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What they do

Kainos is an IT services company with its head office in the UK. It has three divisions: Digital Services, Workday Services, and Workday Products. It builds digital services for government, healthcare, defence, and private companies. It deploys Workday for customers, and it sells its own products for Workday, such as Smart Test. It has 3,132 staff in 18 countries.

What they value

• Creative: look for better ways to do things, and find new solutions.
• Cooperative: share information, knowledge, and experience as one team.
• Determined: overcome obstacles to get the job done.
• Honest: be transparent with customers and colleagues, and give constructive feedback.
• Respectful: support and respect colleagues and customers alike.
• People first: Postings describe a people-first culture that supports your growth.

Where they hire

Of 126 Postings, 95 name a UK place: Belfast, Birmingham, Derry-Londonderry, London, or Homeworker - UK. Others name Gdansk, Toronto, Indianapolis, Melbourne, and Buenos Aires. 97 Postings list a Homeworker place. Graduate roles are hybrid with 3 office days a week. Graduate and placement Postings require an unconditional UK right to work. No Posting mentions visa sponsorship.

Teams and roles

The board has 126 Postings. It groups them by capability, which is its word for a team of one skill.

• Workday: 36 Postings. Consultants and leads for Financials, Payroll, HCM (human capital management), Talent, Absence and Time Tracking, and Adaptive Planning, plus Workday Extend developers and client support roles.
• Business development and marketing: 16 Postings. Sales development representatives, pre-sales consultants, an account lead, a bid owner, and marketing roles for the Workday products.
• Product: 15 Postings. Product consultants, business analysts, and product leads for healthcare, defence, and the public sector.
• Delivery: 14 Postings. Delivery managers, Workday engagement managers, and programme office roles.
• Engineering: 13 Postings. Graduate and placement technologists, test engineers, technical architects, and Dynamics 365 and Power Platform engineers.
• Data and AI: 11 Postings. AI engineers, data engineers, and data architects.
• Design, platforms, and security: 6 Postings in experience design, 4 in platforms, and 4 in cyber security.

The other 7 Postings are in people, operations, finance, and strategy.

What they look for

Most Postings ask for consulting skills. You work with a customer, you lead workshops, and you manage what the customer expects. Many Postings ask you to manage, coach, and mentor junior staff.

Workday roles ask for deep knowledge of one Workday area, such as Financials, Payroll, or HCM. Some ask for a Workday certification, and some ask for fluent German.

Platform, data, and AI roles ask for work in teams of many skills, for cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure, and for a language such as Python. The Senior AI Engineer Postings ask for AI solutions that you put into production, and for an understanding of responsible AI.

Defence roles and some platform and security roles ask for active Security Clearance. A product role for the public sector asks for UK public sector experience. A UX Designer Posting asks for a portfolio, user research, and accessibility standards. Graduate Postings ask for a relevant degree, or study toward one, and for experience with AI tools.