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Solution Architect

Richmond, Virginia
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Success Profile

What makes a successful Solution Architect? Here are the top traits.

  • Conceptual
  • Proactive
  • Problem-Solver
  • Strategic
  • Technologically Savvy
  • Visual Thinker

Culture

Accomplish

Make an impact by using your problem-solving skills to assure maximum “uptime” for our products and a smooth experience for our customers, while maintaining a healthy work-life balance.

Innovate

Monitor and analyze insights on the next steps of improving care through our evolving data and technology tools.

From Creating

solutions that help break down affordability barriers to improving distribution that helps maintain drug efficacy, you’ll play a key role in shaping a global industry.

Benefits

  • Coverage you can rely on

    • Medical, Dental, and Vision
    • Health Spending Accounts
    • Flexible Spending Accounts
  • Benefits that go beyond your base pay

    • 401(k) (U.S.)
    • Pension (Canada)
    • Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • Support for total well-being

    • Mental Health Programs
    • Flexible Schedules
    • Paid Time Off
    • Wellness Program
    • Education Reimbursement
    • Volunteer Opportunities
    • Flexible Work Environment
  • A global leader of inclusion

    McKesson’s commitment to diversity and inclusion starts at the top. We have also been named a Best Employer for Diversity by Forbes.

Responsibility

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.

Responsibilities

  • Coordinate and work together with internal stakeholders, such as program managers, to gather requirements and model criteria.
  • Leverage tools and resources to plan, evaluate and execute strategic initiatives
  • The candidate will be responsible for the data integration and solution design for ingesting data from various sources to the data warehouse
  • Create and manage an array of data design deliverables including data models, data diagrams, data flows and corresponding data dictionary documentation
  • Serve as an advocate for the data analytics team and data management discipline, policies, and standards across MMS organization
  • Mapping of relational entities to use cases or business requirements and assisting in the development of data services
  • Influence projects to make decisions related to data strategies including data quality, data architecture and data management best practices. 
  • Be proactive and provide status of effort accomplished, estimates of remaining effort, and issues impacting progress
  • Work closely with the other Data Engineers and Scientists to deliver results
  • Troubleshooting, Monitoring and Performance Tuning of various software components of various data science analytical solutions, Restful web services and etc.
  • Understanding of large database mining tools and statistical languages utilized to efficiently build approaches and execute on analytical use cases.
  • Communicate results and educate others through reports and presentations
  • Demonstrated experience in reviewing enterprise and data architecture artifacts, deliverables, and processes for quality standards

Critical Skills

  • 12+ years of experience in a technology role; proven experience in a Architecture role, preferably in a large, complex organization.
  • Analyse current business practice, processes, and procedures as well as identifying future business opportunities for leveraging Data & Analytics solutions on various platforms
  • Develop solution proposals that provide details of project scope, approach, deliverables and project timeline
  • Identify risks, assumptions, and develop pricing estimates for the Data & Analytics solutions
  • Strong quantitative analysis background and experience in working with large, complex data systems to aggregate, organize, and prepare data for use in business analysis
  • Experience with Spark, Kafka, Flume Streaming and similar distributed computing technologies. Proficiency in analysis (e.g. Python, R, SAS) packages
  • Strong mathematical background with strong knowledge in at least one of the following fields: statistics, data mining, statistics, operations research, econometrics, and/or information retrieval (image processing (OpenCV) and natural language processing is a plus).
  • Extensive market knowledge and experience with cutting edge Data, Analytics, Data Science, ML and AI technologies
  • Extensive professional experience with ETL, BI & Data Analytics
  • Extensive professional experience with Big Data systems, data pipelines and data processing
  • Deep expertise in Data Architecture, Data Modeling, and task estimations.
  • Practical hands-on experience with data technologies and Cloud Platform like Hadoop, Hive, Redshift, Big Query, Snowflake, Databricks, GCP and Azure.
  • Hands on experience working on analytical platforms like SAS, R, Python, Azure ML
  • Expertise in Unix Shell scripting and Dependency driven job schedulers.
  • Expertise in Data visualization tools such as Power BI, Tableau and Looker is a plus
  • Ability to understand API Specs, identify relevant API calls, extract data and implement data pipelines & SQL friendly data structures.
  • Deep understanding of modern data technologies, data architecture principles, and AI/machine learning applications.
  • Data visualization and/or power point presentation skills to effectively communicate insights is a plus.
  • Strong experience with the distributed cluster management. Understanding of Docker/ Kubernetes container orchestration technologies.

Additional Knowledge / Skills:

  • Understanding of the agile software development methodology (e.g. Scrum, Kanban)
  • Proven ability to establish and maintain a high level of customer trust and confidence. 
  • Flexibility to adjust to multiple demands, shifting priorities, ambiguity, and rapid change.
  • Extensive experience with data engineering technologies, business intelligence tools, designing, reporting and delivering analytic solutions, data management and warehousing, and the strategic use of information
  • Positive and flexible attitude to enable adjusting to different needs in an ever-changing environment
  • Experience with data in the drug supply chain and commercial domain within healthcare, pharma is a plus
  • Strong leadership, organizational and interpersonal skills; comfortable managing trade-offs
  • Ability to lead others without direct authority
  • Highly influential and ability to educate stakeholders on the role of data and its purpose in the business
  • Teams up and collaborates for speed, agility, delivery excellence and innovation
  • Strong negotiation and decision-making skills
  • Fast and capable learner. Results oriented, enthusiastic, creative thinker

Education:

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Data Science, Information Technology, or a related field OR equivalent experience

At McKesson, we care about the well-being of the patients and communities we serve, and that starts with caring for our people. That’s why we have a Total Rewards package that includes comprehensive benefits to supportphysical, mental, and financial well-being. Our Total Rewards offerings serve the different needs of our diverse employee population and ensure they are the healthiest versions of themselves. For more information regarding benefits at McKesson, pleaseclick here.

As part of Total Rewards, we are proud to offer a competitive compensation package at McKesson. 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.

Our Base Pay Range for this position

McKesson is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.Qualified applicants will not be disqualified from consideration for employment based upon criminal history.

McKesson is committed to being an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and offers opportunities to all job seekers including job seekers with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, please contact us by sending an email to Disability_Accommodation@McKesson.com. Resumes or CVs submitted to this email box will not be accepted.

Current employees must apply through the internal career site.

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