Principal Architect, Enterprise Architecture

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Position Summary: This job profile description is a standardized, non-contractual reference description and global reference tool provided for organizational consistency and talent architecture purposes across Cencora. It does not alter actual job duties, responsibilities, reporting lines, working conditions, grading, compensation, or other essential terms and conditions of employment. Actual duties and responsibilities may vary based on business needs, local requirements, and operational practices. Where a team member's role is governed by an employment agreement, local terms and conditions, prior job description or collective bargaining agreement, those documents shall prevail in case of any inconsistency. Mandatory local laws shall also prevail. Defines domain-level enterprise architecture direction, target-state patterns, and technical standards across a portfolio of high-impact initiatives. Guides architecture and delivery decisions across multiple concurrent programs, ensuring alignment to business priorities, enterprise strategy, and operating constraints. Advises senior leaders on complex technical tradeoffs, risks, sequencing, and implications to support critical operational and strategic decisions. Coordinates alignment across engineering, infrastructure, security, data, product, and external stakeholders to advance consistent technical direction and execution. Analyzes complex, ambiguous technical and business challenges and translates them into scalable solutions, standards, and repeatable practices adopted across initiatives. Improves systems, architecture practices, and governance mechanisms to raise reliability, scalability, performance, and functional effectiveness. Builds capability across senior teams and communities of practice through mentoring, architecture reviews, coaching, and reusable guidance.

Lead the definition of end-to-end enterprise architecture by curating, and evolving enterprise architecture and solution patterns in alignment with Cencora’s Pattern Development (PADU) framework and standards. Promote the reuse of proven architectural design patterns and ensure consistency across solutions.  Architect and orchestrate decision flows with technology selection standards , making sure that solutions leverage approved technologies and align with Cencora’s overall enterprise architecture direction. Contribute to governance of emerging technologies through the Tech Select process, balancing innovation with strategic alignment.  Assess and streamline the application portfolio by identifying redundancies and overlaps. Propose and guide efforts to consolidate or modernize applications, reduce complexity, and optimize the technology landscape in line with business needs.  Identify and document areas of technical debt within our systems and platforms. Influence remediation by incorporating debt reduction strategies into architecture recommendations and roadmaps , thereby improving long-term platform health and maintainability.  Work closely with domain solution architects and engineering teams to ensure that solution designs adhere to enterprise architecture standards and use technologies as defined in the PADU matrix. Facilitate cross-team design reviews and provide guidance to keep implementations consistent with approved patterns and tech stacks. Influence without direct authority, fostering cross-team alignment, communication, and consensus on architectural direction and strategy.  Define and maintain architecture roadmaps that guide the organization through modernization, application