Solution Architect Kinaxis

RTX

12d • Remote

About The Position

RTX Corporation is an Aerospace and Defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide. It comprises three industry-leading businesses – Collins Aerospace Systems, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon. Its 185,000 employees enable the company to operate at the edge of known science as they imagine and deliver solutions that push the boundaries in quantum physics, electric propulsion, directed energy, hypersonics, avionics and cybersecurity. The company, formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses, is headquartered in Arlington, VA. The following position is to join our RTX Enterprise Services team: The Enterprise Applications Services (EAS) team within RTX Technologies Corporate has an immediate opening for a RapidResponse/Maestro Principal Architect in the Planning and Materials team supporting Kinaxis RapidResponse/Maestro.

Requirements

• Bachelor of Science Degree with 10 years of experience supporting Kinaxis Rapid Response integrated with an SAP ECC 6.0 / ERP landscape. Experience includes functional requirements gathering, solution development, and testing of software changes.
• Knowledge of Production Planning, Manufacturing, and Material Management processes with focus on operations requirements planning and simulation, procurement and Supplier.
• Knowledge of technical solution development process and system integration techniques.
• Strong analytical skills and technical troubleshooting skills
• Proficiency with MS Office applications, including Excel, Word and PowerPoint with strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience as a lead developer for constraint management, capacity planning, inventory rebalancing and accelerations and should be able to lead a team on supply & demand, master scheduling, clear to build, customer grouping, and material availability.

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Responsibilities

• Responsibilities include supporting the sustainment of installed Kinaxis RapidResponse/Maestro application and related integrated applications and systems.
• Work in a fast-paced team environment with other IT analysts to design and test proposed solutions to identified issues and requests.
• Tasks will include coordinating technical design, testing, and maintenance of technical solutions.
• The candidate will involve the data integration of SAP systems SAP ECC instances and SAP Business Warehouse instance into the Kinaxis RapidResponse/Maestro software application. This consists of automated chains, scenarios and Kinaxis RapidResponse/Maestro application support tasks like control set table updates, macro & profile updates, configuration, global, workbook links, scenario perspectives updates and site filters.
• In addition, it encompasses the development and maintenance of core and supporting workbooks, the oversight of core Kinaxis RapidResponse/Maestro components like dashboards, widgets, hierarchies, filters and task flows and daily execution tasks including but not limited to reviewing the MRP planning variances and direct support of business users as well as the importation of the Production Operating Plan (PROP) and rough-cut capacity planning (RCCP) databases.
• Candidates are expected to provide sustaining support to a broad and dispersed customer base in key business process areas in the manufacturing life cycle throughout Raytheon.
• Candidates are expected to work directly with business unit process experts, technical programmers and other IT team members for requirements gathering, testing, and deployment.
• Travel to various Raytheon sites as required to support requirements gathering, solution testing and deployment support activities.
• Work with business and IT leadership to communicate progress and challenges as well as modifying and/or creating data model changes to support solutions.
• The candidate should be experienced in creating customized solutions unique to customers business model and processes.
• Work with business leaders to design and implement solutions to supply and demand planning hurdles, prioritizing requirements and communicating with developers.

Benefits

• Whether you’re just starting out on your career journey or are an experienced professional, we offer a robust total rewards package with compensation; healthcare, wellness, retirement and work/life benefits; career development and recognition programs.
• Some of the benefits we offer include parental (including paternal) leave, flexible work schedules, achievement awards, educational assistance and child/adult backup care.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees