**Why Kyndryl**
Our world has never been more alive with opportunities and, at Kyndryl, we're ready to seize them.
We design, build, manage and modernize the mission-critical technology systems that the world depends on every day.
Kyndryl is at the heart of progress — dedicated to helping companies and people grow strong.
Our people are actively discovering, co-creating, and strengthening.
We push ourselves and each other to seek better, to go further, and we carry this energy to our customers.
At Kyndryl, we want you to keep growing, and we'll provide plenty of opportunities to make that happen.
**Your Role and Responsibilities**
Kyndryl IT Strategy & Transformation mission is to accelerate the digital transformation and IT modernization agenda of global enterprises and government agencies with a specific focus on designing modern infrastructure and operating model to enable the transformation and leverage cloud as a new delivery and service model.
Our consultants and architects assist clients to determine their business issues and recommend solutions to drive business value.
They use in-depth consulting skills, technology knowledge, industry frameworks and best practices to assess client status and needs and help them in defining the proper technology strategy to support their digital transformation.
**Key Responsibilities**
- Perform maturity assessment on data architecture and data management processes based on industry best practices and frameworks.
- Lead data strategy and architecture workshops, with business and technical teams, to gather and formalize requirements, establish a transformation vision and define architectural principles and adoption guidelines to support the transformation.
- Drive discussion and "co-create" with clients' stakeholders the high-level future state of the data platform architecture and recognize the implication at process, skills and organization level.
- Perform the gap analysis, based on selected use cases, and identify and prioritize the possible transformation initiatives
- Support the solution of the technical, functional & deployment architecture in collaboration with Kyndryl solution architects
- Support the creation of client business cases and ROI analysis
- Support the technology evaluation and the design of project Statement of Work & RFP
- Support sales and go to market organization with activities ranging from initial client exploratory meeting, gathering requirements, structuring solution bid, and ramping up the team for execution
**Required Technical and Professional Expertise**
- 10+ years performing IT consulting engagements.
- 7+ years of experience in consulting in Data Management architecture and services
- Ability to assess and understand relevant customer business challenges and present solutions in business and technical terms.
- Demonstrated knowledge in Big Data, Data Warehouse, Data Lake, Data Supply Chain and related technologies
- Experience in migration of On-prem Enterprise Data Platform to Cloud-based Enterprise Data Platform
- Practical experience in capturing client requirements, mapping processes, conducting hypotheses-based analysis, creating business cases, evaluating and presenting solutions
- Exceptional presentation skills with demonstrated executive engagement and proven ability to present strategic information to, and drive change across a broad range.
**Preferred Technical and Professional Experience**
- Good experience and familiarity with Overall Data Architecture and guiding principles, best practices, and patterns
- Knowledge on commercial and open-source Data management ecosystem
- Experience in technologies covering areas like data fabric, commercial and hyperscaler data catalogs, data lake, data ingestion, real-time streaming, NoSQL, and multi-petabyte scale data platforms.
- Experience with Data Visualization tools.
- Experience with Machine Learning Model Deployment, Open Neural Network Exchange, ModelOps.
- Certifications preferred in Cloud Hyperscalers (AWS/Azure/GCP) in the areas of Data Architecture, Data Engineering, Data Analytics, Technology Architecture
- Certification and experience in Enterprise Architecture, Service Management frameworks and Agile practice.
**Required Education**
Bachelor's Degree
**Preferred Education**
Master's Degree
Kyndryl is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, age, veteran status, or other characteristics.
Kyndryl is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.
**Other things to know**
**Primary Job Category**
Consultant
**Role (Job Role)**
IT Management Consultant
**Employment Type**
Full-Time
**Contract Type**
Regular