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📍 Bengaluru, KARNATAKA, India· Full-time
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About Zinnov Zinnov is a global management consulting firm that helps organizations make decisions that actually get used — and deliver results that matter. For over two decades, we’ve partnered with leading enterprises, high-growth technology companies, and investors to answer some of the toughest questions they face: Where should we invest? How do we scale globally? What capabilities will win in the next decade? Our work shapes market entry strategies, global operating models, M&A decisions, and long-term growth bets. We’re known for being data-led, execution-focused, and outcome-driven — not opinion-heavy slideware. At Zinnov, how you work matters as much as what you deliver. We value independent thinking, crisp communication, and early ownership. With 450+ professionals across 10 global offices, we work across industries including Digital Services, ER&D, Enterprise Software, Semiconductors, Healthcare, BFSI, Automotive, Media & Telecom, and Private Equity. Zinnov isn’t for everyone. It’s for people who want steep learning curves, honest feedback, and the chance to see their work influence real business decisions — not just presentations. Why Globalization Excellence (GE) Zinnov’s Globalization Excellence (GE) practice helps enterprises build and scale Global Capability Centers (GCCs) end-to-end — from Design & Discovery to Build, Scale, and Run . In GE, you don’t work in silos. You: • Own complex, end-to-end client journeys • Work across GCC advisory, managed services, and BOT / outsourcing models • Influence leadership decisions that shape long-term talent and operating strategies This is where strategy meets execution — and where talent plays a defining role. About the Role As a Leader - GCC, People & Organization Advisory , you will own the full spectrum of people strategy and execution for a large, high-velocity operations environment (1000+ employee scale). This role is designed f

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📍 Hyderabad, Telangana, India· Full-time
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About Zinnov Zinnov is a global management consulting firm that helps organizations make decisions that actually get used — and deliver results that matter. For over two decades, we’ve partnered with leading enterprises, high-growth technology companies, and investors to answer some of the toughest questions they face: Where should we invest? How do we scale globally? What capabilities will win in the next decade? Our work shapes market entry strategies, global operating models, M&A decisions, and long-term growth bets. We’re known for being data-led, execution-focused, and outcome-driven — not opinion-heavy slideware. At Zinnov, how you work matters as much as what you deliver. We value independent thinking, crisp communication, and early ownership. With 450+ professionals across 10 global offices, we work across industries including Digital Services, ER&D, Enterprise Software, Semiconductors, Healthcare, BFSI, Automotive, Media & Telecom, and Private Equity. Zinnov isn’t for everyone. It’s for people who want steep learning curves, honest feedback, and the chance to see their work influence real business decisions — not just presentations. Why Globalization Excellence (GE) Zinnov’s Globalization Excellence (GE) practice helps enterprises build and scale Global Capability Centers (GCCs) end-to-end — from Design & Discovery to Build, Scale, and Run . In GE, you don’t work in silos. You: • Own complex, end-to-end client journeys • Work across GCC advisory, managed services, and BOT / outsourcing models • Influence leadership decisions that shape long-term talent and operating strategies This is where strategy meets execution — and where talent plays a defining role. About the Role As a Leader - GCC, People & Organization Advisory , you will own the full spectrum of people strategy and execution for a large, high-velocity operations environment (1000+ employee scale). This role is designed

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📍 Bengaluru, KARNATAKA, India· Full-time
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About Zinnov Zinnov is a global management consulting firm that helps organizations make decisions that actually get used — and deliver results that matter. For over two decades, we’ve partnered with leading enterprises, high-growth technology companies, and investors to answer some of the toughest questions they face: Where should we invest? How do we scale globally? What capabilities will win in the next decade? Our work shapes market entry strategies, global operating models, M&A decisions, and long-term growth bets. We’re known for being data-led, execution-focused, and outcome-driven — not opinion-heavy slideware. At Zinnov, how you work matters as much as what you deliver. We value independent thinking, crisp communication, and early ownership. With 450+ professionals across 10 global offices, we work across industries including Digital Services, ER&D, Enterprise Software, Semiconductors, Healthcare, BFSI, Automotive, Media & Telecom, and Private Equity. Zinnov isn’t for everyone. It’s for people who want steep learning curves, honest feedback, and the chance to see their work influence real business decisions — not just presentations. Why Globalization Excellence (GE) Zinnov’s Globalization Excellence (GE) practice helps enterprises build and scale Global Capability Centers (GCCs) end-to-end — from Design & Discovery to Build, Scale, and Run. In GE, you don’t work in silos. You: Own complex, end-to-end client journeys Work across GCC advisory, managed services, and BOT / outsourcing models Influence leadership decisions that shape long-term talent and operating strategies This is where strategy meets execution — and where talent plays a defining role. About the role Help global companies build and run a Total Rewards system that attracts the talent their GCC needs, holds together economically, keeps the right internal and global equity, and survives contact with scale. You will own engagements end to end. You should be

