Principle Enterprise Architect
Richmond, VA - USA
Job Summary
McKesson is an impact-driven Fortune 10 company that touches virtually every aspect of healthcare. We are known for delivering insights products and services that make quality care more accessible and affordable. Here we focus on the health happiness and well-being of you and those we serve we care.
What you do at McKesson matters. We foster a culture where you can grow make an impact and are empowered to bring new ideas. Together we thrive as we shape the future of health for patients our communities and our people. If you want to be part of tomorrows health today we want to hear from you.
Key Responsibilities
Lead architecture review board reviews and provide architectural guidance for enterprise technology initiatives.
Partner with application infrastructure security cloud and operations teams to evaluate solution designs and technology decisions.
Identify architectural operational security and supportability risks and provide recommendations for mitigation.
Consult with project teams throughout the solution lifecycle from initial design through implementation and operational transition.
Develop and maintain technology standards architectural patterns and governance processes.
Evaluate emerging technologies and provide recommendations on adoption and enterprise fit.
Review proposed architectures for scalability reliability maintainability and alignment with enterprise objectives.
Build strong partnerships with technical and business stakeholders and serve as a trusted advisor on technology decisions.
Prepare and present architectural recommendations readiness assessments and governance findings to leadership and governance forums.
Required Qualifications
Bachelors degree in Information Technology Computer Science Engineering or equivalent experience.
10 years of experience in enterprise architecture solution architecture engineering infrastructure or related technology roles.
Experience leading architecture reviews and guiding technical decision-making across diverse technology domains.
Strong understanding of application architecture cloud platforms integrations security infrastructure and operational support models.
Experience working directly with delivery teams engineering teams and technology leadership.
Demonstrated ability to influence decisions and drive consensus across technical and business stakeholders.
Excellent communication facilitation and presentation skills.
Ability to balance governance requirements with practical delivery needs.
Demonstrated hands-on experience with emerging AI technologies and ability to apply them to real-world challenges
Preferred Qualifications
Experience participating in or leading architecture review boards or similar governance processes.
Experience supporting production readiness operational readiness deployment governance or service transition activities.
Experience with cloud platforms DevOps practices enterprise integrations and observability/monitoring solutions.
Experience in large complex enterprise environments especially healthcare or medical distribution
Experience with large-scale distribution supply chain logistics fulfillment or e-commerce platforms.
Experience with Google Cloud Platform Kubernetes IaC/Terraform
Knowledge of IT operational processes including incident change problem and service management.
Experience creating technology standards reference architectures and architectural guidance.
Experience working within regulated or highly governed environments.
About McKesson Medical-Surgical
McKesson Medical-Surgical (MMS) which is expected to become Wellverse in early 2027 is a subsidiary and publicly reported segment of the McKesson Corporation. MMS distributes medical-surgical supplies pharmaceuticals diagnostic equipment and supplies along with other solutions and services to virtually every type of healthcare setting and provider outside of the traditional hospital. These markets often referred to as Alternate Care or Non-Acute Care include physician offices surgery centers long-term care providers laboratories home health and hospice agencies health systems government facilities and online marketplaces and retailers.
Alternate Care markets are growing rapidly and MMS is proud to be a leader in this space. With a team of approximately 8000 employees a network of 15 distribution centers and approximately 900 delivery vehicles we collaborate with more than 2200 leading manufacturers and serve over 200000 customer accounts across the U.S. Our catalog includes more than 270000 SKUs of branded and private-label medical-surgical products from bandages to specialty pharmaceuticals and COVID-19 tests.
We are proud to offer a competitive compensation package at McKesson as part of our Total Rewards. This is determined by several factors including performance experience and skills equity regular job market evaluations and geographical markets. The pay range shown below is aligned with McKessons pay philosophy and pay will always be compliant with any applicable regulations. In addition to base pay other compensation such as an annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may be offered. For more information regarding benefits at McKesson pleaseclick here.
Our Base Pay Range for this position
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About Company
McKesson is the leading healthcare company for wholesale medical supplies & equipment, pharmaceutical distribution, and healthcare technology solutions. McKesson is the central nervous system of health care. At any given moment, in any given minute, we simultaneously execute thousands ... View more