Senior Principal, Data & AI (Hiring Immediately)

Senior Principal, Data & AI

Hybrid | Enterprise AI | Canary Wharf, London

Do you want to boost your career and collaborate with expert, talented colleagues to solve and deliver against our clients' most important challenges? We are growing and are looking for people to join our team. You'll be part of an entrepreneurial, high-growth environment of over 320,000 employees. Our dynamic organization allows you to work across functional business pillars, contributing your ideas, experiences, diverse thinking, and a strong mindset. Are you ready?

The Role

We are looking for experienced leaders and senior managers who can join our growing team. You will bring together AI & Data advisory expertise, commercial acumen and delivery excellence to shape, sell and deliver programmes that create value for our clients using AI & data

The ideal candidate will understand how ML, GenAI, Agentic AI and data can create value for clients across a range of industries. Ideally you have a depth of knowledge in one industry of functional domain but have the versatility to translate that to other domains and industries.

Key Responsibilities

• Take a leading role in end-to-end deal pursuits and during the sales cycle to understand clients’ needs and shape solutions that will deliver value for them
• Build relationships of trust with client stakeholders to identify opportunities for AI-enabled business transformation
• Collaborate within the Infosys organisation to bring the best of Infosys together for the client
• Contribute to thought leadership and be an external advocate on behalf of Infosys Consulting
• Fully responsibility for programme delivery including leading distributed teams and offshore delivery
• Build and nurture partnerships across the Data & AI technology ecosystem
• Share expertise and learning generously within the team to upskill colleagues
• Continually strengthen and grow the team through hiring and development
• Act as a role model, authentic leader and collaborative team player

Requirements

Skills and Qualifications:

• Essential Skills:
• 10+ year of experience in relevant data, analytics & AI fields
• High level of personal credibility with clients and colleagues in the business application of AI and data
• A hands-on leader, ready to lead by example with a focus on execution and progress
• Proven experience in leading AI and data projects
• Experience leading distributed technical teams
• Thorough understanding of how AI, machine learning, deep learning can leverage enterprise data to deliver value
• Strong executive presence and influencing skills with the ability to engage credibly with C-suite stakeholders and shape the conversation
• Broad leadership skills including commercial acumen, business case development and personal resilience.
• A relentless drive for quality and attention to detail
• Excellent interpersonal skills and strong written and verbal communication skills
• Degree in a quantitative field
  

Preferred Skills:

• Expertise in an industry: especially financial services, manufacturing or telecommunications
• Expertise in a functional domain: especially customer service, marketing, sales or IT operations
• A second major European language at C2 level is an advantage
• Domain expertise within Data & AI: data science, GenAI engineering, data strategy, data governance
• Knowledge of a partner platform: agentic workflows, hyperscaler AI platform, data platform
• MSc with PhD a plus

Personal attributes

• Analytical, pragmatic problem-solver; outcome-oriented.
• Self-directed, able to prioritise and juggle multiple workstreams.
• Clear communicator who can simplify complexity.
• Collaborative, curious, continuous learner.
  

Given that this is just a short snapshot of the role we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet all the requirements listed above. We are looking for individuals who strive to make an impact and are eager to learn. If this sounds like you and you feel you have the skills and experience required, then please apply now.

Benefits

About Enterprise AI

Our Enterprise AI practice supports the largest global organisations to find and deliver business value from data & AI. We work within the broad Infosys ecosystem partnering with deep industry and domain experts to find transformational value and then enable clients to bridge from strategy through to implementation collaborating with our global delivery organisation. Examples of our work include developing AI transformation roadmaps,]]> <