Agentic AI Engineer – Mainframe Modernization

About this role

Who We Are

At Kyndryl, we run and reimagine the mission-critical technology systems that drive advantage for the world’s leading businesses.  We are at the heart of progress; with proven expertise and a continuous flow of AI-powered insight, enabling smarter decisions, faster innovation, and a lasting competitive edge. For our people—Kyndryls—that means doing purposeful work that powers human progress. Join us and experience a flexible, supportive environment where your well-being is prioritized and your potential can thrive.

The Role

Your Role:

You will be an AI & Mainframe Modernization Engineer deploying and scaling KAF and Agentic AI capabilities to accelerate legacy enterprise transformations. Working alongside mainframe SMEs, architects, and cloud teams, you will build code-aware AI workflows, automate reverse engineering and refactoring, and enforce validation guardrails to deliver production-ready modernization outcomes.

What You Will Do:

• **Deploy & Optimize AI Workflows:** Configure and scale KAF, Agentic AI workflows, RAG pipelines, and code-aware agents to accelerate legacy discovery, inventory analysis, and automated reverse engineering across COBOL, PL/I, JCL, CICS, IMS, and DB2.
• **Drive Code Transformation:** Extract business rules, dependency maps, and architecture artifacts to support code refactoring and cloud migration.
• **Integrate into Enterprise Pipelines:** Embed AI automation directly into existing enterprise tools, code repositories, and CI/CD development pipelines.
• **Enforce Governance & Quality:** Establish evaluation frameworks, guardrails, and Human-in-the-Loop (HITL) validation workflows to ensure output accuracy and enterprise security compliance.
• **Scale & Mentor:** Continuously refine prompt and orchestration frameworks, build reusable AI accelerators, and mentor cross-functional modernization teams on AI-assisted delivery.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience deploying, configuring, integrat...