Legacy Application Solution Architect

About the role

Kyndryl is hiring a Legacy Application Solution Architect in Brno. The role advises clients on modernizing legacy applications, acting as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders and shaping modernization strategies and roadmaps, while also supporting architecture, delivery and pre-sales.

Key responsibilities

• Lead client discovery, modernization assessments and technical due diligence; facilitate workshops, design sessions and architecture reviews with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Assess application portfolios and legacy technology estates to identify capabilities, dependencies, modernization opportunities, risks and migration complexity.
• Analyze architectures, batch processing and integration patterns, then define target-state architectures, modernization strategies and implementation roadmaps.
• Produce assessment reports, dependency maps, migration plans, testing strategies and roadmaps, and provide architecture governance, design reviews and solution assurance.
• Guide delivery teams on modernization tooling, testing, DevSecOps enablement, migration planning and cutover readiness.
• Use AI-assisted analysis and modernization accelerators to speed discovery, dependency analysis, testing and documentation, and define integration patterns for AI agents with CRMs, ERPs, APIs and data lakes.
• Support proposals, SOWs, RFP responses, solution estimation and opportunity shaping, and present modernization recommendations to business and technical stakeholders.

Required profile

• 10+ years in application architecture, software engineering, enterprise modernization or technical consulting.
• Proven leadership in large-scale modernization, migration or transformation programs, and a client-facing advisory or pre-sales architecture track record.
• Experience assessing complex application portfolios and defining modernization strategies.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with a customer-success mindset.

Required skills

• Hands-on development in legacy or modern languages such as COBOL, PL/I, Java or C#.
• Experience with IBM Z, Fujitsu, Unisys or comparable legacy platforms (COBOL, PL/I, JCL, CICS, IMS, DB2, VSAM, MQ, batch processing).
• Understanding of enterprise application, integration, data, security and cloud architectures in hybrid environments.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted modernization, GDPR and CCPA, and enterprise security.
• Preferred: management consulting background, vertical experience (financial services, healthcare, retail, telecom, manufacturing, public sector), and AWS/Azure/GCP Solutions Architect or Google PDE certification.