Principle Architect MMS Commercial Technologies

McKesson • Richmond, VA

261d • $170,300 - $283,800

About The Position

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. We are currently looking for a Principal Architect to support the McKesson Medical Surgical (MMS) business unit at McKesson (Marketing & Procurement, Customer Service, Sales, Service Desk and Technical Contact Center Service process areas). This is a strategic/highly visible SME role that closely partners with the MMS business executives and process owners to support portfolio needs and enterprise level architecture design for the customer operations business process.

Requirements

• Degree or equivalent and typically requires 13+ years, with 8+ years, of direct work related experience.
• Less years required if has relevant Master's or Doctorate qualifications.
• Proven expertise in managing multiple project lifecycle implementations and custom software best practices for global companies.
• Prior experience working with pharmaceutical manufacturers, wholesale distributors, or purchasers.
• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment.
• Project management experience and skills within an SDLC or Scrum/SAFe Agile framework.

Nice To Haves

• Ability and interest in learning new technologies quickly.
• Understanding of best practices in data architecture and management.
• Business case development experience.
• Demonstrated leadership capability, including team lead or management roles.
• Excellent relationship management skills demonstrating mature confidence and integrity.
• Solid strategic thinking with results orientation.
• Superior collaboration and communication (oral and written) skills, as well as excellent level influencing skills.
• Demonstrated business process knowledge including experience in business process modeling, improvement and change impact analysis, e.g. Six Sigma or BPML.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support the design of a competitive pricing solution and address application performance challenges.
• Designs and develops IT architecture (integrated process, applications, data, and technology) solutions to business problems in alignment with the enterprise architecture direction and standards.
• Designs major aspects of the architecture of Enterprise applications, including components such as user interface, middleware, and infrastructure integration points.
• Applies cutting edge principles, theories, concepts, and technologies for Enterprise solutions.
• Can work across solution teams to ensure proper system/data integration.
• Performs technical planning, architecture development, and modification of specifications.
• Partners with Scrum teams to ensure delivery aligns with architecture.
• Works on unusually complex and sensitive problems and provides state of the art solutions.
• Assesses the compatibility and integration of products/services proposed as standards to ensure an integrated architecture across interdependent technologies.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package including base pay and potential bonuses.
• Annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may be offered.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree