Workday Integrations Consultant

When you join Kainos, you get to think beyond limitations to make an immediate and positive impact – like transforming digital services for millions of citizens or helping Fortune 500 companies get live and thrive on Workday.

You’ll be part of a people-first culture that is growing around the world. We’re a creative, committed, and diverse group of individuals who succeed as a team.

At Kainos your ideas are heard and valued and you’ll leave a legacy that you can feel proud of.  Join us and discover how our people write our story.

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE BUSINESS:
As a Workday Integrations Consultant (Consultant) in Kainos, you’ll lead a team of specialist integration consultants on a project, ensuring the successful delivery of integration solutions for the cloud based Workday HCM system.
As a knowledgeable expert in Integrations, you will work closely with customers to lead the integrations workstream of a project, and will scope, gather requirements, document, implement, deploy and support integration solutions, using the Workday integration platform toolset.
You’ll build strong relationships with our customers to understand their requirements, ensuring that the integration solution is aligned to their 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:
• Proficiency with XML, XPath and XSLT, and be knowledgeable in an object oriented programming language (preferably J2EE)
• Experience of designing workflows to solve business and technical problems
• 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 work to tight deadlines and make sensible decisions under pressure taking a balanced view of Customer demands and Kainos commercials;
• Ability to widen and maintain a network of external contacts;
• Strong consulting skills e.g. presenting, leading workshops, demonstrating and explaining complex functionality or solutions to customers;
• Willing and able to act as a role model within the capability and mentor and/or line manage more junior consultants;
• Willing and able to support the sales process including the production of estimates for the delivery of work packages;
• Able to implement improvements in tools and/or processes to help the practice

DESIRABLE:
• Workday HCM Certified, or experience with other similar HCM/ ERP systems
• Proficiency in other middleware/ integration platforms
• Experience of designing workflows to solve business and technical problems
• 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