Lead Integrations Architect — USA, VA, Richmond

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. Key Responsibilities Java Spring Boot Frameworks & Engineering Guidance • Shared Frameworks & Starters: Design, maintain, and govern Wellverse’s core Spring Boot integration starters and shared libraries (e.g., Spring Security wiring, DTO patterns, custom serialization controls, CORS, header configuration templates, and Cloud Logging/Tracing instrumentation). • Technical Guidance & Enablement: Provide technical leadership, architectural oversight, and hands-on guidance to application teams across Wellverse, helping them build high-performance, resilient Spring Boot microservices. • Code Reviews & Quality Standards: Conduct technical design reviews and pull request (PR) code reviews across integration services to enforce architectural standards, security controls, and optimal design patterns. • DevOps & Pipeline Standards: Define CI/CD standards for Spring Boot services using GitHub Actions, GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS), container scanning/signing, GKE deployment gates, and automated testing frameworks. Apigee API Gateway & API Governance • API Strategy & Management: Own the Apigee X API gateway strategy, policy frameworks, and lifecycle management for all Wellverse APIs. • Security & Policy Enforcement: Define and maintain standardized Apigee policies for OAuth 2.0 / JWT validation, rate limiting, quota management, threat protection, mTLS, and Client-ID enforcement. • API Design Standards: Establish enterprise API standards including RESTful naming conventions, OpenAPI 3.x specifications, versioning strategies, error schemas, and pagination guidelines. • Registry & Lifecycle Management: Govern the centralized API registry and developer portal, ensuring clear ownership, documentation, and SLA tracking across all enterprise APIs. Event Streaming & Managed File Transfer • Google Managed Kafka Architecture: Own the target architecture for Google Managed Kafka, defining topic partitioning strategies, consumer group patterns, schema management (Apicurio/Avro/JSON Schema), and dead letter queue (DLQ) standards. • Managed File Transfer (MFT): Lead the architecture and workflow standards for managed file transfers, covering trading partner management, protocol configurations (SFTP, FTPS, AS2, HTTPS), PGP encryption, and Cloud Logging integration. • Operational Monitoring: Coordinate with Data Engineering and Platform teams to ensure Kafka-driven event pipelines and file transfer workflows meet enterprise reliability and latency SLAs. Solution Architecture & Integration Design • Enterprise Integration Strategy: Serve as the lead solution architect for all integration efforts across Wellverse's SaaS and core enterprise stack (Salesforce, Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, JDE ERP, HCM, and net-new platforms). • Pattern Governance: Define and govern appropriate integration patterns—synchronous REST APIs for transactional flows, event-driven Kafka streaming for high-throughput async processing, and managed file transfers for batch exchanges. • Architecture Artifacts: Produce comprehensive integration design documents, sequence diagrams, data flow diagrams, API specs, and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs). Minimum Requirements • Experience: 12+ years of enterprise integration engineering experience, with at least 3 years in an architect or lead technical role. • Java & Spring Boot Mastery: Expert-level Java and Spring Boot engineering capability, including Spring Boot 3.x, Spring Security 6.x, Spring MVC, Spring Data, REST API design, JPA/Hibernate, and custom Spring Boot starter development. Code-review level proficiency is required. • Framework Development: Demonstrated experience designing, building, and maintaining shared common libraries, chassis frameworks, or internal developer platform (IDP) tooling for Java microservices. • API Management: Hands-on experience with Apigee X or Apigee Edge for API lifecycle management, policy enforcement, mTLS, and developer portal management. • Event Streaming: Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka, Confluent Kafka, or Google Managed Kafka, including topic design, schema registry, producer/consumer patterns, and operational monitoring. • Cloud & Containers: Deep experience with GCP-native services (GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Trace, IAM) and containerized deployments. • Managed File Transfer: Experience configuring and architecting MFT solutions, trading partner workflows, SFTP/AS2 protocols, and PGP key lifecycle management. Technical Skills • Java Ecosystem: Java 17+, Spring Boot 3.x, Spring Security 6.x, Spring Cloud, Maven/Gradle, JUnit 5, Mockito, Custom Spring Starter development, Docker, Kubernetes (GKE), Helm. • API Development & Management: Spring Boot REST APIs, OpenAPI 3.x specifications, Apigee X policy configuration (OAuth 2.0, Client-ID, rate limiting, threat protection), API governance. • Integration Patterns: Synchronous REST, asynchronous event-driven streaming, dead-letter queues (DLQ), retry mechanics, circuit breakers, and batch file transfers. • Event Streaming: Google Managed Kafka, Apache Kafka, Avro/JSON Schema, Schema Registry, consumer group management, Cloud Monitoring alerts. • Managed File Transfer: SFTP, FTPS, AS2, HTTPS, PGP encryption, key/certificate lifecycle management, automated workflow design. • Cloud & GCP: GCP VPC networking, GKE deployment, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Cloud Logging, Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Trace, Secret Manager, IAM. • Security & DevOps: OWASP API Top 10, mTLS, CORS, security headers, GitHub Actions, SAST (GitHub Advanced Security), container scanning, Terraform, Git branching. • Documentation: OpenAPI 3.x, Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), sequence and data flow diagramming, pattern documentation. Certifications & Education • Certifications: • Google Professional Cloud Developer or Google Professional Cloud Architect (required or to be obtained within 6 months). • Spring Professional Certification (VMware/Broadcom) highly desirable. • Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience . About McKesson Medical-Surgical McKesson Medical-Surgical (MMS), which is expected to become Wellverse in early 2027, is a subsidiary and publicly reported segment of the McKesson Corporation. MMS distributes medical-surgical supplies, pharmaceuticals, diagnostic equipment and supplies, along with other solutions and services to virtually every type of healthcare setting and provider outside of the traditional hospital. These markets – often referred to as Alternate Care or Non-Acute Care – include physician offices, surgery centers, long-term care providers, laboratories, home health and hospice agencies, health systems, government facilities and online marketplaces and retailers. Alternate Care markets are growing rapidly and MMS is proud to be a leader in this space. With a team of approximately 8,000 employees, a network of 15 distribution centers and approximately 900 delivery vehicles, we collaborate with more than 2,200 leading manufacturers and serve over 200,000 customer accounts across the U.S. Our catalog includes more than 270,000 SKUs of branded and private-label medical-surgical products – from bandages to specialty pharmaceuticals and COVID-19 tests. 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 $150,800 - $251,300 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. 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