Principal Architect, Platform Architecture

McKesson Corporation

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Location
Columbus, OH
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Full-time
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92 days ago
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About McKesson Corporation

McKesson Corporation is a premier American healthcare services company that distributes pharmaceuticals, medical-surgical supplies, and provides technology to the healthcare industry.

McKesson Corporation currently has 146 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Principal Architect, Platform Architecture

JOB TITLE: Principal Architect, Platform Architecture The Principal Architect, Platform Architecture joins the Platform Architecture team to shape the engineering platform serving every engineering team at CMM. This senior individual contributor owns architectural direction for core platform domains, develops and ratifies organizational standards through the Architecture Review Board, and builds reference architectures and reusable patterns. The role involves serving as an embedded architectural partner on high-profile initiatives to ensure new workloads utilize the platform correctly while identifying and translating gaps into platform capabilities. Key responsibilities include maintaining a technology radar, identifying architectural debt, and providing technical mentorship. Required expertise includes cloud infrastructure architecture, CI/CD and delivery platform design, developer experience tooling, security and compliance architecture, and API and service design patterns within healthcare technology or regulated data environments.

What does a Architect earn?

Median $222500 from 44 postings across 24 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Own architectural direction for core platform domains and establish technical standards for engineering teams.
  • Develop and ratify organizational architectural standards through the Architecture Review Board.
  • Build and maintain reference architectures and reusable patterns for common engineering problems.
  • Identify architectural debt and structural risks to propose platform investments before they become constraints.
  • Serve as an embedded architectural partner on high-profile initiatives to shape early-stage decisions.
  • Translate project-specific gaps into platform capabilities and drive them through to completion.
  • Mentor engineers and architects to build organizational capacity for platform-wide architectural coherence.
  • Maintain and socialize a technology radar to inform multi-year platform investment signals.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
  • 13+ years of software and platform engineering experience.
  • At least 8 years of direct software and platform architecture work in senior individual contributor roles.
  • Deep expertise in at least two domains: cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, developer experience, security/compliance, or API/service design.
  • Demonstrated ability to set and steward architectural direction for complex, cloud-native platforms.
  • Experience developing and ratifying architectural standards in an architecture governance context like an ARB.
  • Proven ability to influence technical direction without organizational authority.
  • Experience in healthcare technology or regulated data environments (preferred).

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