SolidWorks / CATIA V5 / Creo / NX; running FEA in ANSYS / Abaqus / Hypermesh; CFD in Fluent / OpenFOAM; manufacturing process planning, GD&T tolerancing, and BOM generation; vendor and supplier-development engineering; quality and reliability work to PPAP / APQP / ISO standards; and shop-floor support during pilot and ramp-up phases. The Indian market is huge and bifurcated — service / engineering R&D companies (TCS, Infosys BPM Engineering, L&T Technology Services, HCL Tech, Wipro Engineering, Tata Elxsi, Quest Global, Cyient) doing offshored R&D for global OEMs, and direct manufacturing OEMs (Tata Motors, Mahindra, Maruti Suzuki, Hero MotoCorp, Bajaj Auto, Royal Enfield, Bharat Forge, BHEL, ISRO, DRDO, HAL, Kirloskar, Cummins India, Voltas, Blue Star, Carrier Midea India). Specialization tracks (design, FEA/CFD, manufacturing, quality, plant maintenance, project engineering) diverge by year 3-4.

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REST API Developers design, build, and maintain HTTP APIs that connect systems — internal microservices, third-party integrations, and partner platforms. In India, the role is split between two ecosystems: system integrators (TCS, Infosys, Wipro, HCL) where developers stitch enterprise backends with SAP, Salesforce, or banking core systems via APIs, and product companies (Razorpay, Cashfree, CRED, PhonePe, Setu) where developers build the public API layer that fintechs consume to power payments, banking, and credit flows. Day-to-day work covers OpenAPI 3.1 spec authoring, REST endpoint design (idempotency, HATEOAS, pagination, versioning), OAuth2/JWT authentication, API gateway configuration (Kong, Apigee, AWS API Gateway), Postman/Newman contract testing, webhook design, rate limiting, and Swagger UI hosting. Entry point is lower than general backend because the constraint set — HTTP verbs, status codes, JSON schema — is explicit and learnable, making this a practical first specialisation for developers coming from a services background.

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Hydrologists in India study the movement, distribution, and quality of water across surface and subsurface systems — mapping aquifers for CGWB's National Aquifer Mapping Programme (NAQUIM), modelling flood plains for CWC, assessing groundwater contamination (arsenic in Ganga plains, fluoride in Rajasthan, salinity in coastal Andhra) for state water resource departments, and building watershed management plans under PMKSY and Jal Jeevan Mission. The discipline sits at the intersection of earth science, field hydrology, and computational modelling — practitioners run MODFLOW for groundwater, HEC-HMS for rainfall-runoff, SWAT for watershed-scale water-quality simulation, and MIKE FLOOD for urban inundation, overlaying results on GIS-based vulnerability atlases. Core employers include the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB), National Institute of Hydrology (NIH) Roorkee, Central Water Commission (CWC), state Groundwater Survey and Development Agencies (GSDA Maharashtra, CGWB regional directorates), and consultancies like WAPCOS, Tata Consulting Engineers, DHI India, Ramboll, and Mott MacDonald India.

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Design Systems Engineers own the React (or Vue/SwiftUI) component library, design token pipeline, and documentation infrastructure that every product team builds on. The role sits squarely at the intersection of design and engineering: you translate Figma variables and Tokens Studio exports into Style Dictionary token transforms, maintain Storybook with Chromatic visual-regression baselines, enforce ARIA and axe-core accessibility contracts, and govern versioned releases via Changesets. In India, dedicated DSE roles exist at Razorpay (Blade design system), PhonePe, Cred, Swiggy, Flipkart, and at global product companies with India engineering hubs — Shopify India, Atlassian India, and GitHub India all run active design-systems squads. The role demands rare fluency in both design judgment and production-grade TypeScript; a pure frontend engineer who can't critique token semantics and a pure designer who can't write a compound component with polymorphic types will both hit a ceiling here.

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Low-Code Developers build enterprise applications on visual development platforms — Mendix Studio Pro, OutSystems Service Studio, and Microsoft Power Apps — where UI flows, data models, and process logic are configured visually and extended with JavaScript, C#, or Java when needed. In India, the role is driven by TCS, Infosys, Wipro, HCL, and Capgemini running large Mendix and OutSystems practices for BFSI, manufacturing, and government-digital clients, alongside Microsoft Power Platform teams embedded in every major GCC. The career demands both platform fluency (Mendix microflows, OutSystems LifeTime governance, Power Platform Dataverse data models) and enough traditional development skill to write custom actions, REST connectors, and business logic extensions that citizen developers cannot handle.

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