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.
Position Summary
The Principal Solution/IT Architect defines and governs the enterprise‑wide solution architecture vision, strategy, and standards that unlock innovation and measurable business value. The role partners with executive leadership to integrate architecture with strategic initiatives, directs cross‑enterprise fit‑gap analysis, and sets migration frameworks that evolve the landscape across business units and platforms. It anticipates disruptive technologies, shapes organizational response, and ensures seamless integration for agility, resilience, and compliance.
Operating with full autonomy, the Principal Architect leads the development and continuous improvement of reference implementations and patterns, establishes enterprise design principles and governance, and represents McKesson’s architectural strategy in external forums. The role translates enterprise needs into actionable roadmaps, resolves unique and precedent‑setting challenges, and communicates complex decisions clearly to non‑technical audiences and external stakeholders—building a high‑performing architecture community that sustains competitive advantage.
Key Responsibilities:
Set enterprise architecture strategy and roadmap. Define long‑term vision, principles, and governance; champion transformation and innovation at the executive level.
Own capability alignment. Direct enterprise business‑capability modeling and technology roadmaps; ensure investments deliver measurable value and risk reduction.
Define design standards and approve critical solutions. Establish option‑evaluation standards; approve design specifications for major platforms; lead enterprise reviews.
Direct implementation at scale. Govern execution and modifications across portfolios; set protocols for rapid resolution of systemic issues.
Lead governance end‑to‑end. Establish and evolve principles, technology standards, and quality programs; resolve enterprise‑level exceptions; ensure regulatory alignment.
Institutionalize well‑architected practices. Define organization‑wide KPIs/OKRs for security, reliability, performance, cost, and operations; drive adjustments to optimize outcomes.
Drive enterprise innovation. Lead evaluation and adoption of emerging technologies; prioritize transformations that advance competitive advantage.
Influence and coach at scale. Run enterprise mentoring programs for architects; champion DevOps, cloud, and AI; act as architecture change leader.
Represent McKesson externally. Shape industry practices and standards through partnerships, forums, and thought leadership.
Guide strategic M&A. Set evaluation frameworks; lead due diligence, integration vision, and senior stakeholder alignment for technology investments.
Minimum Requirements
Critical Skills
Additional Qualifications
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
$170,900 - $284,900McKesson has become aware of online recruiting-related scams in which individuals who are not affiliated with or authorized by McKesson are using McKesson’s (or affiliated entities, like CoverMyMeds or RxCrossroads) name in fraudulent emails, job postings or social media messages. In light of these scams, please bear the following in mind:
McKesson Talent Advisors will never solicit money or credit card information in connection with a McKesson job application.
McKesson Talent Advisors do not communicate with candidates via online chatrooms or using email accounts such as Gmail or Hotmail. Note that McKesson does rely on a virtual assistant (Gia) for certain recruiting-related communications with candidates.
McKesson job postings are posted on our career site: careers.mckesson.com.
McKesson is an Equal Opportunity Employer
McKesson provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age, genetic information, or any other legally protected category. For additional information on McKesson’s full Equal Employment Opportunity policies, visit our Equal Employment Opportunity page.
McKesson is committed to being an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and offers opportunities to all job seekers including job seekers with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, please contact us by sending an email to (United States) Disability_Accommodation@McKesson.com or (Canada) Accessibility@mckesson.ca. Resumes or CVs submitted to this email box will not be accepted.
Join us at McKesson!