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Strata Information Group (SIG) is a trusted leader in higher ‑ education technology consulting, supporting colleges and universities with ERP/SIS modernization, digital transformation, CRM, cybersecurity, and strategic advisory services. As a long ‑ standing and deeply embedded partner within the higher ‑ education sector, SIG brings together technical depth, operational insight, and a culture rooted in integrity, collaboration, and exceptional client service. Our heritage is built on hands ‑ on expertise, genuine relationships, and a commitment to delivering value with humility and excellence—values that continue to define us as we scale. Integration and Data Intelligence Delivery Lead- Technical Employment Type : Full-time Location : Pune, India (Remote, in-person training required) Work Hours : Flexible, with 3–4 hours of daily overlap with US Eastern morning Fixed Base Compensation Range: ₹50-58 LPA (Lakhs Per Annum) Overview The Integration and Data Intelligence Delivery Lead serves as a hands-on technical leader—specializing in higher education ERP environments—responsible for ensuring high-quality technical delivery, developing technical talent, and maintaining delivery consistency across the local technical team. This role operates as a player-coach, balancing direct client delivery responsibilities with leadership responsibilities that support team performance, technical excellence, and operational consistency. The Team Lead partners closely with the Practice Director, Project Managers, and Functional Leaders to ensure technical resources are effectively deployed, delivery risks are identified early, and technical solutions align with client needs. This role elevates technical execution while fostering collaboration, knowledge sharing, and scalable delivery practices across the team. Responsibilities Technical Delivery leadership & Subj

Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200&#43; countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Manager, Software Engineering Overview We are seeking a hands-on Manager, Software Engineering to lead the development of scalable data platforms, backend systems, and data pipelines supporting Mastercard's Portfolio Intelligence products. This role will initially focus on leading a team of Data Engineering contractors while providing strong technical leadership across architecture, delivery, and engineering excellence. The ideal candidate is a recent practitioner who has built and operated modern data platforms and backend services, can confidently review architecture proposals and code, and leverages AI-powered engineering tools to improve productivity, quality, and delivery speed. As the team evolves, this leader will play a key role in building and developing a high-performing organization of full-time engineers. What You'll Do Technical Leadership Provide technical leadership for backend services, data pipelines, and platform capabilities that support analytics, reporting, and AI-driven products. Review architecture and design documents to ensure solutions are scalable, maintainable, secure, and aligned with long-term platform strategy. Conduct and oversee code reviews, promoting engineering best practices, reliability, security, and operational excellence. <br

Key Responsibilities Enterprise Data Strategy & Client Engagement: Develop and maintain a comprehensive data architecture strategy that aligns with organizational and client business objectives. Serve as a key technical advisor for clients, translating business requirements into innovative data solutions. Build and maintain strong client relationships by providing expert guidance and managing expectations throughout project lifecycles. Data Modeling, Design & Engineering: Design and optimize both logical and physical data models to support enterprise-wide systems. Architect data warehousing solutions, overseeing the integration of data from multiple sources to enable robust business intelligence and analytics. Directly develop, test, and implement ETL processes and data pipelines, ensuring data quality, consistency, and performance. Technology Evaluation & Implementation: Evaluate emerging data technologies and tools to determine their fit within the existing architecture and potential for future scalability. Oversee the integration of new technologies into the enterprise data architecture, balancing innovation with risk management. Team Leadership & Hands-On Management: Lead cross-functional teams, providing mentorship and technical guidance to junior data engineers and architects. Maintain a hands-on approach by actively participating in coding, design sessions, and troubleshooting complex data issues. Ensure project milestones are met through effective resource management and team coordination. Performance, Security & Best Practices: Optimize data storage, retrieval, and processing performance across various systems. Collaborate with security teams to enforce data governance, compliance, and privacy standards. Establish and promote best practices in data management, data engineering, and architecture design. Documentation & Reporting: Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation covering data architecture designs, data flows, integrati

Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200&#43; countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Lead Software Engineer Overview MasterCard is seeking talented individuals to join our Emerging Payments Technology team in Pune, India. MasterCard is researching and developing the next generation of products and services to enable consumers to securely, efficiently, and intelligently conduct transactions regardless of channel. Whether through traditional retail, mobile, or e-commerce, MasterCard innovation is leading the digital convergence of traditional and emerging payments technologies across a wide variety of new devices and services. Join our team and help shape the future of connected commerce! Role The Consultant, Software Engineering is a hands-on developer specializing in Java development with a particular focus producing software development kits (SDKs) and API services in support of MasterPass, our digital wallet solution. As a Consultant on the Digital Payments Technology team, you will be responsible for helping design and implement SDKs and API services across multiple products and services. You’ll work closely with other team technical leads and with our Product Management team, and other stakeholders. Working within an agile development methodology, you will collaborate with and mentor other engineers and with other technical delivery teams, implement solid, robust solutions f

Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200&#43; countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Lead Software Engineer Overview Develops and leads software engineering projects and creates the development and delivery of enhanced software solutions. Researches alternative technical solutions for changing business needs. Responsible for assuring the daily activities of the team meet the functional requirements and also follow coding best practices and non functional requirements. Role • Highly Motivated Technical Leader to Champion Software Development Projects and that can deliver results. • Researches alternative technical solutions for changing business needs. • Responsible for assuring the daily activities of the team meet the required service levels. • Successfully develop and lead major projects and complex assignments with broad scope and long-term business implications. • Develop innovative solutions that meet specific business needs. • Partner with scrum masters / project managers to lead day to day software development efforts. • Assist in day to day software development efforts including programming. • Create proof of concept applications • Collaborate with business and technical partners • Assist in the evaluation of 3rd parties and 3rd party products. • Ensure adherence to established quality control practices. • Create and maintain technology road-maps.

Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200&#43; countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Lead Software Engineer (Java Backend Developer) Who is Mastercard? Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all. Overview Switching Gateway provides a single payment connection that supports Mastercard and non-Mastercard branded financial transactions. It is a streamlined interface that enables transaction originators and receivers (e.g., merchants, financial institutions, and processors) to connect to other players in the payment ecosystem. Our team of integrators, analysts, testers and subject matter experts work together to build four platforms that encompasses full lifecycle of payment processing. We are looking for a Lead Product Manager-Technical to drive our customer experien

Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200&#43; countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Lead Network Architect (Cisco, F5, Palo Alto) Who is Mastercard? Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all. Overview The Systems and Platform Architecture team is looking for a Lead Network Architect to design and provide oversight through all stages of the development life cycle from bid, concept through architecture, design, build, test and delivery into production. Role Typically, the role will require the holder to: • Produce High Level Designs for Platform infrastructure solutions. • Maintain the technology roadmap for Platform / Unix Solutions in line with end of support dates. • Work closely with cross functional teams including Delivery, Engineering and Operatio

Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200&#43; countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Lead Middleware Solutions Architect (Java, IBM Tivoli, SWIFT, MFT, ODI, OAS) Who is Mastercard? Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart, and accessible. Using secure data and networks, partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help individuals, financial institutions, governments, and businesses realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ, drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our company. With connections across more than 210 countries and territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks priceless possibilities for all. Overview The Systems and Platform Architecture team is looking for a Middleware Architect to design and provide oversight for Middleware solutions through all stages of the development life cycle from bid, concept through architecture, design, build, test and delivery into production. Role Typically, the role will require the holder to: • Produce High Level Designs for Middleware architecture solutions. • Maintain the technology roadmap for Middleware related technologies in line with end of support dates. • Work closely with cross f

Who We Are Addepar is a global data and AI platform empowering investment professionals to turn complex financial information into actionable intelligence. Addepar unifies portfolio, market and client data in a total portfolio view and delivers AI-powered insights within investment and client workflows. More than 1,400 firms in nearly 60 countries use Addepar to manage and advise on nearly $9 trillion in assets. Its open platform integrates with nearly 650 software, data and consulting partners to power end-to-end investment operations across firms of all sizes and complexity. Addepar supports clients worldwide with offices in New York City, Salt Lake City, London, Edinburgh, Pune, Dubai, Geneva, Singapore and São Paulo. The Role Addepar has just launched an Alternatives Product offering that gives Addepar clients the option to have their Private Funds data extracted, processed, validated, and ingested directly from Private Fund documents for a more automated end-to-end solution for handling Alternatives on the platform. This white-glove solution combines proprietary machine learning technology that automatically extracts data from Private Funds documents and human-in-loop review to validate any documents that fail to pass confidence and data quality checks. As part of the broader Addepar Data organization, the Alternatives Data Ops team is responsible for the human-in-loop review of Private Funds documents, ensuring clients' Alternatives data is processed, validated, and available in Addepar in a timely manner. This role will include managing a team and reviewing Private Fund statements, modifying data that has been incorrectly extracted by our machine learning models, and reprocessing the data within SLAs. The Alternatives Data Ops team plays a critical role in the success of Addepar's Alternatives offering and requires daily communications with the Alternatives Product Team, Machine Learning Operations, clients, data providers (GPs and Fund Admins), and add

