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Lead Functional Consultant (Dynamics 365/ Power Platfroms)

Kainos Group plc is a UK-based IT provider specializing in Digital Services, Workday Services, and Workday Products, serving public, commercial, and healthcare sectors globally.

Kainos

Employee count: 1001-5000

United Kingdom only

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.

CAPABILITY GROUP / JOB FAMILY GROUP: Microsoft BizApps

CAPABILITY / JOB FAMILY: Dynamics 365 CE and Power Platform Functional Consultant

JOB PROFILE TITLE: Dynamics 365 CE Functional Consultant and Power Platform

MANAGEMENT LEVEL: Consultant

Job Profile Description

As a Dynamics 365 CE and Power Platform Functional Consultant, you will bridge the gap between IT capability and business expectations on Microsoft Dynamics projects. You will be capable of leading a team of functional consultants, collaborating with clients to design and build solutions based on Dynamics 365 CEand Power Platformthat deliver benefits for them and their customers.

You will work closely with key stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into effective Dynamics 365 solutions, playing a key role in the design and delivery of Dynamics 365 CE and Power Platform solutions to ensure they meet business needs by:

  • Identifying opportunities to make best use of the ever-expanding platform features
  • Balancing the benefits and risks of customisation
  • Recommending the best approach to support client needs
  • Supporting and guiding the team in delivering discovery workshops, creating functional designs, configuring solutions, supporting testing, assisting with data migration needs, delivering training, and supporting implementation.

You will lead larger teams of functional consultants within sizable and complex projects. You will identify priorities, assign tasks, and make the best use of available resources and skill levels within the team, contributing to the project's success. You will build relationships with counterparts in other disciplines across the project, including within the client team, and contribute to the successful management of dependencies between disciplines.

Putting people first & developing others – You’ll manage and coach a number of staff, focusing on performance management and career development, supporting a culture of wellbeing and inclusion, and ensuring team members are managing their workload and stress levels effectively. We want to create a happy, professional, and effective team who enjoy working together and with our clients, with opportunity to grow and develop.

MINIMUM (ESSENTIAL) REQUIREMENTS

  • Expertise in Microsoft Dynamics and Power Platform Products: Proficiency in several of the following products: Sales, Customer Service, Customer Insights, Field Service, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power Pages, Copilot Studio, and Power BI.
  • Familiarity with Related Technologies: Understand the use and benefits of combining related Microsoft products, such as Exchange, SharePoint and Teams, with Dynamics 365 CE and Power Platform, and be able to configure integrations to those products.
  • End-to-End Implementation Experience: Experience, especially in larger/more complex projects, of multiple Dynamics 365 CE or Power Platform end-to-end implementations, including requirements analysis, design, configuration, testing, training, data migration, cutover, and reporting.
  • Solution Design Influence: Ability to create and influence solution designs with a configuration-first approach, only using customisation where essential to minimise implementation and maintenance risks and costs.
  • Demonstration of Out-of-the-Box Functionality: Able to demonstrate out-of-the-box functionality to business and technical stakeholders, illustrating how the product supports core business processes.
  • Workflow Design and Implementation: Proficiency in designing and building classic and Power Automate workflows to automate complex tasks.
  • Pre-sales support: Experience responding to ITTs, RFPs and RFQs. Able to provide pre-sales support to envision solutions and contribute to supporting sales by defining an approach and fully resourced plan.
  • Stakeholder Engagement and Communication: Experience working with stakeholders at all levels in an organisation, including senior and challenging stakeholders, understanding their pain points, eliciting, reviewing, and prioritising requirements using various methods. Also, interviewing stakeholders, shadowing users, delivering discovery workshops, business process mapping, and identifying business benefits. Excellent and effective influencing and communication skills.

Additional Desirable:

  • Lead by example through sharing knowledge from previous experiences and providing implementation plans that mitigate risks to deliver a positive outcome.
  • Remain calm and professional in high-pressure environments and feel comfortable calling out concerns and seeking advice when needed.
  • Be approachable, open to provide guidance, and actively support junior colleagues, helping them to manage their workload effectively, to cope with challenging situations, and to support each other, especially when working remotely or in a client-facing situation.
  • Help set clear expectations of standards of behaviour, and speed and quality of delivery that reflect the levels of professionalism and service we expect to provide to our customers, and how we treat each other, encouraging personal growth, achievement and satisfaction.

So what are you waiting for? Let’s write the next incredible chapter of our story together.

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.

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Kainos Group plc is a digital technology company headquartered in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Founded in 1986 as a joint venture between Fujitsu and The Queen's University of Belfast's business incubation unit, QUBIS Ltd, Kainos has grown into a significant player in the IT services and software solutions sector. The company is publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. Kainos operates through three main divisions: Digital Services, Workday Services, and Workday Products. The Digital Services division focuses on the full lifecycle development and support of customized digital solutions for public sector, commercial, and healthcare clients. This includes areas such as cloud and engineering, digital advisory, data and artificial intelligence, intelligent automation, and experience design. The company has a strong track record of delivering transformational projects for government bodies and large enterprises, helping them to modernize their systems and improve citizen and customer experiences.

The Workday Services division positions Kainos as a leading partner for Workday, Inc., specializing in the deployment, optimization, and support of Workday's cloud-based finance, HR, and planning software for organizations across Europe and North America. Kainos has achieved significant recognition within the Workday ecosystem, including being a three-time Workday partner award winner. The Workday Products division develops specialized software that complements Workday's offerings. Key products include Smart Test (an automated testing solution for Workday), Smart Audit, and Smart Shield, designed to enhance Workday's functionality and efficiency for users. Kainos also offers Evolve, an Electronic Medical Records (EMR) product for the healthcare sector. With a global presence and a workforce of over 3,000 employees across offices in Europe, North America, and Asia, Kainos is committed to innovation and leveraging technology to solve complex business challenges and improve people's lives. The company emphasizes a strong company culture and has been recognized as a desirable place to work.

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