Principle Employee Enablement Architect in Mississauga

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.

The Principal Architect, Employee Enablement defines and governs the architecture vision, strategy, and standards for the technology portfolio that enables how McKesson employees get work done, find help, and access services. The role serves as the prime architecture resource supporting service areas across General Counsel, Global Impact, HR, ServiceNow, Digital Workplace, Moveworks, Microsoft 365 and Copilot, enterprise knowledge, identity, and employee-facing AI capabilities.

The role translates business strategy into a unified employee experience, moving the organization from a collection of platforms and intake paths to an integrated, AI-enabled ecosystem that simplifies work, improves service delivery, and increases self-service. It helps set projects up for success by engaging early, shaping scope and architecture decisions, clarifying risks and dependencies, and ensuring both small business-critical efforts and transformational programs have the right design, governance, and delivery path.

Key Responsibilities:

• Set the employee enablement architecture strategy.
• Define the long-term vision, principles, and target-state roadmap for the full employee enablement portfolio.
• Engage early across intake, discovery, design, and planning to shape scope, clarify architectural runway, identify dependencies, reduce delivery risk.
• Design how ServiceNow, Digital Workplace, Moveworks, Microsoft 365, Copilot, Workday, and related employee service technologies work together to create intuitive journeys.
• Guide the Employee Enablement team through enterprise architecture reviews, solution option assessments, design approvals, exception handling, and alignment with enterprise technology standards.
• Clarify what each platform owns across legal, impact, HR, pay, service delivery, collaboration, and AI-enabled support.
• Partner with Responsible AI use boards, Security, Privacy, Legal, Compliance, and platform teams to ensure AI-enabled experiences follow approved use cases.
• Advise executives on technology risks, trade-offs, vendor strategy, and investment decisions.
• Coach architects and engineers, lead design reviews, and raise architecture maturity across Employee Enablement Services.

Minimum Job Qualifications:

• Expert enterprise architecture mastery, including capability modeling, future-state design, governance, multi-domain integration, and portfolio-level roadmapping.
• Deep expertise in employee experience and service platforms.
• Proven ability to provide practical architecture guidance that helps teams move from idea to executable plan.
• Advanced knowledge of responsible AI and agentic AI architecture.
• Strong integration, identity, and data architecture skills.
• Executive-level communication and influence.
• Proven ability to lead and mentor senior architects and engineering teams without direct authority.

Business Experience:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience; typically 13+ years, with 8+ years of direct work-related experience in enterprise or solution architecture.
• Proven ownership of architecture strategy and roadmaps for multi-platform employee enablement portfolios.
• Demonstrated leadership of large-scale transformations focused on employee experience.
• Experience supporting a mixed portfolio of work.
• Experience in a regulated environment and advising senior executives.

Travel Requirements: Hybrid role requiring 2 days per week in-office at Mississauga (ON) location.

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.

Our Base Pay Range for this position $149,600 - $199,500.

McKesson is an Equal Opportunity Employer and 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.