Remote Senior Enterprise Architect — Cloud, Data & Security Strategy

Cardinal Health; Topeka (KS); Hybrid; USD 123,000 - 176,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision coverage

Paid time off plan

Health savings account (HSA)

401k savings plan

Access to wages before pay day with my

Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)

Short- and long-term disability

Work-Life resources

Paid parental leave

Healthy lifestyle programs

Job summary

Cardinal Health is seeking a Senior Enterprise Architect to align architecture with business objectives and drive measurable value. You will lead cross-functional teams across business, data, and security to deliver scalable, secure, and cost-effective architectures.

Focus areas include cloud strategy (GCP / AWS / Azure), governance, and roadmap development. This role collaborates with senior leadership and supports GMPD technology strategy enablement.

Qualifications

• 4-8 years of experience, preferred

Responsibilities

• Strategic Alignment: Translate business drivers into enterprise architecture requirements; align technology strategy with business goals and financial planning.
• Architecture Leadership: Design next-generation architectures across business, application, data, and technology domains to enable agility, low TCO, and speed to market.
• Roadmaps & Standards: Develop IT strategies, architecture roadmaps, reference architectures, and enforce standards, patterns, and governance.
• Solution Delivery: Build extensible solution architectures; ensure adherence during implementation; lead collaboration across business, data, integration, infrastructure, and security teams.
• Innovation & Research: Monitor emerging technologies, analyze industry trends, and recommend innovative approaches; provide thought leadership on adoption.
• Risk & ROI Analysis: Evaluate solutions considering risk, ROI, schedule, and budget; communicate and influence toward future-state architectures.
• Vendor & Tool Management: Participate in RFPs, vendor evaluations, and sourcing; assess pricing models and upgrade/retirement plans. Deliver insights on selected vendors; raise risks with incumbents.
• Education & Communication: Promote EA processes and outcomes; create training materials and technical position papers; lead communication plans.
• Governance & Compliance: Establish guiding principles for solution decisions; maintain technology vision and standards across projects.

Skills

Strategic Alignment

Architecture Leadership

Roadmaps & Standards

Solution Delivery

Innovation & Research

Risk & ROI Analysis

Vendor & Tool Management

Education & Communication

Governance & Compliance

Senior Stakeholder Engagement

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering or related field

Tools

Google Cloud

AWS

Microsoft Azure

SAP S4/HANA

Business Objects

Data modeling

TOGAF

Job description

Cardinal Health is seeking a Senior Enterprise Architect to align architecture with business objectives and drive measurable value. You will lead cross-functional teams across business, data, and security to deliver scalable, secure, and cost-effective architectures.

Focus areas include cloud strategy (GCP / AWS / Azure), governance, and roadmap development. This role collaborates with senior leadership and supports GMPD technology strategy enablement.