Who We Are
At Kyndryl, we design, build, manage and modernize the mission-critical technology systems that the world depends on every day. So why work at Kyndryl? We are always moving forward - always pushing ourselves to go further in our efforts to build a more equitable, inclusive world for our employees, our customers and our communities.
The Role
Your Role and Responsibilities
Role
We are seeking IT Modernization Consultants who can enable our clients' digital transformation journeys, starting from business possibilities through envisioning and guiding the execution of the corresponding large-scale transformation of the IT landscape and organization, all in the context of delivering sustainable added value for the business. You work with customers, your Kyndryl peers, and business partners in an agile and collaborative fashion to ascertain and communicate the value of IT to the business, understand how to use IT to help drive business innovation, define and transform IT organizations to successfully incorporate and leverage transformation drivers such as Cloud, Agile patterns, Data and AI, Modern Operations and cross-vendor service integration and management. Candidates are IT Modernization thought leaders who can establish vision and value and communicate it to business and technical audiences and stakeholders.
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The IT Modernization Consultant designs and transforms IT landscapes to help the IT organization drive successful digital transformation of the business. A holistic view across organizational models, people, processes, roles and technology and an understanding of the multiple inter-dependences across these dimensions is critical. In addition, the ability to understand business models and objectives and align IT modernization initiatives to them is vital. Additional critical skills include strategic thinking, a strong understanding of transformation program management and governance and the ability to develop strong business cases.
Responsibilities
- Identify technical debt, legacy system constraints, and improvement opportunities.
- Develop modernization strategies and roadmaps, including cloud migration, application re-platforming, and automation initiatives.
- Support tool and platform evaluations, technology architecture design, and vendor assessments.
- Facilitate stakeholder workshops and cross-functional interviews to align IT transformation goals with business objectives.
- Define future-state target architecture and operating models in collaboration with enterprise architects and domain experts.
- Provide oversight or advisory on modernization execution, ensuring alignment with strategy and risk mitigation.
- Contribute to the development of reusable consulting frameworks, accelerators, and best practices.
- Understand and qualify the benefits of IT modernization for the business.
- Define compelling business cases for IT modernization.
- Create client-facing deliverables including roadmaps, blueprints and executive presentations
- Use industry standard frameworks like CoBIT, IT4IT, SIAM and ITIL to build and mature IT organizational and process models.
Your Future at Kyndryl
As an IT/Cloud Consultant at Kyndryl you will join the Kyndryl Consultant Profession, working with other Kyndryl Consultants, Architects, Project Managers, and cross-functional Technical Subject Matter Experts - presenting unlimited opportunities with unmatched support through our investment in your learning, training, and career growth.
Who You Are
You're good at what you do and possess the required experience to prove it. However, equally as important - you have a growth mindset; keen to drive your own personal and professional development. You are customer-focused - someone who prioritizes customer success in their work. And finally, you're open and borderless - naturally inclusive in how you work with others.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- 5-10+ years of experience in IT consulting, solution architecture, or modernization roles.
- Proven experience in a range of business and technology lead roles, including IT strategy development, enterprise and solution architecture, digital transformation, IT business case development and shaping and architecting large scale business and technology transformation.
- Strong knowledge in emerging areas like GenAI and their impact on transformation.
- Ability to conduct assessments of clients' domains like Compute, Storage, Network, Middleware, databases, Monitoring/ Observability, IAM, DevSecOps, ITSM, end user compute and Security
- Experience with the transformational impacts and benefits of emerging areas such as AI, cloud computing, digital disruption, agile and technology innovation.
- Experience applying IT4IT, CoBIT, SIAM or ITIL methodologies.
- Experience in understanding enterprise architectures based on TOGAF and other equivalent frameworks.
- Experience in documenting complex systems, clearly articulating current state, future state, and holistic Roadmaps.
- Proven ability to coach and develop others.
- Awareness of Agile practices and their impact on the IT organization.
- Understanding the organizational requirements to successfully adopt and run DevOps practices and SRE / Platform Engineering.
- Ability to listen with empathy.
Preferred Technical and Professional Experience
- Proven experience in legacy system assessment, cloud adoption, or digital transformation programs.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and migration approaches (lift-and-shift, re-platforming, refactoring).
- Understanding of DevOps, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), APIs, and automation tools.
- Exposure to enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF, Gartner) is a plus.
- Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Certification in IT4IT, CoBIT or ITIL methodologies
- MBA or equivalent professional experience
Required Education
Bachelor's Degree or more in Computer Science or a related field
Being You
Diversity is a whole lot more than what we look like or where we come from, it's how we think and who we are. We welcome people of all cultures, backgrounds, and experiences. But we're not doing it single-handily: Our Kyndryl Inclusion Networks are only one of many ways we create a workplace where all Kyndryls can find and provide support and advice. This dedication to welcoming everyone into our company means that Kyndryl gives you - and everyone next to you - the ability to bring your whole self to work, individually and collectively, and support the activation of our equitable culture. That's the Kyndryl Way.
What You Can Expect
With state-of-the-art resources and Fortune 100 clients, every day is an opportunity to innovate, build new capabilities, new relationships, new processes, and new value. Kyndryl cares about your well-being and prides itself on offering benefits that give you choice, reflect the diversity of our employees and support you and your family through the moments that matter - wherever you are in your life journey. Our employee learning programs give you access to the best learning in the industry to receive certifications, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Skillsoft, and many more. Through our company-wide volunteering and giving platform, you can donate, start fundraisers, volunteer, and search over 2 million non-profit organizations. At Kyndryl, we invest heavily in you, we want you to succeed so that together, we will all succeed.
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