JOB SUMMARY

The Principal Architect is a seasoned technologist and architect who drives value to Cardinal Health through leadership experience, broad business knowledge, thought leadership, and ability to establish and execute a strategy. This individual must have a deep understanding of the functional and technical sides of Specialty Pharma business and Commercial technologies delivering flawless customer and supplier experiences.
The role will create strategy, guide project decisions, designs, and investment to increase speed to market. The role contributes to the Enterprise Architecture team and broader Technology Strategy and Execution & IT team as a visible technical leader by establishing new & innovative solutions and strives to maximize business value and effectiveness, with a focus on continuous improvement, by architecting innovative solutions to provide better service to Cardinal internal and external stakeholders.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent preferred
• 12+ years of hands-on development experience with 5+ years as a lead developer /architect preferred
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, a good work ethic and sense of humor
• Has demonstrated experience designing architectures of complex distributed systems, and have lead teams through the development of those systems
• An expert developer, technologist, and coach with a desire to develop products that positively impact lives
• A leader and initiative-taker, and love to solve problems through technology
• Hands on technical experience and ready to get hands dirty with teams when needed
• Experience needed in making buy, build & integrate decisions for business
• Preferred knowledge of Managed Services organizations (MSO), Pharma specialty (Oncology & other therapeutic areas) businesses
• Significant hands-on experience across the entire technology stack
• A passion and proven track record for creating robust, scalable applications
• Proficiency in ERP platforms (SAP, Oracle Fusion & Workday highly preferred)
• Proficiency in Applied Artificial Intelligence and Gen AI
• Proficiency in multiple programming languages, expertise in at least one (Python & Java experience highly preferred)
• Experience with data modelling in modern relational, graph, NoSQL databases and knowledge of vector databases for solutioning using AI
• Experience with RESTful web services and API design
• Proven experience with client-side web development and UI frameworks (Angular/React etc.)
• Significant experience with distributed computing and event driven architecture
• Comfortable working with open-source technologies
• Proficiency in application/platform security

• Leads the identification and analysis of business drivers to derive enterprise business, information, technical and solution architecture requirements; analyzing industry, technology, and market trends to determine their potential impacts on the enterprise
• Partners with Enterprise teams to develop multi-year IT strategy for Specialty Pharma aligned to overall Pharma segment strategy
• Brings outside in experience to challenge status quo and devise better ways to achieve business objectives
• Leads technical due diligence and road mapping for strategic partnerships, third party partners, mergers, and acquisitions
• Leverages relationships across the enterprise to drive agreement via partnership and collaboration with stakeholder group comprising Tech Strategy & Execution (Tech Strategy, EA, PMO, Vendor Management, Strategic initiatives), Business, Solution Owners, COE, Infrastructure & Shared Services and Security to develop and deploy comprehensive solution architectures.
• Design and architect next generation enterprise architectures across multiple enterprise architecture domains including Business, Application, Data & Technology architecture to achieve a low TCO, solution agility and speed to market.
• Leads the development of technology transitions or architecture evolutions by creating foundational examples of working solutions and mentors teams on how to build on those examples
• Owns software/platform technologies and patterns, techniques, and enable outcomes of Non-Functional Requirements (scalability, availability, performance, security, and operational insight)
• Acts as Mentor and Coach for teams and individuals on architecture, strategy, solution owner, engineering, and COE teams
• Leads teams in the delivery practices of zero-downtime deployments, continuous delivery, build pipelines, and techniques for team autonomy
• Joins teams to assist with / lead development activities in times of need to solve challenging programs or to provide extra development capacity