Kinaxis Solution Architect - Supply Chain Planning

Western Digital • San Jose, CA

13h • $145,800 - $194,400

About The Position

Western Digital is building an enterprise planning capability through process transformation, connected data, and deployment of the Kinaxis Maestro platform. The senior Kinaxis Architect will own the coherence, scalability, and evolution of this business solution across demand, supply, capacity, material, procurement, and factory-planning domains.

The role translates supply chain strategy and end-to-end planning requirements into integrated solution architecture, governed design standards, and a multi-release roadmap. It combines hands-on platform expertise with enterprise architecture judgment, cross-functional influence, and development of durable internal capability. The architect partners with Business and Technology teams, IT architecture and engineering, data leaders and stewards, and delivery partners to shape design, integrations, data governance, optimization, releases, and platform adoption.

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 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, including the ability to explain complex solution decisions to executive, business, and technical audiences.
• Self-directed learning orientation and demonstrated habit of tracking platform releases, emerging capabilities, and planning-industry practices.

Nice To Haves

• Kinaxis certification in one or more functional, authoring, integration, or architecture disciplines.
• Experience with concurrent planning, supply optimization, master scheduling, scenario management, workbook authoring, analytics, Control Tower, or Command Center use cases.
• Experience integrating Kinaxis with Oracle Cloud ERP, MES, PLM, cloud data platforms, SQL-based environments, Power BI, or Tableau.
• Experience with Kinaxis APIs, data models, extensibility frameworks, automation, custom logic, or performance tuning.
• Experience in HDD, semiconductor, high-technology, or complex discrete manufacturing supply chains.
• Experience transitioning platform ownership from a systems integrator to an internal Center of Excellence or product-oriented capability team.
• Exposure to AI-enabled planning, agentic workflows, decision intelligence, or orchestration across multiple supply chain platforms.

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 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 across 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 causing 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; translate 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.

Benefits

• Paid vacation time
• Paid sick leave
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Life, accident, and disability insurance
• Tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts
• Employee assistance program
• Supplemental life and AD&D coverage
• Legal plan
• Pet insurance
• Critical illness, accident, and hospital indemnity coverage
• Tuition reimbursement
• Transit benefits
• Applause Program
• Employee stock purchase plan
• WD Savings 401(k) Plan
• Potential eligibility for bonuses under the Short Term Incentive Plan or Sales Incentive Plan
• Potential eligibility for the annual Long-Term Incentive program, including restricted stock units or cash equivalents

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed