Head of Technology for Healthcare

Kainos are seeking a Head of Technology to work as part of its Healthcare sector leadership team.

At Kainos, we recognise many of the greatest ideas and innovations come from a diverse mix of minds, backgrounds and experiences, and are committed to cultivating an inclusive working environment that drives changes in Technology. Therefore, we particularly welcome applications from groups who are typically under-represented in this sector including women, non-binary and transgender people. Read about flexible working, parental leave and other benefits here. All appointments will be based on merit.

We welcome applications from people with disabilities and if you require any support in the recruitment process, please contact us at recruitment@kainos.com .

Kainos is a leading digital services provider for the healthcare sector, with over 250 staff working on projects at local, regional and national levels for NHS and other clients across the UK and Ireland. We have a strong track record of developing and delivering innovative solutions that improve patient outcomes, enhance efficiency and enable cutting-edge research. We do this by incorporating bespoke delivery, Cloud, Data and AI based solutions.

Our work in the health sector includes researcher and participant onboarding services for clinical research organisations such as Genomics England, Our Future Health and NIHR as well as national patient facing digital services for NHS England, Public Health Wales and HSCNI, such as the NHS App, the UK’s flagship digital health service, that we led from discovery to live, as well as the UKHSA Contact Tracing Advisory Service and NHS Digital’s COVID-19 Digital Testing Services. Our Evolve electronic medical record product is live in 35 Trusts and over 100 hospitals.

Reporting to our Healthcare Sector Lead, we have a team of 250, with offices in London, Birmingham, Belfast, Gdansk and embrace hybrid working for all our people at Kainos.

As the driver for the Technology strategy within the Healthcare sector, the successful individual will be excited about this domain and bring a depth of experience in the sector. This includes an understanding of the problems and opportunities, the technical challenges, key standards and common products, such as the impact of the latest NHS Data Strategy.

The core responsibilities include setting the technology direction, providing trusted technical advice to the business and C-level clients, maintaining a competitive edge over other technology services providers, developing and nurturing technical talent across the organisation and representing Kainos as a technology evangelist.

Key responsibilities of this role are:

• Strategy - Working with others to ensure delivery and conducting of strategic market and technical analysis to recommend on where and how Kainos should target its growth and impact across the Healthcare sector.
• Business Development - Identifying business development opportunities to solve customer issues, inspiring customer and colleagues with the market opportunity
• Innovation - Researching and qualifying current and future technologies, making technology investments, guiding and role modelling a culture of innovation.
• Delivery - Responsible for technical delivery, providing assurance and engaging directly in strategic accounts.
• People Development - Identifying, mentoring, coaching, and developing technical talent and fostering a culture of wellbeing and inclusion for goal achievement.
• Communication - Articulating intricate technical points to non-technical people including C-suite, fostering excitement for potential of new technologies, and representing Kainos' technology voice externally while engaging with the broader tech ecosystem.

Minimum (Essential) requirements:

• Extensive strategic healthcare industry and technology experience, preferably from a Services/ Consulting background
• Knowledge and a good awareness of emerging technology trends and innovation
• Critically assess market trends and impact of change. Experience driving adoption of emerging technologies and approaches, effectively balancing risk and reward and guiding organisations to appropriate adoption.
• Experience of exceptional team management inspiring and influencing others
• Ability to develop business opportunities, in conjunction with a wider sales team
• Experience of being the technology owner and responsible for complex technology projects to production and delivering positive outcomes. Including examining, architecting, estimating through to iteration in production

Who you are:

Our vision is to enable outstanding people to create digital solutions that have a positive impact on people’s lives. Our values aren't abstract; they are the behaviours we expect from each other every day and underpin everything that we do. We expect everyone to display our values by being determined in how obstacles are overcome; honest when dealing with others; respectful of how you treat others; creative to find solutions to complex problems and cooperative by sharing information, knowledge and experience.

These values, applied collectively, help to produce an outstanding Kainos person, team and culture.

About us

At Kainos we use technology to solve real problems for our customers, overcome big challenges for businesses, and make people’s lives easier.

We build strong relationships with our customers and go beyond to change the way they work today and the impact they have tomorrow.

Our two specialist practices, Digital Services and Workday, work globally for clients across healthcare, commercial and the public sector to make the world a little bit better, day by day.

For more information, see kainos.com.