Senior Consultant - Mainframe Strategy and Modernization
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remote type
Partially Remote
locations
Kelsterbach, Hesse, Germany
All Cities, Germany
time type
Full time
posted on
Heute ausgeschrieben
job requisition id
R-33380
Wer wir sind
Wir bei Kyndryl entwerfen, bauen, verwalten und modernisieren die geschäftskritischen Technologiesysteme, auf die sich die Welt täglich verlässt. Warum also bei Kyndryl arbeiten? Wir schauen immer nach vorne - wir sind stets motiviert, eine gerechtere und integrativere Welt für unsere Mitarbeiter, unsere Kunden und unsere Gemeinschaften zu schaffen.
Ihre Rolle
Do you have a passion for driving meaningful change through technology? Are you a master of IT strategy and eager to make an impact on our customers most critical environments ? Do you have deep experience in mainframe applications and infrastructure solutions ? We're seeking a Senior IT Strategy Consultant to join our team for multi-disciplinary, complex consulting engagements for mainframe modernization.
As a Senior IT Strategy Consultant at Kyndryl, you'll be responsible for delivering value to customers and Kyndryl by applying deep domain, technology, and industry expertise, consulting techniques, and cognitive approaches to analyze issues and create innovative solutions. You'll establish milestones, quality targets, and manage the work of others while possessing strong communication skills to articulate the impact and business benefits of your solutions and manage stakeholder expectations.
In this role, you will use your experience and knowledge in guiding customers in the optimization and modernization of their mainframe environment. The target environment is dependent on the best strategic platform for defined workloads and often results into an hybrid-IT environment with major cloud and non-cloud technologies, including virtualization and containers. You will advise customers on technology options and help them make strategic choices and decisions. Additionally, you will have experience capturing and prioritizing complex requirements and resolving conflicting requirements. But that's not all - our IT Strategy Consultants have seen how organizations benefit from change and most importantly, know how to plan for it - giving our partners and customers the confidence to make a convincing case for it.
Through this role as Senior Consultant - Mainframe Strategy and Modernization you will be responsible for:
- Delivering value to customers and Kyndryl by applying deep mainframe application & infrastructure expertise and industry experience
- Establishing milestones, setting quality targets, and managing the work of others
- Communicating complex technical insights to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Guiding customers in their strategy for mainframe optimization and modernization, on or off the mainframe platform
- Data integration and AI projects for mainframe
As a trusted and experienced Consultant, you will be responsible for a vast number of essential technical components such as analyzing the customer's current state, defining IT Strategy including key outcomes, designing conceptual solutions, planning and executing design and implementation work (with support from technical specialists), and accounting for time, cost, and quality targets. You will also develop IP and own specific assets, tools, and white papers articulating point of views in a specific domain, assemble and lead a team of consultants and architects, and facilitate and capture lessons learned from engagements to update methodologies and assets.
Lastly, as a transformational catalyst, you'll spearhead comprehensive modernization programs encompassing people, culture, process, and technology, revolutionizing organizations from within. Join us at Kyndryl and redefine the very essence of IT strategy consultancy!
Your Future at Kyndryl
As an IT Strategy 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. Whether you want to lead multi-disciplined teams as a Senior Strategy Consultant or delve into transforming Fortune 500 companies as a Strategy and Transformation Consultant - you’ll have access to unlimited opportunities with Kyndryl.
Ihre Persönlichkeit
You’re good at what you do and possess the required experience to prove it. However, equally as important - you have a growth mindset; keen to drive your own personal and professional development. You are customer-focused - someone who prioritizes customer success in their work. And finally, you’re open and borderless - naturally inclusive in how you work with others. Whatever the customer’s strategy for their Mainframe platform is - modernize-on, integrate with or move-off - you can lead the way and determine the best platform for their workloads in a Hybrid IT Modernization approach. Based on Kyndryl’s experience as largest IT Service Provider for Mainframe and its unique capabilities in AIOps, managing hybrid-IT environments and data integration you maximize the value of our customers’s investments.
