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An SOE (Service Operations Engineering) Cloud Architect for McKesson Pharmacy Systems (MPS) will help design, develop, and implement scalable, secure, and resilient cloud solutions for McKesson’s customer-critical SaaS product offerings. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in cloud platforms (Azure preferred), infrastructure-as-code, and cloud-native application design. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to align cloud strategies with our SaaS offerings and business goals to ensure optimal performance, cost-efficiency, and security.

This individual will be responsible for translating the client's business requirements into specific systems, applications, or process designs for large, highly integrated, and complex cloud solutions. The SOE Architect acts as an advocate for the client, as the ultimate authority on the architecture designed to address client business problems and will provide direction for design activities.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement cloud architectures for achieving resiliency, high availability, and high performance of application software

• Lead cloud migration initiatives and modernization of legacy systems

• Define and enforce cloud governance, security, and compliance standards

• Develop infrastructure-as-code templates using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or ARM templates (Bicep)

• Collaborate with DevOps, Security, and Development teams to ensure seamless integration and deployment

• Ability to make judgments on architectural tradeoffs between competing requirements of the SaaS offerings and cloud technologies

• Ability to effectively model, present, and communicate platform technology/cloud architecture to various audiences consisting of technical and non-technical, internal, and external customers

• Ability to research, evaluate, and apply emerging technologies and architectural possibilities to the ongoing advancement of the SaaS offerings

• Establish effective working relationships with other McKesson business units and functional groups to ensure a high-level of collaboration and synergistic benefits to MPS

Minimum Requirements:

Degree or equivalent and typically requires 4+ years of relevant experience.

Additional Requirements:

• Minimum 4 years’ experience in designing, building, and implementing software business solutions on cloud platforms

• Experience with / knowledge of various architectural techniques and implementations such as Services Oriented Architecture, loosely coupled design techniques, composite application design, and cloud architecture

• Familiarity with crosscutting non-functional requirements of cloud technologies including security, performance, scalability, maintainability (deployment), reliability, and supportability

• Experience in a customer-facing technical consultancy setting

• Strong verbal and written communications skills; ability and willingness to develop and maintain internal- and customer-facing technical and procedural documentation

• Familiarity with high-availability technologies, concepts, and architectural techniques provided by the cloud

• Understanding of information security and risk management concepts, regulations, and certifications including disaster recovery, PHI, HIPAA, PCI, etc.; and information security and system access control policies and processes

• Experience architecting cloud solutions on platforms such as Azure using technologies such as AKS, Docker, Function Apps, Service Buses, Storage Accounts, etc.

• Experience with A.I. related tools such as CoPilot to speed application architecture and software design

Desired Technical Skills and Experience

• Strong knowledge and/or hands-on experience with infrastructure platform technologies including Linux / Unix operating systems

• Programming experience with Linux Scripting, Python, and Java / J2EE application framework and development tools

• Cloud Database technologies – Oracle Exadata, Azure SQL, Azure Cosmos DB, etc.

• Familiarity of serverless technologies such as Azure function apps

• JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and Spring-boot applications

• Strong networking fundamentals including firewalls/load balancers (F5, Imperva), application gateways, routers, web/proxy servers, etc. as well as networking tools and utilities

• Monitoring and admin tools including Splunk, Dynatrace, App Insights, Log Analytics, etc.

• DevOps Experience with tools like Jenkins, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub

• Security and Identity Platforms such as OKTA, Key Vaults, and Active Directory

• Messaging Technologies/Protocols such as Kafka, JMS, Azure Event Hub/Service Bus, HTTP, XML, etc.

Preferred (Not Required)

• Knowledge of / experience in the retail pharmacy space

• Agile Certification: SCRUM, KANBAN

• Cloud certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect)

• Experience with hybrid cloud and multi-cloud environments

• Specific experience in large SaaS applications

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices

• Large / complex database-centric application experience

• Experience managing large-scale systems or operations projects

• Knowledge of cost optimization strategies and tools

• Experience managing large-scale systems or operations projects

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, 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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