Senior Consultant - Mainframe Strategy and Modernization

As a Senior IT Strategy Consultant at Kyndryl, you'll be responsible for delivering value to customers and Kyndryl by applying deep domain, technology, and industry expertise, consulting techniques, and cognitive approaches to analyze issues and create innovative solutions. You'll establish milestones, quality targets, and manage the work of others while possessing strong communication skills to articulate the impact and business benefits of your solutions and manage stakeholder expectations.

In this role, you will use your experience and knowledge in guiding customers in the optimization and modernization of their mainframe environment. The target environment is dependent on the best strategic platform for defined workloads and often results into an hybrid-IT environment with major cloud and non-cloud technologies, including virtualization and containers. You will advise customers on technology options and help them make strategic choices and decisions. Additionally, you will have experience capturing and prioritizing complex requirements and resolving conflicting requirements. But that's not all - our IT Strategy Consultants have seen how organizations benefit from change and most importantly, know how to plan for it - giving our partners and customers the confidence to make a convincing case for it.

Through this role asSenior Consultant - Mainframe Strategy and Modernizationyou will be responsible for:

• Delivering value to customers and Kyndryl by applying deep mainframe application & infrastructure expertise and industry experience

• Establishing milestones, setting quality targets, and managing the work of others

• Communicating complex technical insights to both technical and non-technical audiences

• Guiding customers in their strategy for mainframe optimization and modernization, on or off the mainframe platform

• Data integration and AI projects for mainframe

As a trusted and experienced Consultant, you will be responsible for a vast number of essential technical components such as analyzing the customer's current state, defining IT Strategy including key outcomes, designing conceptual solutions, planning and executing design and implementation work (with support from technical specialists), and accounting for time, cost, and quality targets. You will also develop IP and own specific assets, tools, and white papers articulating point of views in a specific domain, assemble and lead a team of consultants and architects, and facilitate and capture lessons learned from engagements to update methodologies and assets.

Lastly, as a transformational catalyst, you'll spearhead comprehensive modernization programs encompassing people, culture, process, and technology, revolutionizing organizations from within. Join us at Kyndryl and redefine the very essence of IT strategy consultancy!

Your Future at Kyndryl
As an IT Strategy 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. Whether you want to lead multi-disciplined teams as a Senior Strategy Consultant or delve into transforming Fortune 500 companies as a Strategy and Transformation Consultant - you'll have access to unlimited opportunities with Kyndryl.

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. Whatever the customer's strategy for their Mainframe platform is - modernize-on, integrate with or move-off - you can lead the way and determine the best platform for their workloads in a Hybrid IT Modernization approach. Based on Kyndryl's experience as largest IT Service Provider for Mainframe and its unique capabilities in AIOps, managing hybrid-IT environments and data integration you maximize the value of our customers's investments.

Required Skills and Experience

• 12+ years Mainframe experience with at least 1 full Mainframe Modernization project
• Proven track record in IT Consulting or IT Management Consulting with delivery and business development success and growth
• Experience building relationships with senior C-level and IT executives; creating referenceable customers
• Ability to lead with a consultative approach to identify and create demand cross all of Kyndyl capabilities. Work in tandem with the Customer Partner on the account. Leads and drives deals to closure through consultative approach and personal eminence.
• Experience with end-to-end engagement from identification, solutioning, closure and delivery as well as personally being billable on customer engagements
• Proven creation, definition and development of Consult patterns and subsequent presentations for Mainframe Modernization
• Fluent in both German and English, verbally and written.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Possesses strong architecture methodologies in-depth knowledge of leading-edge technology solutions with industry and business skills to influence clients and sell Kyndryl solutions. Requires expertise in Hyperscale's, being a certified professional
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex technical insights to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Works closely with customers to understand their goals, needs and constraints, establish the vision, convert business and technical requirements into architectural designs with an emphasis on integrating distributed platform with IBM Z. Also, desktop/browser/mobile integration patterns with IBMZ/IBMi
• IBMZ/IBMi Application oriented approach for problem solving required relevant experience in development tools and specific application and system architecture. (IBM ADDI, IBM ABO, IDz EE, BMC Topaz Workbench)
• Understanding of DevSecOps, Agile, Scrum construct to identify inefficiencies through readiness assessments and development of strategies and approaches to optimize the implementation of IT or cloud resources and capabilities
• Subject matter expertise in mainframe, inclusive of System z and System i and adjacent environments (e.g. cloud computing, cloud hyperscaler, X86, midrange)

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. 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 programs 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.

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