The Role

As an Agentic AI Architect at Kyndryl, you’ll work on cutting-edge frameworks that are a generation ahead of today’s frontier technologies. This is a strategically important role for Kyndryl, offering the opportunity to lead architecture design for enterprise-scale AI platforms that integrate Agentic AI capabilities.

You’ll combine deep technical expertise with architectural vision - designing distributed systems, setting quality standards, and guiding teams to deliver robust, scalable solutions. Expect a true builder’s environment, where MVP rollouts happen in weeks, and your ideas shape the future of enterprise AI.

What You’ll Do

• Design and deliver distributed architectures for large-scale, cloud-based enterprise systems (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Integrate Agentic AI capabilities into enterprise software.
• Act as a technical authority, setting standards for security, scalability, and performance, ensuring poor code or weak architecture is prevented from entering production.
• Translate vague customer requirements into actionable technical designs.
• Lead discussions, challenge ideas, and align teams on a clear technical direction.
• Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to ensure timely delivery of MVPs and production-ready solutions.
• Design and develop robust back-end services using Node.js, Python, or other back-end technologies.
• Integrate large language models (LLMs) and multimodal AI models into applications.
• Optimize application performance, ensuring efficiency in AI inference and API response times.
• Ensure security, scalability, and compliance of AI-driven applications.
• Stay up to date with the latest advancements in Generative/Agentic AI, web development, and cloud technologies.

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Your Future at Kyndryl
Every position at Kyndryl offers a way forward to grow your career. We have opportunities that you won’t find anywhere else, including hands-on experience, learning opportunities, and the chance to certify in all four major platforms. Whether you want to broaden your knowledge base or narrow your scope and specialize in a specific sector, you can find your opportunity here.

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 ofvaccinationto align with their respective COVID-19vaccinationpolicies. 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 6 you have a growth mindset; keen to drive your own personal and professional development. You are customer-focused 6 someone who prioritizes customer success in their work. And finally, you’re open and borderless 6 naturally inclusive in how you work with others.

Required Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 6+ years of experience in full-stack development, with a track record of building scalable, production-ready systems.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, and modern front-end frameworks (React, Vue, or Angular).
• Experience with agentic frameworks such as LangChain, AutoGen or CrewAI.
• Hands-on experience with integrating AI models via APIs (OpenAI, Hugging Face, etc.).
• Knowledge of vector databases, embeddings, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) techniques.
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of database technologies (SQL, NoSQL, Firebase, MongoDB, PostgreSQL).
• Ability to design scalable and maintainable architectures for AI-driven applications.
• Capable of working closely with cross-functional teams to deliver cohesive, end-to-end functionality.
• Knowledge of message queues (e.g., RabbitMQ, Kafka) and caching systems (e.g., Redis).

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Experience with Temporal Workflows, Langfuse, LLM gateways such as LiteLLM
• Prior experience in prompt engineering
• Experience in building AI-powered chatbots, content generators, or recommendation systems.
• Familiarity with LLM fine-tuning, prompt engineering, and AI model optimization.
• Knowledge of serverless computing, edge AI, and streaming architectures.
• Background in handling large-scale data or real-time systems.

Why Join Us

• Work on the next frontier: Agentic AI is new and transformative, be part of defining its enterprise adoption.
• Startup energy and enterprise scale: agile innovation backed by global resources.
• Direct impact: Your code will power Kyndryl’s AI-native transformation.

The compensation range for the position in the U.S. is $138,480 to $263,160 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: $152,400 to $315,720

Colorado:$138,480 to $263,160

New York City:$166,200 to $315,720

Washington:$152,400 to $289,440

Washington DC:$152,400 to $289,440

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.