Kainos
hackajob is collaborating with Kainos to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. Join Kainos and Shape the Future 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. OWN THE STRATEGY BEHIND KAINOS' PALANTIR VENTURE Kainos is one of Palantir's most trusted partners, delivering national-scale transformation in Defence, Healthcare, and Enterprise using Foundry and AIP. As Palantir Services Director, you will lead and shape our entire Palantir capability, from technical direction and client strategy to capability growth, partnership development and commercial performance. This is a leadership role that blends consulting excellence, business development, and technical assurance. You will shape our Palantir offerings, grow our client footprint, guide our relationship with Palantir, and ensure our community of practice continues to thrive and scale. MISSION FOCUS: PROTECTING CITIZENS AND DRIVING NATIONAL OUTCOMES The technical solutions we design, and deliver are mission-critical to the UK's most vital sectors. Working with our partners in Defence, Healthcare, and Enterprise, your efforts will directly translate into tangible public benefit, impacting the safety and well-being of UK citizens: In Defence and National Security: You will be instrumental in delivering the advanced analytics and situational awareness that supports military operations and protects the nation. This is about providing mission commanders with the bespoke, real-time data and clarity they need to make decisions that safeguard personnel and national interests. In Healthcare: Your work will help transform patient care. By building robust, governed Palantir solutions, you will enable the analysis of complex data to create bespoke, tailored care pathways, ultimately leading to better outcomes for patients and a more efficient health service. Across Government and Enterprise: You will apply cutting-edge data and AI capabilities to solve the most complex, high-stakes challenges, ensuring the UK continues to lead through data-driven decision-making and operational excellence. This role is not just about writing code or designing architecture; it is about building the technology that helps protect, heal, and secure the UK. JOB PROFILE DESCRIPTION As Palantir Services Director at Kainos, you will own the vision and execution of our Palantir capability. You will define technical strategy and delivery standards, shape market offerings, lead key client engagements, and develop joint go-to-market initiatives with Palantir and internal sector teams. You will be responsible for commercial growth targets and be a senior lead for sales, pre-sales, and delivery assurance across the portfolio. You will mentor future leaders, oversee capability development, and represent Kainos in the Palantir ecosystem, ensuring our people, projects and partnerships continue to lead the field. RESPONSIBILITIES Contribute to and drive Kainos' Palantir strategy, roadmap, and capability development plans. Serve as the most senior expert in Palantir Foundry and AIP delivery, spanning technical, strategic, and business domains. Lead and shape offerings, accelerators, and solution templates aligned to Palantir's evolving roadmap. Own strategic relationships with Palantir, including partner governance, product roadmap alignment, and co-marketing initiatives. Lead commercial pursuits: qualifying opportunities, shaping proposals, and working with sector sales teams to close deals. Act as senior sponsor and assurance lead for high-impact engagements, ensuring delivery excellence and risk mitigation. Foster a strong community of practice, leading internal development, mentoring, and capability uplift across engineers and strategists. Represent Kainos in thought leadership forums, customer briefings, and partner events as a visible expert and ambassador. Help the Palantir Venture lead to bootstrap the growing Palantir business at Kainos. MINIMUM (ESSENTIAL) REQUIREMENTS Proven track record of delivering complex Palantir Foundry or AIP solutions at scale (strategist, engineer, architect, or hybrid). Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams, enterprise transformation, or mission-critical programmes with Palantir. Deep understanding of Palantir platform capabilities and delivery models - including implementation risk, scalability, and adoption. Demonstrable leadership in business development, including proposal writing, pre-sales, and sales partnership with platform vendors. Experience mentoring senior team members and building internal capability, standards, and delivery culture. Ability to communicate and influence at executive level, including with senior government and industry stakeholders. Strategic thinking and commercial acumen, able to connect platform capabilities with client goals and market trends. This role may involve access to sensitive government and client assets potentially in Defence and National Security contexts. Consequently, the ability to obtain and maintain UK Security Check (SC) clearance is an essential, mandatory requirement for this position. Without this clearance, you will be unable to access the systems and information necessary to perform the core, mission-critical duties of a Palantir Engineer. For detailed eligibility criteria, including standard residency requirements (typically the last five years in the UK) and the need for full disclosure of convictions, please refer to the dedicated section below. DESIRABLE Experience working directly with Palantir as a partner, client, or employee. Thought leadership in data platforms, responsible AI, or data-driven transformation. Experience shaping GTM (go-to-market) strategies and co-selling with vendors. Established public speaker, blog contributor, or community leader in the Palantir space. Experience setting up Centres of Excellence, capability models, or managed services for platform delivery Willing to work on Defence or national security related projects. Existing UK Security Clearance (SC or above). CAREER PROGRESSION This role sits at the apex of Kainos' Palantir capability. As our lead expert, you will be a key driver of our growth strategy, with potential to evolve into venture lead, senior business or account leadership, partnership management, or cross-practice/sector technical leadership roles. Embracing our differences 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.
