FS PR, Business Consulting – Payments Functional Program Manager

• Own the client relationship across transformation delivery BAU change and support for a large U.S. bank; manage senior stakeholder expectations while maintaining profitability and growth.
• Lead platform modernization that includes but not limited to reverse engineering of legacy mainframe platforms forward engineering COTS product implementation and upstream/downstream integrations.
• Direct ISO 20022 adoption and certification (e.g. Fedwire/FedNow CBPR); guide product configuration and customizationespecially for ACI MTS and UPF.
• Govern program financials: budgeting milestone billing forecasting pipeline management and margin integrity.
• Set payments architecture direction: advocate rail agnostic orchestration microservices patterns cloud deployment models and event driven integration.
• Shape and integrate agentic AI interventions across journeys (ops automation dispute/exception handling reconciliation data quality monetization).
• Lead cross functional teams (client & Infosys) to gather requirements design data maps ensure traceability and manage risk/issue remediation.
• Support business development: solutioning proposals thought leadership market relevant POVs.
• Ensure compliance with PCI DSS/AML/KYC resiliency observability and operational excellence.
• Not a pure BA rolewere seeking leaders who can span program delivery architecture direction and domain depth.

• Program Management (Payments Modernization)
• Drive multi year HVP modernization with COTS integrations ISO migrations certification and executive governance.
• Enterprise / Solution Architecture (Payments)
• Define target state (rail agnostic ISO native) microservices reference architecture messaging integration patterns security and scalability.
• Payments SME / Advisory
• Lead consulting engagements across HVP RTP cross border treasury and ISO 20022; shape roadmaps operating models and AI enabled capabilities.

• Bachelors degree (or foreign equivalent).
• 7 years in payments/financial services with 3 years in management consulting at a top tier/professional services firm. (10 years overall experience preferred for a principal.)
• Deep HVP domain expertise: Fedwire/CHIPS CBPR cross border and ISO 20022 message standards (pacs/camt/pain; mapping validation enrichment).
• Delivered at least one end to end ISO 20022 migration for CBPR and/or Fedwire/FedNow: experience with certification and market testing. (Cards professionals are welcome with consumer and commercial card solutions E2E implementation experiences)
• Hands on experience across payments value chain at enterprise and ecosystem level: origination processing clearing/settlement servicing messagingB2B disbursements consumer/retail.
• Experience with COTS Payment Hubs and processors (e.g. ACI MTS/UPF Finastra Fiserv) and complex integration in regulated environments.
• Solid understanding of legacy mainframe payment systems and modernization patterns.
• Proficiency in program governance & financials stakeholder management issue/risk management and executive communication.
• Familiarity with cloud & microservices constructs (e.g. containerization APIs event streaming) and DevSecOps/testing management.
• Ability to travel extensively.
• 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.

• Certifications: PMP/PRINCE2/SAFe; TOGAF 9.2/10 (for architecture track); ISO 20022 certifications; BIS/Fed or equivalent; Agile delivery.
• RTP expertise: TCH RTP and FedNow implementation; vendor experience (Finastra Fiserv) is a plus.
• Liquidity/Treasury: Nostro/Vostro cash & liquidity management payables/receivables collections.
• Cross rail expertise: HVP mass payments (ACH) immediate payments (RTP/FedNow) P2P card (retail & commercial) tokenization stablecoins (awareness).
• Data & Engineering: lineage quality metadata monetization; Kafka/event streaming; API management; observability; resiliency engineering.
• AI in Payments:Machine Learning & Predictive Modeling (fraud risk anomaly detection forecasting); GenAI/LLMs for ops automation dispute handling policy interpretation developer/API copilots and RAG; Reverse/forward engineering accelerators; MLOps and responsible AI (XAI bias/fairness).
• Firm building: pre sales POVs conference visibility industry research.

• Thought leadership and structured problem solving; crisp storytelling for C Suite.
• Numbers driven program leadership: budget schedule scope and benefits realization.
• Stakeholder management across technology operations risk/compliance product and external networks.
• Hands on orientation with the ability to go deep on requirements mappings and validation without losing the big picture.

• Stand up and run a multi wave ISO 20022 program (CBPR Fedwire FedNow).
• Lead COTS hub implementation (e.g. ACI MTS/UPF): product fit customization integration certification.
• Define target state architecture (rail agnostic orchestration microservices APIs streaming).
• Implement AI/LLM use cases in payments ops exception management reconciliation and data monetization.
• Deliver RTP via leading products (Finastra Fiserv) as an advantage.
• Manage DevSecOps and testing services; ensure performance resilience and compliance.
• Build data maps and transformations for message conversion and canonical models.
• Drive pipeline expansion and support pursuits with solutioning and differentiated PoVs.

Benefits

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

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