Director, M&A Security & Infrastructure Enterprise Architect - Kimberly-Clark Corporation
Irving, TX 75014
About the Job
Job Description
You were made to do this work: designing new technologies, diving into data, optimizing digital experiences, and constantly developing better, faster ways to get results. You want to be part of a performance culture dedicated to building technology for a purpose that matters. You want to work in an environment that promotes sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.
In this role, you will:
Work in close collaboration with the CISO and CTO organizations, develop and drive Security and Cloud architecture strategy that is translated into a well governed, measurable, and attainable execution roadmap.
- Evaluate M&A Architecture and Compatibility: Assess the target entity’s IT and network architecture to identify redundancies, compatibility issues, and critical integration or separation points for systems, data, applications, and infrastructure.
- Develop and document a unified M&A architectural vision that aligns with business strategies and promotes standard services and technologies.
- Create a Comprehensive M&A Roadmap: Design a detailed roadmap for systems integration or separation, ensuring alignment with business objectives and measurable progress through well-defined phases, timelines, and milestones.
- Drive execution of Technology Strategy, with particular emphasis on the security and infrastructure/Cloud Domains.
- Facilitate continued Digital Transformation journey by providing the framework, prioritization, governance, and metrics.
- Define infrastructure architecture principles, standards, and guidelines.
- Maintain a roadmap that includes reference, current state, interim state, and target state blueprints and which realizes the security and infrastructure architecture strategies.
- Provide oversight and collaboration with project teams to ensure deployed solutions are in alignment with architecture standards.
- Partner with the business and solution delivery teams to select approaches and products to meet business needs, leveraging and adhering to architecture standards and guidelines.
- Convert high level requirements into architecture blueprints. Prepare presentations, documents, diagrams, models, and other artifacts as required to communicate recommendations, risks, and plans.
- Collaborate with Solution Architects, Engineers, and others to extend architecture into detailed designs, leveraging established principles, standards and guidelines and advancing the infrastructure enterprise architecture roadmap.
- Provide architecture guidance to project solution architects in support of solution design. Guide identification of assets or services that can be re-used across project solutions to drive consistency, cost reduction, and speed to market.
- Support the Enterprise Architecture Governance processes, providing security and infrastructure architecture expertise as needed to further Kimberly-Clark’s enterprise architecture.
- Facilitate targeted innovation. Research and lead proof-of-concepts to assess and build new capabilities within the security and infrastructure domain. Work across architecture domains on enterprise level innovations (cloud, mobility, integration, etc.).
- Proactively bring security and infrastructure expertise and strategies into all architecture discussions, decisions and designs that might influence or be guided by architecture strategies and roadmaps.
- Guide, mentor, and help to build the skill and experience of enterprise and solution architects and engineers.
- Maintain a deep understanding of Kimberly-Clark needs and concerns related to security and infrastructure architecture.
- Maintain a deep understanding of industry trends and solutions. Identify, quantify, and promote opportunities.
About Us
Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.
At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re founded on more than 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.
Led by Purpose. Driven by You.
About You
You perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring. You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.
You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, we’re constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results. When you join our team, you’ll experience Flex That Works: flexible (hybrid) work arrangements that empower you to have purposeful time in the office and partner with your leader to make flexibility work for both you and the business.
In one of our technical roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center. To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:
Qualifications:
- 15+ years of progressive work experience in IT, Strategy, and Architecture.
- Proven track record of leading successful integration and divestiture projects, with expertise in assessing, planning, and executing architectural changes during M&A activities.
- Experience in using architecture methodologies such as Zachman or TOGAF.
- Full-stack knowledge of IT infrastructure.
- Direct experience designing and IAM technologies and services.
- Experience with threat modeling and application vulnerability assessments.
- Experience designing and deploying applications and infrastructure into public cloud services.
- Skilled in application delivery, client relationship management, business knowledge, intuition and judgment, and collaboration.
- Able to motivate others and obtain buy-in across all levels of the organization.
- Able to challenge the status quo.
- Strong communication through presentation of strategy to different levels of the organization.
- Excellent written and verbal communications including content creation through various mediums.
- Proven ability to mentor engineering and architecture resources.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in SAFe Agile Architecture.
- The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) Certification/Experience.
- CISSP Information Systems Security Architecture Professional (CISSIP-ISSAP).
- NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) Experience.
- Experience in Risk, regulations, standards, and frameworks.
Total Benefits
Here are just a few of the benefits you’d enjoy working in this role for Kimberly-Clark. For a complete overview, see www.mykcbenefits.com.
Great support for good health with medical, dental, and vision coverage options with no waiting periods or pre-existing condition restrictions. Access to an on-site fitness center, occupational health nurse, and allowances for high-quality safety equipment.
Flexible Savings and spending accounts to maximize health care options and stretch dollars when caring for yourself or dependents.
Diverse income protection insurance options to protect yourself and your family in case of illness, injury, or other unexpected events.
Additional programs and support to continue your education, adopt a child, relocate, or even find temporary childcare.
To Be Considered
Click the Apply button and complete the online application process. A member of our recruiting team will review your application and follow up if you seem like a great fit for this role.
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And finally, the fine print….
For Kimberly-Clark to grow and prosper, we must be an inclusive organization that applies the diverse experiences and passions of its team members to brands that make life better for people all around the world. We actively seek to build a workforce that reflects the experiences of our consumers. When you bring your original thinking to Kimberly-Clark, you fuel the continued success of our enterprise. We are a committed equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this classification. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position.
Employment is subject to verification of pre-screening tests, which may include drug screening, background check, and DMV check.
Total rewards at Kimberly-Clark includes pay and a full package of benefits that can be tailored to individual needs. The anticipated pay range for this job has a range of$181,200 – $260,800 in addition to bonus potential. Individual pay levels will be based on multiple factors including, but are not limited to, location, role, skill set, and level of experience.
Additional information about the compensation and benefits for this role are available upon request. You may contact 866-444-4516 – when prompted for employee ID, say “OTHER CALLER” - or kcchrprod@service-now.com for assistance. You must include the six-digit Job # with your request.
Veterans and members of the Reserve and Guard are highly encouraged to apply.
Kimberly-Clark will support in-country relocation for the chosen candidate for the role. The benefits provided will be per the terms of Kimberly-Clark’s applicable mobility policies. The benefits/policy provided will be decided at Kimberly-Clark’s sole discretion.
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