Senior Enterprise Architect

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Full time

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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.

A Senior Enterprise Architect is a strategic technology leader who aligns enterprise architecture with Cardinal Health's business objectives and technology strategy 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.

This role is aligned with our GMPD business and GMPD Technology Strategy enablement.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Qualifications

• 4-8 years of experience, preferred

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering or related field, or equivalent work experience, preferred

• Experience with building and delivering Large Scale Business/Technology Transformations in eCommerce, ERP, Warehouse Mgmt, Billing, Master Data, preferred

• Excellent understanding of the web technology stack for business applications (e.g., TCP / IP, HTML, JavaScript, RESTful APIs)

• Previous development and solution architecture experience is preferred

• 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, S4, HANA, Business Objects tools, is a plus

• Experience with enterprise data models, data architecture strategies, delivery roadmaps, information lifecycle management, and data governance capabilities

• Understanding of effects of security legislation on architecture decisions, including HIPAA, GDPR, Sarbanes-Oxley, Payment Card Industry (PCI) regulations, Customer and Patient Data Protection regulations

• Knowledge of common Architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or Zachman

• Outstanding time management and organization skills with Ability to work across multiple job levels to achieve results.

• Ability to influence and engage with senior leadership and business stakeholders

• Excellent communication & presentation skills; written and verbal, with the ability to mix deep technical expertise with simple, everyday language to effectively communicate with C-Suite executives

• Excellent analytical, problem solving and interpersonal skills

What is expected of you and others at this level

• Applies comprehensive knowledge and a thorough understanding of concepts, principles, and technical capabilities to perform varied tasks and projects

• May contribute to the development of policies and procedures

• Works on complex projects of large scope

• Develops technical solutions to a wide range of difficult problems

• Solutions are innovative and consistent with organization objectives

• Completes work; independently receives general guidance on new projects

• Work reviewed for purpose of meeting objectives

• May act as a mentor to less experienced colleagues

Anticipated salary range: $123,400 - $176,300

Bonus eligible: Yes

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

• Medical, dental and vision coverage

• Paid time off plan

• Health savings account (HSA)

• 401k savings plan

• Access to wages before pay day with myFlexPay

• Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)

• Short- and long-term disability coverage

• Work-Life resources

• Paid parental leave

• Healthy lifestyle programs

Application window anticipated to close: 09/08/2026 *if interested in opportunity, please submit application as soon as possible.

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.

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

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