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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.
ROLE SUMMARY
Ontada is an oncology data science and technology business dedicated to transforming the fight against cancer. We specialize in real-world data and evidence generation that accelerates life science research, clinical technologies that support community providers with precise care, and provider engagement channels that enable education and insights.
We are hiring an IT Architect to define and drive cloud-native integration architecture across Ontada products and partner ecosystems. This role owns solution and platform architecture for API-led connectivity, event-driven integration, and secure data exchange—ensuring our systems are scalable, reliable, observable, and straightforward to evolve. Familiarity with healthcare interoperability standards (HL7/FHIR, including SMART on FHIR) is a plus for certain partner pathways, but the primary focus is strong enterprise-architecture fundamentals applied to modern cloud-native integration models.
Success in this role is measured by the clarity and adoption of your reference architectures and standards, the reliability and scalability of the integration ecosystem you enable, and your ability to influence decisions across multiple initiatives while mentoring and elevating engineering teams. Familiarity with AI/ML and NLP capabilities used in products (e.g., LLM-enabled workflows, retrieval patterns, evaluation, and governance) is a plus as Ontada expands intelligent experiences, but is not the core requirement.
TECHNICAL ENVIRONMENT
Cloud-Native Integration: API-led connectivity, event-driven architecture, pub/sub, schema management, idempotency, retries, backpressure
APIs: RESTful services, OpenAPI/Swagger, API gateways, versioning and contract-first design
Messaging: Kafka (or equivalent), queues/streams, event schema design
Platform Patterns: Microservices, containerization (Docker), service discovery, configuration management; service mesh (where applicable)
Data & Performance: Oracle and relational databases; Redis (caching); Elasticsearch; analytics/pipelines (e.g., Databricks)
Interoperability (nice to have): HL7v2, FHIR (R4+), SMART on FHIR, OAuth2/OIDC, C-CDA
Observability: Logging, metrics, distributed tracing (e.g., Dynatrace)
Cloud & Platforms: Azure, AWS, GCP, Cloud Foundry
Engineering Practices: CI/CD, automated testing, code reviews, architecture documentation
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Architecture Leadership & Strategy
- Drive architecture for interoperability and integration capabilities across systems, services, and product offerings.
- Partner with Product Owners, Sales, Business Analysts, Quality Assurance, and Project Management to translate functional and non-functional requirements into target architectures and delivery plans.
- Define architecture standards, reference implementations, and guardrails for APIs, integration patterns, security, and operational readiness.
- Evaluate solution options and drive alignment across stakeholders; communicate tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Provide technical guidance to coach, motivate, and develop engineers and architects.
Cloud-Native Integration Architecture
- Define and govern integration reference architectures across APIs, events, and asynchronous workflows (request/response, pub/sub, choreography vs. orchestration).
- Establish platform patterns and guardrails for API gateways, service-to-service communication, schema/version management, and contract testing.
- Design for resiliency and performance using proven patterns (timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, bulkheads, idempotency, caching) and align to SLOs/SLAs.
- Guide event-driven integration (e.g., Kafka or equivalent) with well-defined event schemas, lifecycle management, and operational controls.
- Collaborate with security and platform teams to ensure secure-by-default integration approaches (OAuth2/OIDC, least privilege, secrets management, threat modeling).
Healthcare Interoperability (Optional) & Partner Integrations
- When applicable, drive design for healthcare data exchange leveraging HL7v2 and/or FHIR (R4+), including SMART on FHIR, to enable integrations with EMRs and partner systems.
- Partner with domain SMEs and external stakeholders to define interoperability expectations (security, conformance, and onboarding) and ensure integrations are scalable and supportable.
- Define API contracts, versioning strategy, and error taxonomy to enable predictable integrations for internal and external consumers.
- Partner with engineering teams to implement and evolve reusable integration components, adapters, and accelerators that reduce time-to-integrate.
Operational Excellence & Production Ownership
- Collaborate with engineering in release, sprint, and project planning to ensure delivery commitments are tracked and met across the SDLC.
- Demonstrate strong architectural ownership in production operations to address customer needs for support, issue analysis, enhancements, and corrective actions.
