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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.

Go Developers build the high-throughput microservices, infrastructure tooling, and platform-layer services that power India's most demanding distributed systems — Razorpay's payment rails, CRED's rewards microservices, PhonePe's UPI middleware, Flipkart's logistics coordination, and Swiggy's real-time dispatch engine all run significant Go workloads. The role is distinct from general backend development: Go's concurrency model (goroutines, channels, the sync package) requires thinking in concurrent execution paths rather than sequential logic, and its explicit error handling forces correctness at every function boundary rather than relying on exceptions. Day-to-day work means writing net/http or Gin/Echo/Fiber HTTP handlers, designing goroutine pipelines with context cancellation, exposing Prometheus metrics, writing gRPC services from .proto files with protoc-gen-go, structured logging with Zap or Zerolog, profiling with pprof, and managing dependencies via Go modules. India Go engineers are concentrated at fintech unicorns (Razorpay, CRED, PhonePe), e-commerce infra teams (Flipkart, Meesho), cloud-native infrastructure companies (HashiCorp India, Google India SRE, Uber India platform), and a growing wave of US-remote product companies that pay dollar salaries to engineers based in Bengaluru and Hyderabad.

Senior: ₹70.0L

Design and characterise radio-frequency circuits, antennas, and wireless systems operating from sub-1 GHz to mm-wave (77 GHz and beyond) — covering 5G NR, Wi-Fi 6E, radar, satellite, and defence-comms bands. Day-to-day spans LNA / PA / mixer / VCO / PLL circuit design in ADS or Cadence RF, antenna synthesis and simulation in HFSS / CST, S-parameter and noise-figure measurement on a VNA, link-budget analysis, EMC/EMI pre-compliance on a spectrum analyser, and RFIC bring-up on characterisation benches. In India the role concentrates at semiconductor GCCs (Qualcomm India, MediaTek India), telecom equipment OEMs (Nokia, Ericsson), ISRO and DRDO labs, defence PSUs (BEL, ECIL, NPOL), and private defence-electronics integrators (Tata Advanced Systems, Bharat Forge Defence, Astra Microwave Products, Alpha Design Technologies). The RF domain is one of the most physics-heavy roles in electronics, combining electromagnetics, circuit theory, and system-level thinking in equal measure.

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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

Rigging Artists build the skeleton joint chains, control rigs, and deformation systems that allow animators to pose and animate characters, creatures, and props in Maya, Houdini, and Blender. The discipline splits into character TD (technical director) — FK/IK spine rigs, facial corrective blendshapes, muscle simulation with MASH or nCloth — and creature TD, which adds muscle layering, fat jiggle dynamics, and XGen hair-groom integration for photoreal creatures in film and VFX pipelines. In India, the role anchors at DNEG India (Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru), MPC / Technicolor India (Mumbai, Bengaluru), Lakshya Digital Pune, Rockstar India Bengaluru, Tata Elxsi, and Prime Focus; these studios deliver rigs for Hollywood films, Netflix and Amazon VFX pipelines, and AAA game characters. Entry requires Maya fluency, MEL/Python scripting, and a reel showing at least one complete biped rig with FK/IK switching and skinned weight maps; senior creature-TD roles demand Houdini VEX, SideFX muscle systems, and USD/Hydra pipeline knowledge.

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Django Developers build and maintain server-side web applications using Python's flagship full-stack framework — writing Django ORM models and migrations, designing REST APIs with Django REST Framework (DRF) viewsets and serializers, offloading async work via Celery + Redis, and optimizing PostgreSQL queries with select_related/prefetch_related. In India, Django is the dominant Python web framework at Razorpay, Postman, Hike, BookMyShow, Practo, and hundreds of funded startups; it is also deeply embedded in the Python practices of services firms like Persistent Systems, Mphasis, and LTIMindtree. Django's batteries-included design (Admin, ORM, Auth, Forms, Migrations) makes it the go-to choice for data-heavy SaaS products, B2B fintech backends, healthcare platforms, and internal tools where velocity and correctness matter more than raw throughput. Senior practitioners extend the framework via custom middleware, Django Channels for WebSocket/ASGI workloads, and Gunicorn + Nginx production deployments on AWS/GCP.

Senior: ₹52.0L