Senior Enterprise Architect - Cloud & Data Strategy

Cardinal Health; Springfield (IL); Remote; USD 123,000 - 176,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision coverage

Paid time off

401k savings plan

Health savings account (HSA)

Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)

Disability coverage

Work-Life resources

Paid parental leave

Healthy lifestyle programs

Job summary

Cardinal Health seeks a Senior Enterprise Architect to align architecture with business objectives and technology strategy, delivering measurable value. You will lead cross-functional teams across business, data, and security domains to drive speed to market and optimize total cost of ownership.

The role requires deep technical expertise, cloud platform experience (GCP preferred), and strong communication with C-Suite stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Translate business drivers into enterprise architecture requirements.

Responsibilities

• Translate business drivers into enterprise architecture requirements; align technology strategy with business goals and financial planning.
• Design next-generation architectures across business, application, data, and technology domains to enable agility, low TCO, and speed to market.
• Develop IT strategies, architecture roadmaps, reference architectures, and enforce standards, patterns, and governance.
• Build extensible solution architectures; ensure adherence during implementation; lead collaboration across business, data, integration, infrastructure, and security teams.
• Monitor emerging technologies, analyze industry trends, and recommend innovative approaches; provide thought leadership on adoption.
• Evaluate solutions considering risk, ROI, schedule, and budget; communicate and influence toward future-state architectures.
• Participate in RFPs, vendor evaluations, and sourcing; assess pricing models and upgrade/retirement plans; raise risks as needed.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Architecture leadership

Roadmaps & standards

Solution delivery

Innovation & research

Risk ROI analysis

Vendor management

Education & communication

Governance & compliance

TOGAF familiarity

Security & regulatory awareness

Cloud platforms knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Google Cloud

AWS

Azure

S4/HANA

Job description

Cardinal Health seeks a Senior Enterprise Architect to align architecture with business objectives and technology strategy, delivering measurable value. You will lead cross-functional teams across business, data, and security domains to drive speed to market and optimize total cost of ownership.

The role requires deep technical expertise, cloud platform experience (GCP preferred), and strong communication with C-Suite stakeholders.