OSS Architect & Tech Leader for AI‑Driven Modernization

Kyndryl Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 144,000 - 273,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus program

Medical and dental coverage

Retirement benefits

Paid time off

Job summary

Kyndryl is seeking a hands-on Technical Leader in OSS (Architect) to build and expand services with a new partner. You’ll work with leadership, consult practices, and clients to shape offerings and deliver value.

The role blends deep technical work with leadership to guide teams and client engagements. You will mentor consultants, contribute to pre-sales activities, and help drive modernization across deployments, cloud, containers, orchestration, and edge scenarios, aiming for practical

Qualifications

• 7 years of hands-on software development delivering production-quality applications
• 2+ years implementing OSS at the OS, hypervisor, and container levels
• Strong API, data modeling, CI/CD, observability, and secure coding fundamentals

Responsibilities

• Get to know the partner technology and offerings to identify client value
• Define and harden offerings with consulting teams and partner engineers
• Craft value statements with alliance/industry teams for client articulation
• Lead hands-on implementation, mentor consultants, participate in pre-sales, drive change

Skills

Python

Rust

Go

C

Team leadership

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD

AI-assisted tools

Open Source

Job description

Kyndryl is seeking a hands-on Technical Leader in OSS (Architect) to build and expand services with a new partner. You’ll work with leadership, consult practices, and clients to shape offerings and deliver value.

The role blends deep technical work with leadership to guide teams and client engagements. You will mentor consultants, contribute to pre-sales activities, and help drive modernization across deployments, cloud, containers, orchestration, and edge scenarios, aiming for practical