Kyndryl

Senior Modernization Engineer - Forward Deployed Engineer

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2 days ago
Tokyo, JapanSenior

Responsibilities

  • Partner with customers and stakeholders to define business challenges, technical constraints, desired outcomes, and actionable AI modernization solutions.
  • Facilitate workshops with business, consulting, product, and engineering teams to align on solution direction and delivery.
  • Design, build, and improve AI-powered applications using software engineering and cloud-native technologies.
  • Develop agentic workflows, Generative AI solutions, Retrieval-Augmented Generation architectures, enterprise automation capabilities, and production-ready prototypes.
  • Lead end-to-end delivery from requirements definition and architecture through implementation, deployment, adoption, troubleshooting, and optimization.
  • Integrate AI solutions with enterprise platforms, APIs, cloud services, data stores, knowledge repositories, vector databases, and business workflows.
  • Create reusable assets, solution patterns, code libraries, delivery playbooks, and best practices.

Requirements

  • Hands-on software development experience in Python or modern programming languages such as C#, Node.js, or TypeScript.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals including Git/GitHub, APIs, backend services, automated testing, CI/CD, and secure engineering practices.
  • Experience designing, building, or integrating AI-powered solutions with agentic AI frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, Microsoft Agent Framework, AutoGen, or CrewAI.
  • Understanding of AI/ML technologies and architectures including TensorFlow, PyTorch, Hugging Face, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, prompt engineering, and vector databases.
  • Experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP and with Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Ability to optimize AI-enabled solutions for performance, scalability, reliability, observability, security, and data protection.
  • Business-level proficiency in Japanese and English, with strong consulting, stakeholder management, communication, and business-to-technical translation skills.
  • Degree in Computer Science, Informatics, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Preferred experience implementing, operating, and improving AI, Generative AI, Agentic AI, or multi-agent solutions in production.
  • Preferred experience building full-stack prototypes or production systems and working with agent telemetry, observability, evaluation frameworks, guardrails, policy-as-code, knowledge graphs, or semantic knowledge layers.
  • Preferred experience integrating AI solutions into enterprise systems and working with customers in regulated or mission-critical environments.

Benefits

  • Hybrid-friendly work culture.
  • Well-being programs supporting financial, mental, physical, and social health.
  • Career development tools, personalized development goals, continuous feedback, coaching, and hands-on learning.
  • Access to certifications with Microsoft, Google, and Amazon.
  • Inclusive culture focused on belonging, empathy, learning, and shared success.
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About Kyndryl

10,000+ employees

Kyndryl is a public IT services company that designs, runs, and modernizes mission-critical infrastructure for large enterprises and governments. Spun off from IBM in 2021, it is headquartered in New York City and trades on the NYSE (ticker: KD). The company provides managed infrastructure, cloud migration and operations across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, plus mainframe, network, security, data, and digital workplace services.

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