Lead IT Architect
About the role
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.
The Lead IT Architect serves as the strategic architecture leader across multiple products and value streams within the Specialty technology portfolio. This role is responsible for defining and driving architecture direction, enabling scalable growth, improving platform reuse, and ensuring technical investments align with business objectives. The position works across engineering, product, and business stakeholders to establish architecture standards, support strategic planning activities, and guide technology decisions that impact multiple teams and products. The Lead IT Architect plays an active role in program increment (PI) planning, architectural runway development, and long-term technology strategy, helping teams balance immediate delivery needs with future scalability and modernization. The ideal candidate brings deep experience in distributed systems, cloud-native architecture, portfolio-level technology governance, and healthcare technology environments. While artificial intelligence is not the primary focus of the position, candidates should be comfortable evaluating AI-enabled capabilities, supporting AI feature development, and establishing appropriate architecture guidance for AI-related solutions.
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain the architecture vision, roadmap, an technical strategy across multiple products and value streams.
- Partner with product, engineering, and business leaders to align