Smart Products - Workday Extend Architect

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.

As a Workday Extend Architect in Kainos, you’ll lead a team of specialist extend consultants on a project, ensuring the successful delivery of extend solutions for the cloud based Workday Smart Product suite. 

As a knowledgeable expert in Extend, you will work closely with customers to lead the Smart Extend project, and will scope, gather requirements, document, implement, deploy and support applications, using the Workday Extend platform toolset. 

You’ll build strong relationships with our customers to understand their requirements, ensuring that the 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 Smart practice on the area of Extend.

Minimum (essential) requirements:

• Proficiency with XML, REST, SOAP, JSON, and be knowledgeable in an object oriented programming language (preferably J2EE).

• Experience of designing applications to solve business and technical problems.

• Good understanding of cloud computing, web services and associated 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.

Desirable:

• Workday HCM Certified, or experience with other similar HCM/ ERP systems.

• Proficiency in other middleware/ application development platforms.

• Proficiency in object-oriented programming language or web development language.

• 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.