Strategic Research Associate in Pune

Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ 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 Management Overview Mastercard Merchant Cloud and Acceptance represent core strategic priorities for the Asia Pacific region. Our mission is to empower acquirers, merchants, payment service providers (PSPs), and payment facilitators by delivering seamless, best-in-class experiences across both digital and in-person commerce. We aim to position Mastercard Merchant Cloud as the leading platform for acceptance. As an integral part of Mastercard’s regional growth strategy, this role will support sales initiatives across Asia Pacific. Key responsibilities include conducting market research and benchmarking, contributing to go-to-market planning, supporting solution commercialization, and engaging in client-related activities. The individual will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams—including Product, Operations, Delivery, Compliance, Legal, Marketing, and other internal partners—to drive execution and deliver strategic outcomes. Role - Support the identification and assessment of potential opportunities for Merchant Cloud across APAC through data analysis and insight generation. - Conduct customer segmentation and lifecycle analysis to identify indicators of expansion, cross-sell, or product adoption potential - Analyze transaction characteristics and market data to suppo

About the role (Remote) We're hiring a Senior Product Designer to join our global UX team. You'll own design within your product cluster — working directly with the engineers and PMs in those areas to define problems, shape solutions, and ship work that holds up. This is an end-to-end role. You lead discovery, define the interaction model, produce specs, and stay close through implementation. You're also expected to contribute to the systems and standards the whole team relies on. The Senior Product Designer will report to our Product Design Manager, and will work with our EU, UK and US based designers. You're part of a distributed team, so async clarity and proactive communication are as important as craft. What you’ll do Lead the design of complex AI-powered interactions in your product cluster, accounting for trust, transparency, fallback states, and human-in-the-loop considerations Embrace the use of modern AI-based tools like Claude, Figma Make, Cursor, Vercel, Loveable or equivalent not as theatre, but as a meaningful multiplier to your workflow. Partner with our UX research team to lead interviews, usability tests, and competitive analysis and translate findings into clear product direction and guidance Develop presentations, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes that effectively communicate interaction and design intent across web and mobile surfaces. Partner with PMs to shape requirements and with engineers to protect design intent through delivery Contribute to Showpad's design systems — adding components, documenting patterns, raising consistency across product areas Communicate design rationale through strategic storytelling: you can walk a PM, an engineer, and a senior stakeholder through the same decision and each one gets what they need Establish scalable AI-assisted workflows for your own work — research synthesis, rapid prototyping, concept generation — and help others on the team use them effectively Deliver UX solutions that measurably improve

SonicWall is a cybersecurity forerunner with more than 30 years of expertise and is recognized as a leading partner-first company, ensuring our partners and their customers are never alone in the fight against cybercrime. With the ability to build, scale and manage security across the cloud, hybrid and traditional environments in real-time, SonicWall provides relentless security against the most evasive cyberattacks across endless exposure points for increasingly remote, mobile and cloud-enabled users. With its own threat research center, SonicWall can quickly and economically provide purpose-built security solutions to enable any organization—enterprise, government agencies and SMBs—around the world. For more information, visit www.sonicwall.com or follow us on Twitter , LinkedIn , Facebook and Instagram . Role Summary We are seeking a highly skilled Test Staff Engineer with deep expertise in Firewall/Security testing and strong hands-on automation . This role requires technical leadership, end-to-end ownership of test strategy for assigned components, and building scalable automation and test tools to ensure high-quality SonicOS releases. Key Responsibilities Own test strategy, planning, execution, and quality sign-off for SonicOS components Architect, develop, and maintain automation frameworks, pipelines, and test tools Drive an automation-first regression strategy and improve overall test coverage Perform complex system, integration, and upgrade/downgrade testing Partner with Dev/PM in design reviews, scrums, and defect triage Lead root-cause analysis and validation of critical customer issues Mentor engineers; review test plans, automation design, and coverage Drive release readiness, escape analysis, and quality metrics Must-Have Skills Minimum 4+ Years of experience in QA and Automation Strong Networking: TCP/IP, Routing, NAT, VLANs, Firewall policies Firewall/Security: VPN, DPI/App Control, IPS, Gate

