Jobs at Kainos

Lead and scale Kainos’s Workday Adaptive Planning consulting practice across EMEA. Set strategy, manage financials and resourcing, develop services, build senior client relationships, and align with global practice leaders. Lead hiring, coaching, capability development, delivery governance, escalations, and client outcomes. Provide executive oversight for complex engagements while remaining hands-on with billable client work during the first year.

Lead the design and delivery of modern data and AI solutions for multiple customers. Provide architectural direction, technical assurance, and thought leadership while advising senior stakeholders on strategic and technical decisions. Manage and mentor architects and engineers, develop standards and account strategies, support agile teams, build customer relationships, and guide scalable, distributed, cloud-based applications. The role also involves business development, technology advocacy, and fostering inclusive, high-performing teams.

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.

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 significant consulting engagements from concept through delivery, shaping product strategies and business cases within user-centred digital environments. Provides programme assurance, facilitates stakeholder alignment, translates business needs into functional requirements, and manages Agile and Waterfall delivery. Builds C-level relationships, coaches clients and employees, manages multidisciplinary teams, and oversees performance and professional development.

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.

Design and apply security architecture for cloud and software solutions. Embed security practices into Agile delivery, assess existing systems, recommend mitigations, mentor engineers, lead small teams, and support security testing, CI/CD security and compliance with standards.

Lead secure design and review of cloud platforms and services, advise Agile teams on security best practices, test software/infrastructure security, mentor and manage staff, and ensure compliance with standards and regulations across public, healthcare, defence, and commercial projects.

As a Data Architect, you'll lead traditional data architecture practices, provide technical guidance, manage a team, and engage with clients.

As a Product Lead at Kainos, you will manage end-to-end product backlogs, lead cross-functional agile teams, and drive product strategies while ensuring stakeholder engagement and product quality.

As a Lead Data Engineer, you will design and develop software for data processing, lead a team, ensure quality, and manage technical proposals.

Develop and maintain high-quality, scalable software applications across multiple application layers. Apply security, performance, and development best practices; contribute to architecture, estimation, product planning, and requirements; make technical decisions; troubleshoot applications; and mentor junior engineers. The role also involves collaboration with technical and non-technical stakeholders, knowledge sharing, and evaluating cloud platforms and modern delivery practices.

Leads technical architecture and software design for modern multi-tier applications. Owns architecture, estimation, product planning, requirements, and non-functional concerns while advising customers on technical decisions. Uses public cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure, communicates designs clearly, and makes decisions in fast-paced delivery environments. Manages, coaches, and develops team members, supporting performance and career growth.

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.

Leads agile teams in designing and delivering modern software solutions. Collaborates with customer architects on functional and non-functional designs, evaluates technical complexity and effort, and advises on technologies and delivery approaches. Manages, coaches, and develops team members while contributing to architecture standards, technical communities, and customer account growth.

Leads software engineering teams in designing, building, testing, and maintaining scalable, secure, performant applications. Owns technical delivery across architecture, estimation, product planning, and requirements. Provides technical direction, customer interaction, mentoring, coaching, and performance support for team members. Applies modern software development practices, continuous integration and delivery, troubleshooting, cloud platforms, and multiple programming languages and data technologies.

Designs intuitive, user-centered digital service experiences. Responsibilities include creating design systems, facilitating ideation workshops, developing journey and process maps, accounting for technical and business constraints, contributing to research and strategy, analyzing information architecture, facilitating accessibility audits and usability testing, and promoting UX design practices across project teams.

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.