Lead Solution 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.

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As a Solution Architect at CoverMyMeds, you'll lead technical architecture and design for a critical new platform serving as the foundation for medication access workflows across the healthcare ecosystem. You'll drive strategic technology decisions and innovative solutions while fostering engineering excellence across our healthcare technology modernization efforts. This position combines deep technical expertise in solution architecture, system design, and integration patterns with healthcare compliance and FHIR-based interoperability requirements.

You'll report directly to an engineering director and work side-by-side with the product engineering team, serving as the technical architect who shapes how we build healthcare technology at scale. This role positions you as the bridge between platform capabilities and business-critical healthcare product needs, leading architecture decisions for complex healthcare interoperability problems while maintaining SOX, SOC2, and HIPAA compliance.

Node.js, TypeScript, FHIR Server, Apollo GraphQL Router, Confluent Kafka, PostgreSQL, Backstage, Azure Cloud Services, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Dapr, OpenTelemetry

CoverMyMeds is building a new foundational platform to solve complex healthcare interoperability problems. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify business challenges, design technical solutions, and drive innovative approaches using modern architecture patterns and cloud-native technologies, including:

Solution Architecture & Design:

• Design and architect integration solutions for ingesting data from various healthcare sources, supporting FHIR-based services and medication access workflows

• Create and manage architecture design deliverables including system diagrams, data flows, integration patterns, and technical documentation aligned with healthcare interoperability standards

• Influence projects to make decisions related to technical strategies including API design, event-driven architecture, data quality, and microservices best practices

• Map technical solutions to business requirements and use cases, guiding development teams in implementing healthcare-compliant services

• Serve as an advocate for engineering excellence, architectural standards, and best practices across the organization.

Technical Leadership & Innovation:

• Leverage modern architecture patterns and cloud-native technologies to plan, evaluate, and execute strategic engineering initiatives

• Design distributed systems using tools like Kafka, GraphQL federation, and microservices patterns to efficiently build scalable healthcare solutions

• Troubleshoot, monitor, and performance-tune various software components including RESTful web services, GraphQL APIs, and event-driven systems

• Drive adoption of healthcare interoperability standards (FHIR, SMART on FHIR, CDS Hooks) and modern development patterns.

Collaboration & Mentorship:

• Coordinate with internal stakeholders, including program managers, product teams, and platform engineers, to gather requirements and define architecture criteria

• Mentor engineering team members and demonstrate leadership in driving technical excellence and cloud-native modernization

• Communicate technical decisions and educate others through architecture reviews, technical presentations, and documentation

• Review enterprise and solution architecture artifacts, deliverables, and processes for quality standards

• Provide proactive status updates on effort accomplished, remaining estimates, and issues impacting progress

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:

• Deep expertise in Solution Architecture, System Design, API Design, and technical task estimations

• Experience with distributed computing technologies (Kafka, event-driven architectures) and microservices patterns

• Proficiency in modern programming languages (Node.js, TypeScript, Python) and cloud-native development

• Strong technical background with knowledge in distributed systems, API design, data modeling, system integration, and software architecture patterns

• Extensive professional experience with cloud platforms (Azure, GCP, AWS) and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)

• Practical hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Helm) and CI/CD workflows (GitHub Actions)

• Experience with API technologies (REST, GraphQL, OAuth2, JWT, OpenID) and authentication/authorization patterns

• Understanding of developer platform tools like Backstage and modern observability solutions (OpenTelemetry)

• Strong experience with distributed systems and cloud-native architecture patterns

• Understanding of healthcare interoperability standards (FHIR, SMART on FHIR) and compliance requirements (SOX, SOC2, HIPAA) preferred

• Experience with data integration, ETL patterns, and analytics platforms is a plus

Non-Technical Skills:

• Proven ability to establish and maintain a high level of customer trust and confidence

• Ability to analyze complex healthcare systems with attention to compliance and security requirements

• Strong leadership, organizational, and interpersonal skills; comfortable managing trade-offs

• Ability to lead others without direct authority and highly influential in educating stakeholders on technical decisions and their business impact

• Flexibility to adjust to multiple demands, shifting priorities, ambiguity, and rapid change

• Proactively share information to keep engineering teams, platform teams, and leadership aligned on progress and blockers

• Understanding of agile software development methodology (Scrum, Kanban)

• Able to navigate ambiguity between strategic architecture decisions and tactical implementation needs

• Strong negotiation and decision-making skills

• Experience with healthcare technology, drug supply chain, and commercial domain within healthcare/pharma is a plus

Our more senior Solution Architects should also have these traits:

• Extensive market knowledge and experience with cutting-edge architecture patterns, cloud-native technologies, and healthcare interoperability

• Demonstrate leadership in driving modernization and technology adoption across engineering teams

• Strong grasp on healthcare technology risks and how to minimize them through sound architectural decisions and engineering best practices

• Positively influence how development teams organize and execute their work through better architecture and design patterns

• Experience mentoring engineers and architects while ensuring delivery excellence

This role offers unique career development combining solution architecture leadership, healthcare domain expertise, and strategic influence over CoverMyMeds' technology modernization. You'll gain visibility into critical healthcare product development while building expertise in regulated environments, FHIR-based interoperability, and cloud-native architecture at scale. The position provides influence over both product success and broader organizational platform capabilities, creating diverse career paths within healthcare technology leadership, enterprise architecture, or engineering leadership.

Our company culture is a collection of the unique individuals who represent our mission and values. We are looking for people who are motivated to take on challenges and have a passion for helping others. If you don't feel you check every box, but have relevant skills that can impact this role, please apply! We can grow together.

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. The pay range shown below is aligned with McKesson's pay philosophy, and pay will always be compliant with any applicable regulations. 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, pleaseclick here.

Our Base Pay Range for this position

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