Digital Marketing Solution Architect

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Digital Marketing Solution Architect Digital Marketing Solution Architect Job Description Join the team behind iconic brands like Huggies®, Kleenex®, Cottonelle®, Scott®, Kotex®, Poise®, Depend®, and Kimberly-Clark Professional® At Kimberly-Clark, it's all here for you---innovation, growth, and the chance to make a real impact. You were made to create Better Care for a Better World: 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. Here, you'll work in an environment that promotes sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development while you help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU. About You 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. Architect \& implement scalable, secure, performant, and resilient approaches for brand websites that meet business and technical requirements use modern CMS systems and MACH principles. Enable personalization, performance optimization, and measurable business outcomes. Comply with CPRA/CCPA, GDPR, and other data privacy and regulatory requirements. Manage current state documents including diagrams, operational runbooks, and future-state roadmaps. Align digital marketing strategies within the platform architecture and guidelines. Apply principles around people, process, information, and technology to design. Collaborate with stakeholders and cross-functional teams to translate business needs into technical specifications and architectural designs. Provide Full-Stack technical leadership and guidance to development teams on modern CMS systems for building dynamic and high-performing sites, ensuring best practices are followed. Continuously evaluate and recommend new tools and technologies to enhance the digital experience. Lead efforts to incorporate compliance features, such as consent management and secure data handling, into the architecture. Collaborate with legal and compliance teams to ensure that architectural designs align with regulatory requirements. Stay current with industry trends in digital experience platforms and architecture, continuously evaluating emerging technologies and best practices to keep our brand experiences cutting-edge. Provide guidance on selecting technologies and tools that also support compliance and data protection. Operational Ownership to ensure uptime and reliability of all brand sites through proactive monitoring, incident management, and performance optimization including incident response and root cause analysis. Troubleshoot and resolve architectural challenges, ensuring that solutions are scalable, secure, and performant. Mentor and support other architects and engineers within the team, fostering a culture of technical excellence and innovation. Provide Legacy Support for existing sites during migration to MACH architecture where needed. To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications: Required Qualifications Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field. 10 years of hands-on experience in solution architecture for large-scale, consumer-facing digital experiences. Domain Expertise: Proven expertise architecting in the marketing technology space. 5 years hands-on experience with platforms/tools like CMS, CDP offerings, CRM, Personalization and other various other solutions at the API level. Strong expertise in modern digital solutions (including headless and traditional), with experience in integration patterns and best practices. Excellent understanding of web technologies, frameworks, and best practices, including: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript/Typescript, React.js, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Node.js and server-side JavaScript, RESTful APIs and GraphQL. Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to think strategically about scalability, performance, and security. Expertise in MACH architectural approaches Hands-on expertise developing scalable consumer facing digital solutions using modern frameworks and API-first approaches. Familiarity with containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes. Experience designing and optimizing relational databases and stored procedures for performance and maintainability; strong SQL skills required. Experience with cloud ecosystems (Azure or AWS) and deploying solutions in cloud-native environments. Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and security scans in agile environments. Knowledge of SEO best practices and analytics tagging for digital experiences. Experience with version control, specifically Git and branching/versioning methodologies. Strong communication and leadership skills, with experience collaborating across marketing, product, and engineering teams. Preferred Qualifications Proven ability to lead and mentor development teams, fostering technical excellence and innovation. Experience with Agile methodologies and project management tools. Strong understanding of data privacy regulations (GDPR, CPRA/CCPA) and ability to embed compliance features such as consent management and secure data handling. Familiar with applying system design and abstraction concepts in large ecosystems including headless, functional abstraction, containerization, and composable, layered, \& event driven architecture. Ability to evaluate and select emerging technologies to support future-state digital experiences. Preferred experience integrating CDPs to enable unified customer profiles and personalized experiences. Understanding of identity resolution and event-driven data flows for real-time personalization. Exposure to eCommerce systems, personalization engines, or digital marketing technologies. Led by Purpose. Driven by You. To Be Considered Click the Apply