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📍 Bengaluru, KARNATAKA, India· Full-time
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About Zinnov Zinnov is a global management consulting firm that helps organizations make decisions that actually get used — and deliver results that matter. For over two decades, we’ve partnered with leading enterprises, high-growth technology companies, and investors to answer some of the toughest questions they face: Where should we invest? How do we scale globally? What capabilities will win in the next decade? Our work shapes market entry strategies, global operating models, M&A decisions, and long-term growth bets. We’re known for being data-led, execution-focused, and outcome-driven — not opinion-heavy slideware. At Zinnov, how you work matters as much as what you deliver. We value independent thinking, crisp communication, and early ownership. With 450+ professionals across 10 global offices, we work across industries including Digital Services, ER&D, Enterprise Software, Semiconductors, Healthcare, BFSI, Automotive, Media & Telecom, and Private Equity. Zinnov isn’t for everyone. It’s for people who want steep learning curves, honest feedback, and the chance to see their work influence real business decisions — not just presentations. Why Globalization Excellence (GE) Zinnov's Globalization Excellence practice helps enterprises build and scale Global Capability Centers end-to-end, from Design & Discovery to Build, Scale, and Run. In GE, you don't work in silos. You own complex, end-to-end client journeys, work across GCC advisory, managed services, and BOT/outsourcing models, and influence leadership decisions that shape long-term talent and operating strategies. This is where strategy meets execution, and talent plays a defining role. About The Role The GE practice is building a dedicated Thought Leadership & Research function, modelled on the internal think tanks of the world's leading consulting firms. As Research Lead, you are the intellectual engine of this function. You won't be rotating across client engagements. You w

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📍 Hyderabad, TELANGANA, India· Full-time
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Opportunity Overview: We are seeking a Technical, Hands-on Manager to lead a team responsible for building and maintaining high-quality healthcare market datasets and analytics that power internal insights, benchmarking, and external thought leadership . In this role, you will lead a team of data analysts responsible for the development, quality assurance, and ongoing refresh of market data assets. You will combine strong people leadership with technical expertise in analytics and data science to ensure reliable, scalable data pipelines and actionable insights. The ideal candidate is both a strong people manager and a hands-on analytics leader who can guide analysts in rigorous data methodology, translate data outputs into meaningful business insights, and partner closely with commercial strategy, product, clinical, and analytics stakeholders. What you’ll do: Lead and develop a team of data analysts responsible for the creation, validation, and ongoing refresh of healthcare market datasets. Mentor analysts in data methodology, statistical reasoning, and reproducible analytics practices to ensure consistent and rigorous analysis across the team. Establish analytic standards, coding practices, and documentation expectations to ensure all datasets and insights produced by the team are reproducible and scalable. Establish and maintain governance processes for market data including versioning, documentation, auditability, and traceability of data sources and methodologies. Oversee change-detection logic, ensuring the team systematically identifies and documents additions, removals, and shifts in the market dataset. Define and enforce data quality standards across ingestion, transformation, and analysis workflows. Collaborate with Data Engineering and Platform teams to ensure the underlying data infrastructure supports scalable ingestion, transformation, and analytics workflows used by the analyst team. Translate analytic outputs into business insights, benchmarks, and st

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📍 Bengaluru, India· Full-time
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Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. Identity is the foundation of trust on the internet, and at Okta, we are building a world where anyone can safely use any technology. We are looking for a driven, curious, and empathetic product-minded engineering leader to expand Okta’s market footprint by growing our global integration ecosystem. As the Director of Engineering for the Okta Integration Ecosystem in Bangalore, you will lead, scale, and inspire a talented organization of engineering managers and engineers dedicated to evolving Okta-built integrations across our entire product portfolio. This is a high-impact, high-visibility role. If you are passionate about customer security, obsessed with developer experience, and love engaging with a vibrant technology community, we want to hear from you. What You’ll Do Lead and Scale the Team: Mentor, inspire, and grow a world-class engineering organization in Bangalore, directly managing engineering managers and senior individual contributors while fostering a high-performance culture. Drive Integration Strategy: Own the technical roadmap and execution for Okta’s integrations across a massive gamut of applications—spanning traditional Enterprise systems, SaaS, On-prem infrastructure, Active Directory (AD), Azure, and next-generation AI agents. Advance Modern Infra & Governance: Drive the development, rollout, and governance of the official Okta MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server. Streamline and enable partner integrations through robust Terraform P

