Director, Enterprise Application Architecture

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:

Our office in Ottawa, Canada

Reporting to the VP of Corporate IT, the Director, Enterprise Application Architecture is responsible for defining and executing the architectural vision that underpins Kinaxis' enterprise business systems. This strategic leadership role focuses on application architecture, integration frameworks, and AI-enabled business solutions that drive digital transformation, operational excellence, and scalability.

The successful candidate will be both a strategic thinker and a hands-on architecture leader, with a proven ability to translate business objectives into coherent, secure, and sustainable technology designs. They will serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, ensuring that technology investments align with enterprise priorities and deliver measurable business outcomes.

About the role:

Strategic Architecture Leadership

• Define and lead the enterprise application architecture strategy to align technology capabilities with business priorities and long-term objectives.
• Develop and maintain reference architectures, standards, and roadmaps that promote consistency, interoperability, and modernization across business applications.
• Drive the adoption of AI and automation technologies within enterprise applications to improve decision-making, operational efficiency, and user experience.
• Partner with IT and business leaders to evolve Kinaxis' application portfolio, optimizing system integration, reducing redundancy, and improving agility.
• Establish governance processes to ensure architecture alignment, manage technical debt, and guide major technology investment decisions.

Application and Integration Architecture

• Lead the design, modernization, and rationalization of core business applications (ERP, CRM, HRIS, finance, etc.), emphasizing modularity, interoperability, and scalability.
• 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

• Guide the integration of AI and machine learning capabilities into business applications, ensuring responsible and secure implementation.
• Collaborate with data science and AI enablement teams to architect intelligent workflows, and AI-driven business insights.
• Identify opportunities to leverage AI-enabled tools and applications for enhanced user productivity, process optimization, and innovation.

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.
• Mentor and develop a team of architects and solution leaders to strengthen organizational capability in enterprise and application architecture disciplines.

Primary Skills and Experience

• Bachelor's degree (or higher) in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
• 10+ years of experience in enterprise or application architecture, with a strong background in large-scale business application ecosystems.
• 5+ years of experience in global leadership roles driving architecture, modernization, and integration initiatives.
• Experience designing and implementing AI-enabled enterprise applications is strongly preferred.
• Strategic and conceptual thinker with the ability to connect technology strategy to business value.
• Deep understanding of enterprise application architecture, integration patterns, and modern application development practices.
• 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

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 Please note that this contact information is strictly for accessibility requests and cannot be used to inquire about application statuses.

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.