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Job Title


Principal Architect


Company : McKesson Corporation


Location : Columbus, OH


Created : 2025-12-01


Job Type : Full Time


Job Description

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.Job DescriptionAs a Principal Modernization Architect at CoverMyMeds, you'll create solutions that make our healthcare system work more efficiently and effectively to help millions of people receive their prescription medications every year. You'll help create the technical vision and design products that our partners in healthcare use every day and innovate products that don't even exist yet. You'll work in small, cross-functional, and collaborative teams with endless opportunities to take responsibility, continue learning, and mentor others.Our Tech StackReact, TypeScript, Node.js, Kafka, Apollo GraphQL, HL7 (FHIR), Okta, Azure, PostgreSQL, GitHub, Docker, Terraform, ArgoCDWhat You'll DoCoverMyMeds is developing an innovative product platform to address challenging issues in specialty healthcare. In this role, you'll work with stakeholders throughout the organization and create solutions that help us quickly launch new or enhanced healthcare services.Role & Responsibilities:Contribute to shaping the technical strategy and future development plans for our modern product platform.Contribute to business and technical senior leadership discussions about current and future software engineering needs and create technical roadmap(s) on how to solve.Apply advanced principles, theories, and concepts in the IT architecture field by performing technical planning, architecture development, and developing specifications for new products/services, applications, and service offerings.Defines standards and best practices to ensure consistency, scalability, and reliability across the organization.Present to and consult with senior leadership to develop strategic solutions to complex problems.Consults with and mentor technical teams on effective implementation of new technologies.Minimum Requirement:10+ years of experience in a technology role with proven experience in a Solution Architecture or Engineering Architecture role, preferably in a large, complex organization.Technical skills:Cloud Technologies: extensive and proficient experience in multiple cloud providers, but with a specific focus on Microsoft Azure.FHIR Standards Implementation: Extensive experience with HL7 FHIR (R4), resource modeling, profiling, and guides for payer and provider scenarios.EHR Integration: Extensive experience integrating with major EHR platforms (Epic, Cerner, Meditech, Allscripts) using SMART on FHIR, HL7 v2, CDA, and proprietary teroperability Strategy: Led enterprise-wide interoperability initiatives that solve internal and external challenges in a standard, scalable, and secure way.SOA Architecture: Designed, implemented, and scaled a modernization technology strategy based on a Service Oriented Architecture approach.Security & Compliance: Strong knowledge of OAuth2, OpenID Connect, SMART scopes, and RBAC/ABAC models for secure healthcare data access and exchange.Data Modeling & Transformation: Skilled in mapping legacy data models to FHIR resources, leveraging ETL pipelines, terminology services (SNOMED, LOINC, RxNorm), and data normalization techniques.AI & Analytics Enablement: Architected data lakes and real-time streaming platforms