Portfolio Manager - Modernization Engagement Lead

About the role

Kyndryl is seeking a Portfolio Manager - Modernization Engagement Lead to oversee the delivery of complex, multi-tower modernization programs. This role requires owning the delivery of these programs while ensuring they meet scope, schedule, quality, and risk expectations.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery of multi-tower modernization programs and ensure outcomes are delivered to scope, schedule, quality, and risk expectations.
• Coordinate cross-tower teams, delivery plans, dependencies, risks, and mitigation actions across the modernization landscape.
• Sew together a single optimized modernization solution spanning multiple domains (e.g., application modernization, cloud migration/modernization, mainframe modernization, network & edge modernization).
• Drive modernization execution across sub-domains such as AMS, SDLC transformation, AppMod, Mainframe Mod, Platform Engineering, Data Center Networks, and Edge Networks.
• Lead technical solution management activities including scoping, PoC framing, assumptions, dependencies, baselining, and delivery readiness.
• Own and/or contribute to SoW creation and review, ensuring clear deliverables, acceptance criteria, and execution model.
• Build and deliver client-facing presentations with strong content, narrative framing, storytelling, and value proposition articulation.
• Apply Kyndryl Agentic AI Framework (KAF), Agent Builder, and relevant Technology Lifecycle Plays (TLPs) to enhance modernization execution and outcomes.

Requirements

5 years + proven experience leading complex, multi-tower modernization programs with ownership for delivery outcomes. Broad modernization expertise across domains: Applications, Cloud, Mainframe, and Network & Edge who is able to unify multiple solution components into a single client solution. Ability to consolidate and integrate technical solutions across towers into a cohesive modernization program. Strong hands-on capability in technical solution leadership, including: Scoping and PoC framing, Assumptions, dependencies, baselining, SoW creation and review, Strong client communication and presentation skills: Content creation, Story/narrative framing, Storytelling, Value proposition articulation, Experience applying KAF, Agent Builder, and Modernization TLPs to shape and/or run modernization execution.

Preferred Skills And Experience

• GT10 (large/strategic) deal and delivery experience, including complex stakeholder management and governance.
• Experience running modernization in hybrid estates involving multiple platforms and cross-tower execution (e.g., mainframe + distributed + cloud + network/security).
• Track record of driving risk management, dependency orchestration, and delivery predictability at scale.

Benefits

Kyndryl offers state-of-the-art resources and Fortune 100 clients, providing opportunities for innovation, building new capabilities, new relationships, new processes, and new value every day. We care about your well-being and offer benefits that give you choice, reflect the diversity of our employees, and support you and your family through the moments that matter – wherever you are in your life journey. Employee learning programs provide access to the best learning in the industry to receive certifications, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Skillsoft, and many more. Through our company-wide volunteering and giving platform, you can donate, start fundraisers, volunteer, and search over 2 million non-profit organizations. At Kyndryl, we invest heavily in you, we want you to succeed so that together, we will all succeed.