Kyndryl

Forward Deployed Engineer – Mainframe Modernization & Cloud Transformation

Kyndryl
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3 days ago
Pune, India or Bengaluru, IndiaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Analyze legacy COBOL, CICS, JCL, DB2, and VSAM applications and translate their business logic into modern cloud-native solutions.
  • Consume, validate, remediate, and enhance AI-generated modernization outputs from the Kyndryl Agentic Framework.
  • Resolve compilation, build, dependency, integration, and runtime issues in modernized applications.
  • Implement missing business functionality and transform legacy patterns into Java, Spring Batch, APIs, microservices, and event-driven services.
  • Modernize DB2 and VSAM access patterns into relational, NoSQL, or cloud-native data access layers.
  • Package, deploy, and manage applications with Docker and Kubernetes on AWS.
  • Build and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines and support operational readiness for cloud deployments.
  • Design automated unit tests, support integration, functional, and performance testing, conduct code reviews, and enforce security and coding standards.
  • Collaborate with architects, platform engineers, QA, and modernization teams on enterprise transformation programs.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of overall software engineering experience.
  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, with equivalent practical enterprise application modernization experience potentially accepted.
  • Hands-on expertise with COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, batch processing frameworks, and mainframe application architecture.
  • Strong proficiency with Java, Spring Boot, Spring Batch, REST APIs, microservices architecture, and SQL.
  • Experience with Git, Maven and/or Gradle, CI/CD pipelines, and automated unit testing using tools such as JUnit and Mockito.
  • Experience with AWS services, Docker, Kubernetes, cloud-native application development, distributed systems, and service-based architectures.
  • Ability to remediate and optimize AI-generated code, transform legacy applications, and generate or remediate automated tests.
  • Experience with COBOL-to-Java, CICS-to-API, JCL-to-Spring Batch or cloud batch, and DB2/VSAM modernization patterns.
  • Preferred experience includes large-scale mainframe modernization, AI-assisted software engineering frameworks, mission-critical industry applications, event-driven and cloud-native design, code quality and security tools, domain-driven design, API-first development, and AWS or cloud modernization certifications.

Benefits

  • Hybrid-friendly work culture with programs supporting financial, mental, physical, and social well-being.
  • Learning opportunities, coaching, continuous feedback, personalized development goals, and hands-on career growth.
  • Access to certifications and learning opportunities involving Microsoft, Google, and Amazon.
  • Opportunities to work on impactful mission-critical modernization projects and develop specialized technical skills.

Tech Stack

AWSCOBOLDockerGitGradleIBM DB2JavaJUnitKubernetesMavenSpring BootSQL

Categories

Forward Deployed
Kyndryl

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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