hackajob is collaborating with Kainos to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. Join Kainos and Shape the Future 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. OWN THE STRATEGY BEHIND KAINOS' PALANTIR VENTURE Kainos is one of Palantir's most trusted partners, delivering national-scale transformation in Defence, Healthcare, and Enterprise using Foundry and AIP. As Palantir Services Director, you will lead and shape our entire Palantir capability, from technical direction and client strategy to capability growth, partnership development and commercial performance. This is a leadership role that blends consulting excellence, business development, and technical assurance. You will shape our Palantir offerings, grow our client footprint, guide our relationship with Palantir, and ensure our community of practice continues to thrive and scale. MISSION FOCUS: PROTECTING CITIZENS AND DRIVING NATIONAL OUTCOMES The technical solutions we design, and deliver are mission-critical to the UK's most vital sectors. Working with our partners in Defence, Healthcare, and Enterprise, your efforts will directly translate into tangible public benefit, impacting the safety and well-being of UK citizens: In Defence and National Security: You will be instrumental in delivering the advanced analytics and situational awareness that supports military operations and protects the nation. This is about providing mission commanders with the bespoke, real-time data and clarity they need to make decisions that safeguard personnel and national interests. In Healthcare: Your work will help transform patient care. By building robust, governed Palantir solutions, you will enable the analysis of complex data to create bespoke, tailored care pathways, ultimately leading to better outcomes for patients and a more efficient health service. Across Government and Enterprise: You will apply cutting-edge data and AI capabilities to solve the most complex, high-stakes challenges, ensuring the UK continues to lead through data-driven decision-making and operational excellence. This role is not just about writing code or designing architecture; it is about building the technology that helps protect, heal, and secure the UK. JOB PROFILE DESCRIPTION As Palantir Services Director at Kainos, you will own the vision and execution of our Palantir capability. You will define technical strategy and delivery standards, shape market offerings, lead key client engagements, and develop joint go-to-market initiatives with Palantir and internal sector teams. You will be responsible for commercial growth targets and be a senior lead for sales, pre-sales, and delivery assurance across the portfolio. You will mentor future leaders, oversee capability development, and represent Kainos in the Palantir ecosystem, ensuring our people, projects and partnerships continue to lead the field. RESPONSIBILITIES Contribute to and drive Kainos' Palantir strategy, roadmap, and capability development plans. Serve as the most senior expert in Palantir Foundry and AIP delivery, spanning technical, strategic, and business domains. Lead and shape offerings, accelerators, and solution templates aligned to Palantir's evolving roadmap. Own strategic relationships with Palantir, including partner governance, product roadmap alignment, and co-marketing initiatives. Lead commercial pursuits: qualifying opportunities, shaping proposals, and working with sector sales teams to close deals. Act as senior sponsor and assurance lead for high-impact engagements, ensuring delivery excellence and risk mitigation. Foster a strong community of practice, leading internal development, mentoring, and capability uplift across engineers and strategists. Represent Kainos in thought leadership forums, customer briefings, and partner events as a visible expert and ambassador. Help the Palantir Venture lead to bootstrap the growing Palantir business at Kainos. MINIMUM (ESSENTIAL) REQUIREMENTS Proven track record of delivering complex Palantir Foundry or AIP solutions at scale (strategist, engineer, architect, or hybrid). Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams, enterprise transformation, or mission-critical programmes with Palantir. Deep understanding of Palantir platform capabilities and delivery models - including implementation risk, scalability, and adoption. Demonstrable leadership in business development, including proposal writing, pre-sales, and sales partnership with platform vendors. Experience mentoring senior team members and building internal capability, standards, and delivery culture. Ability to communicate and influence at executive level, including with senior government and industry stakeholders. Strategic thinking and commercial acumen, able to connect platform capabilities with client goals and market trends. This role may involve access to sensitive government and client assets potentially in Defence and National Security contexts. Consequently, the ability to obtain and maintain UK Security Check (SC) clearance is an essential, mandatory requirement for this position. Without this clearance, you will be unable to access the systems and information necessary to perform the core, mission-critical duties of a Palantir Engineer. For detailed eligibility criteria, including standard residency requirements (typically the