- Evolve software systems, infrastructure, and architecture to support growth, SLAs, availability, and continued operation.
- Drive operational readiness practices including observability, runbooks, incident response, and post-incident improvements.
- Resolve technical problems, issues, and escalations across delivery teams and project activities.
AI Enablement (Preferred)
- Partner with product and engineering teams to identify and deliver AI-enabled capabilities, from discovery and design through deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
- Guide architecture patterns for integrating model services into cloud-native systems (APIs, events, data pipelines) with appropriate security, privacy, and compliance controls.
- Promote MLOps/LLMOps practices (versioning, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, rollback) and responsible AI governance.
- Collaborate on evaluation approaches to ensure AI features are reliable and safe for production use.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENT
Degree or equivalent and typically requires 7+ years of relevant experience.
Education
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.
CRITICAL SKILLS
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years in architecture (solution, platform, or enterprise) with ownership across multiple systems.
- Strong enterprise integration architecture skills across REST APIs, event-driven messaging, and secure data exchange patterns.
- Strong technical fundamentals in cloud-native architecture (microservices, containers, resiliency patterns, observability) on Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- Experience designing and operating large-scale, multi-tenant services with reliability, scalability, and security best practices.
- Ability to drive cross-functional technical decisions, mentor engineers/architects, and communicate clearly through documentation and design reviews.
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, with a track record of influencing cross-team decisions through documentation and design reviews.
- Nice to have: familiarity with HL7/FHIR and/or willingness to learn quickly as needed for partner integrations.
PREFERRED SKILLS
- Optional/nice to have: hands-on experience with FHIR (profiles, implementation guides, SMART on FHIR) and/or HL7v2, including conformance and integration testing.
- Experience integrating with multiple EMRs and partner ecosystems; familiarity with common healthcare workflows and data exchange constraints.
- Hands-on experience with microservices frameworks (e.g., Spring or equivalent) and API management practices.
- Experience with messaging and integration platforms (Kafka, service bus/queues, stream processing) and caching technologies (e.g., Redis).
- Experience with platform engineering patterns such as service mesh, policy-as-code, and automated architecture validation in CI/CD.
- Experience with observability platforms (e.g., Dynatrace) and production operations best practices.
- AI/ML product delivery experience (LLM-enabled workflows, evaluation, and responsible AI governance).
- Experience with Elasticsearch and/or analytics platforms (e.g., Databricks).
WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE
At 6 Months
- You have established and socialized a target-state cloud-native integration architecture, with clear standards for APIs, events, resiliency, and security.
- You have delivered at least one end-to-end initiative (design through production) for a key integration capability (e.g., event streaming, API modernization, partner onboarding accelerator).
- Teams are adopting your reference patterns and documentation with reduced integration friction and faster delivery.
- You are actively supporting production operations through improved observability, incident learnings, and reliability improvements.
At 12 Months
- You own and continuously improve the integration architecture across multiple products and partner pathways, with measurable gains in reliability, scalability, and onboarding speed.
- You have matured governance for integration assets (API standards, event schemas, implementation guides where applicable, and conformance testing) and created a repeatable delivery playbook across the SDLC.
- You are a trusted technical leader influencing roadmaps, investment decisions, and cross-team alignment.
- You have helped teams incorporate intelligent capabilities responsibly (where applicable) through clear evaluation, monitoring, and risk controls.
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
$133,100 - $221,900
McKesson has become aware of online recruiting-related scams in which individuals who are not affiliated with or authorized by McKesson are using McKesson’s (or affiliated entities, like CoverMyMeds or RxCrossroads) name in fraudulent emails, job postings or social media messages. In light of these scams, please bear the following in mind:
McKesson Talent Advisors will never solicit money or credit card information in connection with a McKesson job application.
McKesson Talent Advisors do not communicate with candidates via online chatrooms or using email accounts such as Gmail or Hotmail. Note that McKesson does rely on a virtual assistant (Gia) for certain recruiting-related communications with candidates.
McKesson job postings are posted on our career site: careers.mckesson.com.
McKesson is an Equal Opportunity Employer
McKesson provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age, genetic information, or any other legally protected category. For additional information on McKesson’s full Equal Employment Opportunity policies, visit our Equal Employment Opportunity page.
