Kinaxis Solution Architect - Supply Chain Planning

Western Digital is building a world-class enterprise planning capability enabled through process transformation, connected data, and deployment of the Kinaxis Maestro platform. We are seeking a senior Kinaxis Architect to own the coherence, scalability and evolution of this business solution across demand, supply, capacity, material, procurement and factory-planning domains.

You will translate supply chain strategy and end-to-end planning requirements into an integrated solution architecture, governed design standards and a multi-release roadmap. This role combines hands-on platform depth with enterprise architecture judgment, cross-functional influence and the ability to build durable internal capability.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Own the end-to-end Kinaxis Maestro solution architecture, capability model and multi-release roadmap for the enterprise planning environment.
• Translate supply chain strategy, planning-process requirements and cross-functional use cases into integrated functional and technical designs in close collaboration with Business and Technology partners.
• Establish and govern solution standards for workbooks, scenarios, workflows, reports, hierarchies, planning parameters, closed loops, optimization logic, security and reusable design patterns.
• Lead architecture decisions and design reviews spanning demand, supply, capacity, material, procurement, master scheduling, factory scheduling and scenario-based decision support.
• Ensure design consistency across planning domains, resolve trade-offs and prevent local configurations from creating fragmentation, performance issues or unsustainable maintenance.
• Provide architectural direction to transformation engineers, functional and technical solution experts, IT teams and delivery partners throughout requirements, build, test and deployment.
• Partner with IT architecture and engineering to ensure integrations with Oracle Cloud ERP, MES, PLM, data platforms and downstream execution processes are coherent, performant, secure and supportable.
• Partner with business data leaders and data stewards to define authoritative data requirements, business rules, hierarchies, quality controls and planning-output governance.
• Guide optimization architecture, scenario design, planning policies and model tuning, validating changes against end-to-end planning outcomes and business acceptance criteria.
• Govern release architecture, environment strategy, configuration transport, regression testing, production readiness and design integrity across development, QA, training and production.
• Evaluate Kinaxis releases, APIs, extensibility, automation and emerging capabilities, translating relevant innovation into a prioritized roadmap and governed adoption plan.
• Build sustainable internal expertise through architecture documentation, design standards, coaching, communities of practice, certification pathways and structured partner knowledge transfer.
• Lead root-cause analysis for complex defects, performance concerns and design issues, prioritizing durable corrective actions over short-term workarounds.

Department: Global Operations & Supply Chain
Function: Engineering
Experience Level: Mid-Senior Level