About Us: Paytm is India's leading mobile payments and financial services distribution company. Pioneer of the mobile QR payments revolution in India, Paytm builds technologies that help small businesses with payments and commerce. Paytm’s mission is to serve half a billion Indians and bring them to the mainstream economy with the help of technology. About the team: This team is part of the Merchant Lending vertical and caters to the Merchant loans section. They have the ownership of merchant cash advance sales. About the role: This is a B2C Sales role that requires a high level of people management, training, grooming the field sales executives and generating revenue, and driving P/L and growth for the assigned region. Expectations/ Requirements 1. Responsible for the MCA Sales in the city. 2. Manage an assigned geographic sales area to maximize sales target and meet corporate objectives. 3. Build and maintain relationships with key client personnel. 4. Manage Category leads from qualification to closure. 5. Ensure the team members are present in a market where sales & usage are done regularly. 6. Should have good networking capabilities and be willing to travel extensively throughout their specified areas. 7. Ensure monthly submissions and Disbursals numbers are being met. 8. New FSE hiring, training and handholding. 9. Ensure attrition is under control and Team is motivated/guided to perform better. Superpowers/ Skills that will help you succeed in this role 1. 5-10 years of relevant experience in Sales, Business Development and relationship building. 2. Ability to handle a team 3. Good communication skills 4. Good understanding of MS Office tools. 5. Growth Mindset 6. Willingness to experiment and improve continuously Education: Must have completed his graduation Why join us 1. A collaborative output driven program that brings cohesiveness across businesses through technology 2. Improve the average revenue per use by increasing the cross-sell opp

Who We Are Addepar is a global data and AI platform empowering investment professionals to turn complex financial information into actionable intelligence. Addepar unifies portfolio, market and client data in a total portfolio view and delivers AI-powered insights within investment and client workflows. More than 1,400 firms in nearly 60 countries use Addepar to manage and advise on nearly $9 trillion in assets. Its open platform integrates with nearly 650 software, data and consulting partners to power end-to-end investment operations across firms of all sizes and complexity. Addepar supports clients worldwide with offices in New York City, Salt Lake City, London, Edinburgh, Pune, Dubai, Geneva, Singapore and São Paulo. The Role Addepar has just launched an Alternatives Product offering that gives Addepar clients the option to have their Private Funds data extracted, processed, validated, and ingested directly from Private Fund documents for a more automated end-to-end solution for handling Alternatives on the platform. This white-glove solution combines proprietary machine learning technology that automatically extracts data from Private Funds documents and human-in-loop review to validate any documents that fail to pass confidence and data quality checks. As a Senior Lead of the Alternatives Data Operations, you will lead the operations function that is responsible for the human-in-loop review of Private Funds documents, ensuring clients' Alternatives data is processed, validated, and available in Addepar in a timely manner. You will manage a team of Alternatives Data Ops analysts who review Private Fund statements, modify data that has been incorrectly extracted by our machine learning models, and reprocess data within SLAs. In this role, you'll own the operational strategy, team performance, and continuous improvement of the Alternatives Data Ops function—a critical component of Addepar's Alternatives offering success. Your responsibilities will include b

Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200&#43; countries and territories worldwide. Together with our customers, we’re helping build a sustainable economy where everyone can prosper. We support a wide range of digital payments choices, making transactions secure, simple, smart and accessible. Our technology and innovation, partnerships and networks combine to deliver a unique set of products and services that help people, businesses and governments realize their greatest potential. Title and Summary Manager, Product Development - EMV and Payment Technology Overview Mastercard delivers robust, high quality, and fully approved technology products that enable issuers, acquirers, and partners to bring secure and innovative payment solutions to market. Within the Chip Engineering organization, the Product Approval Team plays a critical role in ensuring that these products—ranging from cardholder and acceptance devices to Wallet UIs, mobile applications, and back end systems—meet Mastercard standards and are delivered on time. This role provides the opportunity to work globally across a wide spectrum of products, including device-based solutions, wearables, mobile payment applications, cloud based payment systems, transit solutions, and backend services. ________________________________________ Major Responsibilities Operational Management • Lead and manage operations related to Mobile Payment Applications, Wallet UI, Wearables, and Back-End Server Approvals. • Ensure full compliance with Mastercard testing, branding, approval processes, and operational rules. • Oversee the execution of global approval processes and associated requirements for: o Wallet UI and Wearables o Merchant Presented QR (MPQR) o Cloud-Based Payments (MCBP) o Token Service Providers (TSP) o Trusted Service Mana

