Lead Oracle Database Specialist – Hybrid Cloud & AMS Solutions

Who We Are

At Kyndryl, we design, build, manage and modernize the mission-critical technology systems that the world depends on every day. So why work at Kyndryl? We are always moving forward – always pushing ourselves to go further in our efforts to build a more equitable, inclusive world for our employees, our customers and our communities.

The Role

Kyndryl spun off from IBM in November 2021 with many of the Fortune 500 already among its clients, and a strong desire to find innovative ways to deliver more value to those clients. With that in mind, we have been aggressively expanding our consulting ranks in critical areas like enabling middleware and DBA solutions for long-term client run support. This expanded consulting team works with new and existing clients to help them maximize operational efficiency and resiliency.

Your Role and Responsibilities

As an Oracle Database Specialist, you will play a pivotal role in driving solutioning, presales, and delivery enablement for clients operating in complex hybrid environments. You will leverage your deep database expertise—spanning on-premise and cloud technologies—to guide clients in modernizing, optimizing, and transforming their database and middleware architecture to support mission-critical applications. Working in tandem with the AMS delivery team, you will also contribute to proposal development, deal shaping, and service transition efforts for managed services clients.

This role demands a strong technical foundation in database technologies (primarily Oracle, but also SQL Server and PostgreSQL), middleware integration, and a strategic outlook on modernization across ERP ecosystems like Oracle ERP Cloud, SAP, Salesforce, and EPIC.

Summary:

​Practice Vision – Database & Middleware within Application Development AMS

The consulting practice this role will shape is integral to enabling clients to modernize and optimize their data platforms in line with evolving business and IT priorities. The Database & Middleware AMS practice aims to provide strategic advisory and execution support for clients operating in complex hybrid environments—often under intense cost, performance, and operational pressure.

Aligned with Kyndryl’s broader Application Development AMS goals, this team will empower clients to reduce TCO, improve platform resilience, and transition smoothly to future-ready architectures. We offer a flexible engagement model that supports everything from rapid assessments and strategic roadmaps to execution of modernization blueprints and operational excellence frameworks. This includes leading client workshops, proofs of concept (PoCs), and designing Minimum Viable Platforms (MVPs) that accelerate value realization.

As a thought leader in this space, you will be instrumental in building, refining, and scaling the practice’s capabilities while ensuring our clients succeed in transforming their mission-critical database and middleware ecosystems.

Key Responsibilities:

Understanding Client Problems and Designing Innovative Solutions:

• Analyze client challenges related to database performance, scalability, availability, and operations in hybrid (cloud + on-prem) environments.
• Design forward-looking, cost-optimized, and scalable solutions tailored to support enterprise workloads, including ERP platforms.
• Conduct infrastructure and platform assessments and define modernization roadmaps, including migration to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), AWS, or Azure.
• Recommend integration strategies using middleware platforms like MuleSoft, Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC), etc.

Service Offering Development:

• Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of AMS service offerings related to database management, automation, and platform modernization.
• Bring insights from client engagements to refine service catalogs and delivery playbooks for database and middleware support services.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to design packaged services and accelerators that align with market trends and client expectations.

Educating and Enabling Sales:

Kyndryl has a large sales force who already know our clients and their needs.  What they don’t know is how your practice can help their clients.  You will need to constantly educate our sales team on the value of AMS and middleware services.

• Partner with sales and solution teams to develop proposals, create client presentations, and deliver technical demos.
• Assist in responding