Application Modernisation Architect (London)

Who We Are

At Kyndryl, we design, build, manage and modernize the mission-critical technology systems that the world depends on every day. 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

Our Cloud Migration and Modernization Architects are leaders. They’ve gained 10+ years’ experience in technology, 5+ years’ experience in On-Premises, Cloud Solutions and Multi-Cloud Infrastructures and are ready to make a meaningful impact on our clients. Sometimes that leadership manifests in such deep technical expertise that they can lead and perform hands-on technical build, migration, and technical designs for projects to achieve client’s transformations and to help rescue clients from blocked or difficult projects. Translating client requirements, understanding client’s circumstances, and executing project services to support the design and implementation of converged infrastructure solutions, in order to deliver cloud operations, consolidate and protect workloads.

You will use assets and reference architectures, build proof-of concepts, build and execute implementation plans, testing plans and deployment plans to address client requirements and work with products or solutions based on partner hardware and/or partner software. We need people who have a deep technical background expertise in the technologies that will make our customers successful. To be a Cloud Migration and Modernization Architect at Kyndryl you should be ready to be hands on from technical solutioning, project startup, implementation and project close.

Ideal Candidate Profile:

• Client facing success driven, able to build strong & trusted relationships with clients
• Passion for Business Growth
• Problem Solver & Creative Thinker
• Can work without supervision and demonstrate strong collaboration
• Flexible to the demands of travel and sometimes irregular work hours
• Solution creation based on requirements
• Leadership of teams across geographies

Responsibilities:

• Working with project managers, and platform specialists to drive assessment, discovery, and migrations
• Attend client workshops to articulate scope, method, and approach for the migration, working with subject matter experts to build the migration strategy, co-creating and developing a viable solution
• Remediate and adapt client architectures to take advantage of the Cloud
• Identifying technical solutions to migration milestones, using best practices and blueprints, in order to guide client teams to implement them
• Validate move success, monitoring tools integration, CI/CD integration, and hand-over after migration execution
• Validate target infrastructure readiness for migration
• Drive the implementation of special migration methods like cluster migration, storage, or data migration
• Create the required artefacts (design document, diagrams, run book, ASD, HLD, LLD, etc)
• Design the Migration Plan solution
• Develop a point of view, capture, prioritize and analyze technical (functional and non-functional) requirements
• Possess strong leadership skills and further the evolution of intellectual capital assets and developing architectural resources
• Apply Architectural Methods and Techniques.
• Manage the technical architectural contract terms and conditions
• Educate, mentor and coach teams in applying architectural techniques
• Facilitate and capture lessons learned from projects to update methodologies and assets
• Be a recognized as a technical thought leader
• Support company initiatives for offerings, contracts, technologies, and go-to-market
• Set priorities to build technical architectural and project assets/deliverables for repurposing
• Successfully lead Customer’s migration and transformation projects

Outcomes:

• Provision of professional services (Design, Deployment, Troubleshooting, Assessment)
• Implementation of clients' technical strategy
• Designed and implemented a compliant design and infrastructures solution meeting delivery criteria
• Increasing the quality, quantity and frequency of client conversations and engagements for project and implementation services opportunities
• Increase the awareness, applicability and value of consulting services with our clients, sales force and delivery organization
• Achieve a “trusted advisor” persona as viewed by our clients, seller and delivery organization
• Instil a sense of urgency and drive to close consulting practice deals
• Maximize the project and architecture practice abilities and capabilities to increase project and solution success

Who You Are

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Prior experience of at least 5 years as an IT architect, and should have been involved in Application and/or Data Centre Migration programs
• Applied Azure and/or GCP and/or AWS infrastructure engineering and designing skills
• Applied Azure and/or GCP and/or AWS migration solutions
• Server Platforms (Windows, Linux and UNIX)
• Virtualization Infrastructures (VMWare, Hyper-V etc.)
• Understanding of up-to-date Network architecture concepts and system integration principles including high-end routers / switches, Network & Security, Network Virtualization, Cloud Network Deployments, and other related infrastructure and system components.
• Good understanding of middleware, networking, application architecture, shared services and other components of n-tier applications.
• Leading teams towards an outcome and break down impediments
• 1 to 2 years “Hands-on” AWS and/or Azure and/or GCP implementation experience
• Applied Implementation “Hands on” using Methods and/or best practices to deliver Cloud, On-Premises or Hybrid Solution
• Applied Mature Architecture design framework, principles and methodologies (high-level technical design, low-level technical design, and technical solution design integration)
• Applied Journey to Cloud Transformations (to IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) strategies and principles
• Ability to Interpret requirements and create solutions
• Ability to Facilitate workshops
• Managing technical project workstreams to completion
• Ability to articulate key technologies’ impact on cost, capacity, transformation, risk, business enablement and transformation objectives
• Ability to evaluate risk and merit to make recommendations
• Applied Client Facing Ability to understand and provide guidance and recommendations on solutions to address clients’ needs, challenges and transformations
• Evaluate risk and merit to make recommendations on available and speculative information

Preferred Technical and Professional Experience

• Experience across multiple cloud platforms
• Networking knowledge (LAN, WAN etc)

Required Education/Certifications:

• Degree level or equivalent.
• Recognised Architectural certification (e.g. Togaf, Open Group)
• Current security clearance is essential
• Relevant technical platform and multi-cloud certifications (e.g. Azure, AWS, GCP).

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. 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 programmes 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.