Sr. Delivery Solution Architect

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Position Summary

The Sr. Delivery Solution Architect builds and sustains technical architectures that deliver measurable business value across medium to large crossplatform initiatives. The role defines principles guardrails and standards that guide solution decisions toward the target state; leads fitgap assessments; and develops migration plans to close gaps between current and future architectures.

The Architect oversees or consults on implementation and modification activities creates reference implementations and ensures designs meet scalability performance security and compliance expectations.

Operating with high autonomy the Architect harmonizes development work with enterprise architecture facilitates evaluation of platforms and patterns and partners with stakeholders to translate business needs into actionable technical solutions. The role proactively identifies architectural risks and mitigation strategies and communicates complex design decisions and tradeoffs to nontechnical stakeholders.

As an internal consultant and technical leader the Architect elevates engineering practices strengthens adherence to standards and advances roadmap execution in line with McKessons strategic priorities.

Key Responsibilities

Set architecture direction and roadmaps

Lead visioning within the domain perform environmental analysis and develop value cases align roadmaps and guiding principles with business goals.

Assess capabilities and define priorities

Conduct current state capability process and technology assessments compatibility checks and fit gap analysis present capability models and actionable roadmaps.

Design end to end solutions

Develop conceptual and logical architectures facilitate optioning and recommend designs for sophisticated business problems; validate specifications.

Guide implementation

Coordinate architecture implementation and modification activities lead troubleshooting document decisions and recurring error patterns.

Contribute to governance

Define domain principles standards and guidelines socialize and enforce adoption manage exceptions and conduct quality reviews.

Institutionalize well architected practices

Embed security reliability performance cost and operations pillars define domain KPIs/OKRs and recommend adjustments to accelerate value.

Drive improvement and innovation

Evaluate emerging technologies and threats identify weaknesses and propose improvements support post implementation optimization.

Influence and coach

Communicate roadmaps promote DevOps and cloud practices and mentor team members and peer architects.

Support enterprise integration

Provide compatibility recommendations and contribute to enterprise wide system integration efforts.

Lead complex M&A due diligence

Produce deliverables guiding post merger integration and coordinate stakeholders on technology roadmaps.

Minimum Job Qualifications (Knowledge Skills & Abilities)

• Advanced enterprise architecture literacy (TOGAF 10 concepts ADM governance) to structure standards decision frameworks and targetstate roadmaps.
• Architecture visualization proficiency using C4 model views (context container component) to communicate designs clearly across audiences.
• WellArchitected fluency across security reliability performance efficiency cost optimization and operations; ability to translate pillars into domain KPIs/OKRs.
• IT service management alignment (ITIL 4 SVS/practices) to ensure supportability governance linkages and operational excellence.
• Securebydesign orientation with practical application of OWASP Top 10 controls in solution and integration patterns.
• Integration and data design depth across APIs and eventing; ability to evaluate patterns against scalability latency resilience and compliance needs.
• Strong decisionmaking and storytelling skills ability to frame options tradeoffs and risks with clear narratives for technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Delivery partnership comfort guiding CI/CD IaC and observability practices to ensure safe delivery and operability.
• Vendor and tool evaluation skills to recommend domain tooling aligned with enterprise standards and roadmaps.

Business Experience

• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience; typically 7 years across solution architecture/engineering with sustained delivery of enterprisescale designs.
• Experience leading mediumtolarge crossplatform initiatives guiding architecture from assessment and roadmap through implementation in regulated or complex environments.
• Evidence of standards authorship and governance (principles guardrails exceptions) and portfoliolevel quality reviews.
• Proven collaboration with product engineering security and operations teams to operationalize target architectures and deliver measurable business outcomes.

Work Model / Physical Requirements

We are Flex and Connect with 2 days a week in office

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