Sr. Director, NAPD Domain Architect

McKesson•Irving, TX

17h

About The Position

McKesson is seeking a Sr. Director, NAPD Domain Architect to lead architecture for its North American Pharmaceutical Distribution (NAPD) business. The role ensures that transformation programs—including Supply Chain Modernization, Pricing, Customer Performance Management, and Connect Ordering—form a coherent, connected architecture. The leader owns the end-to-end NAPD technology landscape, drives architecture decisions across programs, builds and leads the architecture function, develops its architects, and partners with enterprise and data architects to ensure solutions are interoperable, strategically aligned, and durable. The position has direct visibility to technology and business leadership and serves as NAPD’s architecture authority while bridging to McKesson’s broader enterprise architecture function. The role calls for a systems thinker with technical depth, team-building and leadership ability, and executive presence to influence investment and design decisions. The position is responsible for identifying duplication and risk across programs and shaping architecture direction in a complex environment. The role may involve limited travel based on business needs, leadership meetings, and transformation initiatives. Hybrid or remote work arrangements may be available consistent with business requirements. The position participates in executive presentations, architecture reviews, workshops, and strategic planning sessions.

Requirements

13+ years of professional experience in Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, Application Architecture, or related strategic technology disciplines, and 6+ years of diversified leadership experience driving architectural direction, technology roadmaps, cross-functional alignment, organizational planning, and team leadership, or equivalent experience.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Experience leading enterprise-scale digital transformation programs across complex organizations.
Proven expertise developing enterprise architecture strategies, governance frameworks, roadmaps, and reference architectures.
Experience designing and modernizing cloud-native, hybrid-cloud, and platform-based enterprise ecosystems.
Deep knowledge of enterprise integration, API architecture, microservices, and distributed systems.
Experience influencing senior executives and driving organization-wide technology decisions.
Strong communication, stakeholder management, and strategic leadership capabilities.
Experience managing teams, budgets, roadmaps, and strategic technology investments.
Experience building or maturing an architecture function and operating model.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related discipline.
Domain experience in pharmaceutical distribution, supply chain, order management, or pricing platforms within complex, regulated environments.
Experience working across multiple concurrent transformation programs and maintaining coherence across a portfolio.
Familiarity with architecture landscape and portfolio tools such as LeanIX, Ardoq, or equivalent, and maintaining living architecture documentation.
Experience with Microsoft technology ecosystems, Azure cloud services, Power Platform, and enterprise platform engineering.
Experience integrating SAP platforms with enterprise applications.
Familiarity with AI and automation architectures.
Knowledge of enterprise data architecture, governance, analytics platforms, and advanced data management practices.
Experience operating within highly regulated environments.
Experience leading architecture review boards and technology governance councils.
Organizational change leadership.

Responsibilities

Maintain a current NAPD architecture landscape across transformation programs and provide estate-wide visibility into the end-to-end technology portfolio.
Identify portfolio-level duplication and rationalization opportunities before build to enable proactive investment decisions and reduce redundancy.
Lead the NAPD Architecture Community of Practice, bringing architects together around patterns, standards, and shared design principles.
Build, lead, and develop the NAPD architecture team, including hiring, succession planning, and performance management.
Assess architecture quality and coherence across programs, collaborating with enterprise and data architects to ensure solutions are interconnected, interoperable, and aligned to the NAPD target state.
Define and execute NAPD architecture strategy aligned with digital transformation objectives across Supply Chain, Pricing, Customer Performance Management, Sales Digital Tools, and Connect Ordering.
Work with the Enterprise Architecture Board to deploy architecture standards, governance frameworks, decision rights, technology lifecycle management, and roadmaps for scalable, secure, and resilient solutions.
Define API, integration, and interoperability strategies to improve business agility and customer outcomes.
Partner with executives and product leaders to prioritize investments and transformation programs, and manage architecture budget and resourcing.
Develop and retain architecture talent while fostering engineering excellence and continuous improvement across NAPD.