Jobs at Kainos

Owns and executes Kainos’s EMEA financial services sales strategy, including pipeline development, enterprise account planning, complex pursuit leadership, executive relationship management, Workday positioning, partner development, forecasting, and market presence. The role requires consultative selling to senior financial and technology stakeholders, coordination across international matrixed teams, and expertise in financial services transformation, Workday solutions, commercial negotiation, and regulatory environments.

Leads security engineering and testing across platforms and services, setting testing methodologies, scopes, tools, and reporting standards. Performs penetration testing, source-code security assessments, threat modeling, and cloud and web application security reviews. Partners with agile teams to embed continuous security practices, mentors junior engineers, manages team performance, and communicates security risks to technical and nontechnical audiences.

Leads product delivery across multidisciplinary agile teams, owning the end-to-end backlog, product quality, roadmap, prioritization, and stakeholder alignment. Manages business analysts and product consultants, shapes delivery approaches, supports commercial negotiations, and coaches teams and clients in product and agile practices. Requires UK central government experience, client-facing consulting experience, strong commercial awareness, and the ability to manage scope, stakeholders, and product teams.

Develop and execute automated and manual functional tests within agile teams delivering public-sector applications. Create front-end and back-end test automation, improve testing processes, work in continuous integration environments, and perform non-functional testing. Collaborate with clients and communicate technical details to non-technical audiences while using cloud architecture, version control, and testing tools.

Implement and configure enterprise-scale Workday Payroll solutions for global customers. Gather requirements, design aligned solutions, manage workloads independently, collaborate with delivery teams, support junior consultants, and deliver consulting and application management services within agreed SLAs. Build customer relationships, communicate effectively, maintain quality and confidentiality, improve tools and processes, and support customer-site engagements with minimal travel.

Leads agile teams in designing, delivering, automating, and supporting modern AWS and Azure cloud platforms. Provides technical leadership, architecture guidance, technology strategy, effort estimates, and non-functional requirements ownership. Champions DevOps, cloud-native tooling, Kubernetes, continuous delivery, responsible AI adoption, and business development. Manages and develops senior staff while advising customers and making technical decisions across multiple projects.

Leads the design, automation, deployment, monitoring, and production support of scalable, secure, resilient digital service platforms. Collaborates across engineering, testing, consulting, product, and security teams; contributes to architecture and technical decisions; implements Continuous Delivery; troubleshoots complex systems; and mentors junior engineers. The role requires cloud, infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, container orchestration, version control, and active security clearance experience.

Owns the product backlog and roadmap for Workday solutions, gathering customer requirements, prioritizing features, creating user stories, defining acceptance criteria, and measuring product success. The role involves customer workshops, competitive analysis, product launches, cross-functional collaboration with development, sales, marketing, and professional services teams, and occasional support for product demonstrations and technical customer discussions.

Leads value and programme advisory for Workday transformations, advising C-suite sponsors, developing business cases and benefits frameworks, assuring complex programmes, and driving measurable outcomes. The role also originates and wins advisory engagements, supports EMEA sales, and builds the consulting specialism through methods, thought leadership, and team leadership.

Monitors procurement frameworks and pipeline sources, maintains opportunity records and dashboards, researches and qualifies early-stage opportunities, supports procurement responses and bid portals, prepares pipeline reports, and improves processes through automation and AI-enabled tools. The role partners with business development, presales, bid, sales, and delivery teams while ensuring accurate opportunity tracking, effective communication, and timely routing of potential business opportunities.

Lead the design and delivery of Workday PRISM and complex reporting solutions for clients. Gather requirements, translate business needs into technical reports, configure and test dashboards, worksheets, calculated fields, and reporting products, and provide Workday best-practice guidance. Mentor junior consultants, collaborate with architects and product managers, manage stakeholders and deadlines, maintain certifications, and support reporting and analytics initiatives.

Leads Kainos’ Employee Relations team and oversees complex casework, employment-law guidance, service standards, stakeholder advice, and continuous improvement. The role manages team capability, supports senior leaders, ensures consistent case handling across jurisdictions, and uses technology, data, and automation to improve employee and manager experiences. It also requires advising on organizational change, litigation, investigations, documentation, policies, and employee relations processes.

Designs and delivers technical components for modern data solutions, including data ingestion, streaming, distributed data applications, data stores, and cloud data platforms. The role owns architecture, estimation, technical standards, production readiness, and solution design. It involves client communication, pre-sales contribution, timeline management, and coaching team members. Candidates need strong Java, Scala, or Python skills, experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, or Databricks, and expertise in data integration and contemporary data architectures.

Operate, support, and enhance Microsoft 365 and endpoint platforms, including Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Intune, Windows Autopilot, and Entra ID. Manage device provisioning, compliance, identity governance, Conditional Access, MFA, application deployment, and troubleshooting. Develop PowerShell automation, maintain documentation, support security and compliance initiatives, and collaborate across teams to improve the digital workplace experience.

Own the roadmap and backlog for Kainos’s Workday Pay Transparency Analyzer. The role involves understanding customer and market needs, prioritizing product capabilities, creating user stories and acceptance criteria, coordinating launches, measuring feature success, and collaborating with development, sales, marketing, pre-sales, and services teams. The Product Owner will also explore AI-agent applications, support customer and sales discussions, and contribute to commercial product growth and pay-equity outcomes.

Develops and executes automated and manual functional tests within an Agile team. The role uses Java, Playwright, API testing tools, test frameworks, and CI/CD systems to validate application quality. Responsibilities include regression testing, defect tracking, test planning, reporting, cross-browser validation, sprint participation, and maintaining test frameworks and environments.

Lead Workday Benefits implementations for global customers, including configuration, security, business process design, customer relationship management, solution delivery, and stakeholder presentations. Provide benefits expertise, cross-functional consulting, thought leadership, mentoring, and guidance to team members. Collaborate with functional and technical consultants to deliver commercially viable solutions aligned with customer needs.

Lead Workday Talent consulting workstreams for enterprise implementations, configuring solutions, gathering customer requirements, delivering workshops and presentations, managing expectations, and ensuring commercially viable outcomes. Build customer relationships, provide functional guidance across Workday HCM, Learning, and Talent, support project delivery throughout the full lifecycle, and mentor junior consultants. Travel to regional customer sites may be required.

Manages end-to-end Workday implementation programs, including planning, resourcing, milestones, commercial management, risk, customer satisfaction, and transition to application management services. Acts as the key client interface, leads geographically distributed blended teams, supports solution definition, presents to senior stakeholders, and identifies opportunities for additional business. Requires strong Workday delivery, commercial, communication, negotiation, documentation, and risk management skills.

Lead Workday Financials implementation workstreams for financial services customers, especially insurance organizations. Responsibilities include discovery and design workshops, configuration, accounting and reporting requirements, testing, data migration, reconciliation, go-live readiness, customer training, quality oversight, consultant coaching, reusable delivery assets, and presales demonstrations. The role requires strong accounting knowledge, FDM and Workday configuration expertise, FSI experience, and current or previous Workday Financials certification.