Jobs at Kainos

Entry-level placement role developing broad technology skills through an AI-first academy and early careers programme. Responsibilities include contributing to software solutions, testing, cloud and platform engineering, data and AI, low-code development, cybersecurity, and solution delivery. The role involves collaborating with technical and non-technical teams, using AI-assisted tools responsibly, learning across delivery disciplines, and progressively taking ownership of more complex work.

A 12-month undergraduate placement supporting client-facing consulting teams in healthcare and public-sector projects. The role involves understanding user and business needs, contributing to business analysis, shaping user stories, facilitating discussions, documenting requirements, presenting ideas, and collaborating with internal and external stakeholders. Candidates will learn product consulting and business analysis while exploring generative technologies and agile software development practices.

Graduate technologists complete an AI-first academy and early careers program, gaining practical experience across software engineering, QA, data and AI, low-code development, cloud platforms, DevOps, and cybersecurity. They contribute to technology solution design, implementation, testing, deployment, and support while collaborating with technical and non-technical teams. The role emphasizes continuous learning, responsible use of AI-assisted tools, adaptability, communication, and development toward future technical leadership.

Owns and grows major public-sector client accounts, managing account strategy, sales, revenue, margin, forecasting, delivery, risk, quality, staffing, and team development. Builds senior client relationships, leads business development and bids, identifies growth opportunities, oversees multimillion-pound engagements, and coordinates cross-functional teams to deliver successful outcomes. Requires strong commercial, strategic, leadership, stakeholder-management, and public-sector procurement expertise.

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.

Supports planning, coordination, delivery, and follow-up for global marketing events, including tradeshows, executive events, field activities, and webinars. Responsibilities include managing logistics, suppliers, budgets, communications, attendee engagement, lead tracking, ROI reporting, and stakeholder coordination across marketing, sales, partners, and agencies. The role contributes to pipeline generation, brand awareness, and event performance while maintaining project timelines and collaborating across teams.

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.

Supports integrated B2B marketing campaigns for Kainos’s Workday business, coordinating planning, messaging, budgets, timelines, and activation across email, webinars, social media, SEO, digital advertising, events, and partner channels. Collaborates with Product Marketing, Sales, SDRs, Marketing Operations, Content, Events, and Workday partners to drive lead generation, pipeline progression, and campaign ROI. Contributes to reporting, optimization, sales alignment, and co-marketing activities.

Owns end-to-end Workday Financials solution architecture for financial services and insurance customers. Leads discovery, target architecture, FDM, accounting, reporting, integration, security, governance, testing, cutover, and stabilization. Supports presales, proposals, estimates, sector reference architectures, reusable assets, and customer workshops. Coaches consultants and architects while ensuring reconciliations, controls, readiness evidence, and solution quality.

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.

Provide post-deployment configuration, troubleshooting, advisory, and customer support for Workday Pay Transparency Analyzer solutions. Manage requests and SLAs, resolve issues, support releases, facilitate customer workshops, document solutions, collaborate with stakeholders, and mentor junior consultants. The role requires HRIT support experience, advanced Excel and data transformation skills, customer-facing communication, and familiarity with service management practices.

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.

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 major consulting engagements from concept through delivery, shaping product strategies, business cases, and Agile transformations. Advises senior stakeholders, translates business needs into functional requirements, facilitates diverse groups, and assures programme delivery. Manages, mentors, and coaches senior employees and multidisciplinary teams while overseeing commercial performance, project constraints, and delivery methodologies.

Supports global customers using the Kainos Smart Product Suite, including onboarding, business-as-usual support, customer communication, test-pack execution and maintenance, test coverage analysis, Workday configuration analysis, customer training, and continuous product improvement. The role collaborates with consultants, development teams, and customers to design testing solutions, resolve needs, improve quality, and deliver added value.

Leads the design, development, testing, integration, and optimization of scalable data-processing and persistence components. Establishes engineering and operational standards, ensures pipeline performance and compliance, troubleshoots systems, supports proposals, and collaborates with architects, operations, security teams, customers, and managers. Coaches and develops engineers while overseeing code quality, data models, testing, deployment readiness, and technical delivery.

Leads a distributed PMO team supporting delivery management and operations. Responsibilities include task prioritization, team performance and development, project onboarding, risk and contract support, resource demand planning, month-end compliance, escalations, process improvement, service-level tracking, and stakeholder communication. The role also provides guidance to client PMO teams and supports Delivery and Operations leadership in a fast-moving environment.

Provides administrative and financial support to project management and operations teams. Responsibilities include project setup and system maintenance, revenue and cost recognition, financial reporting, timesheet and expense approvals, invoicing, PMO request routing, stakeholder coordination, and general administration. The role requires strong organization, communication, Excel, prioritization, attention to detail, and the ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.

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.

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.