Director, M&A Security & Infrastructure Enterprise Architect

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 .

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

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Primary Location

USA-TX-Dallas

Additional Locations

USA-GA-Atlanta-Roswell, USA-REMOTE, USA-WI-Neenah

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time