Salesforce Technical Architect

About Kinaxis

Elevate your career journey by embracing a new challenge with Kinaxis. We are experts in tech, but its really our people who give us passion to always seek ways to do things better. As such, were 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 Canadas 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 worlds supply chains to help preserve the planets 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.

Location Hybrid if based in Ottawa. Remote for all other locations in Canada.

About the team The Enterprise Architecture team at Kinaxis shapes the long‑term technical direction of our enterprise platforms, ensuring our technology ecosystem remains scalable, secure, and aligned with our strategic goals. We work across Corporate IT and business teams to set architectural guardrails, provide solution guidance, and steward the health of critical platforms such as Salesforce, ServiceNow, NetSuite, and others.

We are growing our architecture capability and are looking for a Technical Architect to take ownership of the technical roadmap, patterns, integrations, and platform engineering excellence for Salesforce.

About the Role As a Technical Architect, you will be the technical authority and long‑term steward of the Salesforce platform at Kinaxis. You will own the detailed technical design of solutions, guide developers on engineering best practices, and ensure our Salesforce ecosystem is built for reliability, scalability, and maintainability.

You will partner closely with Solution Architects, Enterprise Architects, developers, security, and business teams to ensure technical designs support business value while aligning with enterprise integration and architecture standards. This is a hands‑on, engineering‑forward architecture role. You will shape how Salesforce evolves at Kinaxis: defining patterns, reducing technical debt, modernizing integrations, and driving platform maturity.

Vacancy Status This is an existing job vacancy.

What you will do

Technical Architecture & Design

• Create detailed technical solution designs, including data models, integration specifications, automation patterns, and security models.
• Translate high‑level solution architecture into implementable technical blueprints.
• Own and maintain Salesforce reference architectures, reusable patterns, and guardrails.
• Conduct code and design reviews; ensure alignment with standards, integration patterns, and security policies.
• Lead troubleshooting of complex issues across data, integrations, and platform components.

Integration & Data Architecture

• Design and oversee integrations between Salesforce and enterprise systems using API‑first principles.
• Define integration contracts, data transformation rules, error handling strategies, and performance requirements.
• Ensure governance of master data and consistent platform-to-platform interactions.

Technical Governance & Collaboration

• Participate in Architectural Review Board (ARB) processes for platform‑related decisions; automating governance wherever possible.
• Partner with Solution Architects to ensure technical feasibility and alignment with business needs.
• Communicate risks, constraints, and trade‑offs clearly to technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

What we are looking for

Education & Experience

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5-7+ years building and designing solutions on enterprise platforms, including at least 2-3 years architecting Salesforce or similarly complex systems.
• Proven experience as a senior developer or technical lead on Salesforce, building scalable, secure, and performant solutions.

Technical Skills

• Expertise in Salesforce platform architecture, including Apex, Lightning Web Components, platform events, flows, automation, identity (OAuth/SAML), and integration mechanisms.
• Strong understanding of API‑first design, event‑driven architecture, error handling, and integration patterns.
• Hands‑on experience with CI/CD pipelines, version control, and environment strategy.
• Strong grasp of non‑functional design: performance modeling, limits management, data modeling, and secure configuration.

Certifications (Preferred)

• Salesforce Platform Developer II, Application Architect, or progress toward the Architect track.

Work With Impact Our platform directly helps companies power the worlds 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 were 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 these are some of the perks and benefits we created for our team:

• Flexible vacation and Kinaxis Days (company-wide day off on the third Friday of every month)
• 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 companys 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 the 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. 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.