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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.

Radiologists in India read and interpret medical images — X-rays, CT, MRI, ultrasound, mammography, PET-CT, fluoroscopy, and increasingly DSA / interventional procedures — to diagnose disease, guide biopsies, drain abscesses, place stents, and answer the clinical question the referring doctor actually asked. The path is brutal: MBBS (5.5 years) entered through NEET-UG, then MD Radiodiagnosis or DNB Radiology (3 years) entered through NEET-PG / INI-CET — and Radiology is among the top three most-competitive PG seats in India alongside Dermatology and Medicine. Workplaces split four ways: large private chains (Apollo, Fortis, Manipal, Max, Medanta, Narayana) where a senior consultant clears ₹40L-1Cr+, government / teaching hospitals (AIIMS, PGIMER, JIPMER, KEM Mumbai) for academic and security-driven careers, standalone diagnostic centres (Mahajan Imaging, Vijaya, SRL, Dr Lal Path Labs imaging arms), and the rapidly growing teleradiology market (Teleradiology Solutions Bangalore, Aster, RadLink) which lets a Bangalore radiologist read scans from US, UK, Singapore, and rural India hospitals from home — adding ₹5-30L of side income on top of the day job. The defining 2026 question for the field is AI: Aidoc, Qure.ai, RadNet, and Google Health-derived tools now flag intracranial bleeds, pulmonary nodules, and fractures faster than humans on first-pass triage — which means the radiologist's value is shifting from raw pattern-spotting to clinical correlation, multidisciplinary tumour-board judgment, image-guided procedures, and being the doctor the AI escalates to.

Senior: ₹60.0L

Geotechnical engineers investigate soil, rock, and groundwater conditions to design safe foundations, retaining structures, embankments, and slopes for India's roads, metros, dams, high-rises, and ports. Every project starts with a soil investigation report — SPT, CPT, plate load tests, triaxial and consolidation lab tests — and ends with a foundation recommendation that carries structural loads safely into the ground: raft, pile group, well, caisson, or MSE wall. In India through 2026, the specialty sits at the intersection of private infra construction (L&T Geotech, Tata Projects, Afcons), design consultancies (AECOM India, Sarathy Geotech, STUP), PSUs (Central Water Commission, NHSRCL, IRCON, RVNL), and niche firms (NDT-PRO India, ITASCA India for numerical modelling, Keller India for ground improvement). Entry requires B.Tech Civil + M.Tech Geotechnical from an IIT or NIT; without M.Tech the ceiling is site-investigation supervision rather than independent design sign-off.

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Design, install, and operate the electrical systems that move power from generation to industrial loads and household sockets across India — generation plants, EHV substations, transmission lines, distribution networks, motor drives, switchgear, and the electrical bays inside cement, steel, refining, and manufacturing plants. The work spans load-flow and short-circuit studies in ETAP / DIgSILENT / SKM, protection-relay coordination on Schneider, ABB, Siemens, and Hitachi-Energy gear, motor-control-centre and PCC design, drive commissioning (Variable-Frequency Drives, soft-starters, MV drives), HT/LT panel engineering, plant electrical-safety audits to IS-732 / IS-3043 / IEC 61936, and SCADA / DCS integration for substations and process plants. In India the role lives at three very different employers — central and state PSUs (NTPC, BHEL, POWERGRID, NHPC, NLC, Coal India captives, state DISCOMs, GETCO, MSETCL), private power and industrial groups (Tata Power, Adani Power and Adani Green, JSW, Reliance, Vedanta, Hindalco, ACC, UltraTech), and motor / equipment manufacturers and GCC R&D centres (CG Power, Havells, Siemens India, ABB India, Schneider Electric India, Hitachi Energy, Rockwell Automation, Larsen & Toubro Electrical & Automation). Pay, work culture, and growth curves vary widely across these three lanes, and the same B.Tech can land in any of them.

Senior: ₹40.0L

Data Platform Engineers build and operate the shared infrastructure that every data-producing and data-consuming team in the company depends on — Spark and Trino/Presto cluster management, Airflow/Dagster operator frameworks, Snowflake and Databricks tenancy governance, schema registries, data catalog and lineage tooling (DataHub, OpenMetadata, Atlan), and the SLOs that underpin all downstream analytics and ML work. The distinction from a Data Engineer is operational ownership: a Data Platform Engineer does not primarily author business pipelines but instead owns the platform those pipelines run on — cluster sizing, Spark executor config, Airflow scheduler tuning, warehouse credit budgets, access-control frameworks, and cost-attribution dashboards. In India the role has consolidated at petabyte-scale operators — Flipkart, Walmart Global Tech, Uber India, Razorpay, CRED, PhonePe, Swiggy, Zomato — and at the GCCs of global hyperscalers and banks where the Indian data platform team often owns a globally shared service.

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Snowflake Engineers design, build, and govern production data platforms on Snowflake — sizing virtual warehouses, tuning credit consumption, architecting Snowpipe and Snowflake Streaming ingestion flows, building dbt-on-Snowflake transformation layers, and operating Snowflake's RBAC + row-access policies to meet compliance requirements. Unlike a generic Data Engineer who treats Snowflake as one option among several, a Snowflake Engineer goes deep on the platform itself: micro-partition pruning, clustering keys, dynamic tables, Snowpark Python UDFs, Snowflake Cortex ML functions, replication groups for HA, and the credit economics that determine whether a warehouse costs ₹2L or ₹20L per month. In India, this specialisation commands a 20-35% premium over generic data engineering because the Snowflake billing model punishes misuse harshly — companies running Razorpay, PhonePe, Walmart Labs India, Cred, and Zepto on Snowflake pay real money for every compute-second and need engineers who can cut that cost while maintaining SLOs.

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