last five years in the UK) and the need for full disclosure of convictions, please refer to the dedicated section below. DESIRABLE Experience working directly with Palantir as a partner, client, or employee. Thought leadership in data platforms, responsible AI, or data-driven transformation. Experience shaping GTM (go-to-market) strategies and co-selling with vendors. Established public speaker, blog contributor, or community leader in the Palantir space. Experience setting up Centres of Excellence, capability models, or managed services for platform delivery Willing to work on Defence or national security related projects. Existing UK Security Clearance (SC or above). CAREER PROGRESSION This role sits at the apex of Kainos' Palantir capability. As our lead expert, you will be a key driver of our growth strategy, with potential to evolve into venture lead, senior business or account leadership, partnership management, or cross-practice/sector technical leadership roles. Embracing our differences 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.
Kainos
City, Belfast
hackajob is collaborating with Kainos to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. Join Kainos and Shape the Future 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. Main purpose of the role & responsibilities in the business: At Kainos, we provide innovative and creative products designed to help Workday customers reduce risk and maximize their Workday investment. Our solutions include Workday testing, compliance, data masking, and document management. As a business with a proven record of year-on-year growth and over 500 customers we have multiple exciting opportunities for Product Owners across each of our growth products. As a Product Owner at Kainos, you will play a key role in shaping the future of our market leading Workday solutions. You'll own the product backlog across one or more functional areas, ensuring we stay at the forefront of the industry. This means you'll gather and prioritize product and customer requirements, and work closely with our top-notch development, sales, pre-sales, marketing, and professional services teams to surpass customer satisfaction goals and maintain our leading market position. Your passion for product management will shine through in everything you do. You will relish the challenge of solving complex problems and experience the thrill of seeing your products flourish and make a real difference. This is your chance to make a significant impact and leave your mark on our products and services during this exciting growth phase. As a result you will have ample opportunities to advance into senior roles within the Workday Products business or the wider Kainos organisation. Join us at Kainos and be part of a dynamic team that is shaping the future with innovative and impactful products. You will be responsible for: Understanding customer needs, personas and why they engage with your product. Becoming an expert in the problems we solve for and "why" they matter. Running structured workshops with customers and internal stakeholders. Defining and building solutions to address customer needs. Defining the benefits your solutions deliver and how to measure success. Know your competition and how to stay ahead of them. Launching products and features including organising and enabling internal teams such as delivery, pre-sales, onboarding to maximise impact etc. Supporting Roadmap Delivery and the product backlog; Creating actionable user stories for development teams. Supporting the prioritision of the backlog to ensure goals are met. Identifying and measuring the success criteria for each delivered feature. Defining and communicating release acceptance criteria for each product feature, including the criteria for MVP. Measuring, tracking and improving non-functional aspects of the product. As required, stepping in to support sales efforts with product demos and customer discussions on more technical aspects of the product. Minimum (essential) requirements: Demonstrable experience and capability to successfully carry out the key elements of the Product Owner role or experience of leading and architecting Workday based solutions Demonstrable experience of delivering as part of an agile team. This should include excellent user story creation skills, articulating the business needs in a format that is easily consumable by the scrum team Excellent communication skills are vital. You'll need to be a persuasive and effective communicator with strong negotiating skills. It's not only about talking, you'll need to be able to listen, understand, and build on other's viewpoints. You will have an enthusiasm for new technologies and innovation and be prepared to take advantage of the flexibility provided to challenge and be proactive in bringing new ideas to how we work and to the product roadmap. You will need an eye for detail, particularly to interpret supplied information and understand sources and challenge where necessary. Comfort and ability to engage with customers (including internal) to understand requirements, and support functional or technical product discussions. Desirable: Prior Workday implementation or management Experience with Product Management in a Workday context Embracing our differences 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.