SonicWall is a cybersecurity forerunner with more than 30 years of expertise and is recognized as a leading partner-first company, ensuring our partners and their customers are never alone in the fight against cybercrime. With the ability to build, scale and manage security across the cloud, hybrid and traditional environments in real-time, SonicWall provides relentless security against the most evasive cyberattacks across endless exposure points for increasingly remote, mobile and cloud-enabled users. With its own threat research center, SonicWall can quickly and economically provide purpose-built security solutions to enable any organization—enterprise, government agencies and SMBs—around the world. For more information, visit www.sonicwall.com or follow us on Twitter , LinkedIn , Facebook and Instagram . Role Overview: We are seeking a Senior Director of Software Engineering to lead the architecture, development, and global scale-out of our Security Service Edge (SSE) platform. This role is responsible for building and evolving our cloud-native security platform that delivers comprehensive protection across users, devices, applications, data, and network traffic — spanning branch, hybrid, multi-cloud, and internet environments. The ideal candidate is a seasoned engineering leader with deep expertise in distributed systems, cloud-native architecture, and enterprise security platforms. You will shape the long-term technical strategy, drive execution excellence, and build a high-performing engineering organization in India that supports a globally deployed SaaS platform. Key Responsibilities: • Define and execute the long-term engineering roadmap for the SSE platform aligned with business objectives. • Build, mentor, and scale high-performing engineering teams. • Establish strong architectural governance, engineering best practices, and quality standar

SonicWall is a cybersecurity forerunner with more than 30 years of expertise and is recognized as a leading partner-first company, ensuring our partners and their customers are never alone in the fight against cybercrime. With the ability to build, scale and manage security across the cloud, hybrid and traditional environments in real-time, SonicWall provides relentless security against the most evasive cyberattacks across endless exposure points for increasingly remote, mobile and cloud-enabled users. With its own threat research center, SonicWall can quickly and economically provide purpose-built security solutions to enable any organization—enterprise, government agencies and SMBs—around the world. For more information, visit www.sonicwall.com or follow us on Twitter , LinkedIn , Facebook and Instagram . About the Role We are looking for a Principal Frontend Engineer to drive the technical vision and frontend architecture of the Cloud Secure Edge Admin Console, the interface used by IT Administrators and Security teams to manage access policies, monitor devices, configure alerts, and analyze real-time connectivity. As a Principal Frontend Engineer, you will define long-term frontend strategy, establish engineering standards, influence product and platform direction, mentor senior engineers, and partner across multiple teams to deliver scalable, secure, performant, and intuitive enterprise experiences. You will work with modern web technologies, including TypeScript, React, ag-Grid, Highcharts, Storybook, and our internal component library. This role is ideal for engineers who excel at solving large-scale architectural challenges, influencing technical direction across organizations, driving alignment in ambiguous situations, and elevating engineering excellence across teams. What You'll Do Define and drive the frontend architecture and technical roadmap for Cloud Secure Edge. Lead the design and del

SonicWall is a cybersecurity forerunner with more than 30 years of expertise and is recognized as a leading partner-first company, ensuring our partners and their customers are never alone in the fight against cybercrime. With the ability to build, scale and manage security across the cloud, hybrid and traditional environments in real-time, SonicWall provides relentless security against the most evasive cyberattacks across endless exposure points for increasingly remote, mobile and cloud-enabled users. With its own threat research center, SonicWall can quickly and economically provide purpose-built security solutions to enable any organization—enterprise, government agencies and SMBs—around the world. For more information, visit www.sonicwall.com or follow us on Twitter , LinkedIn , Facebook and Instagram . Role Overview SonicWall is seeking a Distinguished Engineer to define and drive the long-term technical vision, architecture, and evolution of its Secure Private Access (SPA) platform and Zero Trust access technologies. This role serves as the highest level of individual contributor leadership, influencing architecture, engineering strategy, and innovation across multiple product and engineering organizations. The role builds upon SonicWall's current cloud-native SSE, ZTNA, and secure access initiatives. Key Responsibilities Define and drive the long-term technical vision and architecture strategy for SonicWall's Secure Private Access (SPA) platform and Zero Trust access technologies. Lead the design and evolution of highly scalable, secure, resilient, cloud-native distributed systems. Influence technical direction, architectural decisions, and engineering standards across multiple product and engineering organizations. Provide technical leadership during critical production incidents, customer escalations, and security events, driving root cause analysis and long-term architectural improvements. Serve as

