Sr. Director, NAPD Domain Architect

McKesson 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 – we care.

What 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’s health today, we want to hear from you.

About the Role

McKesson is seeking a Sr. Director, NAPD Domain Architect to lead architecture for its North American Pharmaceutical Distribution (NAPD) business. As NAPD executes significant transformation across Supply Chain Modernization, Pricing, Customer Performance Management, and Connect Ordering, this role exists to ensure those programs form a coherent, connected architecture.

This leader will build and lead the NAPD architecture function, owning the end-to-end landscape, driving architecture decisions across transformation programs, developing the architects who carry that work, and partnering closely with enterprise and data architects across McKesson to ensure solutions are interoperable, aligned to strategic objectives, and built to last. The role carries direct visibility to technology and business leadership and operates as the architecture authority for NAPD while bridging into the broader enterprise architecture function.

The ideal candidate is a systems thinker with the technical depth to earn the respect of architects and engineers, the ability to build and lead a team, and the executive presence to influence investment and design decisions at the leadership level. This is a role for someone who sees across programs, surfaces duplication and risk before they become expensive, and has the credibility and conviction to shape architecture direction in a complex, high-stakes environment.

What You'll Do

• Maintain a current NAPD architecture landscape across all transformation programs, ensuring estate-wide visibility into the end-to-end technology portfolio.

• Surface duplication and rationalization opportunities at the portfolio level before build, enabling proactive investment decisions and reducing redundancy across programs.

• Own and lead the NAPD Architecture Community of Practice, bringing architects across programs together on patterns, standards, and shared design principles, extending architecture influence beyond your direct team.

• Build, lead, and develop the NAPD architecture team, including hiring, succession planning, and performance management.

• Assess architecture quality and coherence across programs, working closely with enterprise and data architects to ensure solutions are interconnected, interoperable, and aligned to the NAPD target state.

• Define and execute architecture strategy for NAPD aligned with digital transformation objectives across Supply Chain, Pricing, Customer Performance Management, Sales Digital Tools and Connect Ordering.

• Work with Enterprise architecture board to deploy architecture standards, governance frameworks, decision rights, technology lifecycle management, and roadmaps that enable scalable, secure, and resilient solutions.

• Define API, integration, and interoperability strategies that improve business agility and customer outcomes.

• Partner with executives and product leaders to prioritize investments and transformation programs, managing architecture budget and resourcing.

• Develop and retain architecture talent while fostering engineering excellence and continuous improvement across NAPD.

Basic Requirements

• 13+ years of professional experience with deep expertise in Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, Application Architecture, or related strategic technology disciplines, as well as 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.

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