Director, Enterprise Application Architecture

About Kinaxis:
**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. Today, we have grown to become a global organization with over 2000 employees around the world, with a brand-new HQ based in Kanata North in Ottawa. As one of Canada’s Top Employers, we are proud to work with our customers and employees towards solving some of the biggest challenges facing supply chains today.

At Kinaxis, we power the world’s supply chains to help preserve the planet’s resources and enrich the human experience. As a global leader in end-to-end supply chain management, we enable supply chain excellence for all industries, 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.

About the team:
**Location**:
Our office in Ottawa, Canada

**About the role**:
About the role:
**What you will do**:
Strategic Architecture Leadership
- Establish governance processes to ensure architecture alignment, manage technical debt, and guide major technology investment decisions.

Application and Integration Architecture
- Partner with Data and Product Architecture teams to define integration standards that connect systems and support analytics, AI, and automation initiatives.

AI and Intelligent Systems Enablement
- Collaborate with data science and AI enablement teams to architect intelligent workflows, and AI-driven business insights.

Collaboration and Governance
- Partner with Security, Infrastructure, and Data teams to maintain architectural integrity, consistency, and resilience across enterprise systems.
- Act as a trusted architecture advisor for program and project governance, ensuring solutions are technically sound, scalable, and aligned with enterprise standards.
- Engage with technology vendors to assess emerging trends and capabilities that can advance Kinaxis’ architecture strategy.

**What we are looking for**:
Primary Skills and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree (or higher) in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
- 5+ years of experience in global leadership roles driving architecture, modernization, and integration initiatives.
- Strategic and conceptual thinker with the ability to connect technology strategy to business value.
- Demonstrated experience in defining and governing architecture standards, principles, and best practices.
- Strong understanding of security and compliance as applied to enterprise systems and integrations.
- Excellent communicator and collaborator, able to bridge business and technical audiences effectively.

Role Specific Skills and Experience
- Expertise in modern architecture patterns: microservices, event-driven design, API management, and service orchestration.
- Familiarity with AI architecture concepts, including intelligent automation, model orchestration, and data-driven decisioning.
- Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks and tools (e.g., TOGAF, ArchiMate, LeanIX).
- Strong consulting, stakeholder engagement, and change management capabilities.
- A continuous improvement mindset with a focus on simplification and innovation.

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Why join Kinaxis?:
**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, Yamaha, P&G, Honda, 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 net-zero operations strategy for the long term. We are involved in our communities and support causes where we can make the most impact.
- People matter_ at Kinaxis and these are some of the perks and benefits we created for our team:

- Flexible vacation and Kinaxis Days (company-wide day off on the last Friday of every month)
- Flexible work options
- Physical and mental well-being programs
- Regularly scheduled virtual fitness classes
- Mentorship programs and training and career development
- Recognition programs and referral rewards
- Hackathons