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📍 Chennai, India· Full-time
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Here at Appian, our values of Intensity and Excellence define who we are. We set high standards and live up to them, ensuring that everything we do is done with care and quality. We approach every challenge with ambition and commitment, holding ourselves and each other accountable to achieve the best results. When you join Appian, you’ll be part of a passionate team dedicated to accomplishing hard things, together. This role is open to people who are currently in a product leadership role or someone in an engineering leadership role that is interested to make the switch into product. This role combines experienced product management leadership with the pivotal responsibilities of a Group Product Lead, offering an opportunity to shape the product strategy and the missions of several teams. You will oversee the product management execution working closely with the product managers for several cross-functional software engineering teams around the world. This position reports to the Head of Product for the Platform Engineering Strategic Business Unit, which is responsible for Appian Cloud offering. An excellent candidate will come with a wide range of experience in a product leadership role in the cloud infrastructure domain at a software-as-a-service firm. The product portfolio owned by this position will cover a wide range of cloud native infrastructure and services – from the highly available, resilient, scalable, and efficient infrastructure components on which all Appian Cloud services operate to the the scalable, enterprise-grade managed services that power the backend data persistence and event streams for customer sites in Appian Cloud. You will provide product management leadership for initiatives that deliver efficient and scalable infrastructure, core compute capacity, and managed data planes as multi-tenant services to accelerate the innovations of Engineering teams throughout the department. Your portfolio will include aspects that intersect with AWS accou

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📍 Chennai, India· Full-time
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Here at Appian, our values of Intensity and Excellence define who we are. We set high standards and live up to them, ensuring that everything we do is done with care and quality. We approach every challenge with ambition and commitment, holding ourselves and each other accountable to achieve the best results. When you join Appian, you’ll be part of a passionate team dedicated to accomplishing hard things, together. About the role: As a Senior Software Engineer working on the Appian platform, your mission will be to ensure Appian is always fast, scalable and up to whatever tasks our customers configure it to do. You will be focused on designing, developing, and maintaining complex software systems while providing technical leadership and mentorship and building a product capable of serving our customers in ways you never imagined. This role includes not just deep coding expertise, but also a focus on system orchestration, using AI Tools and AI integration (like RAG, agentic workflows, MCP), and aligning technical decisions with business strategy. Key Responsibilities The SSE isn't just "faster at coding"—they are responsible for the health of the entire codebase and the growth of the team. Code Quality & Standards: Set and enforce the "gold standard" for clean, maintainable, and well-documented code across the repository. Architecture & Design: Leading high-level design sessions, choosing architectural patterns (Microservices, Serverless, Event-driven), and ensuring systems are scalable and secure. Developer Enablement: Create internal tooling and "Golden Paths" that abstract away the complexity of underlying infrastructure for feature teams. Technical Leadership: Mentoring junior engineers, conducting rigorous code reviews, , setting the "gold standard" for clean, maintainable, and well-documented code across the repository. Project Ownership: Driving features from requirement analysis through depl

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📍 Chennai, India· Full-time
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Here at Appian, our values of Intensity and Excellence define who we are. We set high standards and live up to them, ensuring that everything we do is done with care and quality. We approach every challenge with ambition and commitment, holding ourselves and each other accountable to achieve the best results. When you join Appian, you’ll be part of a passionate team dedicated to accomplishing hard things, together. The Mission As a Lead Software Engineer working on the Appian platform, your mission is to be the technical anchor for our most ambitious engineering initiatives. You will ensure Appian is always fast, scalable, and resilient, regardless of the complexity our customers demand. While a Senior Engineer focuses on feature health, you are focused on platform evolution . You will lead the design and orchestration of high-stakes systems, integrating cutting-edge AI into the core fabric of our product. This role demands a balance of elite coding mastery, visionary system architecture, and the ability to align technical roadmaps with Appian's overarching business strategy. Key Responsibilities The Lead Software Engineer isn't just "the best coder"—they are the architect of the team’s success and the guardian of our technical future. Technical Strategy & Roadmap: Work alongside Product Leadership to transform long-term business goals into scalable technical milestones. You don't just build features; you define the technical "North Star." Advanced Architecture: Lead the design of distributed, event-driven, and cloud-native systems. You are responsible for making high-level decisions on system boundaries, data consistency, and integration patterns. AI Orchestration & Innovation: Drive the adoption of AI-native engineering and an AI-native culture within the team. This includes using AI tools to improve developer productivity and implementing AI features into the platform to make the Appian platform more intelli

