Sr. Director, NAPD Domain Architect

McKesson Medical-Surgical Inc.; Irving (TX); Hybrid; USD 184,000 - 306,000; Full time

Job summary

McKesson seeks a Sr. Director, NAPD Domain Architect to lead architecture for its North American Pharmaceutical Distribution business. You will own end-to-end landscape, drive decisions across transformation programs, and mentor architects shaping a coherent, scalable architecture.

The role requires systems thinking, executive presence, and the ability to partner with senior leaders to prioritize investments and guide complex programs through a regulated environment.

Qualifications

• 13+ years of architecture experience with leadership in program delivery.
• Experience leading enterprise-scale digital transformation programs.
• Expertise in cloud-native, hybrid-cloud, and platform ecosystems.
• Proven ability to influence executives and drive cross-functional alignment.
• Knowledge of integration, API, microservices, and distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a current NAPD architecture landscape across transformation programs.
• Own and lead the NAPD Architecture Community of Practice.
• Build and develop the NAPD architecture team and talent.
• Assess architecture quality and coherence across programs.
• Define and execute architecture strategy aligned with digital transformation.
• Deploy architecture standards and governance with enterprise architecture board.
• Define API, integration, and interoperability strategies.
• Partner with executives to prioritize investments and manage budgets.
• Collaborate with product leaders and enterprise architects to ensure interoperability.

Skills

Enterprise Architecture

Solution Architecture

Application Architecture

Leadership

Cloud-native

API architecture

Stakeholder management

Strategic leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field

Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related discipline

Tools

LeanIX

Ardoq

Azure

Power Platform

SAP

Job description

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 tomorrow’s health today, we want to hear from you.

About the Role

McKesson is seeking a Sr. Director, NAPD Domain Architect to lead architecture for its North American Pharmaceutical Distribution (NAPD) business. As NAPD executes significant transformation across Supply Chain Modernization, Pricing, Customer Performance Management, and Connect Ordering, this role exists to ensure those programs form a coherent, connected architecture.

This leader will build and lead the NAPD architecture function, owning the end-to-end landscape, driving architecture decisions across transformation programs, developing the architects who carry that work, and partnering closely with enterprise and data architects across McKesson to ensure solutions are interoperable, aligned to strategic objectives, and built to last. The role carries direct visibility to technology and business leadership and operates as the architecture authority for NAPD while bridging into the broader enterprise architecture function.

The ideal candidate is a systems thinker with the technical depth to earn the respect of architects and engineers, the ability to build and lead a team, and the executive presence to influence investment and design decisions at the leadership level. This is a role for someone who sees across programs, surfaces duplication and risk before they become expensive, and has the credibility and conviction to shape architecture direction in a complex, high-stakes environment.

What You’ll Do

• Maintain a current NAPD architecture landscape across all transformation programs, ensuring estate-wide visibility into the end-to-end technology portfolio.
• Surface duplication and rationalization opportunities at the portfolio level before build, enabling proactive investment decisions and reducing redundancy across programs.
• Own and lead the NAPD Architecture Community of Practice, bringing architects across programs together on patterns, standards, and shared design principles, extending architecture influence beyond your direct team.
• Build, lead, and develop the NAPD architecture team, including hiring, succession planning, and performance management.
• Assess architecture quality and coherence across programs, working closely with enterprise and data architects to ensure solutions are interconnected, interoperable, and aligned to the NAPD target state.
• Define and execute architecture strategy for NAPD aligned with digital transformation objectives across Supply Chain, Pricing, Customer Performance Management, Sales Digital Tools and Connect Ordering.
• Work with Enterprise architecture board to deploy architecture standards, governance frameworks, decision rights, technology lifecycle management, and roadmaps that enable scalable, secure, and resilient solutions.
• Define API, integration, and interoperability strategies that improve business agility and customer outcomes.
• Partner with executives and product leaders to prioritize investments and transformation programs, managing architecture budget and resourcing.
• Develop and retain architecture talent while fostering engineering excellence and continuous improvement across NAPD.

Basic Requirements

• 13+ years of professional experience with deep expertise in Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, Application Architecture, or related strategic technology disciplines, as well as 6+ years of diversified leadership experience driving architectural direction, technology roadmaps, cross-functional alignment, organizational planning, and team leadership (or equivalent experience).
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
• Experience leading enterprise-scale digital transformation programs across complex organizations.
• Proven expertise developing enterprise architecture strategies, governance frameworks, roadmaps, and reference architectures.
• Experience designing and modernizing cloud-native, hybrid-cloud, and platform-based enterprise ecosystems.
• Deep knowledge of enterprise integration, API architecture, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Experience influencing senior executives and driving organization-wide technology decisions.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and strategic leadership capabilities.
• Experience managing teams, budgets, roadmaps, and strategic technology investments.
• Experience building or maturing an architecture function and operating model.

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related discipline.
• Domain experience in pharmaceutical distribution, supply chain, order management, or pricing platforms within complex, regulated environments.
• Experience working across multiple concurrent transformation programs, with demonstrated ability to maintain coherence across a portfolio rather than within a single program.
• Familiarity with architecture landscape and portfolio tools (e.g. LeanIX, Ardoq, or equivalent) and the practice of maintaining living architecture documentation.
• Experience with Microsoft technology ecosystems, Azure cloud services, Power Platform, and enterprise platform engineering.
• Experience integrating SAP platforms with enterprise applications.
• Familiarity with AI and automation architectures.
• Knowledge of enterprise data architecture, governance, analytics platforms, and advanced data management practices.
• Experience operating within highly regulated environments.
• Experience leading architecture review boards and technology governance councils.
• Organizational change leadership.

Travel / Work Environment

• Limited travel may be required based on business needs, leadership meetings, and transformation initiatives.
• Hybrid or remote work arrangements may be available consistent with business requirements.
• Ability to participate in executive presentations, architecture reviews, workshops, and strategic planning sessions.

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 McKesson's 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, please click here.

Our Base Pay Range for this position

$183,500 - $305,900

McKesson is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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