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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.

Umbraco Developers build, configure, and maintain content-managed websites on Umbraco — the open-source .NET CMS dominant in UK, Nordic, and Australian enterprise markets. Work spans designing Document Types and DocType Compositions in the Umbraco backoffice, writing C# controllers and ViewModels for surface and API controllers, Razor templating with Tag Helpers, Examine/Lucene search integration, Hijack Route overrides for custom URL structures, and operating the Content Delivery API (Umbraco Heartcore) for headless deployments. In India, the role is concentrated in agencies servicing UK and Nordic geography clients — Compulynx India, Marlin Communications, Umbraco Gold Partners, and the offshore delivery arms of agencies like Cyber-Duck, Nembus, and Vertic — plus a growing pipeline of Umbraco Cloud management work. Entry requires .NET/C# fundamentals plus Umbraco-specific content architecture skills; certification as an Umbraco-Certified Developer or MVP Partner opens senior and consultancy tracks.

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Drupal developers build and maintain enterprise-grade content management systems powering government portals, university intranets, major media sites, and regulated industry platforms — all domains that require fine-grained access control, multilingual support, and auditable content workflows that WordPress and other lightweight CMSes cannot reliably deliver. In India, Drupal work concentrates at Acquia Gold and Platinum partners (Axelerant, Specbee, QED42, Srijan — now Material+), with enterprise internal teams at Reliance Group, Tata Trusts, NASSCOM, government digital-India portals (NIC-managed sites, state government sites on Drupal 10), and universities like IITs running Drupal for academic content. The Drupal 10 ecosystem rewards engineers who understand the full Symfony-based architecture — custom entity types and field types, the Views API, the Plugin system, the Migration API for large-scale content imports, and the JSON:API + GraphQL modules for decoupled front-ends. Senior Drupal engineers in India with Acquia certification access US-remote client work through partner agencies at significantly above-market INR rates.

Senior: ₹45.0L

Design, build, test, and ship native iOS applications using Swift, SwiftUI, and UIKit — apps used by India's premium 4-5% smartphone market and by international users of Indian-origin products. Day-to-day work includes building UI in SwiftUI, modeling data with Core Data or SwiftData, integrating REST and gRPC APIs with URLSession or Alamofire, profiling with Instruments, and shipping releases through TestFlight and the App Store. In India, iOS engineers are concentrated at consumer-app product companies (Swiggy, Zomato, CRED, Razorpay, PhonePe, Dream11, Zerodha, Groww) and the GCCs of Apple, Google, Meta, Amazon, Uber, and Microsoft — with a much smaller volume than Android. The smaller market means fewer roles but a notable scarcity premium: senior iOS engineers in India typically earn more than equivalent Android engineers because supply is tighter, and Mac-based dev environments are required.

Senior: ₹65.0L

Angular Developers build structured, enterprise-grade web applications using Google's opinionated TypeScript framework — standalone components since v17, RxJS observables, Angular Signals for fine-grained reactivity, and NgRx for complex state management. In India, Angular dominates the enterprise and banking stack: TCS, Infosys, Wipro, and Cognizant collectively staff tens of thousands of Angular developers on internal portals, ERP front-ends, and client-facing banking applications for HDFC NetBanking, ICICI iMobile Web, SBI YONO, and insurance portals at LIC and Bajaj Allianz. Google's own India engineering teams maintain Angular, and the Hyderabad and Bengaluru offices remain the upstream for framework-level work. The role rewards engineers who can navigate Angular's explicit architecture — modules vs standalone, dependency injection trees, zone-free change detection with Signals, and the Angular Material + CDK component library — rather than those expecting React's permissive, library-assembling workflow.

Senior: ₹50.0L

Magento Developers (Adobe Commerce Developers) build, customize, and scale enterprise e-commerce platforms on Magento 2 / Adobe Commerce -- writing PHP modules using the observer-plugin (interceptor) pattern, extending GraphQL schemas for headless storefronts, modeling product data with Magento EAV (Entity-Attribute-Value) architecture, and managing indexer queues that keep catalog, price, and search data consistent at scale. In India, Magento work concentrates at Adobe Commerce partner agencies -- Webkul Software (Jaipur), Codilar Technologies (Bengaluru), Wagento, Aimee Soft -- plus in-house teams at mid-market to enterprise retailers migrating from custom PHP to Adobe Commerce. The stack demands a rare combination: deep PHP 8 and Magento 2 internals, performance engineering (Varnish FPC, Redis caching, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch), and API integration with ERPs (SAP, Navision), PIMs (Akeneo), and payment gateways. Entry-level roles start with theme and admin customization; senior and lead engineers own multi-store architecture, B2B Commerce module configuration, CI/CD pipelines for Magento Cloud, and headless PWA Studio or Hyva front-end implementation.

Senior: ₹45.0L