Full Job Description
The Role
Accountable for the end-to-end architecture and technical decisions that keep the AI factory deliverable, supportable, and acceptable to the customer. Provides design authority across facilities, compute, fabric, storage, platform, security, and lifecycle, and ensures risks are resolved before equipment arrives.
Kyndryl currently does not require employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, however, if you are hired to work at a client, customer, or partner location, you may be required to show proof of vaccination to align with their respective COVID-19 vaccination policies. Those who believe they are eligible may apply for a medical or religious accommodation prior to the start of employment.
Who You Are
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.
Key Responsibilities
• Lead discovery and convert workload, scale, performance, availability, security, compliance, data-locality, and operating-model requirements into an executable architecture.
• Select the appropriate NVIDIA reference architecture, OEM validated design, or supported equivalent pattern and document deviations, risks, assumptions, and decision rationale.
• Design compute, GPU, accelerator interconnect (for example NVLink/NVSwitch), InfiniBand or RoCE/Ethernet fabrics (for example Spectrum-X), storage, management, out-of-band, and service-network planes.
• Define rack elevation, power density, redundancy, cooling or liquid-loop requirements, floor loading, containment, service clearances, failure domains, and capacity headroom with facilities teams.
• Produce and approve HLD, LLD, BOM, topology, IP plan, port and cable matrix, compatibility matrix, security requirements, implementation guidance, test strategy, and acceptance criteria.
• Chair architecture and design reviews; resolve cross-domain decisions with customer, OEM, network, storage, platform, facilities, security, and operations stakeholders.
• Define expansion units, scale boundaries, lifecycle strategy, upgrade paths, rollback principles, and Day 2 operating model.
• Mentor engineers and retain design authority through build, commissioning, validation, production handoff, and optimization.
Required Professional Experience
• 10+ years in data center, HPC, cloud, platform, or distributed infrastructure, including architecture leadership.
• Depth in at least two of compute, network/fabric, storage, or facilities, with working fluency in the others plus resiliency, security, and lifecycle.
• Customer-facing technical leadership, design governance, risk management, and executive communication.
Preferred Qualifications
• Large-scale HPC or supercomputing architecture.
• OEM GPU platforms, RDMA/RoCEv2 fabrics, parallel storage, liquid cooling, or cloud GPU architecture.
• Cisco, Dell, HPE, Lenovo, Supermicro or equivalent validated-system architecture.
• NVIDIA infrastructure certification (or equivalent demonstrated delivery expertise) and cloud or data center architecture certifications.
Required Skills
• DGX/HGX, GB200/NVL-class or current NVIDIA rack-scale platforms.
• InfiniBand, Spectrum-X, BlueField, ConnectX, UFM, NVLink/NVSwitch, BCM, Mission Control.
• Digital-twin and simulation tooling such as NVIDIA Air and Omniverse DSX blueprints.
Travel Requirements
Nationwide travel to customer data centers as required; percentage to be confirmed.
The compensation range for the position in the U.S. is - $179,760 to $341,520 based on a full-time schedule. Your actual compensation may vary depending on your geography, job-related skills and experience. For part time roles, the compensation will be adjusted appropriately. The pay or salary range will not be below any applicable state, city or local minimum wage requirement. There is a different applicable compensation range for the following work locations:
California (San Francisco Bay Area): $215,640 to $409,800
California (All Other): $197,640 to $375,600
Colorado: $179,760 to $341,520
Massachusetts $179,760 to $375,600
New York City: $215,640 to $409,800
Washington: $197,640 to $375,600
Washington DC: $197,640 to $375,600
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.
Note: If this is a sales commission eligible role, you will be eligible to participate in a sales commission plan in lieu of the annual discretionary bonus program.
Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis.
