Kinaxis Maestro Architect for Enterprise Planning

Westerndigital; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Western Digital is seeking a senior Kinaxis Architect to own the coherence, scalability and evolution of the enterprise planning solution across demand, supply, capacity, material, procurement and factory planning domains.

You will translate strategy into an integrated solution architecture, govern design standards and drive a multi-release roadmap with cross-functional partners. This role blends hands-on platform depth with enterprise architecture judgment.

Qualifications

• Significant hands-on Kinaxis Maestro / RapidResponse experience in architecture, design or leadership.
• Ability to architect enterprise-scale planning solutions spanning multiple domains (demand, supply, capacity, materials).
• Full lifecycle experience from discovery to deployment and continuous improvement.
• Strong understanding of integrated supply chain planning, planning hierarchies and optimization concepts.
• Experience establishing standards, design governance, architecture reviews and reusable patterns in a complex enterprise platform.
• Ability to connect business-process requirements with data, integration, security and performance.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end Kinaxis Maestro solution architecture and multi-release roadmap for the enterprise planning environment.
• Translate planning requirements into integrated functional and technical designs with Business and Technology partners.
• Establish and govern solution standards for workbooks, scenarios, workflows, reports, hierarchies and optimization logic.
• Lead architecture decisions and design reviews across demand, supply, capacity, material, procurement and scheduling domains.
• Ensure design consistency across planning domains and prevent fragmentation or maintenance issues.
• Provide architectural direction to transformation engineers, solution experts, IT teams and delivery partners.
• Partner with IT architecture and engineering to ensure integrations with Oracle Cloud ERP, MES, PLM, data platforms are coherent and secure.
• Guide data leaders to define authoritative data requirements and governance.
• Direct optimization architecture, scenario design and model tuning to meet end-to-end planning outcomes.
• Govern release architecture, environment strategy, regression testing and production readiness.
• Evaluate Kinaxis releases and translate innovation into a prioritized adoption plan.
• Build internal expertise through documentation, standards and knowledge transfer.
• Lead root-cause analysis for defects and performance concerns.

Skills

Kinaxis Maestro / RapidResponse

Enterprise architecture

Cross-functional collaboration

Solution architecture

Data integration

Performance optimization

Stakeholder influence

Kinaxis certification (preferred)

Tools

Oracle ERP

MES

PLM

Cloud data platforms

SQL databases

Job description

Western Digital is seeking a senior Kinaxis Architect to own the coherence, scalability and evolution of the enterprise planning solution across demand, supply, capacity, material, procurement and factory planning domains.

You will translate strategy into an integrated solution architecture, govern design standards and drive a multi-release roadmap with cross-functional partners. This role blends hands-on platform depth with enterprise architecture judgment.