Agent Forward Engineer

Kyndryl

10h • $138,480 - $263,160

About The Position

Join Kyndryl as an Application Consultant and become a catalyst for innovation and transformation. In this role, you'll be at the forefront of driving change and enabling our customers to harness the power of technology to achieve their wildest ambitions. From revolutionizing healthcare to shaping the future of finance, you'll collaborate with a diverse range of industries, tailoring cutting-edge solutions to meet each customer's unique needs. As a trusted advisor, you'll forge strong relationships with our customers, gaining deep insights into their business objectives and long-term aspirations. Armed with this understanding, you'll provide expert guidance on how technology can be leveraged to propel them towards unprecedented success. From aligning processes to technology to developing and deploying bespoke solutions, you'll be the visionary architect behind their digital transformation journey. Your expertise in application development and deployment best practices will ensure seamless integration and optimized performance. In this role, your impact will be immense. You'll conduct thorough needs assessments, uncovering the requirements for new applications or upgrades to existing ones, and document these specifications with utmost precision using cutting-edge Business Analysis (BA) methodologies. Whether it's crafting comprehensive use cases, tracing requirements meticulously, or visualizing process flows, your attention to detail will be unmatched. Drawing upon your exceptional analytical prowess, you'll gather requirements from stakeholders and masterfully translate them into functional and nonfunctional specifications. As the driving force behind our customers' application modernization endeavors, you'll guide them through every step of the process, ensuring their systems are future-proofed and optimized for success. Your expertise will also come into play as you assist customers in selecting and customizing the perfect packaged solutions to fulfill their unique business needs. Collaboration will be your cornerstone as you work closely with application architects and development staff to bring your visions to life. Your keen eye for detail will shine as you analyze requirements, meticulously plan design and implementation work, all while adhering to time, cost, and quality targets. You'll consult with customers on compatibility challenges, such as hardware and operating system considerations, data conversion processes, and training requirements, offering them holistic solutions that align seamlessly with their budgets. In this fast-paced environment, you'll have the exhilarating responsibility of helping customers choose between multiple applications, including packaged solutions. Your sharp insights and discerning judgement will empower them to make informed decisions that drive their organizations towards unprecedented heights. Our consultants are restless for innovation. They are at the edge of technology, changing the way our customers implement business solutions – so, if you’re a problem-solver, an innovative thinker, and a self-starter with a passion high impact assignments which align technology to business outcomes, then we want to hear from you! Apply today to join our dynamic team that has a host of exciting projects and customers waiting for you to work with them to solve complex transformation puzzles through technology. As an Application Consultant at Kyndryl you will join the Kyndryl Consultant Profession, working with other Kyndryl Consultants, Architects, Project Managers, and cross-functional Technical Subject Matter Experts – presenting unlimited opportunities with unmatched support through our investment in your learning, training, and career growth. Kyndryl is seeking a visionary Agentic AI Engineer to lead the design and deployment of AI agents, software that leverages them, and data that supports them. These agents will be used primarily in application development and application migration programs. You will build intelligent agents that reason, plan, and act across complex legacy environments, enabling scalable transformation to cloud-native architectures.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, AI, or related field.
• Experience in AI engineering, with a focus on agentic systems or autonomous workflows.
• 10+ years of experience in application development.
• Deep understanding of application migration strategies (rehost, replatform, refactor, retire).
• Experience having built and leveraged AI for software development.
• Proficiency in cloud-native development and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi).
• Experience building autonomous agents using frameworks like Lang Chain, Semantic Kernel, or custom planners.
• Experience with LLMs, reinforcement learning, or multi-agent systems.
• Strong programming skills in Python, Java, or other modern languages.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with both modern and legacy application development.
• Experience in Legacy modernization assessments.
• Good understanding of Legacy technologies (AS400, IBM Mainframe, HP Tandem, etc)
• Experience in reverse engineering of legacy source to generate business requirements
• Certifications in cloud architecture (e.g., Azure Architect Expert, AWS Solutions Architect), Agentic AI.
• Familiarity with enterprise platforms (SAP, Infor, Oracle) and legacy modernization tools.
• Experience developing ML Models
• Knowledge of data lake architectures and ETL pipelines (e.g., Azure Data Factory, Databricks).
• Exposure to compliance frameworks (GDPR, HIPAA) and secure migration practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement agentic AI systems that automate discovery, assessment, and migration of legacy applications.
• Develop intelligent workflows for refactoring monolithic systems into microservices or serverless architectures.
• Integrate AI agents with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) to orchestrate infrastructure provisioning, data migration, and validation.
• Build reasoning engines that optimize migration paths based on cost, performance, and compliance.
• Collaborate with architects, DevOps, and business stakeholders to align AI-driven modernization with enterprise goals.
• Concentrateson building and integrating custom AI agents to solve specific, tactical customer problems.
• Apply LLMs, graph reasoning, and planning to accelerate decision-making in migration scenarios.
• Monitor agent performance, retrain models, and continuously improve autonomy and reliability.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of prototypical agents through an understanding of both legacy and modern application development languages.

Benefits

• This position will be eligible for Kyndryl’s discretionary annual bonus program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Kyndryl’s applicable plans.
• You may also receive a comprehensive benefits package which includes medical and dental coverage, disability, retirement benefits, paid leave, and paid time off.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees