Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. McKesson is an impact-driven, Fortune 10 company that touches virtually every aspect of healthcare. They are hiring an IT Architect to define and drive cloud-native integration architecture across Ontada products and partner ecosystems, focusing on API-led connectivity and secure data exchange.
Responsibilities
- Drive architecture for interoperability and integration capabilities across systems, services, and product offerings
- Partner with Product Owners, Sales, Business Analysts, Quality Assurance, and Project Management to translate functional and non-functional requirements into target architectures and delivery plans
- Define architecture standards, reference implementations, and guardrails for APIs, integration patterns, security, and operational readiness
- Evaluate solution options and drive alignment across stakeholders; communicate tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences
- Provide technical guidance to coach, motivate, and develop engineers and architects
- Define and govern integration reference architectures across APIs, events, and asynchronous workflows (request/response, pub/sub, choreography vs. orchestration)
- Establish platform patterns and guardrails for API gateways, service-to-service communication, schema/version management, and contract testing
- Design for resiliency and performance using proven patterns (timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, bulkheads, idempotency, caching) and align to SLOs/SLAs
- Guide event-driven integration (e.g., Kafka or equivalent) with well-defined event schemas, lifecycle management, and operational controls
- Collaborate with security and platform teams to ensure secure-by-default integration approaches (OAuth2/OIDC, least privilege, secrets management, threat modeling)
- When applicable, drive design for healthcare data exchange leveraging HL7v2 and/or FHIR (R4+), including SMART on FHIR, to enable integrations with EMRs and partner systems
- Partner with domain SMEs and external stakeholders to define interoperability expectations (security, conformance, and onboarding) and ensure integrations are scalable and supportable
- Define API contracts, versioning strategy, and error taxonomy to enable predictable integrations for internal and external consumers
- Partner with engineering teams to implement and evolve reusable integration components, adapters, and accelerators that reduce time-to-integrate
- Collaborate with engineering in release, sprint, and project planning to ensure delivery commitments are tracked and met across the SDLC
- Demonstrate strong architectural ownership in production operations to address customer needs for support, issue analysis, enhancements, and corrective actions
- Evolve software systems, infrastructure, and architecture to support growth, SLAs, availability, and continued operation
- Drive operational readiness practices including observability, runbooks, incident response, and post-incident improvements
- Resolve technical problems, issues, and escalations across delivery teams and project activities
- Partner with product and engineering teams to identify and deliver AI-enabled capabilities, from discovery and design through deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement
- Guide architecture patterns for integrating model services into cloud-native systems (APIs, events, data pipelines) with appropriate security, privacy, and compliance controls
- Promote MLOps/LLMOps practices (versioning, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, rollback) and responsible AI governance
- Collaborate on evaluation approaches to ensure AI features are reliable and safe for production use
Skills
- Degree or equivalent and typically requires 7+ years of relevant experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years in architecture (solution, platform, or enterprise) with ownership across multiple systems
- Strong enterprise integration architecture skills across REST APIs, event-driven messaging, and secure data exchange patterns
- Strong technical fundamentals in cloud-native architecture (microservices, containers, resiliency patterns, observability) on Azure, AWS, or GCP
- Experience designing and operating large-scale, multi-tenant services with reliability, scalability, and security best practices
- Ability to drive cross-functional technical decisions, mentor engineers/architects, and communicate clearly through documentation and design reviews
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, with a track record of influencing cross-team decisions through documentation and design reviews
- Familiarity with HL7/FHIR and/or willingness to learn quickly as needed for partner integrations
- Hands-on experience with FHIR (profiles, implementation guides, SMART on FHIR) and/or HL7v2, including conformance and integration testing
- Experience integrating with multiple EMRs and partner ecosystems; familiarity with common healthcare workflows and data exchange constraints
- Hands-on experience with microservices frameworks (e.g., Spring or equivalent) and API management practices
- Experience with messaging and integration platforms (Kafka, service bus/queues, stream processing) and caching technologies (e.g., Redis)
- Experience with platform engineering patterns such as service mesh, policy-as-code, and automated architecture validation in CI/CD
- Experience with observability platforms (e.g., Dynatrace) and production operations best practices
- AI/ML product delivery experience (LLM-enabled workflows, evaluation, and responsible AI governance)
- Experience with Elasticsearch and/or analytics platforms (e.g., Databricks)
Benefits
- McKesson is an impact-driven, Fortune 10 company that touches virtually every aspect of healthcare.
- We foster a culture where you can grow, make an impact, and are empowered to bring new ideas.
- We are proud to offer a competitive compensation package at McKesson as part of our Total Rewards.
- 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.
- McKesson provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age, genetic information, or any other legally protected category.
- McKesson is committed to being an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and offers opportunities to all job seekers including job seekers with disabilities.
- If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, please contact us by sending an email to (United States) [email protected] or (Canada) [email protected].
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