Senior Principal -Data Modernization and AI Program Management

Infosys Consulting; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 210,000 - 257,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Disability insurance

Health reimbursement accounts

Insurance (various)

401(k) plan

Job summary

Infosys Consulting is leading a multi-year data transformation program to modernize the data estate onto a governed, cloud-based, AI-ready platform. The Program Lead will oversee scope, schedule, budget, risk and governance across all workstreams.

This is a leadership role focused on program management, not hands-on engineering. You will ensure governance forums function, surface risks, and align stakeholders while driving change across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent required.
• 9+ years of program/project management experience, incl. 6+ years in large-scale data transformation programs.
• Experience owning end-to-end governance: steering committees, RAID/issue management, stage-gate reviews, and executive reporting.
• Strong change management and user adoption planning for large technology transformation programs.
• Experience with formal change control processes, including CAB governance.
• Experience coordinating cross-program dependencies in multi-vendor environments.
• Familiarity with data platform modernization and cloud data platforms.
• Experience with vendor/managed-services delivery models (onshore-offshore, GCC/BOT).
• Willingness to travel up to 4 days/week.
• Authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end program governance and execution across all workstreams.
• Establish and operate program management disciplines and reporting.
• Manage RAID framework and dependency/issue tracking.
• Oversee program controls, financials, and SOW deliverables.
• Oversee formal change control, scope and cost impacts.
• Coordinate release, cutover, and transformation readiness activities.
• Serve as primary interface for executive and governance groups.
• Lead organizational change management and adoption efforts.
• Build cross-functional relationships and manage stakeholder expectations.
• Measure outcomes and transition to steady-state operations.

Skills

Program governance

RAID/issue management

Executive reporting

Stakeholder management

Organizational change mgmt

Education

Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent

Job description

Infosys Consulting is engaging in a large data transformation program that will simplify and modernize the current data estate onto a governed, cloud-based, AI-ready target-state platform, while transferring durable delivery capability into bank’s own Global Capability Center (GCC).

The program spans twelve interdependent workstreams: SOR ingestion, SAS and Informatica reverse engineering, lift-and-shift migration, data product design and build, historical data migration, report repointing, SAS model conversion support, data governance integration, validation, parallel run, user adoption, and program management executed in waves over a multi-year duration, with delivery supported by an AI-assisted Foundry/Factory engineering model.

Role Summary:

The Program Lead is accountable for the overall management and delivery success of the program on behalf of Infosys Consulting, bringing together scope, schedule, budget, risk, quality, stakeholder alignment, and organizational change into a single, coherent program management discipline across all workstreams and migration waves.

This is a program management leadership role, not a technical delivery role: the Program Lead does not own solution architecture or engineering execution directly, but ensures the program as a whole runs to plan, that governance forums function, that risks and issues are surfaced and resolved before they become schedule or cost impacts, that stakeholders across Infosys and Bank’s stay aligned and informed, and that the organization is ready to absorb each wave of change.

The role requires strong command of program management fundamentals, planning, tracking, governance, financials, risk, and change applied to a large, multi-year, multi-workstream data transformation program in a regulated banking environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end program governance and execution, owning the integrated program plan across all workstreams and migration waves, including milestones, dependencies, critical path, and delivery against committed objectives.
• Establish and operate program management disciplines, including status reporting, RAG management, forecast-to-actual tracking, variance analysis, and standardized project management practices across all workstreams.
• Manage program risk, issue, dependency, and assumption management, driving proactive identification, mitigation, escalation, and resolution through a comprehensive RAID framework.
• Manage program controls, financials, and contractual obligations, including budget oversight, resource planning, SOW deliverable tracking, milestone achievement, and protection of invoicing and revenue realization.
• Program change governance, overseeing formal change control processes, evaluating scope, schedule, cost, resource, and architectural impacts, and maintaining program-wide change logs and approvals.
• Coordinate release, cutover, and transformation readiness activities, including stage-gate reviews, go/no-go decision processes, operational readiness assessments, and wave-based deployment planning.
• Serve as the primary program interface for executive and senior stakeholder groups, providing clear, accurate, and timely communication to leadership forums, governance councils, business sponsors, platform owners, and data governance bodies.
• Lead organizational change management and adoption, including stakeholder engagement, change-impact assessments, communications, training strategies, change champion networks, and post-deployment adoption monitoring.
• Build and maintain strong cross-functional relationships, aligning stakeholders across business, technology, delivery, governance, and operations teams while proactively managing expectations and resolving conflicts or misalignment.
• Measure, report, and optimize program outcomes, tracking success metrics, business value realization, platform transformation objectives, adoption targets, lessons learned, and transition to steady-state operational ownership.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent required.
• 9+ years of program/project management experience, including 6+ years managing large-scale, multi-year, multi-workstream technology or data transformation programs, ideally within banking or financial services.
• Demonstrated track record owning end-to-end program governance: steering committee management, RAID/issue management, stage-gate reviews, and executive reporting.
• Strong experience in organizational change management and user adoption planning for large technology transformation programs, including training and communications strategy.
• Experience managing formal change control processes, including scope/schedule/cost impact assessment and CAB-style change governance.
• Experience coordinating cross-program dependencies in complex, multi-vendor, multi-initiative environments.
• Familiarity with data platform modernization programs (ETL/legacy migration, cloud data platforms, data governance) sufficient to manage delivery leads credibly, without requiring hands-on technical ownership.
• Experience with vendor/managed-services delivery models (onshore-offshore, GCC/BOT) and associated governance structures.
• Ability to travel as needed (typically up to 4 days/week) to client locations.
• Candidates authorized to work for any employer in the United States without employer-based visa sponsorship are welcome to apply. Infosys is unable to provide immigration sponsorship for this role at this time.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience with a large regional/national bank technology environment.
• Experience managing programs with parallel-run and cutover frameworks for mission-critical financial data platforms.
• Working knowledge of AI-assisted or agentic delivery models sufficient to govern their use within a program, without owning their technical configuration.
• Excellent executive presence and communication skills, with the ability to operate credibly with CIO/CDO-level and business-line executive stakeholders.
• Strong financial acumen, budget management, forecast-to-actuals, and commercial-terms literacy in a services delivery context.

Estimated total (base + bonus) annual compensation range for candidates are as indicated below:

$ 210,000 - $ 256,667

What Visa status are we accepting for this req? :

Along with competitive pay, as a full-time Infosys employee you are also eligible for the following benefits:

• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• Health and Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts
• Insurance (Accident, Critical Illness , Hospital Indemnity, Legal)
• 401(k) plan and contributions dependent on salary level

About Us

Infosys Consulting is a next-generation consulting partner that bridges strategy and execution. With an AI-first mindset, deep industry knowledge, and the combined strengths of business and technology consulting, it helps enterprises turn bold vision into tangible outcomes, faster, smarter, and at scale. Infosys Consulting is helping some of the world's most recognizable brands transform and innovate. Our consultants are industry experts that lead complex change agendas driven by disruptive technology. With offices in 20 countries and backed by the power of the global Infosys brand, our teams help the C-suite navigate today's digital landscape to win market share and create shareholder value for lasting competitive advantage.

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