hackajob is collaborating with Kainos to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. Join Kainos and Shape the Future 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. Main purpose of the role & responsibilities in the business: At Kainos, we provide innovative and creative products designed to help Workday customers reduce risk and maximize their Workday investment. Our solutions include Workday testing, compliance, data masking, and document management. As a business with a proven record of year-on-year growth and over 500 customers we have multiple exciting opportunities for Product Owners across each of our growth products. As a Product Owner at Kainos, you will play a key role in shaping the future of our market leading Workday solutions. You'll own the product backlog across one or more functional areas, ensuring we stay at the forefront of the industry. This means you'll gather and prioritize product and customer requirements, and work closely with our top-notch development, sales, pre-sales, marketing, and professional services teams to surpass customer satisfaction goals and maintain our leading market position. Your passion for product management will shine through in everything you do. You will relish the challenge of solving complex problems and experience the thrill of seeing your products flourish and make a real difference. This is your chance to make a significant impact and leave your mark on our products and services during this exciting growth phase. As a result you will have ample opportunities to advance into senior roles within the Workday Products business or the wider Kainos organisation. Join us at Kainos and be part of a dynamic team that is shaping the future with innovative and impactful products. You will be responsible for: Understanding customer needs, personas and why they engage with your product. Becoming an expert in the problems we solve for and "why" they matter. Running structured workshops with customers and internal stakeholders. Defining and building solutions to address customer needs. Defining the benefits your solutions deliver and how to measure success. Know your competition and how to stay ahead of them. Launching products and features including organising and enabling internal teams such as delivery, pre-sales, onboarding to maximise impact etc. Supporting Roadmap Delivery and the product backlog; Creating actionable user stories for development teams. Supporting the prioritision of the backlog to ensure goals are met. Identifying and measuring the success criteria for each delivered feature. Defining and communicating release acceptance criteria for each product feature, including the criteria for MVP. Measuring, tracking and improving non-functional aspects of the product. As required, stepping in to support sales efforts with product demos and customer discussions on more technical aspects of the product. Minimum (essential) requirements: Demonstrable experience and capability to successfully carry out the key elements of the Product Owner role or experience of leading and architecting Workday based solutions Demonstrable experience of delivering as part of an agile team. This should include excellent user story creation skills, articulating the business needs in a format that is easily consumable by the scrum team Excellent communication skills are vital. You'll need to be a persuasive and effective communicator with strong negotiating skills. It's not only about talking, you'll need to be able to listen, understand, and build on other's viewpoints. You will have an enthusiasm for new technologies and innovation and be prepared to take advantage of the flexibility provided to challenge and be proactive in bringing new ideas to how we work and to the product roadmap. You will need an eye for detail, particularly to interpret supplied information and understand sources and challenge where necessary. Comfort and ability to engage with customers (including internal) to understand requirements, and support functional or technical product discussions. Desirable: Prior Workday implementation or management Experience with Product Management in a Workday context Embracing our differences 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.