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📍 Chennai, India· Full-time
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WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise. Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow. For more information, visit WPP.com. Why we're hiring: The Technology Risk & Controls Senior Analyst operates as part of the second line Technology Risk & Controls function, working under the direction of the Technology Risk & Controls Lead. This role builds on core Analyst responsibilities, taking greater ownership of control testing, audit engagement, and stakeholder interaction. The Senior Analyst is expected to operate with increased independence, support junior team members, and contribute to improving the consistency and quality of the controls environment. This role supports the delivery of the controls assurance programme across Business Platforms and Corporate applications, with a strong focus on IT General Controls (ITGC), and SOX compliance, for ERP environments. The role is focused on executing high-quality control testing, audit support and remediation assurance activities in line with WPP standards and methodologies. The Senior Analyst works closely with Application and Control owners, Financial Risk & Control colleagues and auditors to evidence control performance, support audit readiness (including SOX 404

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📍 Chennai, India· Full-time
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WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise. Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow. For more information, visit WPP.com. Why we're hiring: The Technology Risk & Controls Analyst operates as part of the second line Technology Risk & Controls function, working under the direction of the Technology Risk & Controls Lead. This role supports the delivery of the controls assurance programme across Business Platforms and Corporate applications, with a strong focus on IT General Controls (ITGC), and SOX compliance, for ERP environments. The role is focused on executing high-quality control testing, audit support and remediation assurance activities in line with WPP standards and methodologies. The Analyst works closely with Application and Control owners, Financial Risk & Control colleagues and auditors to evidence control performance, support audit readiness (including SOX 404) and contribute to a consistent, well-documented and sustainable control environment. What you'll be doing: Controls Assurance & Testing • Perform control design and operating effectiveness testing across ERP and corporate systems • Execute testing across key control areas (e.g. access management, change

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📍 Chennai, India· Full-time
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WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise. Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow. For more information, visit WPP.com. Why we're hiring: WPP is accelerating the adoption of AI across the enterprise, investing in a portfolio of strategic initiatives designed to transform how work gets done across our global business. Within Enterprise Technology, we're enabling this transformation by building the platforms, capabilities and operating models that will power the next generation of work. From Microsoft Copilot and intelligent automation to emerging AI technologies and agentic workflows, we're embedding AI into the fabric of how WPP operates globally. We're looking for a Programme Manager (Value & Delivery) to help us understand, measure and evidence the impact of AI across the organisation. This role sits at the centre of WPP's Enterprise AI adoption and measurement capability. You'll own the data, reporting and analytics that enable senior leaders to understand how AI is being adopted, where value is being created and what actions are needed to accelerate impact. We're looking for someone who combines strong analytical and data modelling expertise with a delivery mindset. You'll be responsible for building trusted ex

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📍 Chennai, India· Full-time
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WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise. Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow. For more information, visit WPP.com. Why we're hiring: WPP is accelerating the adoption of AI across the enterprise, investing in a portfolio of strategic initiatives designed to transform how work gets done across our global business. Within Enterprise Technology, we're building and scaling AI-powered solutions that help our people work smarter, automate manual processes and unlock new ways of working. From intelligent automations to AI agents and workflow solutions, we're creating capabilities that can be deployed across thousands of teams and more than 100,000 employees globally. We're looking for a Project Manager (Solution Delivery) to help turn a growing pipeline of business demand into working solutions that deliver real impact. This is a delivery leadership role focused on scale. Demand for AI-enabled solutions is growing rapidly across WPP, and you'll be responsible for taking opportunities from discovery through to deployment and adoption. You'll partner with business stakeholders, engineers and delivery partners to ensure solutions are well-defined, delivered effectively and embedded into day-to-day ways of working. You won't

