Application Solution Architect

🕒 July 20

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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Kinaxis

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1001 - 5000 employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

🏭 Manufacturing

💰 $33M Venture Round on 2000-05

Consulting • Healthcare • Manufacturing

Kinaxis is a leading provider of supply chain orchestration solutions, specializing in AI-infused supply chain planning and management. Their flagship platform, Maestro, enables organizations to master complexity and optimize decision-making processes across the entire supply chain. By integrating advanced analytics with real-time data visibility, Kinaxis helps businesses improve operational efficiency, predict demand, and respond proactively to disruptions.

📋 Description

• Define and own the ES solution architecture—including functional design, data structures, constraint models, integrations, and system behavior—working in close partnership with the Solution Architect, where present, to ensure alignment with the overall end ‑ to ‑ end solution architecture. • In ES ‑ only implementations, serve as the primary solution architect for the engagement. • Facilitate detailed scheduling blueprint sessions that translate manufacturing requirements into scalable configurations, defining heuristics, dispatch rules, look-ahead behavior, changeover logic, and constraint-resolution strategies for complex production environments. • Identify risks throughout the project lifecycle and develop mitigation strategies to ensure successful deployments. • Troubleshoot complex scheduling behavior and resolve data configuration issues, providing root-cause analysis and recommending appropriate configuration patterns. • Provide functional leadership and help to solve complex supply chain challenges and implementation support • Provide mentorship and technical oversight to consultants and partners on solution quality, scheduling implementation methods, repeatable architecture patterns, and deployment best practices, while overseeing delegation of configuration tasks. • Collaborate with Product teams on feature gaps, capability extensions, and areas requiring architectural guidance while influencing roadmap discussions through customer insights and solution best practices. • Support services sales opportunities by articulating solution approaches and value to stakeholders.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's or master's degree in industrial engineering, Supply Chain, Operations Research, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Statistics, Information Technology or related field. • Minimum 8 years of broad experience in software implementation consulting in the supply chain planning or supply chain execution space, including 3+ years as a solution architect or lead functional consultant for enterprise-scale supply chain transformation projects. • Excellent facilitation and communication skills; able to guide customer discussions across planners, schedulers, project teams, and stakeholders. • Demonstrated ability to work in fast-paced, matrixed environments with strong initiative and leadership capabilities. • Advanced problem-solving and critical thinking skills with the ability to synthesize complex information and guide teams toward deploying high-quality solutions that align with the intended architectural design. • Proven interpersonal, leadership, and mentoring skills within cross-functional teams. • Subject matter expert in supply chain concepts and best practices coupled with in-depth experience with supply chain solutions and scheduling applications (such as OMP, SAP PPDS, Blue Yonder, or o9 Production Scheduling). • Experience producing detailed blueprints that translate scheduling requirements into technical specifications during software implementations. • Technical leadership experience in data integration, data management, system configuration and system deployment for supply chain software implementations. • Proficiency with SQL, JavaScript, or scripting languages used in solution configuration. • Willing and able to travel between 50% to 75% annually.

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible vacation and Kinaxis Days (company-wide days off) • Flexible work options • Physical and mental well-being programs • Regularly scheduled virtual fitness classes • Mentorship programs, training, and career development • Recognition programs and referral rewards • Hackathons