Lead, Infrastructure Architect

Job summary

The Lead Solution/IT Architect at McKesson is responsible for establishing enterprise-grade technical architecture that delivers sustained business value across mission-critical programs. This role involves owning architectural components, directing fit-gap analysis, defining migration plans, and overseeing the evaluation of technology options to ensure designs meet rigorous security, performance, reliability, compliance, and operability expectations. Operating with high autonomy, the Lead Architect consults across multiple domains, sets and enforces standards, and provides clear technical recommendations to non-technical stakeholders.

Benefits

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent with 10+ years of relevant experience
• Less experience required with relevant Master’s or Doctorate qualifications
• Enterprise architecture mastery (TOGAF concepts/ADM, governance) to set standards, decision frameworks, and target-state roadmaps for complex portfolios
• Architecture visualization proficiency using C4 model (context, container, component) to communicate structure and trade-offs across executives, product, and engineering
• Well-Architected fluency across security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and operations; ability to embed KPIs/OKRs into designs
• IT service management alignment (ITIL 4 SVS/practices) ensuring supportability, governance linkages, and operational excellence
• Secure-by-design leadership with demonstrable application of OWASP Top 10 mitigations in platform and integration patterns
• Multi-cloud depth (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect – Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, GCP Professional Cloud Architect) to guide modernization and multi-account strategies
• Integration and data architecture expertise across APIs, eventing, data platforms, and identity/zero-trust patterns to meet scale, latency, resilience, and regulatory needs
• Executive storytelling and decision rigor—framing options, risks, and trade-offs with implementable guidance for non-technical audiences
• Operability at scale—governance for CI/CD, IaC, observability, backup/DR, and HA patterns across portfolios
• Competency proficiency for L5 (Lead Architect) in Adaptability, Architecture & Master Planning, Collaboration & Partnership, Communication & Internal Marketing, Design Thinking, Digital Acumen, Problem Solving, Strategic Decision Making, Business Function Knowledge, Customer & Business Driven, and Leadership at “Leading” proficiency
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience; typically 10+ years across architecture/engineering with sustained leadership of enterprise-scale, cross-platform programs
• Proven record of enterprise standards and governance ownership, including exception management and portfolio/enterprise architecture quality reviews
• Demonstrated leadership of IT system-wide initiatives—from capability strategy and roadmap through implementation and steady-state optimization in regulated or complex environments
• Experience aligning product, engineering, security, and operations to operationalize target architectures and achieve measurable outcomes across multiple domains

Responsibilities

• Set architecture strategy and roadmaps
• Lead enterprise direction discussions, environmental analysis, value cases, and innovation portfolio recommendations
• Align roadmaps across IT domains
• Aggregate architectural demands, establish priorities, and define action plans to improve capabilities, processes, and technology
• Design end-to-end solutions
• Translate concepts into logical architectures
• Set documentation standards for complex integrations
• Validate and approve designs for high-impact initiatives
• Direct implementation and modifications
• Lead troubleshooting
• Ensure compatibility with existing platforms, services, and strategic requirements
• Lead governance
• Define and enforce principles, standards, and guidelines
• Manage enterprise-level exceptions
• Run portfolio/enterprise quality reviews
• Ensure security and compliance
• Institutionalize well-architected practices
• Ensure KPIs/OKRs reflect security, reliability, performance, cost, and operations pillars
• Track and recommend adjustments to accelerate value
• Drive innovation and improvement

Skills

Degrees

Relocation