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📍 Chennai, India· Full-time
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WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise. Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow. For more information, visit WPP.com. Why we're hiring: WPP is accelerating the adoption of AI across the enterprise, investing in a portfolio of strategic initiatives designed to transform how work gets done across our global business. Within Enterprise Technology, we're enabling this transformation by building the platforms, capabilities and operating models that will power the next generation of work. From Microsoft Copilot and intelligent automation to emerging AI technologies and agentic workflows, we're embedding AI into the fabric of how WPP operates globally. We're looking for a Project Manager (AI Governance) to help ensure that AI innovation is matched by robust governance, responsible use and effective risk management. As Enterprise AI adoption accelerates, governance becomes increasingly important. This role sits at the centre of that effort, helping establish the controls, processes and evidence that enable innovation to scale safely and responsibly. You'll work closely with technology, delivery and business stakeholders to ensure governance requirements are embedded early, risks are understood and decisions are supported by

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📍 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India· Full-time
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WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise. Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow. For more information, visit WPP.com. Why we're hiring: We are looking for a skilled and passionate Data Visualization Expert to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in SQL for data querying, along with strong experience in visualizing complex datasets into intuitive, interactive, and compelling visual representations. The role requires a strong understanding of data trends, patterns, and insights, paired with a creative approach to presenting data for business decision-making. The AOC is chartered to support automations that drive efficiency and effectiveness through the business, focusing on most impact for our shared interests. We serve the operational needs of GroupM and operating companies through process automation and other technology solutions. You will have daily contact with business stakeholders from WPP Media and operating companies and must be comfortable working with business stakeholders directly. Our primary goal is to drive measurable business outcomes and grow our contribution, and we must earn our right to exist. This is a small, scrappy group. We all‘get our hands in the dirt’ and p

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📍 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India· Full-time
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WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise. Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow. For more information, visit WPP.com. Why we're hiring: WPP is accelerating the adoption of AI across the enterprise, investing in a portfolio of strategic initiatives designed to transform how work gets done across our global business. Within Enterprise Technology, we're enabling this transformation by building the platforms, capabilities and operating models that will power the next generation of work. From Microsoft Copilot and intelligent automation to emerging AI technologies and agentic workflows, we're embedding AI into the fabric of how WPP operates globally. We're looking for a Project Analyst (Value & Delivery) to join our Enterprise AI team, helping turn data, insight and experimentation into meaningful business outcomes. This is a unique role that sits at the intersection of technology, data and business value. You'll own the licence, utilisation and adoption data that underpins executive decision-making, while also helping shape WPP's understanding of emerging AI capabilities through hands-on testing, analysis and prototyping. We're looking for someone who is equally comfortable reconciling large, complex datasets as they

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📍 Chennai, India· Full-time
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WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise. Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow. For more information, visit WPP.com. Why we're hiring: WPP is accelerating the adoption of AI across the enterprise, investing in a portfolio of strategic initiatives designed to transform how work gets done across our global business. Within Enterprise Technology, we're enabling this transformation by building the platforms, capabilities and operating models that will power the next generation of work. From Microsoft Copilot and intelligent automation to emerging AI technologies and agentic workflows, we're embedding AI into the fabric of how WPP operates globally. We're looking for a Project Manager (Value & Delivery) to help us understand, measure and evidence the impact of AI across the organisation. This role sits at the centre of WPP's Enterprise AI adoption and measurement capability. You'll own the data, reporting and analytics that enable senior leaders to understand how AI is being adopted, where value is being created and what actions are needed to accelerate impact. You'll report to the Programme Manager (Value & Delivery). We're looking for someone who combines strong analytical and data modelling expertise with a de