SonicWall is a cybersecurity forerunner with more than 30 years of expertise and is recognized as a leading partner-first company, ensuring our partners and their customers are never alone in the fight against cybercrime. With the ability to build, scale and manage security across the cloud, hybrid and traditional environments in real-time, SonicWall provides relentless security against the most evasive cyberattacks across endless exposure points for increasingly remote, mobile and cloud-enabled users. With its own threat research center, SonicWall can quickly and economically provide purpose-built security solutions to enable any organization—enterprise, government agencies and SMBs—around the world. For more information, visit www.sonicwall.com or follow us on Twitter , LinkedIn , Facebook and Instagram . Roles & Responsibilities Design, deploy, and manage AWS cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes (EKS) environments. Build, maintain, and optimize GitLab CI/CD pipelines for automated deployments. Implement DevSecOps best practices, including infrastructure security, vulnerability management, and compliance controls. Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve platform reliability, performance, and scalability. Deploy and manage cloud-native applications, databases, and supporting services. Collaborate with development teams on architecture, deployment strategies, and production readiness. Drive infrastructure automation using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform). Support incident management, root cause analysis, and operational excellence initiatives. Mandatory Requirements 5+ years of hands-on DevOps/DevSecOps experience in production environments. Strong expertise with AWS services including EKS, EC2, S3, CloudFront, WAF, Lambda, and VPC. Minimum 3+ years of Kubernetes experience, preferably Amazon EKS. Hands-on experience building and managing GitLab CI/CD pipelines. Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting

SonicWall is a cybersecurity forerunner with more than 30 years of expertise and is recognized as a leading partner-first company, ensuring our partners and their customers are never alone in the fight against cybercrime. With the ability to build, scale and manage security across the cloud, hybrid and traditional environments in real-time, SonicWall provides relentless security against the most evasive cyberattacks across endless exposure points for increasingly remote, mobile and cloud-enabled users. With its own threat research center, SonicWall can quickly and economically provide purpose-built security solutions to enable any organization—enterprise, government agencies and SMBs—around the world. For more information, visit www.sonicwall.com or follow us on Twitter , LinkedIn , Facebook and Instagram . Job Title: Distinguished Engineer - Data Architect Role Overview: We are looking for a Distinguished Engineer- Data Architect to design and build the data foundation for our AI-driven security platform. In this role, you will own the architectural blueprint and core implementation of our data strategy, transforming massive streams of high-velocity network traffic logs, customer configurations, and security alerts into high-performance, ML-ready data fabrics. As part of a lean, elite three-person Data & AI team, you will serve as the ultimate technical authority on data scale, streaming architecture, multi-tenant security, and cost-efficient storage systems. Key Responsibilities: Architect the Core Data Platform: Design, implement, and evolve a unified blueprint for streaming and batch data processing capable of ingesting, normalizing, and storing petabyte-scale, high-velocity security telemetry. Enable AI & Advanced Analytics: Partner directly with the Lead AI Engineer to architect the underlying storage, retrieval systems, and feature stores—including optimal vector database structures and data la

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

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. Full Stack Engineer – Higher Ed Platforms Node.js / React · Client-facing designation: Technical Consultant Location: Pune, India (Hybrid) Reports To: Lead – India Center of Excellence Employment Type: Full-time (engaged through SIG’s Employer of Record in India) Experience: 3–5 years Working Hours: Flexible, with 3–4 hours of daily overlap with US Eastern morning About SIG Strata Information Group (SIG) is a US-based leader in higher-education technology consulting. We help colleges and universities modernize the systems that run their institutions — student information, HR, and finance — through ERP/SIS implementation, integration, digital transformation, CRM, and cybersecurity work. We are building our first engineering Center of Excellence in Pune. This is a founding-team role. You will not be joining a large delivery pool with a fixed process — you will help set how this team builds. The Role This is a software engineering job. You will spend most of your time writing and shipping code. You will take functional specifications and turn them into working software across three areas: application integrations, Experience Card development for user-facing functionality, and workflow automation using Ellucian’s workf

