Senior Solution Architect, OptiFreight Logistics

Cardinal Health is seeking a visionary and strategic Solution Architect to join a high-growth business unit with visibility to Executive leadership. This is a pivotal role where you will be at the forefront of technologically transformed landscape, shaping the future of our logistics, retail freight-pay, and audit solutions. We are in the final phase of modernizing our technology ecosystem, transitioning from a legacy landscape of .NET and Java microservices to a modern platform powdered by SAP BRIM, Salesforce, Java based portal solutions and Google Cloud (GCP) for business analytics.

As a Solution Architect, you will be more than a technologist, you will be a strategic partner and a trusted advisor, and key influencer across business and technology organizations. You will translate complex business processes into scalable, innovative, future-ready architectural solutions while driving business strategy, shaping product and technology roadmaps, assessing end-to-end process impacts, and guiding future-state architecture decisions.

Success in this role requires the ability to communicate complex technical concepts with clarity and impact, enabling informed decision-making among business leaders, external customers, and executive stakeholders. You will play a critical role in aligning technology investments with business objectives while driving modernization, innovation, and operational excellence across the portfolio.

Experience influencing senior stakeholders and presenting architectural strategies, technology investments, and transformation roadmaps to executive Leadership is essential for success in this role.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership: Develop and own the end-to-end architectural vision and strategy, ensuring alignment with business goals and our long-term technology transformation.
• Executive Communication: Simplify and present complex architectural concepts, technical-debt implications, and strategic roadmaps to executive leadership, business stakeholders, and external customers, ensuring clarity and buy-in.
• Solution Design & Architecture: Lead the design and evolution of modern technology landscape, ensuring effective integration across SAP BRIM, Salesforce, .NET and Java-based applications, and GCP data and analytics platforms.
• Customer & Partner Integration: Architect robust, scalable integration solutions enabling our healthcare partners to seamlessly connect their ERPs and pharmacy management systems with our retail freight offerings.
• Technical Governance: Serve as the primary technical authority on the program, providing architectural guidance, quality assurance, and mentorship to project teams.
• Innovation & Modernization: Champion an innovation mindset, continuously identifying opportunities for automation, process optimization, and technical debt reduction through strategic architectural decisions.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work intimately with business product owners, technical leads, and enterprise architects to translate business strategy into technical requirements and architectural designs.
• Business Process Insights: Develop a deep understanding of end-to-end business processes and data flows to assess impacts, identify challenges, and guide solution design across a complex application landscape.
• Adoption of AI : Drive the adoption of AI and automation capabilities by identifying high-value use cases and integrating scalable, secure AI-enabled solutions into the overall technology roadmap.

• Bachelor's degree in a related field, or equivalent work experience, preferred.
• 8-15+ years of progressive technology experience, including at least 5 years in solution architecture, solution design, or application architecture roles, preferred.
• Demonstrable experience with large-scale technology transformations, particularly involving the integration of enterprise platforms like SAP (BRIM preferred) and Salesforce , Data & Analytics, architecting and designing solutions involving microservices architecture (Java, .NET) and event-driven patterns .
• Strong expertise in cloud computing, preferably with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) ; experience with AWS or Azure is also valuable.
• Deep understanding of modern data and analytics platforms (e.g., BigQuery , Databricks, Tableau, Looker, AI Solutions).
• Exceptional presentation and communication skills, with a documented ability to articulate complex technical issues effectively to both executive and technical audiences.
• Strong consultative and influencing skills, with experience guiding senior stakeholders and project teams toward a unified architectural vision.
• Experience with enterprise architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF) is preferred., Candidates who are back-to-work, people with disabilities, without a college degree, and Veterans are encouraged to apply.

Anticipated salary range: $123,400 - $176,300

Bonus eligible: Yes

Benefits: Cardinal Health offers a wide variety of benefits and programs to support health and well-being.

• Medical, dental and vision coverage
• Paid time off plan
• Health savings account (HSA)
• 401k savings plan
• Access to wages before pay day with myFlexPay
• Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
• Short- and long-term disability coverage
• Work-Life resources
• Paid parental leave
• Healthy lifestyle programs