Principal Enterprise Architect - Enterprise Applications

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.

The Principal Enterprise Architect - Enterprise Applications will play a critical role in defining and governing enterprise application architecture strategies that support McKesson's business objectives. This individual will partner closely with business leaders, product teams, engineering teams, and enterprise architects to ensure scalable, secure, and integrated solutions across Supply Chain, Finance, HR, CRM, and other enterprise platforms.

Responsibilities

• Represent the Enterprise Applications organization within the Enterprise Architecture Council and other governance forums.
• Define, maintain, and enforce architectural standards, principles, reference architectures, and best practices across Enterprise Applications.
• Lead cross-functional architecture reviews and design decisions to ensure scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions.
• Develop target-state architectures and technology roadmaps supporting business and digital transformation initiatives.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and technology leaders to align enterprise application strategies with organizational goals.
• Provide architectural leadership for modernization, cloud adoption, AI-enabled automation, platform consolidation, and SaaS transformation initiatives.
• Ensure effective integration and interoperability across enterprise platforms and business capabilities.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and provide recommendations that improve business outcomes, operational efficiency, and customer experience.

Lead architecture across Enterprise Application domains including: Supply Chain, Finance, Human Resources, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Procurement and Contract Lifecycle Management.

Design and govern cross-platform integrations among enterprise systems including: SAP, Workday, ServiceNow, Salesforce, PeopleSoft, Contract Lifecycle Management solutions.

Establish architecture patterns, integration frameworks, API strategies, and data exchange standards.

Ensure enterprise applications support scalability, resilience, performance, compliance, and security requirements.

Requirements

• Typically requires: 13+ years of Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, or Business Technology Architecture experience.
• 7+ years leading enterprise-scale transformation initiatives across complex application ecosystems.
• 5+ years providing architecture leadership across multiple business domains and enterprise platforms.
• Demonstrated experience influencing senior technology and business leaders in large organizations.

Skills

• 13+ years of Business and Enterprise Architecture experience delivering large-scale digital transformation initiatives.
• Deep experience designing enterprise application ecosystems and platform strategies.
• 7+ years of experience architecting scalable enterprise data platforms, data migration strategies, and integration solutions.
• 5+ years of experience implementing SaaS-based enterprise solutions.
• 5+ years of experience designing and implementing enterprise integration and API frameworks.
• Experience architecting solutions across ERP, Human Capital Management, CRM, Supply Chain, and IT Service Management platforms.
• Strong understanding of cloud-based architectures and modernization strategies.
• Experience delivering AI-enabled automation, advanced analytics, and intelligent business solutions.
• Demonstrated success defining and executing enterprise technology roadmaps.
• Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
• Experience working in Agile and SAFe environments.
• TOGAF or equivalent Enterprise Architecture certification preferred.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience. Preferred: Master's degree in a related discipline. TOGAF, SAFe, Cloud Architecture, or related professional certification.

Benefits

We are proud to offer a competitive compensation package at McKesson as part of our Total Rewards.

Pay

Our Base Pay Range for this position $170,100 - $283,500. In addition to base pay, other compensation, such as an annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may be offered.

Schedule

Traditional office environment. Hybrid work model as applicable. Travel up to 30% for team meetings, business engagements, conferences, and site visits.