Co-op​/Intern Lifecycle Management

About Kinaxis

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.

About the team

Reporting to the Manager, Architecture & Applications, the Application Lifecycle Management Co-Op/Intern, in partnership with their team members within the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) team, is responsible for all applications lifecycle management, including for those managed by teams outside of Corporate IT.

The Application Lifecycle Management Co-Op/Intern is responsible for ensuring the governance and integrity of our applications is maintained throughout the useful life of each application.

The ALM team serves every area of the business and works across multiple business units and teams to ensure everyone has access to the right application information. In addition to consulting the business to deliver those services, ALM works closely with Finance for vendor management and Strategic Security Compliance and Security Operations for vendor and application security.

Location

You should be located in Eastern OR Atlantic time zone. If in Ottawa or Toronto, you must work from the office at least three days a week.

Other Canada Eastern/Atlantic time zone Locations – REMOTE

Term Duration

This is a full-time, 8, or 12-month position, starting January, 2027.

Co-op / Intern Eligibility

This position is open to co-ops and interns. To be eligible, you must be currently enrolled in full-time education or be a recent/upcoming graduate within 12 months of the placement end date.

Compensation range

$19.46 - $28.55 hourly rate. The final offer within this range will reflect the candidate’s skills, year of education, and experience.

Vacancy Status

This is an existing job vacancy.

• Work closely with other Corporate IT teams, IT Business Partners, App Excellence team members and business users to identify and analyze business processes, user and system requirements to complete the Application Lifecycle Management checklist, ensuring applications are compliant
• Complete business criticality scorecards in conjunction with the business
• Responsible for the data quality of the catalogue of all applications, ensuring all who need application help have the right information (e.g. Service Desk, Corporate Services, Security Operations, adjacent teams, etc.)
• For applications identified as having duplicate functionality, work with users of the applications and the ARB to identify which can and will be decommissioned
• For applications identified as being in the queue for decommission, work with users to migrate them to the supported tool
• Follow the application decommission process once tools have no users
• Contribute to business analysis, implementation, integration, configuration, and testing in support of the applications under the ALM purview
• Identify any knowledge based articles that could and should be written for the application, and then do so
• Identif…