Solution Architect, Customer Platforms

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.

Location

Hybrid if based in Toronto or Ottawa. Remote for other locations in Canada 

About the team

As a Solution Architect, Customer Platforms, you will translate business objectives into enterprise-grade solutions across our customer-facing platforms. Success in this role is measured by the business outcomes delivered, including improved customer experience, revenue enablement, operational efficiency, and customer trust.

You will serve as a key bridge between business strategy and technical execution, providing architecture leadership for complex initiatives and ensuring solutions align with enterprise architecture principles, governance requirements, and long-term business goals. Working closely with teams across Sales, Customer Success, Support, Marketing, Professional Services, Revenue Operations, and Technology, you will help shape the future of the customer platform ecosystem.

Vacancy Status

This is an existing job vacancy

What you will do

• Translate customer-facing business requirements into scalable, secure solution architectures across CRM, service and support, partner engagement, revenue operations, and digital experience platforms.
• Lead architecture for highly complex, non-routine, and often undefined initiatives, determining solution approaches, patterns, and decision frameworks where limited precedent exists, with ownership for architectural direction within assigned work.
• Own solution outcomes through delivery by guiding key decisions, evaluating options and trade-offs, and ensuring implementation remains aligned with the intended business value.
• Design end-to-end solutions that address business, functional, and non-functional requirements, including security, scalability, governance, customer experience, and revenue considerations.
• Evaluate and shape the use of emerging technologies needed to improve customer outcomes, business effectiveness, and platform capabilities, balancing value, feasibility, complexity, and risk.
• Develop implementation-ready architecture artifacts for large and complex initiatives, including integration patterns, data flows, APIs, workflows, architecture diagrams, decision records, and risk mitigation approaches, to support effective delivery and maintain solution integrity through implementation.
• Assess, architect, and integrate intelligent (AI/ML) capabilities responsibly within customer workflows, with a focus on governed, human-in-the-loop usage, appropriate oversight, auditability, and strong data governance to ensure responsible adoption in risk-sensitive activities.
• Partner with senior business and technical stakeholders to bridge business strategy and technical execution within the customer platforms domain, shape architectural direction, evaluate build, buy, and consolidation options, and support roadmap and investment decisions.
• Communicate architectural trade-offs and recommendations in business and technical terms, including customer impact, risk, cost, time-to-value, and longer-term operational implications.
• Provide technical leadership through influence by mentoring architects and technologists, guiding architecture reviews, and promoting reusable customer platform patterns and practices across multiple functions while contributing to the advancement of architecture maturity within the domain.

What we are looking for

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Business Technology, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience; advanced degree or relevant certification may be preferred.
• 7–10 years of progressive experience in solution architecture, customer platform architecture, or other advanced technical roles, including demonstrated success leading complex, cross-functional initiatives.
• Advanced, wide-ranging solution architecture expertise, including architecture modeling, customer journey and process design, data and integration architecture, API design, and non-functional requirements engineering.
• Deep experience designing complex customer-facing solutions across one or more major platforms such as CRM, customer service and support, digital experience, partner engagement, or revenue operations, with the ability to apply that expertise across adjacent domains.
• Strong knowledge of modern integration and interoperability patterns, including API-first, event-driven, asynchronous, and workflow orchestration approaches.
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex, non-routine, and underdefined problems by establishing or refining methods, standards, and architectural approaches.
• Expert understanding of governance, security, privacy, compliance, and control considerations in customer-facing solution design, including when to involve specialized architecture partners.
• Strong communication and influence skills, with the ability to guide decisions, align stakeholders, and provide expert architectural leadership without direct authority.

Work With Impact: Our platform directly helps companies power the world’s supply chains. We see the results of what we do out in the world every day, when we see store shelves stocked, when medications are available for our loved ones, and so much more.

Work with Fortune 500 Brands: Companies across industries trust us to help them take control of their integrated business planning and digital supply chain. Some of our customers include Lockheed Martin, Unilever, P&G, ExxonMobil, Cisco and more.

Social Responsibility at Kinaxis: Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee weighs in on hiring practices, talent assessment training materials, and mandatory training on unconscious bias and inclusion fundamentals. Sustainability is key to what we do and we’re committed to a long-term net-zero operations strategy. We are involved in our communities and support causes where we can make the most impact.

People matter at Kinaxis and here are some of the perks and benefits we offer, which may vary by location and employee:

• Flexible vacation and Kinaxis Days (company-wide days off)
• Flexible work options
• Physical and mental well-being programs
• Regularly scheduled virtual fitness classes
• Mentorship programs, training, and career development
• Recognition programs and referral rewards
• Hackathons

For more information, visit the Kinaxis website at www.kinaxis.com or the company’s blog at http://blog.kinaxis.com.

Kinaxis welcomes candidates to apply to our inclusive community. We provide accommodations upon request to ensure fairness and accessibility throughout our recruitment process for all candidates, including those with specific needs or disabilities. If you require an accommodation, please reach out to us at recruitmentprograms@kinaxis.com. This contact information is for accessibility requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.

Kinaxis is committed to ensuring a fair and transparent recruitment process. We use artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the initial step of the recruitment process to compare submitted resumes against the job description to identify candidates whose education, experience, and skills most closely match the requirements of the role. After the initial screening, all subsequent decisions regarding your application, including final selection, are made by our human recruitment team. AI does not make any final hiring decisions.