Lead Java/Cloud 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.

McKesson is in the business of better health, and we touch the lives of patients in virtually every aspect of healthcare. We partner with payors, hospitals, physician offices, pharmacies, pharmaceutical companies, and others across the spectrum of care to build healthier organizations that deliver better care to patients in every setting. We believe in the importance of strong, vital organizations because we know that patients can only be healthy when our system is healthy.

Every single McKesson employee contributes to our mission—by joining McKesson you act as a catalyst in a chain of events that helps millions of people all over the globe. Talented, compassionate people are the future of our company—and of healthcare. At McKesson, you’ll collaborate on the products and solutions that help us carry out our mission to improve lives and advance healthcare. Working here is your opportunity to shape an industry that’s vital to us all.

We understand the importance of a system that works together. Your expertise, drive and passion can help us improve everything we touch, from providers to payors to pharmacies. Join our team of leaders to begin a rewarding career. Wherever you contribute here at McKesson, you will have the ability to make a real impact in the lives of others.

Current need:

McKesson corporation is looking for a Lead Java/Cloud Architect  to join our team. 

Work location: Irving, TX / Atlanta, GA (Candidate must be willing to work in a hybrid work environment, ready to work from the office for at least 2-3 days a week. It is not a fully remote job.)

Responsibilities:

• Define the technology vision and architecture for McKesson homegrown applications and ensure its alignment with business strategy.

• Leads and/or participate in business, culture, technical, and practice initiatives that support continuous improvement in Financial Shared Services and IT.

• Leads technical due diligence and road mapping for strategic priorities.

• Effectively communicates and influences others towards moving to future state architectures, leading by example.

• Bridge technical and business concepts to establish tighter relationships between development teams, product management, product design and stakeholders.

• Evaluates and obtains alignment on technology standards, patterns, and reference architecture.

• Builds solution architectures that align requirements, design patterns that support engineering teams’ efforts to generalize code to address common use cases, and technology standards to achieve solution agility and speed to implementation.

• Leads the development of technology transitions or architecture evolutions by creating foundational examples of working solutions and coach teams on how to build on those examples.

• Owns software/platform technologies, techniques, and outcomes of scalability, stability, sustainability performance, security, extensibility, and operational insight.

• Develop and maintain robust, scalable technical roadmap / architecture of the platform/product with long term vision of 5 years. Develop Roadmap for Legacy applications.

• Use quantitative analysis to impact key business decisions.

• Coach teams and individuals on engineering best practices and technical debt reduction.

• Leads teams in the delivery practices of zero-downtime deployments, continuous delivery, build pipelines, and techniques for team autonomy.

• Joins teams to assist with / lead development activities in times of need to solve challenging programs or to provide extra development capacity.

• Presents solutions and roadmap to business leadership and IT leadership.

Minimum Requirements

• Typically requires 10 years of relevant experience

Critical Skills

• 10+ years of experience working as a solution architect designing, transforming, and implementing large-scale products/ systems/ applications/ micro services,  cross-functional workflows and self-service rules/ rule engine, event streaming, and databases in the healthcare supply chain industry.

• 7+ years of experience as a hands-on developer, software engineer.

• Proficiency in multiple programming languages, expertise in languages such as Java, JavaScript and Java frameworks like Spring, one of the JavaScript libraries Vue, React, Angular.

• Experience with relational, NoSQL and graph databases as well as data streaming technologies - Kafka.

• Experience with one of the cloud platforms Google Cloud Platform/Azure/AWS

• 5+ years of experience with SQL and NoSQL (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and SQL Server).

• Working knowledge of one or more IT architecture standards (such as TOGAF, etc.).

• Significant hands-on experience across the entire technology stack and experience migrating or transforming legacy solutions to the cloud native solutions.

• Hands-on experience with container technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, Service Mesh.

• Experience with integration and API platforms like MuleSoft, ERP like SAP/ JDE.

• Experience with IT compliance and risk management requirements (eg. security, privacy, SOX, HIPAA etc.)

• Significant experience with distributed computing and message-based systems.

• Experience working with open-source technologies.

• DevSecOps / CICD experience with solutions such as: GitHub, Veracode, Concourse, Terraform.

• Proficiency in data modeling and API design.

• Proficiency in application/platform security.

Additional Skills

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, a good work ethic and sense of humor.

• Creative thinker and problem solver, able to distill complex problems down to actionable items.

• Deep and broad knowledge of current and emerging technologies that affect the business.

• Ability to contribute to, and balance delivery against, multiple projects/demands simultaneously.

• Capable of authoring robust, high quality, reusable code and contributing to the enterprise inventory of libraries

• Self-motivated on Continues learning and innovation is good

Education

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

We are proud to offer a competitive compensation package at McKesson as part of our Total Rewards. This is determined by several factors, including performance, experience and skills, equity, regular job market evaluations, and geographical markets. In addition to base pay, other compensation, such as an annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may be offered. For more information regarding benefits at McKesson, please click here.

Our Base Pay Range for this position

McKesson is an Equal Opportunity Employer

McKesson provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees and is committed to a diverse and inclusive environment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age or genetic information. For additional information on McKesson’s full Equal Employment Opportunity policies, visit our Equal Employment Opportunity page.

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