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📍 Chennai, India· Full-time
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WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise. Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow. For more information, visit WPP.com. Why we're hiring: WPP ET is undergoing a significant transformation to modernise ways of working, shift to cloud-based and micro-service architectures, increase automation, and digitise colleague and client experiences. Within this context, the Software Developer plays a key delivery role within the Chase Media Central programme, helping to build and maintain the technical foundation required for a successful multi-market rollout. The focus of this role is to design, develop, and support application components - particularly integrations, data-movement logic, and platform services - that allow Media Central (Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central) to interoperate smoothly with surrounding media and finance systems. While integrations form a central part of the scope, the role remains broad: you contribute to platform enhancements, application workflows, user-facing features, debugging, release readiness, and cross-team engineering practices. You will translate business and technical requirements into clear, maintainable code, prepare technical design documents, participate in code reviews, and troubl

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📍 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India· Full-time
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WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise. Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow. For more information, visit WPP.com. Why we're hiring: We are seeking an experienced and detail‑oriented Global Data Steward to join our team in Chennai, India, supporting WPP Media’s global Master Data Management (MDM) initiative. This role plays a critical part in maintaining the integrity of WPP Media’s Golden Master Data assets across domains such as Clients, Media, Suppliers, and other core business entities. The role works hands‑on with AI‑assisted mastering and mapping in our internally developed MDM platform, Matrix. The role requires strong ownership, sound judgement, and an attitude focused on getting it right — not just getting it approved. The Global Data Steward is expected to actively drive data quality outcomes, challenge poor inputs or AI recommendations, and ensure that master data decisions are correct, intentional, and fit for long‑term enterprise use. As a Global Data Steward, you will work cross‑region with markets, finance teams, and global stakeholders. A structured, proactive, and assertive (“pushy when needed”) approach is essential to ensure mappings are completed, standards are met, and nothing critical stalls.

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📍 Chennai, India· Full-time
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WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise. Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow. For more information, visit WPP.com. Why we're hiring: As a Data Engineer in the WPP Enterprise Data Group, you will be responsible for the design and implementation of scalable data solutions providing enterprise-scale data transformation across a broad range of projects. Your role will focus on delivering solutions that utilize large-scale data ingestion, processing, storage/querying, streaming, and batch analytics using Databricks . As part of a team, you will implement world-class solutions designed by our data architects. Your responsibilities will include estimating, designing, coding, testing, deploying, and ensuring scalability and performance on Azure using key technologies like Databricks. As a hands-on technologist with an extensive data engineering background using Databricks , you will be joining a group of Data Engineers who are passionate about building the best possible solutions for our business and endorse a culture of life-long learning and collaboration. What you'll be doing: Design, build, test and maintain data pipelines (ELT), according to business and technical requirements. Implement secure pla

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📍 Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India· Full-time
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WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise. Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow. For more information, visit WPP.com. Why we're hiring: The role is responsible for leading and overseeing end-to-end cloud operations, ensuring the availability, reliability, security, performance, and resilience of cloud platforms and services. It manages service monitoring, incident response, and incident resolution for production applications and cloud infrastructure, while ensuring operations teams are skilled and enabled to execute cloud-related requests with speed and diligence. The role also provides governance over a large third-party managed services organisation, ensuring delivery against agreed KPIs, SLAs, and operational commitments through effective service reviews, metrics reporting, performance management, and continuous service improvement. What you'll be doing: Responsible for overseeing cloud operations, driving operational excellence, and improving the operational landscape through automation and AI-driven solutions delivered by internal resources and third-party partnerships. Product: Work with product and engineering teams to define operational support patterns for each cloud product. Collaborate with business, archi

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