Job Description:
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.
Job Summary:
McKesson Technology is seeking a highly experienced Enterprise Resiliency Architect to be part of our resiliency team in designing, implementing, and maturing the enterprise resiliency posture. This role will collaborate with key stakeholders to enhance cyber resilience, disaster recovery, and technology resiliency. The successful candidate will have a strong background in cloud architecture, microservices, and modern architecture for resiliency and disaster recovery.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Designing cyber resilience solutions: You will design and architect resilience solutions that incorporate best practices for high availability, disaster recovery, and technology resiliency. This includes designing robust systems, networks, and applications that can withstand cyber threats and ensure business continuity.
2. Developing application design guidelines: You will establish application design guidelines that promote high availability, disaster recovery, and technology resiliency. This may involve implementing redundant systems, load balancing, fault tolerance, and failover mechanisms to minimize downtime and ensure uninterrupted service.
3. Implementing disaster recovery strategies: You will partner with service and solution teams to help design recovery strategies to ensure that critical systems and data can be quickly and effectively restored in the event of a major incident or disaster. This may involve designing recovery processes, establishing recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs), and advising the service and solution teams on how best to test the effectiveness of the recovery plans.
4. Enhancing technology resiliency: You will identify and partner with technology teams to implement technologies and solutions that enhance the organization's technology resiliency. This may include implementing redundant network connections, leveraging cloud services for data backup and recovery, and implementing failover mechanisms for critical infrastructure components.
5. Collaborating with solution and service teams: You will work closely with solution and service teams to ensure that resiliency principles and best practices are integrated into the design and development of applications. This includes reviewing application architectures, conducting security reviews, and providing guidance on secure coding practices.
6. Conducting architecture assessments: You will partner with our technology teams to assess the organization's existing architecture and infrastructure to identify vulnerabilities and areas for improvement. Based on these assessments, you will develop architectural recommendations to enhance cyber resilience, high availability, disaster recovery, and technology resiliency.
7. Providing technical leadership and guidance: You will serve as a technical leader and provide guidance to cross-functional teams on cyber resilience best practices, high availability, disaster recovery, and technology resiliency. This includes mentoring team members, conducting training sessions, and ensuring adherence to industry standards and regulations.
8. Staying updated on emerging technologies and industry trends: You will stay abreast of emerging technologies, industry trends, and best practices related to cyber resilience, high availability, disaster recovery, and technology resiliency. This will enable you to recommend and implement innovative solutions to mitigate evolving cyber threats.
10. Participating in architectural reviews and governance processes: You will actively participate in architectural reviews and governance processes to ensure that cyber resilience principles and best practices are incorporated into the organization's technology roadmap. This includes collaborating with stakeholders to ensure that cyber resilience requirements are met during project planning and execution.
These responsibilities highlight the key design and architecture aspects of a Cyber Resilience Technical Architect role, focusing on application design, high availability, disaster recovery, and technology resiliency.
Experience:
- Proven record of success in engineering and architectural roles at a large complex enterprise.
- Solid background in cloud architecture, microservices, and modern architecture for resiliency and disaster recovery across a broad technology estate.
- Knowledge of Infrastructure and software engineering best practices.
- Experience developing and implementing operational strategies that drive measurable results.
- Strong understanding of regulatory requirements and governance principles.
- Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and lead cross-functional teams to achieve common goals.
- Strategic thinker with the ability to make connections across workstreams and matrixed organizations.
- Ability to work well under pressure, navigate tough situations professionally, and manage multiple tasks and deliverables simultaneously.
- Knowledge of and experience in the healthcare industry is a plus.
- Highly organized and detail-oriented with respect to documentation.
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
- Excellent critical thinking and diagnostic aptitude.
- Strong leadership skills that inspire team confidence and respect while motivating team members in a creative and effective manner.
- Experience in managing and working with distributed team members.
- Desire for achieving excellence in customer satisfaction, process and product quality, and reliability.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field. Equivalent experience will also be considered.
- Typically requires 12+ years of professional experience and 4+ years of management experience
- Proven record of success running IT Service Management in an ITIL operating model
- Solid background in cloud architecture, microservices, and modern architecture for resiliency and disaster recovery
- Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills
- Experience developing and implementing operational strategies
- Knowledge of software engineering best practices and regulatory requirements
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment and lead cross-functional teams
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
$145,700 - $242,900
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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