Role Description As a Principal Architect- Enterprise Architecture, you’ll be part of our Information Technology Team working as a remote employee. The Enterprise Architect serves as a strategic technology partner to the business, responsible for translating strategic opportunities into actionable, business-aligned technology strategies. This role ensures that technology investments deliver measurable value and support the organization’s long-term objectives. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in Integration, ERP, Data, AI, and related domains, and excels at bridging business needs with innovative technology solutions. - Partner with business leaders and IT to understand strategic objectives and translate them into actionable architecture artifacts (capability maps, value streams, operating models, and roadmaps). - Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture framework, ensuring alignment between business goals and IT strategy. - Support portfolio planning by linking initiatives to capabilities and strategic outcomes. - Track and communicate the value delivered by technology initiatives, using metrics and KPIs to demonstrate business impact. - Facilitate cross-functional workshops and architecture reviews to drive alignment and decision making. - Establish and maintain architectural standards, templates, and governance practices. - Promote application, integration, data architecture strategy, including data governance, quality, security. - Lead the adoption and integration of AI/ML technologies across capabilities, ensuring responsible and ethical use of AI. - Interact with various business and IT stakeholders throughout the planning, PMO, SDLC, and Service Management processes. - Lead the complexity reduction agenda by enabling alignment to standards. - Work with the BUs, responsible for retirement of obsolete applications and technologies. - Incorporate domain-specific strategies into the future state BU app portfolio. - Facilitate the effective integration of frameworks and corresponding processes with other related business and IT processes and patterns from an architectural standpoint. - Lead/facilitate the creation of governing principles to guide information, technology, and solution decision making for the enterprise. - Oversee development and maintenance of conceptual, logical, and physical application architecture. Qualifications - Ability to tie together solutions across systems. - Business acumen in multiple capability areas (Finance, Supply Chain, Enterprise Services), preferably in the manufacturing industry. - Business process modeling. - Facilitation. - Knowledge of required technologies (including 3rd party solutions). - Understanding of future technologies. - Project & Product Delivery Model knowledge. - Strong understanding of value tracking methodologies and experience with business case development. - Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills. Requirements - Undergraduate degree and 16+ years relevant experience, or Graduate degree and 12+ years relevant experience. - Additional training or certification in organization change management highly desirable. - Previous experience as a successful enterprise architect highly desirable. - 7 to 10 years of experience in at least two IT disciplines (such as technical architecture, solution architecture, network management, application development, middleware design, information analysis, database management, or operations management) in a heterogeneous environment — or five years of experience in solution architecture, business analysis, or business strategic planning. Benefits - Medical, dental, life, vision, disability, 401(k), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, paid time off, and tuition reimbursement in addition to programs & benefits in support of your well-being. - Discounts on Stanley Black & Decker tools and other partner programs. - Career paths aren’t linear; grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths. - Access to a wealth of learning resources, including our digital learning portal. - Experience an awesome place to work, with mutual respect and appreciation for a wide range of perspectives and experiences. - Help us continue to make positive changes locally and globally through volunteerism, giving back, and sustainable business practices.

• Guide customers through solution design and manage technical implementation • Support sales efforts by reviewing solution design, scope, and implementation strategy • Analyze and translate business and technical requirements into comprehensive architectural blueprints • Drive solid instance health by guiding remediation of configurations • Collaborate with clients to establish governance processes for successful go-lives

Role Description The Enterprise Architect (Pharma Segment) is a strategic technology leader who aligns enterprise architecture with Cardinal Health’s business objectives 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. - Brings thought leadership and hands-on guidance across Customer Engagement, Supply Chain, Omni-channel Order Management, and Finance & Accounting processes. - Shapes strategy, influences investment decisions, and drives innovative designs to ensure technology initiatives enable compelling customer experiences and operational excellence. - Champions modern, extensible architectures, fosters continuous improvement, and introduces innovative solutions that maximize business effectiveness and strengthen Cardinal Health’s competitive edge. 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 leveraging Emerging technologies like AI & ML, Generative AI, Agentic AI, 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. - 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 - 8-12 years of experience, preferred - Bachelor's degree in related field, or equivalent work experience, preferred - Experience with building and delivering Large Scale Business/Technology Transformation Custom Built and Package implementation projects in multiple business areas (Direct to Consumer Selling Channels, Omni-channel Order Management, ERP, Warehouse Mgmt, Billing, Master Data preferred) - Excellent understanding of the web technology stack (e.g., TCP / IP, HTTP, HTML, JavaScript, RESTful APIs). - Excellent experience in a programming language like Python or Java is preferred. - Significant experience with several of the following technologies: Vertex AI, Large Language Models, Angular, React, Spring Boot, Cloud Spanner, Big Query, Oracle, SQL Server, and DB2. - 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 ERP & CRM technologies such as Salesforce, S4/HANA, ECC, 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 security legislation, including PHI, HIPPA, GDPR, Sarbanes-Oxley, Payment Card Industry (PCI) regulations, Customer and Patient Data Protection regulations. Encryption at rest and in-motion. - Knowledge of common Architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or Zachman. Certification in one of these frameworks preferred - 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. Requirements - Applies advanced knowledge and understanding of concepts, principles, and technical capabilities to manage a wide variety of projects - Participates in the development of policies and procedures to achieve specific goals - Recommends new practices, processes, metrics, or models - Works on or may lead complex projects of large scope - Projects may have significant and long-term impact - Provides solutions which may set precedent - Independently determines method for completion of new projects - Receives guidance on overall project objectives - Acts as a mentor to less experienced colleagues Benefits - 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