Required Skills and Experience
- 12+ years Mainframe experience with at least 1 full Mainframe Modernization project
- Proven track record in IT Consulting or IT Management Consulting with delivery and business development success and growth
- Experience building relationships with senior C-level and IT executives; creating referenceable customers
- Ability to lead with a consultative approach to identify and create demand cross all of Kyndyl capabilities. Work in tandem with the Customer Partner on the account. Leads and drives deals to closure through consultative approach and personal eminence.
- Experience with end-to-end engagement from identification, solutioning, closure and delivery as well as personally being billable on customer engagements
- Proven creation, definition and development of Consult patterns and subsequent presentations for Mainframe Modernization
- Fluent in both German and English, verbally and written.
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Possesses strong architecture methodologies in-depth knowledge of leading-edge technology solutions with industry and business skills to influence clients and sell Kyndryl solutions. Requires expertise in Hyperscale’s, being a certified professional
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex technical insights to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Works closely with customers to understand their goals, needs and constraints, establish the vision, convert business and technical requirements into architectural designs with an emphasis on integrating distributed platform with IBM Z. Also, desktop/browser/mobile integration patterns with IBMZ/IBMi
- IBMZ/IBMi Application oriented approach for problem solving required relevant experience in development tools and specific application and system architecture. (IBM ADDI, IBM ABO, IDz EE, BMC Topaz Workbench)
- Understanding of DevSecOps, Agile, Scrum construct to identify inefficiencies through readiness assessments and development of strategies and approaches to optimize the implementation of IT or cloud resources and capabilities
- Subject matter expertise in mainframe, inclusive of System z and System i and adjacent environments (e.g. cloud computing, cloud hyperscaler, X86, midrange)
Ihre Diversität
Diversität ist viel mehr als unser Aussehen oder unsere Herkunft, es geht darum, was wir denken und wer wir sind. Wir heißen Menschen aller Kulturen, Hintergründe und Erfahrungen willkommen. Aber wir tun das nicht allein: Unsere Kyndryl Inclusion Networks sind nur eine von vielen Möglichkeiten, wie wir einen Arbeitsplatz schaffen, an dem alle Kyndryl-Mitarbeiter Unterstützung und Rat finden und anbieten können. Diese Verpflichtung, jeden in unserer Organisation willkommen zu heißen, bedeutet, dass Kyndryl Ihnen - und jedem Mitarbeiter - die Möglichkeit gibt, als ganze Person, individuell und kollektiv, zur Arbeit beizutragen und die Schaffung einer Kultur der Gleichberechtigung zu unterstützen. Das ist das Motto von Kyndryl.
Was Sie erwarten können
Mit technologisch ausgereiften Ressourcen und Fortune-100-Kunden ist jeder Tag eine Gelegenheit zur Innovation, zum Aufbau eines neuen Dienstleistungsangebots, neuer Beziehungen, neuer Prozesse und neuer Werte. Kyndryl sorgt sich um Ihr Wohlergehen und ist stolz auf seine Leistungen, die Ihnen Wahlmöglichkeiten bieten, die Vielfalt unserer Mitarbeiter widerspiegeln und Sie und Ihre Familie in den wichtigen Momenten unterstützen - ganz gleich, wo Sie sich auf Ihrer Lebensreise befinden. Unsere Mitarbeiterschulungsprogramme bieten Ihnen Zugang zu den besten Schulungen der Branche und die Möglichkeit, Zertifizierungen bei Unternehmen wie Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Skillsoft und vielen anderen zu erwerben. Über unsere unternehmensweite Freiwilligen- und Spendenplattform können Sie spenden, Spenden sammeln, Freiwilligenarbeit leisten und über 2 Millionen gemeinnützige Organisationen suchen. Bei Kyndryl investieren wir viel in Sie - wir wollen, dass Sie erfolgreich sind, damit wir alle gemeinsam erfolgreich sein können.
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