Associate Director - Application Architecture

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 Your role As a Solution Architect specializing in Application and Mainframe Modernization, you will help enterprise clients transform and modernize complex legacy application environments. Acting as a trusted advisor, you will define modernization strategies, target architectures, migration approaches, and implementation roadmaps aligned to business objectives. You will work closely with business and technology stakeholders while providing architectural leadership across assessment, planning, integration, migration, and modernization initiatives, leveraging AI-powered modernization capabilities to accelerate business outcomes. What you will do •Lead application modernization assessments and discovery activities to understand business objectives, application landscapes, dependencies, risks, and transformation opportunities. ・Act as a trusted advisor to business and technology stakeholders, facilitating workshops, architecture reviews, and modernization planning sessions. ・Define modernization strategies, target-state architectures, migration approaches, and implementation roadmaps for large-scale application transformation programs. ・Analyze legacy environments including mainframe applications, databases, integrations, and batch workloads to develop practical modernization recommendations. ・Provide architectural leadership throughout delivery, including governance, design reviews, migration planning, testing strategies, implementation oversight, and solution assurance. ・Leverage AI-assisted modernization capabilities and automation technologies to improve application analysis, code understanding, testing, documentation, and migration efficiency. ・Support business development activities, including solution design, proposal development, RFP responses, effort estimation, and executive-level presentations.