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CMM’s Platform Architecture team operates at a distinctive intersection: it shapes the engineering platform that serves every engineering team at CMM, while simultaneously embedding in the organization’s highest-priority, most technically complex initiatives to ensure those projects build on the platform as intended — and to bring what they surface back as first-class platform capabilities. The Principal Architect is the most senior individual contributor on this team, and that dual mandate is the core of the role.
This is a role for an architect who earns organizational influence through the quality of their thinking and the credibility of their recommendations. You will own architectural direction for key platform domains, develop and ratify organizational standards through the CMM Architecture Review Board, and serve as the embedded architectural partner on high-profile initiatives across value stream engineering. When your embedded work reveals a gap between what the platform offers and what teams need, you don’t hand it off — you translate it into a platform capability and drive it through.
This is not a review role that appears late and comments on completed designs. The value is being present early, trusted deeply, and able to change outcomes — on individual projects and on the platform that underlies all of them. This role reports to the Sr. Director of Platform Architecture.
Platform Architecture & Standards
Maintain and socialize a technology radar across CMM’s platform domains — a structured investment signal for what the organization should adopt, trial, assess, or avoid — and use it to inform multi-year platform architectural direction.
Embedded Value Stream Partnership
Technical Mentorship & Engineering Capability
Cross-Functional Leadership
We are unable to offer or provide sponsorship for this role presently or in the future.
Degree or equivalent and typically requires 13+ years of relevant experience, including at least 8 years of direct software and platform architecture work, and significant time in principal-level or senior individual contributor roles with cross-system architectural scope.
Deep expertise in at least two platform domains: cloud infrastructure architecture, CI/CD and delivery platform design, developer experience tooling, security and compliance architecture, or API and service design patterns.
Recognized within the broader software engineering community — through open source contributions, technical publications, conference participation, or active engagement in platform engineering or developer experience communities.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience. Graduate degree or recognized technical contributions (patents, publications, open-source projects, conference presentations) in relevant domains are valued.
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,
Our Base Pay Range for this position
$162,800 - $271,300
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