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Principal Solution Architect, Enterprise Integration

McKesson Corporation
United States, Texas, Irving
May 23, 2026

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 enterprisewide 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 crossenterprise fitgap 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 precedentsetting challenges, and communicates complex decisions clearly to nontechnical audiences and external stakeholders-building a highperforming architecture community that sustains competitive advantage.

Key Responsibilities:

Set enterprise architecture strategy and roadmap. Define longterm vision, principles, and governance; champion transformation and innovation at the executive level.

Own capability alignment. Direct enterprise businesscapability modeling and technology roadmaps; ensure investments deliver measurable value and risk reduction.

Define design standards and approve critical solutions. Establish optionevaluation 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 endtoend. Establish and evolve principles, technology standards, and quality programs; resolve enterpriselevel exceptions; ensure regulatory alignment.

Institutionalize wellarchitected practices. Define organizationwide 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

  • Degree or equivalent and typically requires 13+ years, with 8+ years, of direct workrelated experience. Less years required if has relevant Master's or Doctorate qualifications

Critical Skills

  • Enterprise architecture mastery (TOGAF 10 concepts, ADM, governance) to set organizationwide principles, decision frameworks, and targetstate roadmaps.
  • Advanced architecture visualization using the C4 model (context, container, component) for clear, executiveready storytelling and alignment.
  • WellArchitected fluency across security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and operations; ability to embed KPIs/OKRs in enterprise designs.
  • IT service management alignment (ITIL 4 SVS/practices) to ensure operational soundness, supportability, and compliance at scale.
  • Securebydesign leadership with demonstrable application of OWASP Top 10 mitigations across platforms and integrations.
  • Multicloud and platform depth (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect - Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, GCP Professional Cloud Architect) to steer modernization and multiaccount strategies.
  • Data, integration, and zerotrust expertise (APIs, eventing, data platforms, identity) to meet enterprise scale, latency, resilience, and regulatory needs.
  • Executive influence and narrative clarity-framing strategic options, risks, and tradeoffs with implementable, boardready guidance.
  • Operability at scale-governance for CI/CD, IaC, observability, backup/DR, HA patterns, and cloud landingzone standards across portfolios.
  • Competency proficiency for L6 (Principal Architect): Adaptability (Leading), Architecture & Master Planning (Expert), Collaboration & Partnership (Expert), Communication & Internal Marketing (Leading), Design Thinking (Expert), Digital Acumen (Expert), Problem Solving (Expert), Strategic Decision Making (Leading), Business Function Knowledge (Expert), Customer & Business Driven (Leading), Leadership (Leading).

Additional Qualifications

  • Proven ownership of enterprise standards and governance, including exception management and organizationwide quality assurance.
  • Demonstrated leadership of missioncritical transformations-from capability strategy and roadmap through execution and optimization-in regulated or complex environments.
  • Experience representing architecture in executive and external forums, influencing technology direction, partnerships, and industry practices.

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, pleaseclick here.

Our Base Pay Range for this position

$170,900 - $284,900

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