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📍 Pune, Maharashtra, India· Full-time
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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

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📍 Bengaluru, KARNATAKA, India· Full-time
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About Prophecy The leader in AI-native data preparation and analysis, Prophecy is revolutionizing how the world’s top enterprises turn data chaos into reliable insights. We introduce the AI-native data lifecycle (generate, refine, deploy) where our industry leading AI agents and humans work hand-in-hand in visual and document interfaces to analyze, transform and prepare data, to ship trusted insights at enterprise scale. Don’t miss the rocket ship—join Prophecy and build the next data revolution. Position Summary This is a high-impact opportunity to be a senior DevOps engineer in a fast-growing startup, based in Prophecy’s India engineering center. You will own and evolve the foundations that keep our engineering org fast, secure, and cost-efficient at scale — spanning cloud cost management, security DevOps, and CI/CD and engineering operations. You will work with a team of dynamic engineers who take pride in solving complex problems, and you will have the autonomy to set direction in your areas of ownership. The Impact You Will Have Cloud cost (FinOps) Own and evolve our cloud cost optimization program across AWS, Azure, GCP, Databricks, Snowflake and Bigquery building on the programmatic monitoring and controls Analyze billing, asset-inventory, and utilization data across departments to identify wasteful spend and provide actionable insights to optimize it. Develop and maintain cost optimization strategies, roadmaps, and forecasting models Partner with engineering teams to design cost-efficient architectures without compromising scalability or reliability. Build and maintain automation for infrastructure provisioning, scaling, and cost control. Security DevOps Partner with engineering and security to drive our security-hardening program across workstreams such as identity & access governance, secrets & credential lifecycle, cloud access, and CI/CD hardening. Implement and automate guardrails: secrets management, least-privilege access, cr

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📍 Delhi, India
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DR ASHWANI KUMAR VIJ : Have been retained by a Well Established, Fast Growing, Mid Size, Professionally Managed and Listed Organisation, manufacturing, marketing and exporting a range of High Quality light Engineering Products and having state of the art manufacturing facilities and ISO Certification for its Domestic and International customers to select 1 Chief Financial Officer ( CFO ) and Preferably for joining in December,2025. KRA for this Senior Management-Executive Leadership role : -Take responsibility (either directly or via staff and would be Supported by a Young Team of High Performing Professionals ) for all cash management, investments, insurance, budgeting, and financial reporting, and help drive the company’s financial strategy and hiring needs. -Coordinate development of annual operating, capital, and program budgets, as well as reporting for the same. -Ensure cash flow is compatible with operations by overseeing day-to-day accounting, recording, reporting, and internal-control activities of the organization. -Would understand and analyse the the current accounting Practices and Trends. -Develop and implement best practices and tools to ensure a well-controlled yet flexible organization that has strong fiscal management, project coordination, cross-team communications, and workflows. -Comply with national and local financial requirements by studying existing and new legislation and taking appropriate action. Job Responsibilities : -Work with senior managers to efficiently develop budget proposals, provide access to project finance information, and ensure contract/grant compliance and reporting. - Research revenue opportunities and economic trends, analyze internal operations, and identify areas for cost reduction and process enhancement. -Perform risk management through analysis of company liabilities and investments, and evaluate and manage capital structure and fundraising initiatives. -Monitor business performance with tracking tools

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📍 Mundra, Gujarat, India· Full-time
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The main purpose of this role implementation of talent management strategies and organization design initiatives to build a high-performance work culture within the business. Building organizational capability (technical / functional / behavioral) to create a strong pipeline of future leaders for meeting business goals. EE develop strong, trusting relationships with each team member. Source: Adani Group | Job ID: 56998

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📍 Bengaluru, KARNATAKA, India· Full-time
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Deputy Director - Employer Branding Roles and Responsibilities Role: We are looking for an Employer Branding leader who will be responsible for driving the employer branding strategy for Myntra. Key activities will include defining the employer branding strategy for Myntra and working with internal and external stakeholders to producing engaging content and distributing it across several online channels to ensure we attract and hire high-potential employees and build a strong employer brand across social media and other platforms. An exceptional individual who can hit the ground running and have the drive to be successful in a fast-paced environment. This is a fantastic opportunity to shape the employer branding strategy for Myntra and the role requires an enthusiastic and innovative approach and working collaboratively across functions to drive results. This is a people manager role. Responsibilities: Create an exceptional Employer Brand across channels - social / digital / offline (LinkedIn, FB, Instagram, Glassdoor, other digital or offline events) Strategize with HR functional leaders to elevate their brand strategy in alignment with the organization Drive EVP related actions for the organization Create impactful content across channels and drive engagement. Drive employee advocacy program Use recruitment marketing strategies to help attract diverse talent. Position Myntra as a thought leader in the industry - identify forums to promote this. Maintain and enhance our corporate website. Identify and drive aspirational award applications and events / platforms to promote Myntra brand externally. Qualifications & Experience Min 8+ years of experience, with proven expertise in handling Employer branding portfolio High creative thinking ability, strong presentation skills, exceptional communication skills - written and verbal. Ability to own things end to end. Ability to influence and collaborate cross-functionally. Experience with multiple deliverables and

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📍 India· Full-time
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Responsible for implementing and ensuring adherence to safety strategies at the cluster level in alignment with corporate safety objectives. The role focuses on driving a proactive safety culture, ensuring legal and IMS compliance, monitoring site-level safety performance, and mitigating risks. Acts as the primary safety contact for all sites within the assigned cluster and provides hands-on leadership in risk assessments, incident investigations, and continuous improvement initiatives. Source: Adani Group | Job ID: 53065

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📍 Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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About the Role We are looking for a Director of Engineering – AI & Full-Stack SaaS to lead the engineering strategy and execution for a highly scalable, enterprise-grade SaaS platform. This role is ideal for a strong engineering leader who combines deep software engineering expertise, enterprise SaaS experience, cloud-native architecture, full-stack product development, and practical AI/GenAI adoption . The successful candidate will lead multiple engineering teams, drive architectural and technical decisions, improve engineering velocity and quality, and help embed AI across the software development lifecycle and product engineering ecosystem. Key Responsibilities Lead and mentor multiple engineering teams responsible for building and delivering enterprise SaaS products. Define and execute the engineering strategy, technical roadmap, architecture and development standards . Drive development of highly scalable, secure, reliable and cloud-native SaaS applications. Provide technical leadership across backend, frontend, APIs, microservices and distributed systems . Drive adoption of AI/GenAI tools and capabilities across the engineering lifecycle, including development, testing, code quality, productivity and automation. Partner closely with Product, Architecture, DevOps, Security and other cross-functional teams to deliver business-critical capabilities. Establish engineering best practices around design, coding, testing, CI/CD, observability, performance and reliability . Own engineering delivery, quality, scalability and operational excellence across multiple product areas. Identify and resolve complex technical and architectural challenges. Build a high-performing engineering culture focused on innovation, ownership, collaboration and continuous improvement . Evaluate emerging technologies and identify opportunities to leverage AI and automation to improve engineering productivity and product capabilities. Drive technical modernization and evolution of existing

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📍 Hyderabad, TELANGANA, India· Full-time
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Opportunity Overview We're hiring a Data Architect who will serve as a senior technical leader responsible for architecting the complete lifecycle data moves, transforms, and creates value across every product line we operate. You'll own the blueprint for our enterprise data lakehouse - setting the standards, governance, and strategy that elevate data from a byproduct of operations to the company's most valuable asset. We need someone who pairs deep mathematical and logical modeling expertise with a builder's instinct - someone who codes, prototypes fast, and proves out next-generation AI data architectures before committing the organization to them. This role would need experience with US healthcare domain data. What You'll Do Semantic Layer Governance: Set the technical standard and reference architecture for a universal semantic layer across multiple distinct data products, ensuring unified definitions of complex metrics and healthcare business entities across Architect the Enterprise Context Layer: Define, scale, and govern the global Enterprise Ontology (abstract domain maps, business entity classes, and entity-relationship rules) that serves as the backbone for Agentic AI systems. AI-Native Prototyping : Leverage modern AI-native development environments (such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot) to rapidly generate, iterate, and document blueprints for complex enterprise data schemas and metadata layers. Security & Compliance Leadership : Embed regulatory compliance (HIPAA, FHIR) and security principles into platform design. Partner with security and compliance teams to ensure architectural decisions support audit readiness and risk mitigation. Cross-Functional Collaboration : Partner with executive leadership, product management, and engineering to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions. Communicate complex architectural concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. ISMS roles and responsibilities Good knowledge of Informati

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📍 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India· Full-time
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The Business Unit Cyber Lead will be responsible for leading and managing the cybersecurity strategy, execution, and risk management efforts within a specific business unit. This role serves as the primary point of contact for all cybersecurity-related matters within the business unit, ensuring that security risks are effectively identified, mitigated, and managed. The Business Unit Cyber Lead will work closely with business leaders, IT teams, and the enterprise cybersecurity function to ensure that cybersecurity initiatives are aligned with business objectives and effectively executed to protect the organization’s digital assets. Source: Adani Group | Job ID: 55798

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