Salesforce Technical Architect

About Kinaxis

Elevate your career journey by embracing a new challenge with Kinaxis. We are experts in tech, but it’s really our people who give us passion to always seek ways to do things better. As such, we’re serious about your career growth and professional development, because People matter at Kinaxis.

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, with a brand-new HQ based in Kanata North in Ottawa. As one of Canada’s Top Employers, we are proud to work with our customers and employees towards solving some of the biggest challenges facing supply chains today.

At Kinaxis, we power the world’s supply chains to help preserve the planet’s resources and enrich the human experience. As a global leader in end-to-end supply chain management, we enable supply chain excellence for all industries, 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.

Hybrid if based in Ottawa. Remote for all other locations in Canada

The Enterprise Architecture team at Kinaxis shapes the long‑term technical direction of our enterprise platforms, ensuring our technology ecosystem remains scalable, secure, and aligned with our strategic goals. We work across Corporate IT and business teams to set architectural guardrails, provide solution guidance, and steward the health of critical platforms such as Salesforce, Service Now, Net Suite, and others.

We are growing our architecture capability and are looking for a Technical Architect to take ownership of the technical roadmap, patterns, integrations, and platform engineering excellence for Salesforce.

As a Technical Architect, you will be the technical authority and long‑term steward of the Salesforce platform  will own the detailed technical design of solutions, guide developers on engineering best practices, and ensure our Salesforce ecosystem is built for reliability, scalability, and maintainability.

You will partner closely with Solution Architects, Enterprise Architects, developers, security, and business teams to ensure technical designs support business value while aligning with enterprise integration and architecture standards.

This is a hands‑on, engineering‑forward architecture role. You will shape how Salesforce evolves at Kinaxis: defining patterns, reducing technical debt, modernizing integrations, and driving platform maturity.

Vacancy Status: This is an existing job vacancy

• Create detailed technical solution designs, including data models, integration specifications, automation patterns, and security models.
• Translate high‑level solution architecture into implementable technical blueprints.
• Own and maintain Salesforce reference architectures, reusable patterns, and guardrails.
• Conduct code and design reviews; ensure alignment with standards, integration patterns, and security policies.
• Lead troubleshooting of complex issues across data, integrations, and platform components.

• Design and oversee integrations between Salesforce and enterprise systems using API‑first principles.
• Define integration contracts, data transformation rules, error handling strategies, and performance requirements.
• Ensure governance of master data and consistent platform‑to‑platform interactions.

• Participate in Architectural Review Board (ARB) processes for platform‑related decisions; automating governance wherever possible.
• Partner with Solution Architects to ensure technical feasibility and alignment with business needs.
• Communicate risks, constraints, and trade‑offs clearly to technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5–7+ years building and designing solutions on enterprise platforms, including at least 2–3 years architecting Salesforce or similarly complex systems.
• Proven experience as a senior developer or technical…