Senior Architect, Enterprise Architecture

Job Summary

The Enterprise Architect (Pharma Segment) is a strategic technology leader who aligns enterprise architecture with Cardinal Health’s business objectives to deliver measurable value. This role combines deep technical expertise with business acumen to define and execute architecture strategies that accelerate speed to market and optimize total cost of ownership.

The EA brings thought leadership and hands‑on guidance across Customer Engagement (omni‑channel selling), Supply Chain, Omni‑channel Order Management, and Finance & Accounting processes. By shaping strategy, influencing investment decisions, and driving innovative designs, the EA ensures technology initiatives enable compelling customer experiences and operational excellence.

As a visible leader within Enterprise Architecture and GTBS, this individual champions modern, extensible architectures, fosters continuous improvement, and introduces innovative solutions that maximize business effectiveness and strengthen Cardinal Health’s competitive edge.

• Strategic Alignment: Translate business drivers into enterprise architecture requirements; align technology strategy with business goals and financial planning.

• Architecture Leadership: Design next-generation architectures across business, application, data, and technology domains to enable agility, low TCO, and speed to market.

• Roadmaps & Standards: Develop IT strategies, architecture roadmaps, reference architectures, and enforce standards, patterns, and governance.

• Solution Delivery: Build extensible solution architectures; ensure adherence during implementation; lead collaboration across business, data, integration, infrastructure, and security teams.

• Innovation & Research: Monitor emerging technologies, analyze industry trends, and recommend innovative approaches; provide thought leadership on adoption.

• Risk & ROI Analysis: Evaluate solutions considering risk, ROI, schedule, and budget; communicate and influence toward future‑state architectures.

• Vendor & Tool Management: Participate in RFPs, vendor evaluations, and sourcing; assess pricing models and upgrade/retirement plans. Conduct research and deliver key insights on selected software vendors, including but not limited to, changing pricing models, negative industry behaviors, and upgrade/retirement plans that may influence our software purchase and renewal strategies. Raise risks and concerns as they arise with key incumbent vendors to ensure the opportunity for GTBS to review and take action as needed

• Education & Communication: Promote EA processes and outcomes; create training materials and technical position papers; lead communication plans.

• Governance & Compliance: Establish guiding principles for solution decisions; maintain technology vision and standards across projects.

• 8-12 years of experience, preferred
• Bachelor's degree in related field, or equivalent work experience, preferred
• Experience with building and delivering Large Scale Business/Technology Transformation Custom Built and Package implementation projects in multiple business areas (Direct to Consumer Selling Channels, Omni-channel Order Management, ERP, Warehouse Mgmt, Billing, Master Data preferred)
• Excellent understanding of the web technology stack (e.g., TCP / IP, HTTP, HTML, JavaScript, RESTful APIs).
• Excellent Experience in a programing language like Python or Java is preferred
• Significant experience with several of the following technologies:
  Angular, React, Spring Boot, Cloud Spanner, Big Query, Oracle, SQL Server and DB2
• Experience in all aspects of cloud computing (e.g., infrastructure, storage, platforms, and data)
• Experience with architecture design and deployment using cloud platforms, Google Cloud (preferred), AWS, Microsoft Azure and familiarity with IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS concepts
• Experience with Data modeling and building database tables, views, materialized views etc.
• Understanding data integration concepts such as EAI, ETL, ELT, EII and B2B
• Experience with SAP technologies such as, ECC, HANA, Business Objects tools, is a plus
• Experience with enterprise data models, data architecture strategies, delivery roadmaps, information…