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About the Role

Kyndryl is seeking a Portfolio Manager - Modernization Engagement Lead to oversee the delivery of complex, multi-tower modernization programs. This role requires bringing together modernization solution components across applications, cloud, mainframe, and network & edge into a cohesive client outcome. The ideal candidate will drive end-to-end execution, coordinate dependencies, and ensure modernization outcomes are delivered with disciplined program management and strong technical solution leadership.

Responsibilities

Own delivery of multi-tower modernization programs, ensuring outcomes meet scope, schedule, quality, and risk expectations.
Coordinate cross-tower teams, delivery plans, dependencies, risks, and mitigation actions.
Integrate technical solutions across multiple domains including application modernization, cloud migration/modernization, mainframe modernization, and Network & Edge modernization.
Drive modernization execution across sub-domains such as AMS, SDLC transformation, AppMod, Mainframe Mod, Platform Engineering, Data Center Networks, and Edge Networks.
Lead technical solution management activities including scoping, PoC framing, assumptions, dependencies, baselining, and delivery readiness.
Own and/or contribute to SoW creation and review, ensuring clear deliverables, acceptance criteria, and execution model.
Build and deliver client-facing presentations with strong content, narrative framing, storytelling, and value proposition articulation.
Apply Kyndryl Agentic AI Framework (KAF), Agent Builder, and relevant Technology Lifecycle Plays (TLPs) to enhance modernization execution and outcomes.

Requirements

5+ years of proven experience leading complex, multi-tower modernization programs with ownership for delivery outcomes.
Broad modernization expertise across Applications, Cloud, Mainframe, and Network & Edge.
Ability to consolidate and integrate technical solutions across towers into a cohesive modernization program.
Strong hands-on capability in technical solution leadership, including scoping, PoC framing, assumptions, dependencies, baselining, and SoW creation/review.
Strong client communication and presentation skills, including content creation, story/narrative framing, storytelling, and value proposition articulation.
Experience applying KAF, Agent Builder, and Modernization TLPs to shape and/or run modernization execution.
GT10 (large/strategic) deal and delivery experience, including complex stakeholder management and governance.
Experience running modernization in hybrid estates involving multiple platforms and cross-tower execution (e.g., mainframe + distributed + cloud + network/security).
Track record of driving risk management, dependency orchestration, and delivery predictability at scale.

Skills

Modernization
Program Management
Technical Solution Leadership
Application Modernization
Cloud Migration/Modernization
Mainframe Modernization
Network & Edge Modernization
Scoping
PoC Framing
SoW Creation and Review
Client Communication
Presentation Skills
KAF
Agent Builder
Technology Lifecycle Plays (TLPs)
Stakeholder Management
Risk Management
Dependency Orchestration

Location

Remote

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

5+ years

Benefits

Employee learning programs with access to certifications from Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Skillsoft, and more.
Company-wide volunteering and giving platform.
Benefits that offer choice, reflect diversity, and support employees and their families.

About the Company

At Kyndryl, we design, build, manage and modernize the mission-critical technology systems that the world depends on every day.
We are always moving forward – always pushing ourselves to go further in our efforts to build a more equitable, inclusive world for our employees, our customers and our communities.
We achieve progress the world depends on, with purpose.
We are part of a culture designed with purpose: restless, empathetic and devoted.
We are committed to sustainable progress for our customers and supporting the communities where we work and live.

Equal Opportunity

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.
Our Kyndryl Inclusion Networks are one of many ways we create a workplace where all Kyndryls can find and provide support and advice.
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.