Lead Cloud Platform Architect

Job Title: Lead Cloud Platform Architect About the Role: We are seeking a talented and motivated Senior Cloud Architect to join our Enterprise Cloud Platform Technologies Services team and help us accelerate our cloud initiatives to drive trust, agility, and cloud adoption among McKesson. You will be responsible for ensuring that our cloud infrastructure meets the highest performance, security, scalability, and reliability standards. You will also work closely with other architects, developers, and engineers to deliver innovative, secure, cost-effective cloud solutions. This role will work closely with Solution Architects to create features and functionality within our cloud environment that scales across the enterprise. What You'll Do: Understand the organization's business and technical requirements to design appropriate cloud solutions. Develop high-level architecture and system design for cloud-based applications and services. Provide guidance and best practices on cloud architecture, security, performance, scalability, and reliability. Collaborate with various stakeholders, including architects, developers, operations teams, and business leaders, to ensure alignment with organizational goals. Conduct technical assessments and optimization reviews for existing and new cloud deployments. Provide clear documentation of cloud architectures and design decisions. Stay updated on the latest trends and technologies in the cloud domain and provide recommendations for improvement and innovation. What We're Looking For: Minimum Requirements: Degree or equivalent experience. Typically has 10+ years of professional / technical experience Critical Skills/Experience: Experience: 10+ years of Cloud Architecture and/or relevant industry experience. Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field or equivalent experience. Technical Expertise: Solid cloud architecture design and implementation experience with Microsoft Azure and hybrid cloud environments. Knowledge of cloud design patterns and best practices for supporting cloud-based production workloads with an understanding of security, governance, high availability, and disaster recovery. Experience working with microservices-based architectures or other cloud-native architectures. Experience with Azure landing zone architectures, cloud networking, security best practices, IAM, delivery pipelines, secrets management, FinOps, and observability. Experience with Azure Kubernetes (AKS) and containerization technology. Experience with DevOps and Agile methodology practices. Experience in cloud automation, configuration management, and deployment of enterprise-scale infrastructures as code (IaC) using Ansible, Terraform, and Python. Physical Requirements: General Office Demands Candidate must be authorized to work in the U.S, now or in the future, without the support from McKesson. Relocation is NOT budgeted for this position. Our Base Pay Range for this position: $145,700 - $242,900 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. Join us at McKesson! McKesson is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer - minorities/females/veterans/persons with disabilities. #J-18808-Ljbffr

Created: 2025-03-01