Global It Director in Chennai

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. Principal Consultant Location: Chennai, India | Work Model: In Office Our Customer Success team in Chennai serves as elite technical advisors for global enterprise teams. We bridge deep software architecture with business strategy, building scalable platform environments that leverage AI-Powered Process Automation to solve mission-critical operational challenges. As a Principal Technical Consultant , you will assume architectural leadership for multi-application platform design, execution, and performance optimization. Top engineering talent joins Appian in this role to move beyond basic application maintenance and ensure applications are resilient, scalable, and built to power mission-critical operations at enterprise scale . What You’ll Do Architect Platform Scalability: Build and maintain standards and tools to ensure high performance and resilience with a focus on reusability, schema optimization, data modeling , system performance, and responsive UX/UI . Engineered Integrations: Perform hands-on design, development, and code reviews using SQL views , stored procedures , and high-concurrency REST/SOAP web services/APIs . System-Level Troubleshooting: Rapidly isolate performance bottlenecks, memory leaks, resource contention, and latency spikes across the entire web application stack. Performance Analysis & Profiling: Analyze database execution plans, JVM/memory utilization, and Locust load test outputs to resolve root-cause architectural bottlenecks. Technical Communication & Enablement: Translate complex system diagnostics in

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. Compensation Analyst III (Senior) – Equity Administration & Global Rewards Architect Appian's global equity and total rewards strategy while modernizing plan design for high-scale enterprise growth. Location: Chennai, India | Work Model: Hybrid About the Team The People Team at Appian fuels global growth by attracting, rewarding, and retaining world-class talent. In an industry powered by AI-Powered Process Automation , our team builds data-driven compensation strategies that sustain competitive market advantage. We partner directly with executive leadership to champion pay equity, optimize total rewards platforms, and drive scalable governance across global offices. The Opportunity As Appian accelerates its international expansion, modernizing our equity architecture and total rewards framework is critical. As Compensation Analyst III, you will act as a core global partner based out of our Chennai tech hub. You won't just analyze data; you will shape global pay equity initiatives, architect scalable equity management structures, and directly manage equity plan administration using E*TRADE/Morgan Stanley . This role offers a unique opportunity to build scalable compensation frameworks in a fast-paced environment backed by enterprise-grade stability. What You’ll Do Modernize Equity Plan Architecture: Lead global equity plan governance and modernize grant structures, option/RSU execution lifecycles, and cap-table administration using E*TRADE/Morgan Stanley . Drive Executive Insights & Strategic Analytics: Oversee global HR and compensation intellige

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 BI Analyst will be an integral part of our award-winning team, focused on leveraging business intelligence tools, including Tableau, to drive data-driven decision-making, provide global end-user support, and ensure continuous improvement for our analytics and reporting platforms. This role involves managing internal user tickets, performing system administration, creating high-impact reports and dashboards, and providing technical guidance and oversight to other team members. Key Responsibilities: End-User Support and Issue Resolution Provide timely, global end-user support, documenting, troubleshooting, and resolving requests, incidents, and problems via email and ticketing systems. Critically analyze, triage, and resolve complex issues. Utilize and build decision trees to evaluate and appropriately escalate issues to internal technology teams. Collaborate with Appian’s technology team to resolve application issues and provide guidance on system utilization. System Administration, BI Development, and Team Oversight Provide day-to-day regional oversight, guidance, and mentorship to junior members of the Sales. Perform essential system configuration, maintenance of user roles and profiles for core analytics platforms (e.g., Salesforce). Design, build, and maintain high-impact reports, dashboards, and data visualizations using both Salesforce and Tableau to meet advanced business intelligence needs. Documentation and Platform Improvement Create and maintain thorough documentation of processes, policies, and application configurations. Update the knowled

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. Software Engineer (Senior) – Platform Engineering & AI-Powered Process Automation Location: Chennai, India | Work Model: On-site Architect the foundational systems powering the next generation of global software execution. In this role, you will build high-performance, reusable platform services and modern developer tooling that directly elevate developer velocity and scale enterprise software globally. About the Team The Platform Engineering, Foundations & Enablement team builds the bedrock of Appian’s technical ecosystem. By delivering resilient shared services, automated developer tooling, and core frameworks, this team enables engineering organizations to build scalable enterprise solutions and accelerates Appian’s growth in the AI-Powered Process Automation market. The Opportunity Top-tier engineers join Appian to tackle deep distributed systems challenges at massive enterprise scale. This role gives you direct ownership over the core platform architecture and internal developer tools that power critical workflows worldwide. If you want to eliminate engineering friction, set architecture standards, and shape high-concurrency systems using cutting-edge enterprise tech, this opportunity offers high visibility and immediate technical influence. What You’ll Do Architect and construct high-performance, resilient platform features, robust APIs , and shared frameworks to power mission-critical operations. Execute technical spikes to clear architectural runways, ensuring system stability, modularity, and seamless long-term scalability. Elevate engine

