[Hiring] Kinaxis Solution Architect @Western Digital

Role Description

Western Digital is building a world-class enterprise planning capability enabled through process transformation, connected data, and deployment of the Kinaxis Maestro platform. We are seeking a senior Kinaxis Architect to own the coherence, scalability and evolution of this business solution across demand, supply, capacity, material, procurement and factory-planning domains.

You will translate supply chain strategy and end-to-end planning requirements into an integrated solution architecture, governed design standards and a multi-release roadmap. This role combines hands-on platform depth with enterprise architecture judgment, cross-functional influence and the ability to build durable internal capability.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Own the end-to-end Kinaxis Maestro solution architecture, capability model and multi-release roadmap for the enterprise planning environment.
• Translate supply chain strategy, planning-process requirements and cross-functional use cases into integrated functional and technical designs in close collaboration with Business and Technology partners.
• Establish and govern solution standards for workbooks, scenarios, workflows, reports, hierarchies, planning parameters, closed loops, optimization logic, security and reusable design patterns.
• Lead architecture decisions and design reviews spanning demand, supply, capacity, material, procurement, master scheduling, factory scheduling and scenario-based decision support.
• Ensure design consistency across planning domains, resolve trade-offs and prevent local configurations from creating fragmentation, performance issues or unsustainable maintenance.
• Provide architectural direction to transformation engineers, functional and technical solution experts, IT teams and delivery partners throughout requirements, build, test and deployment.
• Partner with IT architecture and engineering to ensure integrations with Oracle Cloud ERP, MES, PLM, data platforms and downstream execution processes are coherent, performant, secure and supportable.
• Partner with business data leaders and data stewards to define authoritative data requirements, business rules, hierarchies, quality controls and planning-output governance.
• Guide optimization architecture, scenario design, planning policies and model tuning, validating changes against end-to-end planning outcomes and business acceptance criteria.
• Govern release architecture, environment strategy, configuration transport, regression testing, production readiness and design integrity across development, QA, training and production.
• Evaluate Kinaxis releases, APIs, extensibility, automation and emerging capabilities, translating relevant innovation into a prioritized roadmap and governed adoption plan.
• Build sustainable internal expertise through architecture documentation, design standards, coaching, communities of practice, certification pathways and structured partner knowledge transfer.
• Lead root-cause analysis for complex defects, performance concerns and design issues, prioritizing durable corrective actions over short-term workarounds.

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on Kinaxis Maestro / RapidResponse experience in solution architecture, functional design, configuration or technical leadership across multiple planning domains.
• Demonstrated ability to architect enterprise-scale planning solutions spanning demand, supply, capacity, materials, procurement, manufacturing or master scheduling.
• Full solution lifecycle experience covering discovery, requirements, architecture, configuration oversight, testing, deployment, stabilization and continuous improvement.
• Strong understanding of integrated supply chain planning, planning hierarchies, scenarios, constraints, optimization concepts, planning policies and closed-loop execution.
• Experience establishing solution standards, design governance, architecture reviews and reusable patterns within a complex enterprise platform.
• Ability to connect business-process requirements with data, integration, security, performance and supportability considerations.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams and influencing business leaders, process owners, IT architects, engineers, vendors and systems integrators without relying solely on formal authority.
• Strong analytical judgment and communication skills, including the ability to explain complex solution decisions to executive, business and technical audiences.
• A self-directed learning orientation and demonstrated habit of tracking platform releases, emerging capabilities and planning-industry practices.

Requirements

• Kinaxis certification in one or more functional, authoring, integration or architecture disciplines.
• Experience with concurrent planning, supply optimization, master scheduling, scenario management, workbook authoring, analytics, Control Tower or Command Center use cases.
• Experience integrating Kinaxis with Oracle Cloud ERP, MES, PLM, cloud data platforms, SQL-based environments, Power BI or Tableau.
• Experience with Kinaxis APIs, data models, extensibility frameworks, automation, custom logic or performance tuning.
• Experience in HDD, semiconductor, high-technology or complex discrete manufacturing supply chains.
• Experience transitioning platform ownership from a systems integrator to an internal Center of Excellence or product-oriented capability team.
• Exposure to AI-enabled planning, agentic workflows, decision intelligence or orchestration across multiple supply chain platforms.

Benefits

• Comprehensive package of benefits including paid vacation time; paid sick leave; medical/dental/vision insurance; life, accident and disability insurance.
• Tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts; employee assistance program; other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity.
• Tuition reimbursement; transit; the Applause Program; employee stock purchase plan; and the WD Savings 401(k) Plan.