Infosys Consulting
Enterprise Data Management - Principal Consultant
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Enterprise Data Management - Principal Consultant
Principal Consultant – Enterprise Data Management (EDM) | Financial Services
About Us
Where Innovation Meets Excellence.
Be part of a globally renowned management consulting firm at the forefront of industry disruption. We balance the agility of a mid-size, entrepreneurial culture with the prestige of a top 5 IT powerhouse (Infosys), delivering market-exceeding growth while supporting internationally recognised brands across every sector.
Our consulting business is annually recognised among the UK’s top firms by the Financial Times and Forbes, driven by:
- World-class client innovations
- Cultural diversity and shared purpose
- Boards’ coveted training and career development pathways
- An inclusive work environment that inspires peak performance for every consultant.
The Team
The Financial Services and Insurance practice empowers elite global firms and household-name organisations to solve their biggest challenges in today’s AI- and digital-driven transformation.
Our comprehensive services range from strategy and advisory to scale-focused implementations, covering: 🔹 Business change and operational transformation 🔹 IT infrastructure and leading-edge solutions
We shape and execute clients’ sustainable growth agendas.
The Role
This Principal Consultant position is within the Infosys Consulting (Finance Services vertical)—a unit that collaborates with senior business and technology executives to co-create, refine, and operationalise client strategy.
This is a high-impact, hands-on leadership role requiring 10+ years of Financial Services experience, with a proven track record in Enterprise Data Management (EDM).
Key responsibilities include:
- Strategically and tactically shaping EDM capabilities
- Advising clients as a trusted subject matter expert
- Driving seamless delivery across complex enterprise environments
Ideal candidates must balance deep domain expertise (reference/data, market data, product funding legal/trade fundamentals) with hands-on experience integrating EDM platforms into production ecosystems.
The role pushes boundaries—solving complex problems, leading delivery efforts, and collaborating cross-functionally to achieve measurable results.
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Responsibilities
Project Execution
- Define and align client strategy with long-term vision and tactical milestones
- Redesign client workflows and organisational processes through structured transformation roadmaps
- Facilitate global requirements workshops with IT teams and subject matter experts, translating necessities into actionable projects and KPIs
- Employ proven best practices in designing solutions, from functional specs to operational workflows
- Oversee comprehensive solution testing (functional, integration, UAT, parallel tests)
- Conduct post-project knowledge transfer to client and business teams
- Own end-to-end project management (scope, quality, timeline alignment)
- Coach teams to elevate performance and nurture career growth
People and Knowledge Development
- Mentor colleagues through formal evaluations and one-on-one feedback
- Collaborate and collaboratively share specialised knowledge across the practice
Practice Growth
- Drive recruitment, training, and retention
- Share thought leadership through differentiated insights, whitepapers, and unfair advantage methodologies
- Stay current with Capital Markets best practices and contribute to service innovation
- Contribute to industry conferences and forums—building thought-leadership position
What You’ll Deliver
- Lead EDM engagements within Financial Services, with a focus on Capital Markets preferred.
- Act as a strategic advisor for both aspiration and execution
- Integrate EDM with upstream/downstream systems’ data ecosystems
- Design end-to-end data workflows (reference, market, product/legal entity, and trade data)
- Govern batch/realtime integration layers, ensuring seamless operations
- Define data governance, quality, and lineage to enable compliance and traceability
- Align with the full delivery lifecycle (proxy testing, performance tuning, production deployment)
- Foster junior consultants, uphold best practices, and refine enterprise tools
- Collaborate cross-team and hold key stakeholder relationships
- Mitigate engagement risk with proactive issue resolution
- Expand client engagement footprint beyond single mandates
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Requirements
Education
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) required; MBA or advanced degree preferred
Experience
- 10+ years of Financial Services experience
- 5+ years spent delivering Capital Markets–specific programs (investment banking, wealth management, asset management—retail/commercial banking … optionally added)
- Consulting experience mandatory: Expertise in structuring, executing, and managing Cross-disciplinary transformation programs strongly recommended
Domain Expertise
- Specialised knowledge in:
- Reference data (securities, parties, pricing)
- Market/product/master data workflows
- Trade/position integration
- Combat-ready EDM integration experience with:
- Enterprise systems (SQL Server, Oracle, data warehouses)
- Trading systems, OMS/EMS, risk, and portfolio platforms
Technical Skills
- Proficiency in SQL, ETL/data modelling
- Data ingestion and procedural tools (stored procedures, messaging)
- Actively apply EDM best practices (governance, data lineage)
Business Skills
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Ability to bridge business insights with technical execution
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Mastery of full project lifecycle (requisite gathering, design, prototyping, deployment, go-live, support/nerve)
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Regulatory literacies like Basel, MiFID, Dodd-Frank count as a plus
Additional Requirements
- Willingness to travel up to 80% based on client needs
- Authorised to work as a UK citizen or H,* or long-term visa without employer sponsorship (sorry, no sponsorship for this role)
Why Join Us?
For top talent aim who desire a forward-thinking, high-growth organisation, you’ll join: 🔼 Bomb-proof career growth with elite industry expertise 🔼 Unparalleled flexibility, collaboration, and a supportive culture 🔻 Exceptional compensation and benefits, leadership development, and a contingency of innovative tools and opportunities
Ready to drive disruption? Apply today—we’re waiting to hear from you!
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