Continuous Improvement Manager in Chennai

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 Media is embarking on a transformative data journey through Databridge —our internal comprehensive data strategy and framework designed to unify our fragmented global data landscape. We are moving from isolated, market-specific implementations to a standardized, scalable, cloud-agnostic, and AI-ready data platform built on a modern tech stack: dbt, Databricks, Python (dlthub), and GitHub Actions . As Data Operations Lead , you will establish and head our new Data Integration & Operations team in Chennai. This is a build-and-run role : you'll define how the team operates while leading day-to-day delivery of operational excellence across global data products. You will be the custodian of production —owning the operational layer including CI/CD automation, deployment pipelines, monitoring, data quality enforcement, incident management, and support. This role requires deep technical knowledge of Databricks and modern data platforms, alongside the ability to lead, mentor, and scale a growing team. What you'll be doin

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 platforms

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. Senior Consultant Location: Chennai, India | Work Model: In Office About the Team Appian Customer Success is obsessed with delivering exceptional customer outcomes and high-velocity business impact. Our Public Sector team acts as a trusted strategic partner to government agencies and organizations, bringing their most vital ideas to life. By joining this high-performing team, you will strengthen and evolve your technical consulting skills while accelerating the adoption of our AI-Powered Process Automation platform across critical public infrastructure. As a Senior Consultant, you will step into a pivotal leadership role at the intersection of public sector strategy and modern technical innovation. This is your opportunity to move beyond isolated coding tasks and own the end-to-end delivery of highly visible, complex enterprise systems. You will lead small engineering teams, architect robust integrations, and serve as a trusted technical advisor to client stakeholders - enabling enterprise organizations to achieve true Enterprise-Grade Orchestration . What You’ll Do Passion for mentoring/developing others and experience leading small teams through post-sale software implementation Ability to work with clients to define business processes and gather functional and technical system requirements Excellent communication skills, passion for technology and continuous learning, and affinity for asking “why” and solving the right problems History of success on cross-functional teams; experience building products using agile methodologies (pair programming,

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. Senior Consultant Location: Chennai, India | Work Model: In Office Appian Customer Success is obsessed with delivering exceptional customer outcomes and driving mission-critical business impact. Grounded in our core values of Excellence and Intensity, we act as elite technical advisors to our commercial clients. By joining this high-performance team, you will champion a culture of candid communication and excellence while accelerating global adoption of our AI-Powered Process Automation platform. What You’ll Do Implement Scalable Platform Architecture: Build and maintain standards and tools to ensure high performance and resilience with a focus on reusability, schema design, data modeling , query performance, and responsive UX/UI best practices. Engineered Integrations: Perform hands-on design, code implementation, and unit testing using SQL views , stored procedures , and high-concurrency REST/SOAP web services/APIs . System-Level Troubleshooting: Rapidly diagnose performance bottlenecks, memory usage, CPU constraints, and network latency spikes across the web application stack. Performance Profiling & Analysis: Analyze database execution plans, system logs, and Locust load test outputs to isolate and resolve root-cause performance bottlenecks. Technical Quality & Enablement: Ensure continuous integration and delivery alignment by applying strong DevSecOps practices, robust automated testing, and clean coding standards. Required Qualifications Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or Mathematics. 8+ years of pro

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. Drives AI-first tooling, SDLC automation, and developer productivity initiatives Required Experience & Skills 6+ years of experience building internal tools or developer platforms Strong CI/CD and automation expertise, Generative AI integration in SDLC Core Backend & Architectural Fundamentals: Deep dive into data structures, algorithms, and microservices/distributed system architecture patterns. While we embrace a language-agnostic mindset, strong proficiency in Java or Python is preferred. Cloud & Infrastructure: Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure, container frameworks (Docker/Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines is a major advantage Modern Engineering Practices (Highly Valued): Daily utilization of AI tools and agentic engineering environments (e.g., Kiro, Claude, Copilot) to accelerate software design, automate background workflows, and optimize developer productivity Tools and Resources Training and Development: During onboarding, we focus on equipping new hires with the skills and knowledge for success through department-specific training. Continuous learning is a central focus at Appian, with dedicated mentorship and the First-Friend program being widely utilized resources for new hires. Growth Opportunities: Appian provides a diverse array of growth and development opportunities, including our leadership program tailored for new and aspiring managers, a comprehensive library of specialized department training through Appian University, skills based training, and tuition

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. You will own end-to-end delivery for complex, cross-org modernization programs. You will create clarity from ambiguity, define operating mechanisms, drive dependency management, and ensure high-quality execution across Platform Engineering and Low Code Foundations. Required Experience & Skills 8–12+ years technical program management in engineering organizations Experience driving large, cross-team technical programs with measurable outcomes Excellent written and verbal communication; strong ability to influence without authority Demonstrated rigor in planning, risk management, and execution mechanisms Comfort partnering with senior engineering leaders and principal engineers Preferred Experience & Skills Experience with platform modernization (cloud-native, performance, reliability, migrations) Experience with AI-enabled programs or AI-first SDLC adoption Background in software engineering, systems engineering, or technical product delivery Tools and Resources Training and Development: During onboarding, we focus on equipping new hires with the skills and knowledge for success through department-specific training. Continuous learning is a central focus at Appian, with dedicated mentorship and the First-Friend program being widely utilized resources for new hires. Growth Opportunities: Appian provides a diverse array of growth and development opportunities, including our leadership program tailored for new and aspiring managers, a comprehensive library of specialized department training through Appian University, skills based training,

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. Career Manager - Chennai Chennai, India | Work Model: On-site Guide our Chennai Consultants through transformative career journeys while building operational excellence that directly fuels Customer Success and business growth. ABOUT THE TEAM The People Team partners with Appian's Professional Services organization to develop world-class consulting talent delivering AI-Powered Process Automation solutions to our clients. This team owns the full consultant lifecycle—from onboarding through career progression—ensuring our consultants have the coaching, development, and support needed to drive client transformation. Your work directly impacts retention, performance, and the capability of teams solving complex mission-critical challenges. THE OPPORTUNITY As Appian scales its footprint, the demand for exceptional consulting talent has never been higher. This role exists to ensure our consultants don't just deliver projects—they build careers, develop deep expertise, and become trusted advisors to clients. You'll shape how we grow, retain, and elevate talent in a high-stakes environment where performance and people development are inseparable from business success. WHAT YOU'LL DO Oversee and continuously improve systems and processes that support talent development, evaluation, feedback, and retention. Partner with top consultants to develop consulting career development frameworks. Contribute and enhance performance management processes, including feedback cycles, performance reviews, and promotion calibrations, in collaboration with Project Engagement Managers

About the Team Being part of Meesho's Fulfilment and Experience (F&E) team as Cluster Head LM, will zip you to the cockpit of our ever-burgeoning rocketship, where you get to directly shape the experience of the country's next billion e-commerce users. We are an eclectic mix of 100+ professionals with diverse skill sets ranging from running operations/support, supply chain know-how, analytics and the holy grail, first principles problem-solving. At Meesho, we’re trying to do what's never been done before - taking e-commerce to the masses. This leaves us with no choice but to completely reimagine logistics from the ground up, to cater to our customers' price and delivery expectations. That means a host of "zero-to-one" projects (takers, anyone?) to build a supply chain to change how folks think about e-commerce in India and globally. We are firm believers in fun at work. With monthly F&E happy hour sessions, informal team outings, and internal virtual water cooler chat sessions, there’s never a dull moment with us About the Role As Cluster Head LM, you’ll own the onboarding and training of partners. You’ll also drive key operational metrics by regularly visiting their facilities in different cities in your area. You’ll take complete ownership of processes allotted to you and work with various stakeholders to achieve team goals. You’ll continuously work towards identifying gaps and providing recommendations for improving our processes. What you will do Own the onboarding and training of new partners for Last Mile operations in your cluster. Identify and onboard new partners onto the network on an ongoing basis Track and own the performance of different partners in your cluster Visit facilities to conduct audits and solve operational gaps Ensure compliance with operational processes Own and drive critical operational metrics end to end and achieve performance targets Continuously work towards ide

TEGNA Inc. helps people thrive in their local communities by providing the trusted local news and services that matter most. With 64 television stations in 51 U.S. markets, TEGNA reaches more than 100 million people monthly across web, mobile apps, streaming, and linear television, while also maintaining a strong global presence in India with offices in Bangalore and Chennai that support technology, product, and business operations initiatives. Together, we are building a sustainable future for local news. TEGNA is seeking a skilled and detail-oriented Automation Engineer to join our dynamic engineering team. This role will focus on building and maintaining robust automated testing frameworks to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of our software products. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in software testing, automation frameworks, and modern QA practices, along with the ability to collaborate closely with developers, product managers, and other stakeholders to deliver high-quality software. What You’ll Do Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks and test suites for web and API testing. Execute manual testing activities, including test case design, test execution, and defect reporting. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand product requirements and create comprehensive test strategies and plans. Perform code reviews and provide feedback to ensure adherence to coding standards and automation best practices. Identify and prioritize opportunities for test automation, improving overall QA efficiency. Investigate and debug test failures, working closely with developers to resolve issues quickly. Analyze test results and communicate findings to stakeholders, providing actionable insights and recommendations. Support and mentor junior team members on automation best practices and testing methodologies. Continuously enhance testing processes, tools, and frameworks to improve test coverage and efficiency. What Y