Kinaxis Solution Architect - Supply Chain Planning
Western Digital1 day ago
Base Salary
$146k - $194k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end Kinaxis Maestro solution architecture, capability model, and multi-release roadmap.
- Translate supply chain strategy and planning requirements into integrated functional and technical designs.
- 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 demand, supply, capacity, materials, procurement, master scheduling, factory scheduling, and scenario-based decision support.
- Provide architectural direction through requirements, build, testing, deployment, stabilization, and continuous improvement.
- Ensure coherent integrations with Oracle Cloud ERP, MES, PLM, data platforms, and downstream execution processes.
- Define data requirements, business rules, hierarchies, quality controls, and planning-output governance with data leaders and stewards.
- Guide optimization architecture, scenario design, planning policies, model tuning, release architecture, environment strategy, configuration transport, regression testing, and production readiness.
- Evaluate Kinaxis releases, APIs, extensibility, automation, and emerging capabilities for roadmap adoption.
- Build internal capability through architecture documentation, design standards, coaching, communities of practice, certification pathways, and partner knowledge transfer.
- Lead root-cause analysis for complex defects, performance concerns, and design issues.
Requirements
- Significant hands-on Kinaxis Maestro or RapidResponse experience in solution architecture, functional design, configuration, or technical leadership across multiple planning domains.
- Demonstrated ability to architect enterprise-scale planning solutions spanning demand, supply, capacity, materials, procurement, manufacturing, or master scheduling.
- Full solution lifecycle experience covering discovery, requirements, architecture, configuration oversight, testing, deployment, stabilization, and continuous improvement.
- Strong understanding of integrated supply chain planning, planning hierarchies, scenarios, constraints, optimization concepts, planning policies, and closed-loop execution.
- Experience establishing solution standards, design governance, architecture reviews, and reusable patterns within a complex enterprise platform.
- Ability to connect business-process requirements with data, integration, security, performance, and supportability considerations.
- Experience leading cross-functional teams and influencing business leaders, process owners, IT architects, engineers, vendors, and systems integrators without relying solely on formal authority.
- Strong analytical judgment and communication skills for executive, business, and technical audiences.
- Kinaxis certification in functional, authoring, integration, or architecture disciplines is preferred.
- Experience with concurrent planning, supply optimization, master scheduling, scenario management, workbook authoring, analytics, Control Tower, or Command Center is preferred.
- Experience integrating Kinaxis with Oracle Cloud ERP, MES, PLM, cloud data platforms, SQL-based environments, Power BI, or Tableau is preferred.
- Experience with Kinaxis APIs, data models, extensibility frameworks, automation, custom logic, or performance tuning is preferred.
- Experience in HDD, semiconductor, high-technology, or complex discrete manufacturing supply chains is preferred.
- Experience transitioning platform ownership from a systems integrator to an internal Center of Excellence or product-oriented capability team is preferred.
- Exposure to AI-enabled planning, agentic workflows, decision intelligence, or orchestration across multiple supply chain platforms is preferred.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits include paid vacation, paid sick leave, medical, dental, and vision insurance, life, accident, and disability insurance, flexible spending and health savings accounts, an employee assistance program, supplemental benefits, tuition reimbursement, transit benefits, a legal plan, pet insurance, and critical illness, accident, and hospital indemnity coverage.
- Eligible employees may be considered for short-term incentives, long-term incentives, restricted stock units or cash equivalents, an employee stock purchase plan, and the WD Savings 401(k) Plan, subject to plan terms and role eligibility.
- The position is exempt and is based at the San Jose Great Oaks Headquarters, with a secondary remote office location in Texas.
- The anticipated application deadline is 2/10/2026, subject to earlier closure if the position is filled.
Tech Stack
Categories
Solutions Engineering
About Western Digital
Western Digital designs and manufactures data storage devices and platforms, including hard disk drives and solid-state drives, for consumer electronics, enterprises, and hyperscale data centers. The public company, founded in 1970 and headquartered in San Jose, sells under the Western Digital and SanDisk brands through OEM and retail channels, and supplies cloud platforms and PC markets worldwide.