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:

• Own the North Star Architecture for their Segment, aligning to other technical and functional target architectures and driving technology adoption of the three-year road map.
• Responsible for the health of their Segment portfolio, proactively looking to remediate end of life scenarios, driving vendor roadmaps to meet K-C and Segment requirements, and ensuring the highest level of value is returned on technology investments.
• Questions the Status Quo and looks for opportunities to leverage reuse and drive global platform adoption, and to identify enterprise capabilities where unique solutions are not necessary. Proactively interacts with business partners and DTS at all stages of the lifecycle to collaborate with solution architects to design solutions, influence strategy, provide new business and technology ideas, align and prioritize projects to architecture priorities and drives architecture driven investments.
• Possesses a strong business and technological segment acumen to contribute to the strategic business plan and operational direction.
• Is recognized as an authority in IT, inside the organization and within the industry. Has a leadership role in external panels, conferences, and forums enhancing the stature of company in the industry and technology community.
• Provides collaborative and inspirational leadership, influence, and development for other Enterprise and Solution Architects in the organization.
• Tackles the highest complexity issues, applying leading-edge technology strategies to address business problems, and incorporates business maturity models that require a long-term, strategic perspective.
• Must look 1-3 years ahead to consider the long-term consequences for the enterprise when choosing a technical direction, proposing a technology investment, harmonization of the environments, simplification opportunities or advising a business leader on strategic issues.
• Possesses the broad expertise to integrate the technical vision for IT, integrating across technologies, systems, and organizations.
• Leads vendor selection process and provides recommendations for investment in technology solutions, supported by appropriate ROI, total cost of ownership, and/or cost benefit analyses.
• Develops architectural standards and roadmaps to migrate to standards that will add significant value to the business.
• Possesses Information management knowledge to collaborate with Data architect.
• Provides solution designs to IT project in the category of new vendor, new technology, and new capability.
• Empowers solution architect providing technical guidance, and needed training within capability scope
• Guarantees solution architects follow enterprise architecture practices for all projects within capability scope.
• Guarantees data quality and accuracy of enterprise artifact repository

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:

• 15+ years Information Technology Experience
• 10+ Years Architecture Experience
• 10+ years of experience in the CPG Industry
• Enterprise Architecture frameworks like TOGAF or Zachman
• Enterprise Architecture certified or equivalent experience using industry standards such as TOGAF or Zachman.
• Good communication skill, should be able to communicate with Senior leadership
• Experience developing architectural blueprints, standards and road maps.
• Evangelist for a bigger picture strategy, integrating the business and technological vision, connecting the dots across business needs, technologies, processes, and information.
• Proven experience across multiple business areas, and multiple technologies with well-rounded background in applications, software, databases, middleware, etc.
• Proven experience in large-complex application rationalization efforts, maximizing current investment and optimizing process complexity.
• Proven experience with future state architecture, taking business to the next level, creating competitive advantage to the business. Proven experience laying out technology roadmap connecting the dots with business needs.
• Proven experience in large, complex scale projects.
• Prior applications/software development (programming) experience.
• A strong desire to learn and expand their technical knowledge.
• Strong Technical leadership of Application Development teams and vendors
• A passion for leading and developing other Enterprise and Solution Architects .
• Ability to work in a virtual team which may work across distance (remote), cultures and time zones, in a matrix with multiple reporting lines, and may extend outside the K-C organization including suppliers, partners and customers

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.


In the meantime, please check out the careers website.

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.•