Forward Deployed Engineer – Mainframe Modernization & Cloud Transformation
Kyndryl (company site, opens in a new tab)5+ yrsBengaluruOn-siteDirect career pageEst. 12–22 LPA
Posted 16h ago
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About This Role
- Remediate Kyndryl Agentic Framework-generated modernization code: fix builds and dependencies, fill business-function gaps, and prepare applications for testing, deployment, and operations.
- Transform mainframe workloads into cloud-native services, including COBOL-to-Java, CICS-to-API, JCL-to-Spring Batch, and DB2/VSAM data-access modernization.
- Build and validate production-ready Java/Spring applications on AWS using containers, CI/CD, automated testing, and security and quality practices.
Minimum Requirements
- Work Experience Required: 5+ years of overall software engineering experience.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or a related field; equivalent practical experience in enterprise application modernization may be considered.
- Hands-on mainframe expertise across COBOL, JCL, CICS, DB2, VSAM, batch processing, and business-logic analysis; practical experience mapping legacy patterns to modern services and data layers.
- Strong Java (Java 11+ preferred), Spring Boot, REST, microservices, SQL, Git, Maven and/or Gradle, CI/CD, and automated testing; experience with AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and AI-generated code remediation.
Ideal Candidate Profile
- Has delivered enterprise mainframe-to-cloud modernization, especially for mission-critical banking, insurance, retail, transportation, or government applications.
- Can work across generated code and legacy business logic, independently resolving build, integration, runtime, and functional gaps through operational readiness.
- Additional shortlist signals include agentic engineering frameworks, reusable modernization accelerators, high-throughput batch or transactional tuning, event-driven design, DevSecOps, or AWS certifications.