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 (United States) Disability_Accommodation@McKesson.com or (Canada) Accessibility@mckesson.ca. Resumes or CVs submitted to this email box will not be accepted.
Join us at McKesson!
INTRODUCTION
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.
ROLE SUMMARY
Ontada is an oncology data science and technology business dedicated to transforming the fight against cancer. We specialize in real-world data and evidence generation that accelerates life science research, clinical technologies that support community providers with precise care, and provider engagement channels that enable education and insights.
We are hiring an IT Architect to define and drive cloud-native integration architecture across Ontada products and partner ecosystems. This role owns solution and platform architecture for API-led connectivity, event-driven integration, and secure data exchange—ensuring our systems are scalable, reliable, observable, and straightforward to evolve. Familiarity with healthcare interoperability standards (HL7/FHIR, including SMART on FHIR) is a plus for certain partner pathways, but the primary focus is strong enterprise-architecture fundamentals applied to modern cloud-native integration models.
Success in this role is measured by the clarity and adoption of your reference architectures and standards, the reliability and scalability of the integration ecosystem you enable, and your ability to influence decisions across multiple initiatives while mentoring and elevating engineering teams. Familiarity with AI/ML and NLP capabilities used in products (e.g., LLM-enabled workflows, retrieval patterns, evaluation, and governance) is a plus as Ontada expands intelligent experiences, but is not the core requirement.
TECHNICAL ENVIRONMENT
Cloud-Native Integration: API-led connectivity, event-driven architecture, pub/sub, schema management, idempotency, retries, backpressure
APIs: RESTful services, OpenAPI/Swagger, API gateways, versioning and contract-first design
Messaging: Kafka (or equivalent), queues/streams, event schema design
Platform Patterns: Microservices, containerization (Docker), service discovery, configuration management; service mesh (where applicable)
Data & Performance: Oracle and relational databases; Redis (caching); Elasticsearch; analytics/pipelines (e.g., Databricks)
Interoperability (nice to have): HL7v2, FHIR (R4+), SMART on FHIR, OAuth2/OIDC, C-CDA
Observability: Logging, metrics, distributed tracing (e.g., Dynatrace)
Cloud & Platforms: Azure, AWS, GCP, Cloud Foundry
Engineering Practices: CI/CD, automated testing, code reviews, architecture documentation
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Architecture Leadership & Strategy
- Drive architecture for interoperability and integration capabilities across systems, services, and product offerings.
- Partner with Product Owners, Sales, Business Analysts, Quality Assurance, and Project Management to translate functional and non-functional requirements into target architectures and delivery plans.
- Define architecture standards, reference implementations, and guardrails for APIs, integration patterns, security, and operational readiness.
- Evaluate solution options and drive alignment across stakeholders; communicate tradeoffs, risks, and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Provide technical guidance to coach, motivate, and develop engineers and architects.
Cloud-Native Integration Architecture
- Define and govern integration reference architectures across APIs, events, and asynchronous workflows (request/response, pub/sub, choreography vs. orchestration).
- Establish platform patterns and guardrails for API gateways, service-to-service communication, schema/version management, and contract testing.
- Design for resiliency and performance using proven patterns (timeouts, retries, circuit breakers, bulkheads, idempotency, caching) and align to SLOs/SLAs.
- Guide event-driven integration (e.g., Kafka or equivalent) with well-defined event schemas, lifecycle management, and operational controls.
- Collaborate with security and platform teams to ensure secure-by-default integration approaches (OAuth2/OIDC, least privilege, secrets management, threat modeling).
Healthcare Interoperability (Optional) & Partner Integrations
- When applicable, drive design for healthcare data exchange leveraging HL7v2 and/or FHIR (R4+), including SMART on FHIR, to enable integrations with EMRs and partner systems.
- Partner with domain SMEs and external stakeholders to define interoperability expectations (security, conformance, and onboarding) and ensure integrations are scalable and supportable.
- Define API contracts, versioning strategy, and error taxonomy to enable predictable integrations for internal and external consumers.
- Partner with engineering teams to implement and evolve reusable integration components, adapters, and accelerators that reduce time-to-integrate.
