Lead Workday Integrations Engineer

At Kainos, we’re problem solvers, innovators, and collaborators - driven by a shared mission to create real impact. Whether we’re transforming digital services for millions, delivering cutting-edge Workday solutions, or pushing the boundaries of technology, we do it together.

We believe in a people-first culture, where your ideas are valued, your growth is supported, and your contributions truly make a difference. Here, you’ll be part of a diverse, ambitious team that celebrates creativity and collaboration.

Ready to make your mark? Join us and be part of something bigger.

ABOUT THE TEAM:

The Integrations Squad works within the engineering team of the Kainos product team. We are responsible for the Workday integration suite supporting extend applications, which includes developing new integrations, improving existing integrations, supporting deployment of the application and data conversion efforts for onboarding customers and assisting with support of existing customers. 

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE BUSINESS:

As a Lead Workday Integrations Engineer in Kainos, you’ll work as part of a team of consultants and engineers to design, deliver and maintain a suite of integrations utilized in our extend applications.  

As a knowledgeable expert in integrations, you will work closely with internal and external customers to lead the integrations workstream of a project, scope, gather requirements, document, implement, deploy and support integration solutions, using the Workday integration platform toolset.

You’ll build strong relationships with our engineering, support and consultant teams to understand their requirements, ensuring that the integration solution is aligned to all needs, fit for purpose and commercially viable. You’ll be a key contributor to guiding, developing and educating others within the Workday practice on the area of Integrations.

Minimum (essential) requirements:

• 6+ years of professional work experience with integration development with an emphasis on Studio development

• Workday Integrations Certification

• Workday Studio Certification

• Strong proficiency with XML, XPath and XSLT, and be knowledgeable in an object oriented programming language (preferably J2EE)

• Experience working in agile environments with tools like JIRA 

• Experience designing workflows and mapping integration data flows

• Good understanding of cloud computing, web services and associated integration challenges

• Excellent customer focus, able to assess customer needs, build relationships and manage customer expectations. You will know when to push back, when to escalate, and when to go above and beyond to satisfy a customer;

• Strong communicator, able to communicate with customers and colleagues with impact, credibility and empathy, including in a remote working situation. Sound ability to formally present to senior Client audiences;

• Strong commercial awareness and full understanding of project and business dynamics;

• Broad business and technology understanding and a good awareness of industry trends in both HR and HR technology;

• Ability to widen and maintain a network of contacts;

• Strong development skills;

• Willing and able to act as a role model within the capability and mentor and/or line manage more junior consultants;

• Able to implement improvements in tools and/or processes to help the product

DESIRABLE:

• Workday Extend Certified, or experience with application development

• Knowledge about Workday Marketplace and deployment patterns used 

• Experience of managing, mentoring and developing teams

PEOPLE MANAGEMENT:

Your role may or may not involve managing people. Where you do have direct reports your responsibilities may include:

• Agreeing, setting and reviewing your and your team’s goals aligned to Kainos, Workday practice and your Capability

• Providing support so that your and your team’s goals can be achieved

• Reviewing and refining goals for relevance and to keep performance on track

• Reviewing performance against goals and provide feedback

• Conducting 1:1 monthly and/or project completion feedback meetings

• Requesting and providing regular feedback in Workday

• Completing End of Year reviews and agreeing the outcomes for the year

• Identifying training to support your and your team’s development

• Pursuing and supporting your and your team members’ career paths and progression

• Reviewing weekly workload forecasting (staff allocations and timesheet checks) and utilisation

• Actively being involved in recruitment/interviews

• Reviewing attrition and retention metrics

At Kainos, we believe in the power of diversity, equity and inclusion. We are committed to building a team that is as diverse as the world we live in, where everyone is valued, respected, and given an equal chance to thrive.   We actively seek out talented people from all backgrounds, regardless of age, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability, or any other characteristic that makes them who they are.   We also believe every candidate deserves a level playing field. 

Our friendly talent acquisition team is here to support you every step of the way, so if you require any accommodations or adjustments, we encourage you to reach out. 

We understand that everyone's journey is different, and by having a private conversation we can ensure that our recruitment process is tailored to your needs.