IT Modernization

**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**

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.
- 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 presentationsUse 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 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 thi