Sr. Principal - M&A IT Application CMT - Business Consulting

work closely with clients and senior leadership to ensure the successful delivery of IT infrastructure solutions. Responsibilities: Strategic IT Leadership:

• Provide vision and leadership to several IT Application projects, ensuring alignment with overall business strategy and long-term IT roadmap.
• Develop and present strategic roadmaps for IT applications across workstreams including transformation, focusing on standardization, efficiency, and cost savings.
• Partner with C-level executives to define and execute IT application strategies that support business growth, transformation, and resilience.
• Act as thought leaders in the IT application and business domain, guiding the adoption of emerging technologies and innovative practices.
• Lead the development and execution of IT strategies during mergers and acquisitions, ensuring seamless separation or integration and realization of synergies.

Business Development and Sales:

• Drive IT M&A consulting business development and sales initiatives, leading the creation of proposal and effective solutions.
• Develop comprehensive execution plans, detailed cost estimates, and risk assessments to ensure successful project outcomes and client satisfaction.
• Strategically identify and cultivate business opportunities and long term relationship with clients.
• Conduct comprehensive market and client research to identify trends, informed business growth strategies and position Infosys consulting as leader in IT application consulting space.

IT Application Management:

• Oversee the design, implementation, and maintenance of scalable and resilient IT applications, including ERP and non-ERP applications for front and back-office purpose.
• Lead and guide Day 1 and TSA exit planning across all functional area.
• Manage application separation and integration for the organization.
• Lead and guide development of strategies for standardization of business processes and applications.
• Lead and provide guidance to create solutions for end-to-end business requirements including extension of functionality in existing ERP and non-ERP applications and selection of new best of breed COTS packages, if required.
• Lead and provide guidance to create project plans and manage them. Highlight the end-to-end process and program risks and issues and creating mitigation plans.
• Identify project dependencies to ensure critical path is managed closely.
• Manage and guide cross functional area testing cycles (SIT and UAT) including end-to-end business process scenarios.
• Manage and guide business and IT cutover activities for separation/ integration projects.

Integration:

• Lead and guide creation offend to end system landscape diagram.
• Lead and guide creation of high-level integration strategy.
• Manage integration activities across systems and guide the teams to ensure scalability and flexibility.
• Provide guidance to ensure end to end testing of integrations across systems.

Data migration:

• Lead and guide creation of data migration strategy for all master and transaction data elements for the program
• Lead coordination with business teams to define data migration criteria.
• Lead and guide data migration activities including data mapping, data extraction, transformation, and upload.
• Ensure data reconciliation and signoff.

Client and Stakeholder Engagement:

• Build and maintain strong relationships with senior 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 complex IT transformation processes.

Team Leadership and Development:

• Lead and mentor senior project teams, ensuring clear communication, effective collaboration, and timely delivery of milestones.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning and professional growth among team members.

Project / Program Management:

• Oversee complex project planning, budgeting, and resource allocation to ensure goals and timelines are met.
• Implement and monitor advanced 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 innovative joint offerings.
• Share insights through high-impact blogs, white papers, and other thought leadership.
• Develop and refine Infosys methodologies and approaches to client delivery.
• Assist in incorporating cutting-edge IT application tools and processes.
• Coach and lead other consultants and actively participate in the performance management process.
• Help recruit and retain top-quality consultants.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 9+ years in IT applications (ERP and non-ERP) management, with significant exposure in designing and implementing solutions for business requirements.
• Proven experience managing high-impact, complex IT projects.
• Consulting or client-facing experience at a senior level required.
• M&A experience is required.
• Deep understanding of different functional areas (finance, commercial, supply chain and logistics, supply chain planning, manufacturing, engineering, procurement, HR).
• ERP or major business application implementation experience is 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 senior client relationships.
• Ability to travel up to 100%.
• 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:

• Functional expertise in finance, human resources, supply chain, and IT.
• 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.

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

Estimated annual total compensation range for candidates based in US are as indicated below :
Min-$ 210,000 & Max-$256,667

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