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. Human Resources Operations Specialist Location : Chennai, India Department : People Operations Reports to : Sr. Manager HR Operations and Payroll Level: P2 About the Role: We have two exciting opportunities available on our HR Operations team! The HR Operations Specialist plays a key role in supporting core HR processes and programs at Appian, with a primary focus on onboarding, employee data management, and operational support throughout the employee lifecycle. This role helps ensure a seamless employee experience while maintaining accuracy, efficiency, and compliance across HR systems and processes. HR Operations Specialist – North America Support This position will be based in Chennai, India and will primarily support HR Operations across North America, with opportunities to provide support to other regions as needed. This role requires flexibility to support global operations across multiple time zones. The primary working schedule will be 12:00 PM–4:00 PM and 6:00 PM–10:00 PM IST. HR Operations Specialist – EMEA Support This position will also be based in Chennai, India and will primarily support HR Operations across EMEA, while providing support to other regions as needed. This role requires flexibility to collaborate with teams across multiple countries and time zones. Key Responsibilities: Support the onboarding process for new hires ensuring a seamless and positive employee experience. Complete Form I-9 processing, verify supporting documentation, and monitor compliance with federal I-9

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 Senior Analyst will support the build-out and day-to-day operation of WPP’s Enterprise Technology Risk capability. Reporting to the Technology Risk Lead, the role will help identify, assess, document and monitor technology risks and issues across Enterprise Technology, support clear risk reporting for senior stakeholders, and work with risk owners to drive practical treatment and remediation activity. The role will suit a proactive risk professional who can combine technology understanding, analytical discipline and strong stakeholder engagement with a mindset for automation, AI-enabled process improvement and continuous simplification. This role sits within the new Risk & Strategy team and will help make technology risk management more data-led, automation-enabled and actionable for Enterprise Technology. What you'll be doing: Support the operation and continuous improvement of the Enterprise Technology risk management framework, standards and ways of working. Coordinate and document technology risk assessments, issue reviews, control obs

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 & Governance Lead will help establish and mature WPP’s Enterprise Technology Risk function. Reporting to the Director of Technology Risk & CRC Strategy, the role will lead technology risk management and governance initiatives, develop a growing team of risk SMEs, and drive a modern, data-led and automation-first approach to risk management. The successful candidate will work across technology, security, assurance and business teams to ensure risks are identified, assessed, communicated and managed effectively. What you'll be doing: • Lead the development and maturity of WPP’s technology risk management framework and processes. • Facilitate risk assessments, scenario analysis and risk-based decision making across Enterprise Technology. • Maintain technology risk registers, issue management processes and remediation tracking. • Produce high-quality management reporting, dashboards and risk insights for senior stakeholders. • Drive continuous improvement through automation, workflow optimisation

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: This role is pivotal in supporting WPP’s large-scale ERP transformation programmes by embedding robust SDLC and transformation controls, driving compliance with our data and security requirements, and ensuring audit readiness for obligations such as SOX 404 IO. As a key member of the central assurance team, you will deliver control assurance and actively coach project teams, while also playing a strategic role in shaping the group’s compliance and controls posture to be more consistent, standardised, and repeatable. You will support the Transformations Lead in delivering judgement led, risk based assurance across ERP migrations and SDLC controls. The role focuses on strengthening first line capability, uplifting evidence quality, and ensuring controls are executed and documented to audit standards. You will work closely with Financial Risk & Controls colleagues to ensure transformation controls are aligned and integrated with financial controls. While accountability for operating SDLC controls and producing complete, accurate evidence sits with project and&nbs

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 Workday Financials Senior Consultant to join our Workday Services team supporting and enhancing our existing Workday deployment. This role and team will grow as we further deploy and expand our Workday Financials coverage across WPP. Reporting to the Workday Financials Product Manager this role is responsible for providing senior levels of technical and process expertise across Workday Financials. Working hand in hand with the wider Workday Services team, you will build relationships with our process owners, Shared Service Centre, and stakeholders as a source of expertise and support for Workday Financials and integrated applications. What you'll be doing: Solution and oversee deployment of Enhancements to our existing Financials deployments Diagnose and resolve assigned tickets for Workday Financials and integrated applications Investigate any functionality being released/introduced and collaborating with other functional Workday resources Maintain expertise on new functionality/features/capabilities in Workday and wider industry/financials/technology trends Acc

