Hybrid Principal Architect – Application Innovation

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About the role

  • Consulting & Client Engagement: Partner with clients to understand strategic objectives, current IT landscapes, and transformation goals.
  • Lead consulting engagements and workshops to assess readiness, define cloud adoption strategy, and identify opportunities for AI-driven innovation.
  • Act as a trusted Microsoft advisor to executives, shaping cloud, modernization, and intelligent automation roadmaps.
  • Collaborate closely with Microsoft Partner teams to align solutions with the latest Microsoft Cloud and AI ecosystem advancements.
  • Solution Architecture & Innovation: Architect and design Azure-based solutions that encompass infrastructure, application, and data modernization.
  • Lead application transformation initiatives, including re-platforming, re-hosting, and re-architecting legacy workloads into cloud-native and containerized solutions.
  • Drive the adoption of microservices, serverless computing, event-driven design, and low-code platforms within the Microsoft ecosystem (Azure, Power Platform, and Dynamics 365).

Requirements

  • 10+ years of IT experience, including 5+ years in Azure solution architecture and consulting.
  • Proven experience in application modernization, cloud-native design, and AI-driven innovation on Microsoft Azure.
  • Expertise in Azure services including: Compute: App Services, AKS, Functions, Container Apps Data & AI: Azure OpenAI, Cognitive Services, Azure ML, Synapse, Cosmos DB Integration & Automation: Logic Apps, Event Grid, Service Bus, Power Platform Security & Governance: Azure AD, Defender, Sentinel, Policy, Blueprints.
  • Experience designing Agentic AI architectures —leveraging reasoning, orchestration, and human-in-the-loop automation.
  • Strong background in cloud migration, DevOps, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code (Terraform, Bicep, ARM).
  • Solid consulting experience with enterprise clients across multiple industries.
  • Certifications (Preferred): Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate or Data & AI Fundamentals TOGAF, ITIL, or Design Thinking certifications (advantageous).

Benefits

  • Kyndryl cares about your well-being and prides itself on offering benefits that give you choice, reflect the diversity of our employees and support you and your family through the moments that matter – wherever you are in your life journey.
  • Our employee learning programs give you access to the best learning in the industry to receive certifications, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Skillsoft, and many more.
  • Through our company-wide volunteering and giving platform, you can donate, start fundraisers, volunteer, and search over 2 million non-profit organizations.
  • Kyndryl invests heavily in employees, aiming for their success so that together, all can succeed.

Job title

Principal Architect – Application Innovation

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Lead

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Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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