Senior Infrastructure & Cloud Architect - Migration Lead

• Technically lead infrastructure and cloud migration projects, ensuring the correct execution of the various project phases.
• Act as the main technical point of reference for the project towards the client, architects, specialists, and delivery teams.
• Coordinate the technical activities of architects, engineers, SMEs, and other teams involved in the migration.
• Lead technical workshops with clients and stakeholders to validate scope, requirements, dependencies, constraints, and migration criteria.
• Identify, manage, and escalate risks, dependencies, blockers, and technical decisions that may affect project execution.
• Ensure alignment between architecture, planning, and execution, maintaining technical continuity throughout the entire migration cycle.
• Lead or participate in discovery and assessment activities of on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments.
• Analyze infrastructure, applications, dependencies, criticality, connectivity, platforms, and operational constraints.
• Define appropriate migration strategies and patterns for each workload, considering alternatives such as rehosting, replatforming, or other transformation approaches.
• Develop migration designs, high-level architectures, technical requirements, assumptions, dependencies, and acceptance criteria.
• Evaluate the readiness of source and target environments and identify necessary remediations before migration.
• Define and validate migration waves based on dependencies, criticality, technical complexity, and business constraints.
• Select and validate the most suitable technical tools and patterns for each migration scenario.
• Coordinate the preparation of runbooks, technical plans, testing, cutover plans, rollback plans, and validation activities.
• Technically lead the execution of migrations, coordinating teams and resolving incidents or deviations.
• Supervise cutovers, post-migration validations, stabilization, and transition to operations.
• Ensure that migrations comply with the technical, quality, security, and continuity criteria defined for the project.
• Provide architectural advice in virtualization, compute, networking, storage, operating systems, and cloud platforms.
• Design and validate migration solutions for VMware, Windows, Linux, public cloud, private cloud, and hybrid platforms.
• Analyze connectivity, security, identity, backup, disaster recovery, monitoring, and other components necessary to support the migration.
• Collaborate with domain architects and cloud teams in the definition and validation of target environments.
• Collaborate in solutioning and technical pre-sales activities when necessary.
• Support the definition of migration approaches, effort estimations, assumptions, dependencies, risks, and execution models.
• Review the technical and delivery feasibility of proposals related to migration and modernization.
• Provide practical knowledge from real projects to improve the accuracy of solutions and estimations.
• Participate in workshops, technical meetings, or proposal presentations when specific migration expertise is required.
• Contribute to the evolution of methodologies, tools, estimation models, runbooks, standards, and reusable assets of the Migration Factory.
• Share knowledge and best practices with architects, engineers, and other team members.
• Support the technical development of less experienced profiles and exercise technical leadership within projects.

Who You Are

The "Kyn" in Kyndryl means kinship, which represents the strong bonds we have with each other, our customers and our communities. We focus on ensuring all Kyndryls feel included and we welcome people of all cultures, backgrounds, and experiences. Even if you don't meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply. We believe in growth, and we're excited to see what you can bring. At Kyndryl, employee feedback has told us that our number one driver of employee engagement is belonging. That sense of belonging - being a valued, respected, trusted member of the team - is fundamental to our culture and fueling great experiences for our customers. This dedication to welcoming everyone into our company means that Kyndryl gives you the ability to thrive and contribute to our culture of empathy and shared success. That's The Kyndryl Way.

Your career with us isn't just a job-it's an adventure with purpose. We offer a dynamic, hybrid-friendly culture that supports your well-being and empowers you to grow. Our Be Well programs are thoughtfully designed to support your financial, mental, physical, and social health-because we know that when you feel your best, you do your best.

From your very first day, you'll dive into impactful work that powers the systems our customers rely on every day. You won't just contribute-you'll make a difference, tackling meaningful projects that sharpen your skills and fuel your growth.

We're here to champion your journey. With powerful tools to chart your career path, personalized development goals aligned with your ambitions, and continuous feedback to keep you inspired and on track, you'll have everything you need to thrive and evolve. You'll develop in-demand skills to grow your career and achieve your ambitions with access to cutting-edge learning opportunities-from certifications with Microsoft, Google, and Amazon to coaching and hands-on experiences. And through it all, you'll be part of a culture that values empathy, restless learning, and a devotion to shared success.

We want you to thrive here-and we're committed to helping you do just that. Ready to make an impact? Join us and help shape what's next.

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