Solution Architect – Supply Chain Scheduling

Are you looking to join an innovative, market-leading company where you can truly elevate your career? At Kinaxis we are serious about culture, we are serious about technology, we are serious about customers, and we are serious about not taking ourselves too seriously. If you are looking to be part of an incredible growth story, then we might just be the place for you!

In 1984, we started out as a team of three engineers. Today, we have grown to become a global organization with over 2000 employees around the world, 6 global office and a best-in-class HQ in Ottawa, Canada. As winners of several Top Employer awards globally, we are proud to work with our customers and employees towards solving some of the biggest challenges facing supply chains today.

Kinaxis is a global leader in modern supply chain orchestration, powering complex global supply chains, and supporting the people who manage them. Our powerful, AI infused platform provides full transparency and visibility across end-to-end supply chains, enabling our customers to make faster, better decisions. We are trusted by renowned global brands to provide the agility and predictability needed to navigate today’s volatility and disruption.

With more than 40,000 users in over 100 countries, we are expanding our team as we continue to innovate and revolutionize how we support our customers.

This is a remote position. You can work from home and be located anywhere in the US

The Application Solution Architect is a senior role within Kinaxis’s Professional Services, Innovation and Data Science Services team. You will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across Product, R&D, Data Services, and Professional Services to deliver end-to-end customer projects for Enterprise Scheduling and other advanced planning capabilities.

In this role, you will help customers solve complex supply chain challenges by designing scalable, high-quality solution architectures. This role requires deep supply chain domain expertise, including a strong understanding of how supply planning and detailed scheduling interact across the broader supply chain landscape. The architect must ensure these processes are designed cohesively so planning logic, material feasibility, capacity assumptions, and shop-floor scheduling work together seamlessly to support feasible and efficient operational execution.

• 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 m entorship 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…