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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.

Job Description 

As a Principal Architect at CoverMyMeds, you’ll create solutions that make our healthcare system work more efficiently and effectively in order to help millions of people receive their prescription medications every year. You’ll desing products that our partners in healthcare use every day and innovate products that don't even exist yet. You’ll work on small, cross-functional and collaborative teams with endless opportunities to take on responsibility, continue learning and mentor others.  

Our Tech Stack  

Ruby on Rails, Elixir, Phoenix, Python, PHP, React, VueJS, AngularJS, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, Git, Elasticsearch, Capistrano, Redis, Sidekiq, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, RSpec, Capybara, Cucumber  

What You’ll Do

CoverMyMeds has built many products to solve complex Healthcare problems. You will consult stakeholders across the organization and design solutions that enhance and accelerate our capabilities to delivery more effective healthcare services.

Minimum Requirements

Degree or equivalent and typically requires 13+ years, with 8+ y ears, of direct work related experience. 

Role & Responsibilities:

• Contribute to business and technical senior leadership discussions about current and future software engineering needs and creates technical roadmap(s) on how to solve.
• Apply advanced principles, theories, and concepts in the IT architecture field by performing technical planning, architecture development, and developing specifications for new products/services, applications, and service offerings.
• Defines standards and best practices to ensure consistency, scalability, and reliability across the organization.​​
• Present to and consult with senior leadership do develop strategic solutions to complex problems.
• Consults with and mentors technical teams on effective implementation of new technologies.

Critical Skills:  

• Expert experience developing and implementing microservice and event-driven platforms.
• Proficient in cloud technologies.
• Architects and oversees proper implementation of organization-wide software solutions.
• In-house expert / thought leader and lends expert advise on software engineering initiatives
• Stays at the forefront of emerging technologies and trends, recommends opportunities for innovation and competitive advantage​, and conducts proofs of concept when necessary to demonstrate technology value
   

Additional Skills:  

• Able to understand highly complex challenges and propose aigned, solutions
• Able to work effectively with multiple competing business and technical constraints.
• Present to and influence a diverse number of audiences to  influence strategic and tactical decisions.
• Leads or consults on highly complex and/or long-term projects that have organization-wide impact.
• Ability to plan and execute on LRP strategies that balances business, financial, and technical constraints.
• Cultivates a culture of collaboration, communication, and accountabilit
• Strong grasp on healthcare industry, long-term business strategies, and risk management

Candidate must be authorized to work in the U.S, now or in the future, without the support from McKesson.

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. 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

$165,100 - $275,100

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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