Solution 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 based in Ottawa, Canada. Today, we have grown to become a global organization with over 2000 employees around the world, and support 40,000+ users in over 100 countries. As a global leader in end-to-end supply chain management, we enable supply chain excellence for all industries. We are expanding our team in Chennai and around the world as we continue to innovate and revolutionize how we support our customers.

Our journey in India began in 2020 and we have been growing steadily since then! Building a high-trust and high-performance culture is important to us and we are proud to be Great Place to Work® CertifiedTM. Our state-of-the-art office, located in the World Trade Centre in Chennai, offers our growing team space for expansion and collaboration.
Location
Taiwan
About the team

As a member of our Consulting Team, you understand our customers’ most pressing business performance challenges and you are committed to helping our customers solve complex challenges in the distributed value chain that is prevalent in manufacturing today.
What you will do

Working with new and existing customers, you will provide expert guidance in leveraging our product offerings and deliver value in the following ways:

- Provide creative solutions to complex business problems while maintaining best practices

- Guide and mentor the consulting project team during project

- Drive client participation in project design activities

- Leading Deployment Workshops to help customers achieve immediate value from their investment

- Own solution architecture sign-off, manage project scope, and lead escalation handling to ensure delivery quality and consistency.

- Facilitate business process design and development that leverages Maestro capabilities

- Resolve complex data and analytic configurations to ensure that the solution produces the expected results

- Configure the Maestro interface according to our customers’ distinct needs as defined within the Agile user stories and blueprint designs

- Produce and maintain comprehensive project documents such as solution blueprints, process flows, and handover documents throughout the engagement lifecycle.

- Working with our customers to develop a roadmap to solve multiple supply-chain problems leveraging the power of Maestro;

- Prepare and present the technical sections of SteerCo presentations, providing status updates to keep client leadership informed and aligned.

- Act as a trusted advisor to client leadership throughout the engagement lifecycle

- Work with Account Executives and Client Partners to articulate the value of Maestro and be able to discuss our implementation methodology/approach.

- Support the services sales opportunities as the solution and technical leader working with the Account Executives and Client Partners

What we are looking for

- Multiple cycles of leading development teams in complex supply-chain solution design, development, and testing

- 10 to 15 years of relevant experience in business software consulting and/or manufacturing and demand management.

- Experience in engaging and negotiating with C-level stakeholders

- Detailed knowledge of functional supply chain solutions such as ERP/MRP, Sales and Operations Planning, Demand Planning, Aggregated Supply Planning, Order Fulfilment, Capacity Planning, Inventory Management, and managing planning activities with distributors and contract manufacturers

- Familiarity with AI/ML concepts and their application in supply chain (e.g., forecasting, anomaly detection, optimization)

- SAP ECC/APO implementation experience or other major ERP implement