Modernization Application Architect

Who We Are

At Kyndryl, we run and reimagine the mission-critical technology systems that drive advantage for the world’s leading businesses.  We are at the heart of progress; with proven expertise and a continuous flow of AI-powered insight, enabling smarter decisions, faster innovation, and a lasting competitive edge. For our people—Kyndryls—that means doing purposeful work that powers human progress. Join us and experience a flexible, supportive environment where your well-being is prioritized and your potential can thrive.

The Role

The Opportunity

Every large enterprise is sitting on decades of business-critical applications and a rare chance to reinvent them with agentic AI. As a Modernization Architect at Kyndryl, you’ll be the person who turns that chance into reality.

You’ll step into a client’s toughest modernization challenge, turn ambiguity into a clear architecture and roadmap, and build the working demo, pilot, or MVP that proves the value. Then you’ll stay with it, guiding delivery teams and advising senior executives, until the promised outcomes are delivered. Your work will span everything from focused engineering pilots to large-scale agentic factories.

This is a hands-on, client-facing leadership role in Kyndryl’s Global Modernization Center of Excellence. It’s built for architects who like to build, enjoy being in the room with decision-makers, and want their work to show up in real business results.

Who You Are

Why You’ll Love This Role

Build things that work. Create production-ready agentic AI demos, pilots, and reference implementations, not slideware.

Start ahead. Accelerate your solutions with the Kyndryl Agentic Framework (KAF), Kyndryl AI IP, and proven modernization offerings instead of starting from a blank page.

Get a seat at the table. Advise senior client stakeholders across industries and help shape their modernization strategy.

Own the outcome. Take a solution from scoping, estimates, and SOW through delivery, and see your designs go live.

Work with the best. Collaborate with sales, consulting, legal, delivery, and engineering teams, and bring in cloud, mainframe, and network & edge specialists whenever a solution crosses domains.

Keep growing. Ongoing learning and certification are part of the job, not an extra.

What You’ll Do

Discover and shape the opportunity

Lead client discovery and AI readiness assessments to uncover high-value application modernization and agentic AI use cases.

Turn ambiguous business needs into clear technical architectures and implementation roadmaps.

Facilitate workshops, design sessions, and architecture reviews that align business and technical stakeholders.

Advise senior client leaders on modernization and agentic AI adoption, with solution narratives that resonate with both executive and technical audiences.

Architect and build

Design target-state cloud-native and AI-native architectures, using microservices, APIs, containers, and cloud-native patterns, to modernize legacy and monolithic applications.

Define modernization solutions that combine application, infrastructure, agentic SDLC, and platform engineering expertise across public and private cloud.

Build agentic proofs of concept, pilots, MVPs, and reference implementations that demonstrate measurable business value.

Scope, estimate, and win

Own technical solution definition, including scope, PoC framing, assumptions, dependencies, and baselines.

Prepare estimates for effort, cost, risk, timeline, and team composition using Kyndryl’s solution calculator and related tools.

Develop SOWs, RFP responses, and technical proposal content, and contribute to commercial inputs.

Lead technical due diligence and confirm that proposed solutions are feasible and deliverable.

Deliver and grow

Partner with sales, consulting, legal, delivery, engineering, and COE teams to structure sound, deliverable engagements.

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