Principal - M&A IT Application - Business Consulting

ies:**** Strategic IT Leadership:

• Lead IT application projects, ensuring alignment with the overall business strategy and IT roadmap.
• Develop and present strategic roadmaps for IT applications for a workstream including transformation, focusing on standardization, efficiency, and cost savings.
• Collaborate with senior leadership ensuring proper program governance, and business continuity.
• Stay abreast of emerging technologies and trends in IT applications for a functional areas and lead their adoption where appropriate.

Functional Track Management:

• Manage front-office and back-office application solutions.
• Oversee the analysis, design, and implementation of scalable and resilient IT application solution, involving COTS or custom applications for at least one functional area.
• Lead and guide Day 1 and TSA exit planning for a functional area.
• Manage projects for separation and integration of applications.
• Lead effort and develop strategies for standardization of business processes and applications.
• Create solutions for business requirements including extension of functionality in existing ERP and non-ERP applications and selection of new best of breed COTS packages.
• Create project plans and manage them. Highlight the risks and issues and creating mitigation plans.
• Identify project dependencies to ensure critical path is managed closely.
• Manage testing cycles (SIT and UAT) for each project.
• Manage cutover activities for separation/ integration projects.

Integration:

• Create system landscape diagram.
• Create high level integration strategy.
• Manage integration activities across systems and guide the teams to ensure scalability and flexibility.
• Ensure end to end testing of integrations across systems.

Data migration :

• Lead creation of data migration strategy for master and transaction data elements
• Manage coordination with business teams to define data migration criteria.
• Provide leadership for data migration activities from data mapping to extraction, transformation, and upload.
• Ensure data reconciliation and signoff.

Client and Stakeholder Engagement:

• Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, understanding their needs and providing tailored IT solutions.
• Present project updates, findings, and recommendations to client executives in a clear and concise manner.
• Act as a trusted advisor, guiding stakeholders through IT transformation processes.

Team Leadership and Development:

• Lead project teams, ensuring clear communication, effective collaboration, and timely delivery of milestones.
• Mentor and develop team members, fostering continuous learning and professional growth.

Project / Program Management:

• Oversee project planning, budgeting, and resource allocation to ensure goals and timelines are met.
• Implement and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to track project success, including uptime, incident resolution time, and cost savings.

Thought Leadership & Practice Development:

• Collaborate with other service lines to create new joint offerings.
• Share insights through blogs, white papers, and other thought leadership.
• Develop Infosys methodologies and approaches to client delivery.
• Assist in developing IT application related tools and processes.
• Coach and lead other consultants and participate in the performance management process.
• Help recruit and retain top-quality consultants.

Sales Support:

• Lead IT application and business transformation pre-sales and sales activities for M&A, including proposal development and solution presentations.
• Develop execution plans, cost estimates, and risk assessments.
• Identify and develop new business opportunities.
• Conduct market and client research.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 7+ years in IT applications (ERP and non-ERP) management, with significant exposure in designing and implementing solutions for business requirements.
• Proven experience managing complex IT projects.
• Consulting or client-facing experience preferred.
• Deep understanding of one or more functional areas (finance, commercial, supply chain and logistics, supply chain planning, manufacturing, engineering, procurement, HR).
• ERP or major business application implementation experience would be beneficial though not required.
• Application selection and implementation experience
• Application implementation and rollout experience or M&A application separation/ integration experience is beneficial.
• Excellent strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities.
• Strong communication and presentation skills.
• Proven leadership and team management capabilities.
• Ability to build and maintain client relationships.
• Ability to travel up to 100%.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently.
• Solid program/project management skills, including interviewing clients, process mapping, project planning, and stakeholder communication.
• Strong presentation skills and experience writing successful project proposals.
• Relevant certifications such as PMP, application specific certifications (SAP/ Oracle/ SFDC etc.) are desirable but not required.
• 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.

This job description may not cover or contain a comprehensive listing of all activities, duties and responsibilities that are required of the employee.

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

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
• 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
• Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off