Role Description The Lead Architect is a hands-on technical leader responsible for defining and delivering end-to-end solution architecture for complex client and internal initiatives. The role drives technical direction across teams, ensures solutions are scalable, secure, and maintainable, and guides delivery teams to build high-quality solutions aligned with enterprise modernization goals. Lead Architects stay close to the code and runtime by validating key architectural decisions, contributing where needed on critical paths, establishing engineering guardrails, and leading design reviews. Success is measured by both architectural quality and production outcomes, with the role remaining primarily focused on hands-on solution engineering and minimal delivery support. Occasional travel may be required, such as for engagement kickoffs. Key Responsibilities - Own end-to-end solution architecture for a domain or major initiative, including integrations, data flows, and non-functional requirements. - Define and govern architecture for large scale, distributed, cross-platform systems. - Translate business goals into a pragmatic technical roadmap with product and engineering leadership. - Lead architecture and design reviews; document key decisions, trade-offs, and guardrails. - Stay hands-on through prototypes, reference implementations, and technical spikes to mitigate risk. - Establish and enforce engineering standards across APIs, testing, CI/CD, and secure by default practices. - Embed operability by design, including observability, resilience, runbooks, and incident readiness. - Serve as a technical escalation point and drive root cause analysis and systemic remediation. - Contribute across the SDLC, including estimation, design, and delivery. - Mentor senior engineers and emerging architects. - Support pre-sales with solution architecture and effort estimation. - Continuously evaluate and adopt new technologies and patterns. - Leads and mentors a team of architects, providing architectural oversight across multiple programs to drive consistency, scalability, and adherence to engineering best practices. Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree / 4-year college degree in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience. - 15+ years of software development experience. - 12+ years of strong hands-on experience in Java. - 5+ years of experience with AWS. - 5+ years of experience as a Practice Architect, or Lead Architect. Technical Skills and Experience - Expert level software engineering with proven experience designing and governing architectures for distributed systems, including clear boundaries, contracts, versioning, and data ownership. - Strong hands-on experience with Java frameworks such as Spring / Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, and microservices architectures. - Experience designing and delivering distributed, highly available systems. - Experience with relational and NoSQL databases, messaging, and integration patterns. - Deep expertise in Java including refactoring mature codebases, performance tuning, and pragmatic framework evaluation. - Ability to define and enforce quality strategies across teams, including test automation, testability standards, and measurable quality outcomes. - Hands-on contributor through prototyping, reference implementations, deep code reviews, and critical path development. - Relevant technical certifications (Cloud, Architecture, or Development) are a plus. Engineering & Tooling - Experience with CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar tools. - Advanced DevOps practices including CI/CD strategy, IaC, release safety, environment strategy, and scalable automation. - Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes). - Strong understanding of security, identity, compliance, and secure by default practices. - Full stack solution design capability across frontend, backend, integration, and data layers, with depth in at least one area. - Ability to establish architectural patterns that improve maintainability, reduce coupling, and enable independent team delivery. Cloud Platform Experience - Strong experience with AWS, including cloud native design patterns, security/identity, networking, deployment scalability, and cost awareness. - Hands-on knowledge in various AWS services like ECS, EKS, Lambda, Event Bridge, S3, DynamoDB, System Manager, API Gateway, ACM, Route53, Cloud Watch, etc. - Ability to define cloud reference architectures and guide trade-offs across reliability, performance, and delivery speed. - Hands-on experience building, operating, and troubleshooting production cloud workloads using observability tools. - Nice to have – Associate/Professional level AWS certification. AI Skills & Tool Usage - Sets expectations for responsible AI tool usage across teams, including validation, security, and IP/privacy considerations. - Evaluates and enables adoption of AI tools that improve developer productivity and quality (e.g., code generation, testing, documentation). - When relevant, defines architectural patterns for integrating AI services with appropriate governance and monitoring. Professional Expectations - Owns technical direction and outcomes for a program or domain, driving clarity and decisions in ambiguous situations. - Influences across teams and stakeholders through strong communication and technical credibility. - Accountable for production outcomes, including reliability, security, and performance. - Acts as a force multiplier through mentoring, coaching, and reusable reference solutions. - Maintains hands-on engagement to ensure architectural decisions translate into successful delivery. - Experience working with an Agile methodology and iterative development. - Experience with practices such as unit testing, static analysis, and build automation. - Experience in mentoring and coaching employees, with excellent leadership skills. Job Type & Location This is a Permanent position based out of Austin, TX. Pay and Benefits The pay range for this position is $160,000.00 - $225,000.00/yr. We reserve the right to pay above or below the posted wage based on factors unrelated to sex, race, or any other protected classification. Additional earnings may be available through incentive programs like annual bonuses, profit sharing, etc. - Medical, Dental, and Vision. - Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital. - 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available. - Life Insurance (Voluntary Life and AD&D for employee and dependents). - Short and Long-Term Disability. - Health Spending Account (HSA). - Transportation Benefits. - Employee Assistance Program. - Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave). Workplace Type This is a fully remote position. Application Deadline This position is anticipated to close on Jul 27, 2026.