WHO WE ARE: Zinnia is the leading technology platform for accelerating life and annuities growth. With innovative enterprise solutions and data insights, Zinnia simplifies the experience of buying, selling, and administering insurance products. All of which enables more people to protect their financial futures. Our success is driven by a commitment to three core values: be bold, team up, deliver value – and that we do. Zinnia has over $180 billion in assets under administration, serves 100+ carrier clients, 2500 distributors and partners, and over 2 million policyholders. WHO YOU ARE: We are looking for a Network Security Engineer with deep Zscaler expertise and a well rounded background in cloud and enterprise networking. This role centers on the deployment, administration, and optimization of Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA) and Zscaler Private Access (ZPA), while also supporting broader network security initiatives, including Cisco Meraki infrastructure and AWS cloud networking. The ideal candidate is a hands-on engineer with strong security instincts, a problem solving mindset, and experience managing both on-prem and cloud-based networking environments. WHAT YOU’LL DO: Lead the design, deployment, and optimization of Zscaler ZIA and ZPA across the enterprise. Manage Zscaler policies, including SSL inspection, URL filtering, access control, and zero trust configuration. Serve as the subject matter expert for Zscaler, owning integrations, troubleshooting, and escalations. Configure and support Cisco Meraki networking hardware, including firewalls, switches, and wireless infrastructure. Architect and manage AWS networking, including VPC design, Transit Gateway, NACLs, Security Groups, and routing. Develop and implement network segmentation and secure access strategies using both cloud and on-prem tools. Create and maintain detailed network documentation, runbooks, and security standards. Automate and streamline network ma

WHO WE ARE: Zinnia is the leading technology platform for accelerating life and annuities growth. With innovative enterprise solutions and data insights, Zinnia simplifies the experience of buying, selling, and administering insurance products. All of which enables more people to protect their financial futures. Our success is driven by a commitment to three core values: be bold, team up, deliver value – and that we do. Zinnia has over $180 billion in assets under administration, serves 100+ carrier clients, 2500 distributors and partners, and over 2 million policyholders. WHO YOU ARE: As an Project Manager at Zinnia Digital, you will be responsible for overseeing the successful completion of projects or programs within our technology organization. Partnering with the product team as well as cross-functional software engineering teams to ensure value delivery for stakeholders. Facilitating timeline and dependency management as well as budget understanding. Additionally, facilitating project team success and adherence to best practices. WHAT YOU’LL DO: Day-to-day partnership with product management team. Plan and oversee multiple technology projects, ensuring they are aligned with overall timeline. Support dependency management processes. Exhibit exceptional organizational skills. Facilitate and adhere to PMO governance. Lead and manage projects at an executive level. Develop project plans, including project scope, schedule, budget, and resource allocation. Manage project teams, including cross functional engineers, QA, and other technical staff. Communicate with various stakeholders, including management, project sponsors, and clients, to ensure that project goals, timelines, and dependencies are understood and met. Participate and/or facilitate various ceremonies such as backlog refinement and planning. Leverage Agile experience to increase team throughput, transparency, and collaboration. Identify and manage project risks, including developing

WHO WE ARE: Zinnia is the leading technology platform for accelerating life and annuities growth. With innovative enterprise solutions and data insights, Zinnia simplifies the experience of buying, selling, and administering insurance products. All of which enables more people to protect their financial futures. Our success is driven by a commitment to three core values: be bold, team up, deliver value – and that we do. Zinnia has over $180 billion in assets under administration, serves 100+ carrier clients, 2500 distributors and partners, and over 2 million policyholders. WHO YOU ARE: As Senior Product Manager for Customer Identity & Access Management (CIAM), you will own the roadmap for how carriers, distributors, partners, and policyholders securely access Zinnia’s platform. You will lead the identity product area end to end — authentication, authorization, and the full user lifecycle — balancing strong security and regulatory compliance with a frictionless experience across Zinnia’s products. You will partner closely with Engineering and Security, and work across Zinnia’s Product Organization to keep the identity experience aligned with company strategy while delivering measurable value. WHAT YOU’LL DO: Own the CIAM product roadmap and strategy spanning consumer (policyholder), partner (distributor/agent), and workforce identity across Zinnia’s platform. Lead the product direction for core identity capabilities — authentication (SSO, MFA, passwordless, adaptive/risk-based), authorization (RBAC/ABAC, fine-grained and delegated access), and the full user lifecycle (registration, provisioning/SCIM, recovery, deprovisioning). Set standards and technical direction around modern identity protocols (OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, SCIM) in partnership with Engineering and Architecture. Drive build-vs-buy and platform decisions for identity providers and services, and own the integration strategy across Zinnia products. Balance security, privacy, and usability — re