Jobs at Kainos

Configure and support Workday Adaptive Planning solutions for client budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and business planning needs. Responsibilities include analyzing client processes, designing financial planning models, facilitating workshops, supporting implementations, training users, documenting solutions, managing client expectations, and delivering projects on time and within budget. The consultant also provides ongoing client assistance, shares knowledge internally, and mentors junior team members.

Leads the transformation from Sales Operations to Revenue Operations, overseeing forecasting, reporting, pipeline management, data governance, commercial insight, sales processes, and performance frameworks. Partners with senior stakeholders across Sales, Pre-sales, Marketing, Alliances, and Operations to improve decision-making and growth. Owns sales technology requirements and drives adoption of automation, AI, and reporting tools while establishing scalable governance and trusted data standards.

Design intuitive, accessible UX for enterprise Workday products and AI-powered features. Create wireframes, prototypes, mock-ups, journey maps, and process maps; conduct user research and usability testing; analyze feedback and usage data; and collaborate with product, engineering, and data science teams to deliver transparent, user-centered experiences.

Embed within customer environments to configure and optimise Workday EDM/HCM, resolve integration and configuration issues, enable client administrators, track adoption and maturity, provide technical health summaries, and feed product insight back to Kainos.

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.

Technical leader responsible for test strategy, design and implementation of automated, manual, and non-functional tests. Ensures test coverage across application layers, configures CI tooling, mentors and manages a small team, liaises with customers and stakeholders, and drives quality throughout agile delivery.

Develop and execute integrated healthcare marketing campaigns supporting sector growth, account-based marketing, stakeholder engagement, sales progression, and pipeline generation. The role requires UK healthcare market knowledge, including NHS priorities and procurement, collaboration with sales and strategic technology partners, campaign budget management, content and event activation, performance reporting, and relationship management across internal teams, agencies, suppliers, and partners.

Provides post-deployment Workday Financials support for global clients, including ticket triage, configuration, troubleshooting, optimization, SLA management, client meetings, and enhancements. The consultant identifies process improvements, supports commercial and operational activities, contributes to sales estimates, manages risk, and mentors junior consultants. The role requires strong Workday Record to Report expertise, consulting and communication skills, customer focus, and willingness to travel occasionally to regional client sites.

Leads delivery of cloud platforms supporting large-scale transformation, including migration, modernization, and new builds. Establishes architectural principles and platform strategy with senior stakeholders, drives technology direction, and develops platform capability and team members. Advises on AI strategy, governance, and ROI while applying AI responsibly to improve delivery outcomes. Builds standards, blueprints, customer relationships, and account strategies, and contributes to organizational platform engineering, developer productivity, and emerging technology adoption.

Lead product marketing for the Workday Products Business Unit: develop positioning, messaging and go-to-market plans; execute launches; enable sales with playbooks and assets; analyze market, competitive and customer insights; and track product marketing performance to drive pipeline and adoption.

Leads and assures major consulting engagements from concept through delivery, shaping product strategies, business cases, and agile transformation programs. Advises senior stakeholders, translates business needs into functional requirements, facilitates multidisciplinary teams, and ensures commercial and delivery outcomes. Manages, coaches, and develops senior employees while leading product management, user experience, programme assurance, and digital transformation initiatives across multiple industries and application environments.

Leads strategic public-sector bids and high-value pursuits, developing value propositions, win themes, narratives, and compliant responses. Integrates technical, commercial, and delivery content while coordinating sales, delivery, technical, and commercial stakeholders. Shapes competitive solutions, facilitates storyboarding, manages subject-matter expert contributions, ensures bid quality, influences senior decision-makers, and coaches colleagues on bid best practices. Requires strong proposal writing, storytelling, stakeholder management, digital transformation knowledge, and UK public-sector procurement expertise.

Develop Workday Extend applications for new SaaS products, contributing to technical design, proof-of-concepts, customer-focused roadmaps, and user feedback. The role involves AWS, AI, REST, and SOAP technologies within an agile product team. The developer will collaborate with customers and colleagues, support junior team members, uphold quality and security standards, and help establish a Workday Extend community of practice.

Own the go-to-market activation strategy for Kainos’s Workday Product Business Unit. Develop and execute integrated, multi-channel campaigns spanning messaging, content, email, landing pages, webinars, nurture, and sales enablement. Partner with Sales, SDRs, Product Marketing, Alliances, and Marketing Operations to generate, progress, and convert pipeline. Manage campaign budgets, performance reporting, ROI, stakeholder relationships, and co-marketing opportunities while optimizing campaign effectiveness across the buyer journey.

Leads customer-facing Frontier AI projects from architecture through production deployment. Oversees integrations of Actonomy products in customer environments, guides Forward Deployed Engineers, manages and mentors staff, and partners with senior stakeholders. Translates customer needs into product improvements, creates reusable implementation assets, supports AI adoption, and communicates architectural and commercial decisions to technical and nontechnical audiences.

Deploy and configure Actonomy Core for customers, support integrations with customer systems and data sources, troubleshoot implementation issues, gather feedback, and translate business needs into product improvements. The role combines software engineering, customer consulting, implementation delivery, and product thinking, while creating reusable deployment assets and supporting AI adoption and value realization.

As a Lead Platform Engineer at Kainos, you'll lead teams to design and manage digital service platforms, mentor colleagues, and ensure successful project outcomes using modern technologies.

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you'll design and support digital service platforms, ensuring quality, scalability, and security while collaborating with teams to improve services.

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.

Manage day-to-day support delivery for the Kainos EDM product, including ticket triage, incident management, SLA performance, customer reporting, escalations, releases, governance, and continuous improvement. Lead geographically distributed support teams, coordinate with Product, Engineering, and Sales, manage client relationships, support post-deployment success, and contribute to account growth. Ensure ITIL-aligned processes, quality standards, security, ISO compliance, capacity planning, and effective customer transitions from onboarding to ongoing support.