Enterprise Architect Jobs

Who We Are

Kyndryl is a market leader that thinks and acts like a start-up. 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

Why Kyndryl? Kyndryl is a market leader that thinks and acts like a start-up. 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. We invest heavily in you – not only through learning, training, and career development, but also through the flexible working practices and stellar benefits that help you grow and progress long-term. And we give back – from planting 90,000 trees in our first 3 months as part of our One Tree Planted initiative to the Corporate Social Responsibility and Environment, Social and Governance practices embedded within everything we do, we are committed to powering human progress in an ethical, sustainable way.

Your Role And Responsibilities

We are seeking Enterprise Architects who can shape client business, data and technology landscapes, define cloud adoption plans, develop solution architectures, and drive the technical aspects of digital transformation and IT modernisation while working with customers, your Kyndryl peers, and business partners in an agile and collaborative fashion. Candidates are technical thought leaders who can establish vision and value and communicate it to business and technical audiences and stakeholders.

The Enterprise Architect designs technology architecture to align with enterprise standards, processes, procedures, and targets. They make technology choices, supervises the quality and implementation of designs, developing high performance architects within the organization.

At Kyndryl, Enterprise Architects are also concerned with business and data architecture, leading the transformation of a business and ensuring critical deliverables, such as business capability models, business capabilities, and value stream maps, are developed and implemented.

With digital transformation challenging businesses worldwide, an Enterprise Architect will be comfortable taking disruption and turning it into a competitive advantage. Your role is to develop architectures and plan technology evolution that will support and advance the enterprise’s business strategy for years to come.

Responsibilities:

• Provide best practice guidance for all cloud models including private, public and hybrid cloud from IaaS to SaaS for large and smaller scale environments using public and private cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure, GCP, VMWare, OpenStack
• Engage in defining and shaping a customer’s architecture standards and guiding principles
• Developing business, data and technology roadmaps and advising on strategic technology platform options
• Envision, design, and direct the technical implementation of business initiatives.
• Design, implement, and managing architecture governance including but not limited to architecture review boards, framework customization, and defining architecture principles and guardrails.
• Develop architectures supporting modern cloud native approaches such as event-driven architecture, infrastructure as code, zero-trust security, and integrated resilience
• Identify and diagnose capability gaps and recommend initiatives to uplift and/or close gaps.
• Perform assessment of client enterprise architecture practices and current client operating environment
• Use the industry standard frameworks like TOGAF, TMForum and ITIL to build and maintain architectural and process models.
• Connect the dots between different technology domains and business, and advise and collaborate with client architects to become a trusted partner.
• Develop and maintain business, information / data, application and technical architectures and designs with consideration of enterprise architecture requirements, guiding principles and business drivers.
• Develop suitable enterprise architecture strategies and roadmaps based on customer requirement analysis, guiding principles and business drivers.
• Build solutions using contemporary infrastructure design, application development techniques, methodologies, financial principles, and analytical techniques.

Who You Are

Required Professional and Technical Expertise :

• You will bring unique perspectives in areas such as advanced technologies, cloud computing, digital disruption, agile and technology innovation
• Strong awareness of DevOps practices and Agile delivery requirements
• Experience in documenting complex systems, clearing articulating current state, future state, and transition steps
• Ability to convey complex technical ideas to the understanding of a non-technical audience
• Strong knowledge in large scale Enterprise Architecture across end-to-end process including business, applications, data and infrastructure components, implementation delivery, service management and support lifecycle
• Experience applying TOGAF (or other enterprise architecture methodologies) or ITIL methodologies
• Proven capability for defining technology architectures within large and complex environments, working with industry-leading experts in their respective fields, delivering a strategic outcome
• Professional experience: 8+ years of IT work experience across delivery, consulting, and architecture, with 5+ years Enterprise Architecture experience
• Experience in development and consumption of reusable assets
• Ability to listen with empathy
• Experience with business and data transformation
• 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
• Experience in designing, implementing, and managing architecture governance including but not limited to architecture review boards, framework customisation, and defining architecture principles and guardrails
• Ability to synthesise and simplify complex business requirements into simple and elegant solutions.
• One or more of the following Public Cloud Provider certifications: Azure Expert Certified /AWS Professional Certified / Google Cloud Professional Certified
• Proven ability to coach and develop others

Preferred Professional and Technical Expertise :

• Experience using Enterprise Architecture Tools like Hope, iServer, Sparx, LeanIX
• Certification in TOGAF (or other enterprise architecture methodologies) or ITIL methodologies

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. Our employee learning hub gives you access to the best learning in the industry to receive certifications and accreditations, including Microsoft University, AWS Cloud Center of Excellence, Udemy, and the Harvard Business Review. 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.