Principal Architect Enterprise Architecture

What Enterprise Architecture contributes to Cardinal Health :

Information Technology oversees the effective development, delivery, and operation of computing and information services. This function anticipates, plans, and delivers Information Technology solutions and strategies that enable operations and drive business value.

Enterprise Architecture defines architectural models, governance, and transition initiatives to coordinate stakeholders and enable business change, with consideration of application, information, technology and security architecture.

Job Summary :

The Principal Architect, Enterprise Architecture, is a seasoned technologist and architect who drives value to Cardinal Health through technology implementation experience, broad business knowledge, thought leadership, and ability to establish and execute an architecture strategy. This individual must have a deep understanding of the functional and technical sides of the healthcare industry, including corporate functions, delivering flawless customer and supplier experiences.

The role will create strategy, guide enterprise project decisions, designs, and investment to increase speed to market. This role contributes to the Enterprise Architecture team and broader Technology Strategy and Execution & IT team as a visible technical leader by establishing new & innovative solutions and strives to maximize business value and effectiveness, with a focus on continuous improvement, by architecting innovative solutions to provide better service to Cardinal internal and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities :

• Leads the identification and analysis of business drivers to derive enterprise business, information, technical and solution architecture requirements; analyzing industry, technology, and market trends to determine their potential impact on the enterprise
• Partners with Enterprise teams to develop multi-year IT strategy for Enterprise Functions, Finance Operations, Nuclear, OptiFreight, and At Home Solutions business divisions.
• Bring experience to challenge status quo and devise better ways to achieve business objectives
• Leads technical due diligence and road mapping for strategic partnerships, third party partners, mergers, and acquisitions
• Leverages relationships across the enterprise to drive agreement via partnership and collaboration with stakeholder group comprising Tech Strategy & Execution (Tech Strategy, EA, PMO, Vendor Management, Strategic initiatives), Business, Solution Owners, COEs, Infrastructure & Shared Services and Security to develop and deploy comprehensive solution architectures.
• Design and architect next generation enterprise architectures across multiple enterprise architecture domains including Business, Application, Data & Technology architecture to achieve a low TCO, solution agility and speed to market.
• Leads the development of technology transitions or architecture evolutions by creating foundational examples of working solutions and mentors teams on how to build on those examples
• Owns software / platform technologies and patterns, techniques, and enable outcomes of Non-Functional Requirements (scalability, availability, performance, security, and operational insight)
• Acts as Mentor and Coach for teams and individuals on architecture, strategy, solution owner, engineering, and COE teams
• Leads teams in the delivery practices of zero-downtime deployments, continuous delivery, build pipelines, and techniques for team autonomy
• Joins teams to assist with / lead development activities in times of need to solve challenging programs or to provide extra development capacity

Qualifications :

What is expected of you and others at this level :

Anticipated salary range : $116,500- $207,755

Bonus eligible : Yes

Benefits : Cardinal Health offers a wide variety of benefits and programs to support health and well-being.

The salary range listed is an estimate. Pay at Cardinal Health is determined by multiple factors including, but not limited to, a candidate's geographical location, relevant education, experience and skills and an evaluation of internal pay equity.

Application window anticipated to close : 10 / 28 / 2025

Candidates who are back-to-work, people with disabilities, without a college degree, and Veterans are encouraged to apply.

Cardinal Health supports an inclusive workplace that values diversity of thought, experience and background. We celebrate the power of our differences to create better solutions for our customers by ensuring employees can be their authentic selves each day. Cardinal Health is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, pregnancy, veteran status, marital status, creed, status with regard to public assistance, genetic status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.