Kinaxis Senior Solution Architect

Short Description

Translate business requirements into Kinaxis RapidResponse software specifications, following supply chain industry trends and best practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in operations research, Industrial Engineering, Engineering Management, Business Analytics, Computer Science, or related fields with a concentration in operations or analytics.
• 7+ years of experience implementing any supply chain Advanced Planning Solutions like o9, Blue Yonder, Kinaxis, OMP, E2Open, etc.
• Firsthand experience in leading a team through at least 2 full lifecycle implementations of a supply chain planning solution including business requirement gathering, solution design & development, testing, go-live/cutover, hyper care, and value realization.
• Experience in Agile methodology to deliver large scale enterprise solutions.

Job Responsibilities

• Perform detailed discovery sessions with business users to understand and document RapidResponse configuration requirements, including: the customers’ supply chain network, operating model, system landscape, planning processes, as well as objectives and targets for Kinaxis implementation.
• Select standard functionalities in RapidResponse and design data model changes, solution configuration and customizations.
• Lead solution blueprinting and detailed design activities 
• Assign configuration tasks to project members according to their skills, review deliverables and track completion.
• Apply advanced mathematical models to address customer requirements.
• Understand Supply Chain Industry trends and benchmark customers performance against the same.
• Support data management and data integration activities, including source systems data transformation, data loading into Rapid Response, data cleanup and validation.
• Support services sales opportunities working with the Account Executives and Client Partners.
• Support customer and project team on Quality Control/Quality Assurance practices to the configured solution, including executing unit test scripts and supporting the execution of end-to-end tests and user acceptance tests.
• Support troubleshooting and resolution of solution issues.
• Assess project performance and document lessons learned to increase institutional knowledge. Ensure solutions team adheres to Kinaxis methodologies and quality standards.