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Position Summary
The Sr. Delivery Solution Architect builds and sustains technical architectures that deliver measurable business value across medium to large, cross‑platform initiatives. The role defines principles, guardrails, and standards that guide solution decisions toward the target state; leads fit‑gap assessments; and develops migration plans to close gaps between current and future architectures.
The Architect oversees or consults on implementation and modification activities, creates reference implementations, and ensures designs meet scalability, performance, security, and compliance expectations.
Operating with high autonomy, the Architect harmonizes development work with enterprise architecture, facilitates evaluation of platforms and patterns, and partners with stakeholders to translate business needs into actionable technical solutions. The role proactively identifies architectural risks and mitigation strategies, and communicates complex design decisions and trade‑offs to non‑technical stakeholders.
As an internal consultant and technical leader, the Architect elevates engineering practices, strengthens adherence to standards, and advances roadmap execution in line with McKesson’s strategic priorities.
Key Responsibilities
Set architecture direction and roadmaps
Lead visioning within the domain, perform environmental analysis and develop value cases, align roadmaps and guiding principles with business goals.
Assess capabilities and define priorities
Conduct current state capability, process, and technology assessments, compatibility checks, and fit gap analysis, present capability models and actionable roadmaps.
Design end to end solutions
Develop conceptual and logical architectures, facilitate optioning and recommend designs for sophisticated business problems; validate specifications.
Guide implementation
Coordinate architecture implementation and modification activities, lead troubleshooting, document decisions and recurring error patterns.
Contribute to governance
Define domain principles, standards, and guidelines, socialize and enforce adoption, manage exceptions and conduct quality reviews.
Institutionalize well architected practices
Embed security, reliability, performance, cost, and operations pillars, define domain KPIs/OKRs and recommend adjustments to accelerate value.
Drive improvement and innovation
Evaluate emerging technologies and threats, identify weaknesses and propose improvements, support post implementation optimization.
Influence and coach
Communicate roadmaps, promote DevOps and cloud practices, and mentor team members and peer architects.
Support enterprise integration
Provide compatibility recommendations and contribute to enterprise wide system integration efforts.
Lead complex M&A due diligence
Produce deliverables guiding post merger integration and coordinate stakeholders on technology roadmaps.
Minimum Job Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities)
Business Experience
Work Model / Physical Requirements
We are Flex and Connect with 2 days a week in office
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
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