Principal, M&A Solution Architect

About the role

McKesson is looking for a Principal Solution Architect to join a key technical leadership role within the Enterprise M&A Engineering and Architecture team, to help accelerate our M&A initiatives across the Enterprise and drive trust, agility, and automation for McKesson’s technology services. This role will serve as a critical leadership position in shaping and executing McKesson’s enterprise-wide technology strategy and primarily focused on Merger & Acquisition (M&A) integration.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the enterprise technology architecture authority for merger, acquisition, and divestiture activities, defining scalable integration strategies across acquired entities.
• Lead technical due diligence for M&A initiatives, assessing technology maturity, architecture posture, cloud presence, risks, and integration complexity.
• Define and execute M&A technology integration playbooks, including landing zone alignment, identity integration, security harmonization, and network modernization strategies.
• Drive consistency across multi-business-unit architectures, resolving complex cross-domain design challenges and influencing enterprise-wide policy decisions.
• Provide thought leadership on technology, M&A integration, and enterprise architecture trends; represent McKesson in strategic vendor and partner engagements.
• Define and govern enterprise technology solution patterns and reference architecture across cloud and hybrid environments, ensuring consistency, reusability, and alignment with long-term platform and security strategy.
• Shape and evolve enterprise technology architecture standards, security guardrails, and governance models; influence policy decisions and resolve complex design exceptions across business units.
• Conduct technical assessments and optimization reviews for existing and new technology deployments.
• Work closely with enterprise architecture, cloud platform operations, and governance teams to ensure seamless integration of solutions into each organization’s technology environment.
• Mentor senior architects and engineers, raise the overall architecture maturity of the organization, and lead enablement efforts that institutionalize technology best practices.

Requirements

• Degree or equivalent and typically requires 13+ years, with 8+ years, of direct work-related experience.
• 12+ years of Solution Architecture and/or relevant industry experience.
• Expertise in Azure is required; experience with AWS or GCP is a plus.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field or equivalent experience.

Skills

• Strong expertise in Microsoft Azure (required); multi-cloud experience (AWS, GCP, OCI) strongly preferred.
• Strong knowledge of load balance, DNS, firewall, networking technologies, microservices architecture, and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools like Terraform.
• Strong architecture design and implementation experience with on-prem and hybrid cloud environments.
• Proven experience in designing and deploying secure, scalable, and resilient solutions in large-scale cloud environments that are heavily regulated.
• Solid understanding of enterprise security, compliance, and governance frameworks.
• Experience with migration projects and hybrid cloud environments is a plus.
• Cloud certifications (e.g., Azure Solutions Architect Expert, AWS Certified Solutions Architect) are highly desirable.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to engage effectively with both technical and business stakeholders.

Pay

Our Base Pay Range for this position $175,700 - $292,800. In addition to base pay, other compensation, such as an annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may be offered.