Kyndryl
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Development Lead - VA DMV

Pay
$143,640 – $273,000 per year
Location
Virginia
Listed
6 days ago

Your role

  • Bring your specialist knowledge and experience to a company managing 50% of the world’s MIPS and play a critical role in our modernization mission.
  • You’ll be in good company among our global community of experts leading the future of mainframe modernization.
  • Experts who share knowledge openly and collaborate freely.

In this role, you’ll design, build and maintain the high-volume business logic that runs on the mainframe. At the same time you’ll play a key role in refactoring legacy code to enable modern cloud and mobile applications to seamlessly interact with the mainframe’s core data.

What you will do

  • Maintain Performance
  • Prevent decay and find efficiencies: Monitor the architecture and identify opportunities to optimize code to maintain and enhance mainframe performance.

Debug and Test

  • Find and fix: Debug, troubleshoot, and analyze complex system interactions to keep mission-critical applications running.

Develop for the Future

  • Bridge the gap: As an instrumental player in modernization, you’ll extract business logic from legacy systems for migration or integration with cloud-based services.

Your Future at Kyndryl

  • Every position at Kyndryl offers a way forward to grow your career.
  • We have opportunities that you won’t find anywhere else, including hands-on experience, learning opportunities, and the chance to certify in all four major platforms.
  • Whether you want to broaden your knowledge base or narrow your scope and specialize in a specific sector, you can find your opportunity here.

Kyndryl currently does not require employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, however, if you are hired to work at a client, customer, or partner location, you may be required to show proof of vaccination to align with their respective COVID-19 vaccination policies. Those who believe they are eligible may apply for a medical or religious accommodation prior to the start of employment.

Required skills and experience

•15+ years experience working as a software engineer on complex software projects.

  • Excellent coding skills and solid development experience (Java, Python,.Net etc.) with debugging and problem-solving skills.
  • Software development methodologies, with demonstrated experience developing scalable and robust software.
  • Experienced in relational and NoSQL databases, data mapping, XML/JSON, REST-based web services.
  • Knowledge of architecture design - Microservices architecture, containers (Docker & k8s), messaging queues.
  • Deep understanding of OOP and design patterns.

Preferred skills and experience

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Certification in one or more of the hyperscalers (Azure, AWS, and Google GCP) - otherwise, you can obtain certifications with Kyndryl.
  • Experience with DevOps tools and modern engineering practices.

Pay and benefits

The base compensation range for the position in the U.S. is -$143,640 to $273,000 based on a full-time schedule reflects the minimum and maximum target compensation Kyndryl, in good faith, believes it may pay for the role at the time of this posting. Your actual compensation may vary depending on multiple factors legally permitted in the applicable jurisdiction, including, but not limited to, geography, relevant job-related skills, education and experience, certification and licenses, internal pay equity, and market and business consideration.

The pay or salary range will not be below any applicable state, city or local minimum wage requirement. There is a different applicable compensation range for the following work locations:

  • California (San Francisco Bay Area): $172,440 to $327,600
  • California (All Other): $158,040 to $300,360
  • Colorado: $143,640 to $273,000
  • Massachusetts/ Virginia: $143,640 to $300,360
  • New York City: $172,440 to $327,600
  • Washington: $158,040 to $300,360
  • Washington DC: $158,040 to $300,360

This position will be eligible for Kyndryl’s discretionary annual bonus program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Kyndryl’s applicable plans. You may also receive a comprehensive benefits package which includes medical and dental coverage, disability, retirement benefits, paid leave, and paid time off. Note: If this is a sales commission eligible role, you will be eligible to participate in a sales commission plan in lieu of the annual discretionary bonus program.

Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis.

Being You

Diversity is a whole lot more than what we look like or where we come from, it’s how we think and who we are. We welcome people of all cultures, backgrounds, and experiences. But we’re not doing it single-handily: Our Kyndryl Inclusion Networks are only one of many ways we create a workplace where all Kyndryls can find and provide support and advice. This dedication to welcoming everyone into our company means that Kyndryl gives you – and everyone next to you – the ability to bring your whole self to work, individually and collectively, and support the activation of our equitable culture. That’s the Kyndryl Way.

What You Can Expect

With state-of-the-art resources and Fortune 100 clients, every day is an opportunity to innovate, build new capabilities, new relationships, new processes, and new value. Kyndryl cares about your well-being and prides itself on offering 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.

Our employee learning programs give you 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.

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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.

Read the original posting

From Kyndryl's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on November 4, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.

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