Payments Modernization Program Lead | ISO 20022, AI & Cloud

Infosys Consulting; New York (NY); On-site; USD 154,000 - 193,000; Full time

Job summary

Infosys Consulting in the United States seeks a Principal, Business Consulting – Payments Functional Program Manager to lead a multi-wave ISO 20022 modernization for a Tier 1 bank. You will drive COTS on microservices, rail-agnostic orchestration, and agentic AI across payments journeys, ensuring governance, profitability, and regulatory compliance.

The role combines hands-on program leadership with architecture direction, managing senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams, and shaping P&L

Qualifications

• 7+ years in payments/financial services with 3+ years in management consulting at a top tier firm (10+ years total preferred).
• Delivered end-to-end ISO 20022 migration for CBPR+ and/or Fedwire/FedNow; certification and market testing experience.
• Experience with payments value chain end-to-end (origination, processing, clearing/settlement, messaging).
• Proven governance and financial management of programs; executive communication.

Responsibilities

• Stand up and run a multi-wave ISO 20022 program (CBPR+, Fedwire, FedNow).
• Define target state architecture (rail-agnostic orchestration, microservices, APIs, streaming).
• Implement AI/LLM use cases in payments operations, reconciliation, and data monetization.
• Drive pipeline expansion, solutioning, and differentiated POVs for pursuits.

Skills

Payments domain

Program governance

Stakeholder mgmt

Cloud & microservices

ISO 20022

Tools

ACI MTS/UPF

Finastra

Fiserv

Job description

Infosys Consulting in the United States seeks a Principal, Business Consulting – Payments Functional Program Manager to lead a multi-wave ISO 20022 modernization for a Tier 1 bank. You will drive COTS on microservices, rail-agnostic orchestration, and agentic AI across payments journeys, ensuring governance, profitability, and regulatory compliance.

The role combines hands-on program leadership with architecture direction, managing senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams, and shaping P&L