Strategic IT Architect - Cloud-Native Portfolio Lead

McKesson Corporation; United States; On-site; USD 151,000 - 251,000; Full time

Job summary

McKesson is seeking a Lead IT Architect to drive architecture across multiple products and value streams within the Specialty technology portfolio. You will define architecture direction, enable scalable growth, and guide AI-enabled capabilities while aligning technical investments with business goals.

The ideal candidate has deep experience in distributed systems and cloud-native architectures, with a track record of governance and leadership across teams.

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent and 10+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience delivering large-scale distributed systems and cloud-native solutions.
• Experience presenting strategies and tradeoffs to senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain architecture vision, roadmap, and strategy across products.
• Partner with product, engineering, and business leaders to align technology investments with priorities.
• Provide architectural leadership for cross-product initiatives and platform capabilities.
• Establish and govern architecture standards and reusable patterns.
• Lead architecture discussions during planning activities, including PI planning.
• Develop the architectural runway to support future objectives.
• Guide design of distributed, cloud-native solutions using APIs, event-driven patterns, microservices.
• Drive platform reuse and reduce duplicated investments across products.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture to align with broader tech strategies.
• Provide architectural oversight for vendors and system integrators.
• Ensure compliance, data privacy, security, and interoperability.

Skills

Distributed systems

Cloud-native architecture

Architecture governance

Microservices

RESTful APIs

Scaled agile SAFe

Stakeholder leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/IS

Tools

SAFe

APIs

Job description

McKesson is seeking a Lead IT Architect to drive architecture across multiple products and value streams within the Specialty technology portfolio. You will define architecture direction, enable scalable growth, and guide AI-enabled capabilities while aligning technical investments with business goals.

The ideal candidate has deep experience in distributed systems and cloud-native architectures, with a track record of governance and leadership across teams.