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: You will play a crucial role in solution delivery and day-to-day technology management of the global enterprise automation and AI program. Reporting to the Support & Ops Manager and supporting AI product, platform and delivery teams worldwide, you will ensure our AI projects are well managed and supported to deliver quantifiable returns. Our team is chartered to develop and deliver custom AI products and enhance global cloud apps products or AI projects delivered by other delivery teams from around our global firm. Our support apparatus gives those teams confidence and freedom to hand over their existing successes and continue innovating. Are you a proactive and detail-oriented individual with a passion for technology and a strong desire to learn and grow in the field of automation & AI? We are looking for a L2/L3 Automation Support Engineer to join our dynamic team. You'll be responsible for the monitoring, tria

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. WPP is embarking on a major 3-year transformation to simplify, modernise, and unify its technology platforms across the group. This change is critical to: · Enable cost-effective transformation and operational efficiency · Accelerate adoption of AI, data, and digital platforms · Ensure consistent delivery of value and benefits across all agencies and markets · Minimise disruption and maximise engagement during large-scale change Workday is a cornerstone of this transformation, providing a single, modern system of record for people data and for driving efficiency through our operations and finance functions. By standardising core processes, improving data quality and enabling better insights, Workday supports consistent ways of working, stronger governance and future‑ready capabilities, while creating the foundation for scalable change, automation and AI‑enabled decision making across WPP. Why we're hiring: In this role you will be a me

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. WPP is embarking on a major 3-year transformation to simplify, modernise, and unify its technology platforms across the group. This change is critical to: Enable cost-effective transformation and operational efficiency Accelerate adoption of AI, data, and digital platforms Ensure consistent delivery of value and benefits across all agencies and markets Minimise disruption and maximise engagement during large-scale change Workday is a cornerstone of this transformation, providing a single, modern system of record for people data and for driving efficiency through our operations and finance functions. By standardising core processes, improving data quality and enabling better insights, Workday supports consistent ways of working, stronger governance and future‑ready capabilities, while creating the foundation for scalable change, automation and AI‑enabled decision making across WPP. Why we're hiring: We are looking for a Workday HCM Consultant with core HCM and absence/time tracking experience to join the Workday Services Team providing post go-live support. Reporting to the Workday Services HCM Pr

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 part of WPP’s multi‑year Enterprise Technology transformation, the Global CRM Programme is a foundational capability underpinning client, commercial, and data‑driven growth. The consolidation of multiple CRM solutions into a single platform introduces significant systems integration and data complexity, including: diverse legacy systems and interfaces inconsistent client, revenue, and pipeline data, varying agency and market integration patterns A dedicated Systems & Data Integration Lead is required to: define a coherent integration and data strategy prevent point‑to‑point, market‑specific solutions ensure CRM becomes a trusted system of record enable scalable adoption of AI, analytics, and cross‑platform capabilities. The Systems & Data Integration Lead is accountable for defining and governing the integration and data landscape for WPP’s Global CRM Programme, which is consolidating multiple legacy CRM platforms into a single, enterprise‑wide Microsoft Dynamics–based solution. The role ensures the global CRM platform integrates effectively with the wider enterprise ecosy

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. WPP Enterprise Technology provides technology services for WPP, the world’s leading creative transformation company. Within Enterprise Technology, Cyber, Risk & Compliance (CRC) plays a key role in strengthening operational resilience, governance, risk management and control effectiveness across a global technology estate. This is an exciting time to join CRC as we continue to modernise our operating model, increase automation, embrace AI-enabled ways of working and build new capabilities that help WPP move faster, more securely and with greater confidence. Why we're hiring: The CRC Strategy & Operations Analyst will support the operational management, functional planning and reporting cadence of the Cyber, Risk & Compliance function. Reporting to the CRC Operations & Reporting Lead, the role will provide analysis, coordination and high-quality materials to support functional budgeting, procurement activity, investment proposals, committee presentations, leadership reporting and operational governance. The successful candidate will help bring structure, data quality

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. WPP is embarking on a major 3-year transformation to simplify, modernise, and unify its technology platforms across the group. This change is critical to: · Enable cost-effective transformation and operational efficiency · Accelerate adoption of AI, data, and digital platforms · Ensure consistent delivery of value and benefits across all agencies and markets · Minimise disruption and maximise engagement during large-scale change Workday is a cornerstone of this transformation, providing a single, modern system of record for people data and for driving efficiency through our operations and finance functions. By standardising core processes, improving data quality and enabling better insights, Workday supports consistent ways of working, stronger governance and future‑ready capabilities, while creating the foundation for scalable change, automation and AI‑enabled decision making across WPP. Why we're hiring: We are looking for a Workday Financials Consultant to join our Workday Services team supporting and enhancing our