Lead IT Architect (AI)

Location: Hybrid; USA, OH, Columbus

Base pay: $150,800–$251,300 annually

Company

hirify.global operates within McKesson, a Fortune 10 healthcare company delivering products, services, and insights that improve access to quality care.

What you will do

• Define and drive technology strategy, architectural direction, roadmaps, technical enablers, and future-state designs across a Value Stream and Agile Release Train.
• Lead AI-assisted software delivery and agentic engineering adoption with the hirify.global AI Enablement team, including architecture-as-code, automated validation, documentation, and engineering workflows.
• Design scalable, secure, resilient, and maintainable enterprise solutions, including cloud-native architectures, APIs, microservices, event-driven systems, integrations, and deployment topologies.
• Guide Agile, Scrum, and SAFe delivery; decompose large initiatives, align architecture with backlogs, mentor engineers and technical leaders, and influence decisions without direct managerial authority.
• Represent the Agile Release Train in architecture governance, maintain architecture repositories and ADRs, and align solutions with enterprise standards, security, compliance, and shared platforms.
• Design for PHI, PII, HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC, SOX, observability, resiliency, scalability, and operational excellence using Azure and modern engineering platforms.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, enterprise architecture, or related technology disciplines, including 5+ years in a Lead Architect, Principal Architect, Solution Architect, or equivalent technical-leadership role.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline; equivalent experience may be considered, and fewer years may be required with relevant Master’s or Doctorate qualifications.
• Experience owning architecture across multiple applications, products, or Agile engineering teams.
• Experience establishing architectural roadmaps and technical direction in Agile, Scrum, or SAFe environments.
• Experience designing enterprise solutions with Microsoft Azure or a comparable cloud platform, including cloud-native or distributed architectures, APIs, microservices, event-driven systems, and enterprise integrations.
• Experience with architecture governance and documentation, including architecture reviews, ADRs, technical diagrams, roadmaps, and implementation-ready artifacts.
• Experience applying DevOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, or related modern engineering practices to enterprise software delivery.
• Experience designing systems subject to security, privacy, or regulatory requirements, including healthcare or other regulated data environments.
• Experience introducing or supporting AI-assisted software engineering, engineering-productivity initiatives, or agentic engineering practices.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting an Agile Release Train or Value Stream in a SAFe environment.
• Experience with Azure, GitHub, Jira, Microsoft Copilot, GitHub Copilot, Claude, Lucidchart, or comparable technologies.
• Experience with architecture-as-code, documentation-as-code, policy-as-code, or automated architecture validation.
• Experience developing enterprise architecture standards, reusable patterns, governance models, or engineering best practices.
• Experience in healthcare technology or another highly regulated industry.
• TOGAF, SAFe, Scrum, Microsoft Azure, or other relevant architecture, cloud, or Agile certifications.

Culture & Benefits

• Impact-driven healthcare environment focused on accessibility, affordability, and patient well-being.
• Opportunities to grow, introduce new ideas, and contribute to technical and engineering transformation.
• Hybrid work arrangement in Columbus, Ohio.
• Competitive total rewards package with base pay, potential annual bonus, and long-term incentive opportunities.
• Compensation considers performance, experience, skills, equity, market evaluations, and geographic market factors.