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.

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.

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.

Role Positioning

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.

Our Tech Stack

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

What You'll Do

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 :

Collaboration & Mentorship :

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 :

Non-Technical Skills :

Our more senior Solution Architects should also have these traits :

Growth Opportunities

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 Culture

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, please click here.

Our Base Pay Range for this position

$143,300 - $238,800

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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