Cloud Consultant – Montreal in Montréal

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.

We are seeking a Cloud Consultant with a strong Enterprise Architect mindset to lead and deliver cloud modernization and transformation initiatives for large, complex enterprise environments. This role sits at the intersection of business strategy, enterprise architecture, and cloud delivery, enabling organizations to modernize legacy platforms, adopt cloud-native operating models, and realize measurable business outcomes. The successful candidate will act as a trusted advisor and architecture leader, shaping cloud transformation roadmaps while guiding execution across multi-disciplinary teams.

The role requires deep experience in enterprise-scale cloud architecture, modernization programs, operating model transformation, and financial governance (FinOps), with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and translate strategy into actionable architectures and delivery plans.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as Architecture lead for cloud modernization and transformation programs, ensuring alignment between business strategy, IT strategy, and execution.
• Define target-state cloud architectures (multi-cloud / hybrid), including application, data, infrastructure, security, and integration domains.
• Lead legacy modernization strategies, including re-host, re-platform, refactor, re-architect, and cloud-native adoption.
• Establish architecture principles, standards, and guardrails to guide scalable and secure cloud adoption.
• Ensure architectural alignment across portfolios, platforms, and delivery teams.
• Lead cloud strategy and modernization assessments, including current-state architecture analysis, cloud readiness and application rationalization, migration and modernization roadmaps, and business case, ROI, and TCO modeling.
• Advise clients on cloud operating models, governance, platform teams, and product-centric delivery.
• Provide FinOps and cloud economics guidance, embedding financial accountability into architecture and delivery decisions.
• Support regulatory, security, and risk considerations across industries and geographies.
• Bridge strategy-to-execution, ensuring smooth transition from advisory to delivery.
• Partner with delivery, platform, and engineering teams to translate architecture into epics, backlogs, and execution plans.
• Resolve complex architectural and transformation challenges.
• Govern architecture through delivery lifecycle.
• Serve as escalation point for architectural risks, trade-offs, and decision-making.
• Ensure cloud modernization programs deliver measurable business and technology outcomes.
• Build trusted relationships with CXOs, CIOs, CTOs, Chief Architects, and senior business leaders.
• Lead executive workshops, architecture reviews, and transformation planning sessions.
• Communicate complex architectural concepts in clear, business-oriented language.
• Act as a long-term advisor on enterprise modernization and cloud evolution.
• Contribute to the evolution of enterprise cloud architecture frameworks, reference architectures, and modernization accelerators.
• Develop reusable assets, playbooks, and points of view for cloud transformation.
• Mentor and coach architects and senior consultants in enterprise architecture, cloud strategy, and transformation delivery.
• Represent the organization in cloud partner ecosystems (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and industry forums.

Your career with us isn’t just a job—it’s an adventure with purpose. We offer a dynamic, hybrid-friendly culture that supports your well-being and empowers you to grow. Our Be Well programs are thoughtfully designed to support your financial, mental, physical, and social health—because we know that when you feel your best, you do your best. From your very first day, you’ll dive into impactful work that powers the systems our customers rely on every day. You won’t just contribute—you’ll make a difference, tackling meaningful projects that sharpen your skills and fuel your growth.

We’re here to champion your journey. With powerful tools to chart your career path, personalized development goals aligned with your ambitions, and continuous feedback to keep you inspired and on track, you’ll have everything you need to thrive and evolve. You’ll develop in-demand skills to grow your career and achieve your ambitions with access to cutting-edge learning opportunities—from certificates with Microsoft, Google, and Amazon to coaching and hands-on experiences.

Even if you don’t meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply. We believe in growth, and we’re excited to see what you can bring. At Kyndryl, employee feedback has told us that our number one driver of employee engagement is belonging. That sense of belonging — being a valued, respected, trusted member of the team — is fundamental to our culture and fueling great experiences for our customers.