Principal - Data Analytics - Solution Architect(Business Consulting)

About the role

As a Principal, Business Consulting – Solution Architect, you will be a key member of the Data & Analytics team, helping our clients become data, analytics, and insights-driven. You will define, prioritize, and manage data product roadmaps while providing technical leadership and solution architecture guidance.

Responsibilities

• Deliver client programs focused on enabling data-driven decision-making.
• Define and manage roadmaps for data products, analytics platforms, and data services.
• Translate business requirements into technical specifications, data models, and solution designs.
• Prioritize features and improvements to maximize business impact while balancing technical feasibility.
• Design cloud-based, end-to-end data analytics platforms, including current-state assessments, future-state architecture definitions, tool evaluations, and data modernization implementations.
• Ensure adherence to best practices in data governance, data quality, scalability, and security.
• Serve as a domain expert and contribute to advancing thought leadership in the industry.
• Lead workshops, requirements gathering sessions, and executive presentations.
• Manage and lead a team of consultants for client deliverables.
• Evaluate emerging data technologies and recommend innovative solutions.
• Collaborate effectively with client and Infosys teams.
• Support practice development through recruitment, training, and retention initiatives.
• Create proposals for sales pursuits with minimal supervision.

Requirements

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree or higher in marketing, economics, mathematics, or a related technical field.
• 7+ years of relevant work experience, including 3 years in Management Consulting.
• Experience working across multiple industries (e.g., Banking, Insurance, Financial Services, Retail, Manufacturing).
• Experience defining data product roadmaps and managing backlogs.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum delivery frameworks.
• Exposure to key disciplines of Data and Information Management: Governance, Data Quality, Data Architecture, Master Data, Security, Regulatory Compliance, Business Intelligence.

Skills

• Modern Data Platform/Lakehouse Concepts: Unified Data Architectures, Delta Lake, Apache Hudi, or Apache Iceberg.
• Cloud Data Platforms & Tools: Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Snowflake, Databricks, Managed Lakehouse Solutions, ETL/ELT Pipelines, Orchestration.
• Data Modeling & Governance: Schema Evolution & Metadata Management, Data Cataloging & Lineage, Data Security.
• Programming & Querying: SQL, NoSQL, Python, Distributed Computing.
• Analytics & BI Integration: Integration with BI Tools, ML, Data Lakehouses Use Cases.
• DevOps & Automation: CI/CD Pipelines, Infrastructure as Code.
• Real-Time & Batch Data Processing.
• TOGAF certification (preferred).
• Excellent communication skills, including leading design review workshops and creating design documentation (Word, PPT, Excel).

Travel

Ability to travel 4-5 days a week to multiple local, state, and national client locations.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance.
• Long-term and Short-term Disability coverage.
• Health and Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts.
• Accident, Critical Illness, Hospital Indemnity, and Legal Insurance.
• 401(k) plan with employer contributions based on salary level.
• Paid holidays and Paid Time Off (PTO).

Candidates must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States without employer-based visa sponsorship. Infosys is unable to provide immigration sponsorship for this role at this time.