Lead IT Architect

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Conceptual Proactive Problem-Solver Strategic Technologically Savvy Visual Thinker <meta data-json="{"ModuleType":13,"ApplyButtonText":"Apply","JobDetailsAlign":0,"JobDetailsDate":0,"JobDetailsJobTypeId":1,"JobDetailsSelectedDate":"2026-10-19T14:33:49.955Z","JobDetailsJobDateFormat":0,"JobDetailsJobLabelId":"Job ID","JobDetailsJobDatePosting":"Date posted","JobDetailsDescriptionFormat":0,"ShowApplyLater":false,"ShowApplyMobile":true,"ShowApplyLaterMobile":false,"ShowApplyLaterWeb":false,"ApplyLaterText":"Apply Later","ApplyLaterAlign":0,"ApplyLaterSubject":"[[JOB_TITLE]] at [[COMPANY_NAME]]","PublishedCandidateCardPageId":null,"ReferrerPageId":null,"ReferrerPageButtonText":"","ShowSavedJobsIcon":false,"IconLabel":"Save for Later","OverrideCandidateCard":false,"ModulePageType":2,"ModulePageName":"AJD - Design 1","DisplayJobDateFormat":"MM/dd/yyyy","JobDetailsSelectedId":"JR0155545","ApplyUrl":"https://mckesson.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External_Careers/job/USA-OH-Columbus/Lead-IT-Architect_JR0155545-1/apply","JobDescription":"\u003Cp style=\u0022text-align:left\u0022\u003EMcKesson 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 \u2013 we care.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\u0022text-align:inherit\u0022\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\u0022text-align:left\u0022\u003EWhat 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\u2019s health today, we want to hear from you.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\u0022text-align:inherit\u0022\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\u0022text-align:inherit\u0022\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ch1\u003ELead IT Architect\u003C/h1\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EJob Summary\u003C/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Lead IT Architect is responsible for defining and driving technology strategy, architectural direction, AI-enabled engineering transformation, and solution design across a Value Stream and its Agile Release Train (ART). This role owns the architectural runway for the ART, ensuring teams have the technical direction, architecture patterns, technical enablers, architectural context, and future-state designs needed to deliver scalable, secure, resilient, and maintainable solutions.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWorking closely with Engineering, Product Management, Enterprise Architecture, Security, Delivery Leadership, Shared Services organizations, and the CoverMyMeds AI Enablement team, this individual proactively identifies technology opportunities, architectural risks, modernization initiatives, and emerging engineering patterns before they impact delivery.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with strong leadership skills, communications skills, and a passion for architectural excellence, agentic engineering, AI-assisted software delivery, enterprise-scale software development, and continuous improvement.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Ch1\u003EKey Responsibilities\u003C/h1\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EArchitectural Runway \u0026 Value Stream Leadership\u003C/h2\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPlan the architectural runway for an Agile Release Train (ART), proactively defining solution approaches, technical enablers, architecture patterns, dependencies, and future-state designs that enable teams across the Value Stream to deliver effectively at scale.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPartner with Product Management, Engineering Leadership, and Enterprise Architecture to ensure upcoming features, epics, and initiatives have a clear architectural path prior to implementation.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EDevelop and maintain technology and architecture roadmaps that support Value Stream objectives while balancing scalability, technical debt reduction, reliability, security, compliance, and delivery velocity.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EIdentify capability gaps, modernization opportunities, architectural risks, and cross-team dependencies before they become delivery impediments.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EEstablish architectural direction across multiple teams and applications, ensuring alignment on technology strategy and implementation approaches.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EEnsure teams are never waiting on architecture guidance, standards, patterns, technical decisions, architecture artifacts, or technical enablers required to execute delivery commitments.\u003C/li\u003E\u003C/ul\u003E\u003Ch2\u003EAI \u0026 Agentic Engineering Leadership\u003C/h2\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPartner with the CoverMyMeds AI Enablement team to evaluate, adopt, and operationalize AI-assisted software delivery practices across the ART.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EServe as the primary architecture lead for AI adoption within the Value Stream, driving practical implementation of approved AI capabilities, tools, patterns, and engineering practices.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EIdentify opportunities to improve engineering productivity, software quality, documentation, testing, knowledge management, architecture governance, operational support, and delivery effectiveness through AI-enabled workflows and automation.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EDevelop adoption roadmaps and implementation plans that accelerate AI-assisted software delivery across engineering teams.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPartner with Engineering Managers, Technical Leads, and development teams to increase adoption of AI-assisted development practices using platforms such as Microsoft Copilot, Claude, GitHub Copilot, and future enterprise-supported solutions.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EDefine and maintain the architectural context, Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), repository standards, architecture artifacts, and knowledge-management practices required to effectively support agentic engineering.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EDrive adoption of architecture-as-code, AI-assisted documentation, automated architecture validation, and agent-enabled engineering workflows.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ECollaborate with the AI Enablement team to evaluate emerging agentic engineering capabilities and determine how they can be safely and effectively operationalized within the Value Stream.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EServe as a champion for modern engineering practices and help teams evolve how software is designed, built, tested, documented, and supported.\u003C/li\u003E\u003C/ul\u003E\u003Ch2\u003ESolution Architecture \u0026 Technical Design\u003C/h2\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003ELead the design of scalable, secure, resilient, and maintainable enterprise solutions.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ECreate detailed architecture artifacts including system context diagrams, solution architecture diagrams, integration diagrams, deployment topologies, sequence diagrams, data flow diagrams, domain models, reference architectures, and implementation-ready design materials.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ETranslate business and product objectives into actionable technical designs that can be executed consistently across multiple delivery teams.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EEvaluate architectural alternatives and recommend solutions based on business, operational, compliance, security, and technical tradeoffs.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EDevelop implementation-ready architectural guidance that accelerates delivery and reduces ambiguity.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EEstablish architecture patterns that promote reuse, consistency, maintainability, and operational excellence across the ART.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ECreate current-state and future-state architecture views used to drive portfolio planning and modernization activi