Kinaxis Solution Architect for Supply Chain Planning

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Kinaxis Solution Architect focused on enterprise supply chain planning.

Description

You will own end-to-end Kinaxis Maestro solution architecture, capability modeling, and a multi-release roadmap for an enterprise planning environment spanning demand, supply, capacity, material, procurement, and factory planning. You will translate supply chain strategy and planning-process requirements into integrated functional and technical designs, under governed design standards. The role combines deep hands-on platform expertise with enterprise architecture decision-making and cross-functional influence.

Responsibilities

• Own Kinaxis Maestro solution architecture, capability model, and multi-release roadmap.

• Translate supply chain strategy and cross-functional use cases into integrated designs with business and technology partners.

• Establish and govern standards for workbooks, scenarios, workflows, reports, hierarchies, planning parameters, closed loops, optimization logic, security, and reusable patterns.

• Lead architecture decisions and design reviews across planning domains (demand, supply, capacity, material, procurement, master scheduling, factory scheduling).

• Ensure consistency across domains and prevent fragmentation, performance issues, or unsustainable maintenance.

• Provide architectural direction across requirements, build, test, and deployment.

• Ensure integrations with Oracle Cloud ERP, MES, PLM, data platforms, and downstream execution processes are coherent, performant, secure, and supportable.

• Define authoritative data requirements, business rules, hierarchies, quality controls, and planning-output governance.

• Guide optimization architecture, scenario design, planning policies, and model tuning; validate outcomes against acceptance criteria.

• Lead release architecture, environment strategy, configuration transport, regression testing, production readiness, and design integrity across SDLC stages.

• Evaluate Kinaxis releases/APIs/extensibility/automation and translate innovation into a prioritized roadmap and governed adoption plan.

• Build internal capability via documentation, coaching, communities of practice, certification pathways, and knowledge transfer.

• Lead root-cause analysis for complex defects, performance concerns, and design issues, prioritizing durable corrective actions.

Requirements

• Significant hands-on Kinaxis Maestro / RapidResponse experience in solution architecture, functional design, configuration, or technical leadership across multiple planning domains.

• Demonstrated ability to architect enterprise-scale planning solutions across demand, supply, capacity, materials, procurement, manufacturing, and master scheduling.

• Full solution lifecycle experience: discovery, requirements, architecture, configuration oversight, testing, deployment, stabilization, and continuous improvement.

• Strong understanding of integrated supply chain planning (hierarchies, scenarios, constraints, optimization concepts, policies, and closed-loop execution).

• Experience establishing solution standards, design governance, architecture reviews, and reusable patterns.

• Ability to connect business-process requirements with data, integration, security, performance, and supportability.

• Experience leading cross-functional teams and influencing stakeholders without relying only on formal authority.

• Strong analytical judgment and communication skills for executive, business, and technical audiences.

• Self-directed learning and habit of tracking platform releases, emerging capabilities, and planning-industry practices.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including paid vacation and sick leave, medical/dental/vision insurance, life and disability insurance, flexible spending/health savings accounts, employee assistance, tuition reimbursement, transit support, and additional voluntary benefits.

• Eligibility for bonuses under STI Plan or Sales Incentive Plan, and potential participation in an annual Long-Term Incentive program (RSUs or cash equivalents) depending on role.