Job Title Site Leader (Director), Operations Quality Assurance- Job Description The Site Leader (Director), Operations Quality Assurance is responsible for leading the Quality function across the Pune (Chakan) manufacturing sites. This role provides strategic and operational leadership to ensure all medical devices, manufacturing processes, and quality system activities comply with applicable regulatory requirements, Philips standards, and business objectives. Your Role: Lead all Operations Quality Assurance activities across the Pune (Chakan) manufacturing sites, ensuring compliance, product quality, patient safety, and operations quality performance. Accountable for developing and executing the Operations Quality Strategy, translating enterprise quality objectives into measurable site-level priorities/results, driving a culture of quality and compliance, ensuring inspection readiness, and continuously improving quality performance across the sites. As the senior Quality leader and designated Quality Management Representative, the Director represents the organization during regulatory inspections/external audits, ensures the effectiveness and compliance of the Quality Management System and partners closely with Operations, R&D, Regulatory Affairs, Supply Chain, and Business Leadership to ensure product quality, patient safety, and business continuity. Ensure all products, manufacturing processes, and quality system activities comply with FDA regulations, ISO 13485, ISO 14971, MDSAP, EU MDR, and other applicable global requirements. Lead and represent the sites during FDA inspections, Notified Body audits, customer audits, and regulatory authority interactions, maintaining a continuous state of inspection readiness. Drive timely resolution of audit findings, compliance gaps, nonconformances, and CAPA act

Head - Project directs and oversees DC project delivery for AdaniConneX. Ensure projects meet design, schedule, and budget requirements while achieving quality standards and client satisfaction. Drive strategic planning and execution to align with organizational goals. Source: Adani Group | Job ID: 51587

Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ 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 Senior Specialist, Payroll Implementation & Integration-1 Position Summary The Senior Specialist, Payroll Implementation & Integration supports strategic payroll initiatives, including mergers and acquisitions (M&A), P&C Modernization programs, system implementations, and process improvement efforts. This role serves as a key execution resource responsible for coordinating testing activities, validating payroll and employee data, supporting implementation readiness, and assisting with solution deployments across payroll operations. Key Responsibilities M&A Integration Execution Support • Support payroll workstreams during mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and organizational restructures. • Assist with payroll integration planning and execution activities. • Coordinate employee data collection, validation, and migration activities. • Prepare implementation documentation and integration trackers. • Support payroll readiness assessments and integration milestones. • Execute project tasks, risks, issues, and action items. • Assist in stabilization activities following acquisitions. P&C Modernization Implementation Support • Participate in payroll-related activities supporting Workday and P&C Modernization initiatives. • Support configuration validation

Our Purpose Mastercard powers economies and empowers people in 200+ 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 Senior Specialist, Payroll Implementation & Integration-2 Position Summary The Senior Specialist, Payroll Implementation & Integration supports strategic payroll initiatives, including mergers and acquisitions (M&A), P&C Modernization programs, system implementations, and process improvement efforts. This role serves as a key execution resource responsible for coordinating testing activities, validating payroll and employee data, supporting implementation readiness, and assisting with solution deployments across payroll operations. Key Responsibilities M&A Integration Execution Support • Support payroll workstreams during mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and organizational restructures. • Assist with payroll integration planning and execution activities. • Coordinate employee data collection, validation, and migration activities. • Prepare implementation documentation and integration trackers. • Support payroll readiness assessments and integration milestones. • Execute project tasks, risks, issues, and action items. • Assist in stabilization activities following acquisitions. P&C Modernization Implementation Support • Participate in payroll-related activities supporting Workday and P&C Modernization initiatives. • Support configuration validation

Job Overview: We are seeking an experienced Azure Cloud Application Architect to design and implement enterprise-grade, cloud-native solutions using Azure services. This role involves defining best practices for architecture, governance, security, and cost optimization while enabling CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code. You will provide technical leadership, mentor teams, and act as a trusted advisor to clients, driving modernization, migration, and innovation initiatives. The position also includes pre-sales and post-sales engagement, building strategic partnerships, and contributing to thought leadership through white papers and presentations. Experience : 10+ years Key Responsibilities: Design and implement cloud-native application architectures using Azure services (App Services, AKS, Functions, Service Bus, etc.). Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business requirements into technical solutions. Establish governance, cost optimization, and security best practices for Azure applications. Work closely with DevOps teams to enable CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code (IaC). Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to development teams. Define and implement best practices architecture design, deployment, and operations. Design highly available, scalable, and cost-effective cloud solutions meeting business requirements. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including DevOps, development, and business units, to align cloud solutions with organizational goals. Analyse complex technical issues, provide recommendations, and lead the resolution efforts for cloud-related challenges. Build capabilities, offerings, service accelerators and differentiators. Build a go-to-market strategy that highlights our cloud offerings that best support our customers' challenges. Innovation and Thought leadership, bringing out white papers, blogs, presentations, and collaterals. Responsible for delivering solutions archi