Principal Enterprise Data Architect

Principal Enterprise Data Architect

Mississauga, Canada Job ID JR0148080 Category Data Architect, Information Technology Post Date Jun. 22, 2026

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Position Summary (Purpose of Job)

The Enterprise Data Architect Level 6 serves as an enterprise authority in defining, governing, and advancing McKesson’s data architecture strategy. This role establishes the future state vision for enterprise data capabilities and ensures alignment across business, analytics, platform, and solution teams. Operating at the highest level of architectural accountability, this role influences enterprise wide technology direction rather than owning delivery for a single domain or initiative. The architect ensures that data architecture decisions are scalable, compliant, and aligned to long range business and technology strategy. The role acts as a trusted advisor to senior business and technology leaders, leads enterprise architecture governance, and mentors architects across the organization to drive architectural consistency, maturity, and measurable business impact while enabling domain teams to execute within defined enterprise guardrails.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Data Architecture Strategy

Define and maintain the enterprise data architecture vision aligned to business strategy and regulatory requirements

Establish enterprise data architecture principles, standards, and reference models

Own and evolve long range data architecture direction to support scalability and interoperability

Define and own the enterprise semantic layer, including cross domain data models and standardized calculations to enable consistent reporting and analytics

Architecture Governance and Decision Leadership

Establish guardrails and decision frameworks that guide data architecture across domains

Evaluate architectural risks and manage enterprise level exceptions

Enterprise Alignment and Business Enablement

Guide enterprise investment decisions based on architectural fit and sustainability

Advisory, Influence, and Executive Communication

Advise senior leaders on data architecture strategy and tradeoffs

Communicate enterprise architecture direction to executive and technical audiences

Architecture Practice Leadership and Mentorship

Advance enterprise architecture maturity and consistency

Innovation and Continuous Improvement

Influence and set direction for enterprise data platforms and tooling

Minimum Requirement - Degree or equivalent and typically requires 13+ years, with 8+ years, of direct work related experience. Less years required if has relevant Master's or Doctorate qualifications.

Physical Requirements: General Office Demands, We are Flex and Connect with 2 days a week in office

Critical Skills:

Expert knowledge of enterprise data architecture and information architecture

Experience operating in regulated environments with strong governance requirements

Demonstrated success defining and governing enterprise wide architecture strategy

Experience leading architectural governance and influencing large scale transformation

Establish decision frameworks that integrate data, architecture standards, non functional requirements, risk, and policy into intake outcomes

Partner with Security, Data, Platform, and Delivery leaders to ensure intake decisions reflect enterprise priorities

Define the data architecture that underpins intelligent intake, including data capture, enrichment, and context required for AI driven triage and routing

Candidate must be authorized to work in the Canada, now or in the future, without the support from McKesson.

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Our Base Pay Range for this position

$149,600 - $199,500

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