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Every interaction, every model, every system generates data that must be stored, managed, and made accessible over time. That’s where we come in.\nWe combine deep engineering expertise with global-scale manufacturing to deliver the storage systems that make AI possible, powering hyperscale data centers, cloud platforms, and enterprise infrastructure worldwide.\nThis isn’t theoretical work. It’s real systems, at real scale, people solving some of the hardest challenges in technology today.\nWe’re looking for people who want to build, solve, and operate at that level.\nJoin us and let’s shape the future of data.\n Western Digital is building a world-class enterprise planning capability enabled through process transformation, connected data, and deployment of the Kinaxis Maestro platform. We are seeking a senior Kinaxis Architect to own the coherence, scalability and evolution of this business solution across demand, supply, capacity, material, procurement and factory-planning domains.\nYou will translate supply chain strategy and end-to-end planning requirements into an integrated solution architecture, governed design standards and a multi-release roadmap. This role combines hands-on platform depth with enterprise architecture judgment, cross-functional influence and the ability to build durable internal capability.\nEssential Duties and Responsibilities:\nOwn the end-to-end Kinaxis Maestro solution architecture, capability model and multi-release roadmap for the enterprise planning environment.\nTranslate supply chain strategy, planning-process requirements and cross-functional use cases into integrated functional and technical designs in close collaboration with Business and Technology partners.\nEstablish and govern solution standards for workbooks, scenarios, workflows, reports, hierarchies, planning parameters, closed loops, optimization logic, security and reusable design patterns.\nLead architecture decisions and design reviews spanning demand, supply, capacity, material, procurement, master scheduling, factory scheduling and scenario-based decision support.\nEnsure design consistency across planning domains, resolve trade-offs and prevent local configurations from creating fragmentation, performance issues or unsustainable maintenance.\nProvide architectural direction to transformation engineers, functional and technical solution experts, IT teams and delivery partners throughout requirements, build, test and deployment.\nPartner with IT architecture and engineering to ensure integrations with Oracle Cloud ERP, MES, PLM, data platforms and downstream execution processes are coherent, performant, secure and supportable.\nPartner with business data leaders and data stewards to define authoritative data requirements, business rules, hierarchies, quality controls and planning-output governance.\nGuide optimization architecture, scenario design, planning policies and model tuning, validating changes against end-to-end planning outcomes and business acceptance criteria.\nGovern release architecture, environment strategy, configuration transport, regression testing, production readiness and design integrity across development, QA, training and production.\nEvaluate Kinaxis releases, APIs, extensibility, automation and emerging capabilities, translating relevant innovation into a prioritized roadmap and governed adoption plan.\nBuild sustainable internal expertise through architecture documentation, design standards, coaching, communities of practice, certification pathways and structured partner knowledge transfer.\nLead root-cause analysis for complex defects, performance concerns and design issues, prioritizing durable corrective actions over short-term workarounds.\n Required qualifications\nSignificant hands-on Kinaxis Maestro / RapidResponse experience in solution architecture, functional design, configuration or technical leadership across multiple planning domains.\nDemonstrated ability to architect enterprise-scale planning solutions spanning demand, supply, capacity, materials, procurement, manufacturing or master scheduling.\nFull solution lifecycle experience covering discovery, requirements, architecture, configuration oversight, testing, deployment, stabilization and continuous improvement.\nStrong understanding of integrated supply chain planning, planning hierarchies, scenarios, constraints, optimization concepts, planning policies and closed-loop execution.\nExperience establishing solution standards, design governance, architecture reviews and reusable patterns within a complex enterprise platform.\nAbility to connect business-process requirements with data, integration, security, performance and supportability considerations.\nExperience leading cross-functional teams and influencing business leaders, process owners, IT architects, engineers, vendors and systems integrators without relying solely on formal authority.\nStrong analytical judgment and communication skills, including the ability to explain complex solution decisions to executive, business and technical audiences.\nA self-directed learning orientation and demonstrated habit of tracking platform releases, emerging capabilities and planning-industry practices.\nPreferred qualifications\nKinaxis certification in one or more functional, authoring, integration or architecture disciplines.\nExperience with concurrent planning, supply optimization, master scheduling, scenario management, workbook authoring, analytics, Control Tower or Command Center use cases.\nExperience integrating Kinaxis with Oracle Cloud ERP, MES, PLM, cloud data platforms, SQL-based environments, Power BI or Tableau.\nExperience with Kinaxis APIs, data models, extensibility frameworks, automation, custom logic or performance tuning.\nExperience in HDD, semiconductor, high-technology or complex discrete manufacturing supply chains.\nExperience transitioning platform ownership from a systems integrator to an internal Center of Excellence or product-oriented capability team.\nExposure to AI-enabled planning, agentic workflows, decision intelligence or orchestration across multiple supply chain platforms.\n WD is committed to providing equal opportunities to all applicants and employees and will not discriminate against any applicant or employee based on their race, color, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming standards), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), gender (including a person’s gender identity, gender expression, and gender-related appearance and behavior, whether or not stereotypically associated with the person’s assigned sex at birth), age, national origin, sexual orientation, medical condition, marital status (including domestic partnership status), physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, protected medical and family care leave, Civil Air Patrol status, military and veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. We also prohibit harassment of any individual on any of the characteristics listed above. Our non-discrimination policy applies to all aspects of employment. We comply with the laws and regulations set forth in the \"Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal ” poster. Our pay transparency policy is available here.\nWD thrives on the power and potential of diversity. As a global company, we believe the most effective way to embrace the diversity of our customers and communities is to mirror it from within. We believe the fusion of various perspectives results in the best outcomes for our employees, our company, our customers, and the world around us. We are committed to an inclusive environment where every individual can thrive through a sense of belonging, respect and contribution.\nWD is committed to offering opportunities to applicants with disabilities and ensuring all candidates can successfully navigate our careers website and our hiring process. Please contact us at  to advise us of your accommodation request. In your email, please include a description of the specific accommodation you are requesting as well as the job title and requisition number of the position for which you are applying.\nBased on our experience, we anticipate that the application deadline will be 2/10/2026 (3 months from posting), although we reserve the right to close the application process sooner if we hire an applicant for this position before the application deadline. If we are not able to hire someone from this role before the application deadline, we will update this posting with a new anticipated application deadline.\nCompensation & Benefits Details\nAn employee’s pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills, ability, knowledge of the job; (3) performance, contribution and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs.\nThe salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California, Colorado, New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California, Colorado and New York. This range may be modified in the future.\nIf your position is non-exempt, you are eligible for overtime pay pursuant to company policy and applicable laws. You may also be eligible for shift differential pay, depending on the shift to which you are assigned.\nYou will be eligible to be considered for bonuses under either WD’s Short Term Incentive Plan (“STI Plan”) or the Sales Incentive Plan (“SIP”) which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance, depending on your role and your performance. You may be eligible to participate in our annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents, pursuant to the terms of the LTI plan. Please note that not all roles are eligible to participate in the LTI program, and not all roles are eligible for equity under the LTI plan. RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires, subject to WD's Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards.\n\nWe offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid vacation time; paid sick leave; medical/dental/vision insurance; life, accident and disability insurance; tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts; employee assistance program; other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity; tuition reimbursement; transit; the Applause Program; employee stock purchase plan; and the WD Savings 401(k) Plan.\nNote: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.\nNotice To Candidates: Please be aware that WD and its subsidiaries will never request payment as a condition for applying for a position or receiving an offer of employment. 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