Operational Excellence & Production Ownership
- Collaborate with engineering in release, sprint, and project planning to ensure delivery commitments are tracked and met across the SDLC.
- Demonstrate strong architectural ownership in production operations to address customer needs for support, issue analysis, enhancements, and corrective actions.
- Evolve software systems, infrastructure, and architecture to support growth, SLAs, availability, and continued operation.
- Drive operational readiness practices including observability, runbooks, incident response, and post-incident improvements.
- Resolve technical problems, issues, and escalations across delivery teams and project activities.
AI Enablement (Preferred)
- Partner with product and engineering teams to identify and deliver AI-enabled capabilities, from discovery and design through deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
- Guide architecture patterns for integrating model services into cloud-native systems (APIs, events, data pipelines) with appropriate security, privacy, and compliance controls.
- Promote MLOps/LLMOps practices (versioning, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, rollback) and responsible AI governance.
- Collaborate on evaluation approaches to ensure AI features are reliable and safe for production use.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENT
Degree or equivalent and typically requires 7+ years of relevant experience.
Education
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.
CRITICAL SKILLS
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years in architecture (solution, platform, or enterprise) with ownership across multiple systems.
- Strong enterprise integration architecture skills across REST APIs, event-driven messaging, and secure data exchange patterns.
- Strong technical fundamentals in cloud-native architecture (microservices, containers, resiliency patterns, observability) on Azure, AWS, or GCP.
- Experience designing and operating large-scale, multi-tenant services with reliability, scalability, and security best practices.
- Ability to drive cross-functional technical decisions, mentor engineers/architects, and communicate clearly through documentation and design reviews.
- Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, with a track record of influencing cross-team decisions through documentation and design reviews.
- Nice to have: familiarity with HL7/FHIR and/or willingness to learn quickly as needed for partner integrations.
PREFERRED SKILLS
- Optional/nice to have: hands-on experience with FHIR (profiles, implementation guides, SMART on FHIR) and/or HL7v2, including conformance and integration testing.
- Experience integrating with multiple EMRs and partner ecosystems; familiarity with common healthcare workflows and data exchange constraints.
- Hands-on experience with microservices frameworks (e.g., Spring or equivalent) and API management practices.
- Experience with messaging and integration platforms (Kafka, service bus/queues, stream processing) and caching technologies (e.g., Redis).
- Experience with platform engineering patterns such as service mesh, policy-as-code, and automated architecture validation in CI/CD.
- Experience with observability platforms (e.g., Dynatrace) and production operations best practices.
- AI/ML product delivery experience (LLM-enabled workflows, evaluation, and responsible AI governance).
- Experience with Elasticsearch and/or analytics platforms (e.g., Databricks).
WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE
At 6 Months
- You have established and socialized a target-state cloud-native integration architecture, with clear standards for APIs, events, resiliency, and security.
- You have delivered at least one end-to-end initiative (design through production) for a key integration capability (e.g., event streaming, API modernization, partner onboarding accelerator).
- Teams are adopting your reference patterns and documentation with reduced integration friction and faster delivery.
- You are actively supporting production operations through improved observability, incident learnings, and reliability improvements.
At 12 Months
- You own and continuously improve the integration architecture across multiple products and partner pathways, with measurable gains in reliability, scalability, and onboarding speed.
- You have matured governance for integration assets (API standards, event schemas, implementation guides where applicable, and conformance testing) and created a repeatable delivery playbook across the SDLC.
- You are a trusted technical leader influencing roadmaps, investment decisions, and cross-team alignment.
- You have helped teams incorporate intelligent capabilities responsibly (where applicable) through clear evaluation, monitoring, and risk controls.
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
$133,100 - $221,900
McKesson has become aware of online recruiting-related scams in which individuals who are not affiliated with or authorized by McKesson are using McKesson’s (or affiliated entities, like CoverMyMeds or RxCrossroads) name in fraudulent emails, job postings or social media messages. In light of these scams, please bear the following in mind:
McKesson Talent Advisors will never solicit money or credit card information in connection with a McKesson job application.
McKesson Talent Advisors do not communicate with candidates via online chatrooms or using email accounts such as Gmail or Hotmail. Note that McKesson does rely on a virtual assistant (Gia) for certain recruiting-related communications with candidates.
McKesson job postings are posted on our career site: careers.mckesson.com.
McKesson is an Equal Opportunity Employer
McKesson provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age, genetic information, or any other legally protected category. For additional information on McKesson’s full Equal Employment Opportunity policies, visit our Equal Employment Opportunity page.
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 (United States) Disability_Accommodation@McKesson.com or (Canada) Accessibility@mckesson.ca. Resumes or CVs submitted to this email box will not be accepted.
Join us at McKesson!
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Frame your Australian credentials for U.S. evaluators
A three-year Australian bachelor's degree is generally accepted as equivalent to a U.S. four-year degree for E-3 visa purposes, but document the equivalency explicitly in your resume and any credential evaluation letter before applying to U.S. roles.
Target enterprises with active LCA filing histories
Search the DOL's OFLC disclosure database for employers who have filed LCAs for IT Architect or related titles. Companies with recent filings already understand the process and won't need educating on E-3 sponsorship at the offer stage.
Clarify the specialty occupation link in your application
E-3 approval depends on your role qualifying as a specialty occupation. For Senior IT Architect positions, your application materials should tie the specific duties directly to a relevant degree field, since broad architecture roles can attract USCIS scrutiny when responsibilities overlap with general management.
Raise E-3 sponsorship after a verbal offer, not before
Bringing up visa sponsorship too early in the hiring process can stall interviews before the employer sees your value. Once you have a verbal offer, explain that E-3 sponsorship involves an LCA filing with DOL and a consulate appointment, with no lottery and no cap risk for the employer.
Use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service for the LCA and paperwork
After your employer agrees to sponsor, use Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service to handle the LCA, DS-160, and consulate preparation end-to-end. This avoids the coordination delays that happen when employers attempt to manage the process themselves for the first time.
Verify your employer's E-Verify status before the offer stage
If your E-3 role shifts to STEM-adjacent work and you later seek an extension or status change, working for an E-Verify enrolled employer becomes relevant. Confirm enrollment status with HR during due diligence rather than after signing.
E-3 Visa Senior IT Architect: Frequently Asked Questions
Where can I find Senior IT Architect jobs with E-3 visa sponsorship?
Migrate Mate lists Senior IT Architect roles from employers with E-3 sponsorship history, so you can filter directly for companies already familiar with the LCA process. Searching general job boards often surfaces roles where the employer has no experience with E-3 sponsorship and may decline to sponsor once the visa requirement becomes clear.
How much does it cost to get an E-3 visa?
Migrate Mate's E-3 filing service covers the entire process for $499, including the Labor Condition Application, visa document preparation, and consulate appointment guidance. Traditional immigration lawyers charge $2,000–$5,000+ for the same work. The E-3 has less paperwork than most work visas, so paying thousands for legal help is usually unnecessary.
Does a Senior IT Architect role qualify as a specialty occupation for E-3?
Yes, in most cases. Senior IT Architect positions typically require a bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, information systems, or a related engineering field, which satisfies the specialty occupation standard. The key is that the job description must make the degree requirement explicit, not just preferred. Roles where general management duties dominate over technical architecture work can attract additional scrutiny from USCIS during consular review.
How does the E-3 visa compare to H-1B for Senior IT Architect roles?
The E-3 has no annual lottery and no numerical cap, which means your employer can file at any time and you don't face the uncertainty of a March registration cycle. H-1B visa petitions for IT Architect roles compete in a lottery with roughly a one-in-four selection rate. E-3 visas are valid for two years with unlimited renewals, and the LCA filing process is substantially simpler than an H-1B petition, which reduces employer reluctance to sponsor.
Can I switch employers on an E-3 while working as a Senior IT Architect in the U.S.?
Yes, but you need a new LCA and a new visa stamp tied to the new employer before starting work. Unlike H-1B portability rules, E-3 status doesn't allow you to begin working for a new employer on the strength of a pending petition. Plan for a consulate appointment or, in some cases, a change of status filing, and build that timeline into your job transition plan before your current role ends.