Job Description

Job Summary

Walgreens is looking for a Principal Managing Architect to join the WBA Digital Team. This role supports both the local Walgreens business as well as the global Walgreens Boots Alliance organization. This team is leveraging the most advanced and exciting technologies to service the 13,100 plus pharmacy-led, health and wellbeing retails stores Worldwide. As a Director, you will lead other Architects and set technical strategy for WBA. In addition, other activities would be to facilitate and lead a team in the design, development, integration and deployment of various technologies in support of WBA’s efforts. The position requires the individual to join an agile team setting working on Customer facing solutions for a fortune 50 organization. As such, you must be a self-starter, a quick learner, and have the ability to innovate and communicate proactively across the organization. The role promotes working with a team and others around the enterprise on mutually beneficial solutions while challenging any complacency or lack of ownership. The candidates should be able to encourage others, continuously learn themselves, apply modern technical approaches and set a high standard for delivery of solutions. The role is strategic and requires applying independent judgment, encourages innovation and promotes a generalist mindset. Key activities will consist of aligning the IT organization with standard set of technologies and frameworks, while keeping relevant with new capabilities in the marketplace. You must have an interest in anticipating challenges and creating alternative courses of action. Especially, evaluating and adjusting strategies to respond to competition, while contributing to the general business planning regarding technology and systems required to maintain Walgreens operations and competitiveness.

Job Responsibilities

Develops and executes on IT product/service strategies and plans. Directs the operations of the assigned functional area to achieve strategic and operational business goals and targeted financial and content quality results. Establishes operational objectives for managers and/or teams of professionals in order to achieve the strategic and operational objectives of the group. Responsible for executing on functional and business goals for the specified area of expertise. Proactively addresses problems a cross functional areas of the business.
Leads the creation of or creates design documents that ensure consistency in development across the IT organization. Leads the definition of software architecture to ensure that the IT organization's software solutions are built within a consistent framework.
Leads the decision-making processes related to the selection of IT architecture solutions.
Leads teams and architects on timely and accurate delivery of new features or technical improvements.
Develops the technical strategy and vision on assigned projects with internal and external stakeholders.
Implements and improves core software infrastructure. Participates in improving software development lifecycle, technical operations and technology innovation.
Develops technical / business approaches and new or enhanced technical tools.
Shares highly-complex information related to areas of expertise and/or to gain acceptance of new or enhanced technology / business solutions.
Anticipates and prevents problems and roadblocks before they occur.
Serves as a technical and business-savvy resource to software engineering personnel on a wide range of software design issues.
Mentors less experienced members of the team. Leads teams / projects and implementations.
Provides subject matter expertise to less experienced team members. May participate in teaching and training members of work team.
Maintaining organization reputation while potentially representing IT Technology in internal or external forums

About Walgreens and WBA :

Walgreens (www.walgreens.com) is included in the U.S. Retail Pharmacy and U.S. Healthcare segments of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA), an integrated healthcare, pharmacy and retail leader with a 170 year heritage of caring for communities. WBA’s purpose is to create more joyful lives through better health. Operating nearly 9,000 retail locations across America, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, Walgreens is proud to be a neighborhood health destination serving nearly 10 million customers each day. Walgreens pharmacists play a critical role in the U.S. healthcare system by providing a wide range of pharmacy and healthcare services, including those that drive equitable access to care for the nation’s medically underserved populations. To best meet the needs of customers and patients, Walgreens offers a true omnichannel experience, with fully integrated physical and digital platforms supported by the latest technology to deliver high quality products and services in communities nationwide.
The actual salary an employee can expect to receive, plus bonus pursuant to the terms of any bonus plan if applicable, will depend on experience, seniority, geographic location, and other factors permitted by law. To review benefits, please visit jobs.walgreens.com/benefits.
"An Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability/veterans".

External Basic Qualifications

Bachelor's degree and at least 8 years of experience in an IT engineering role OR High School / GED and at least 11 years of experience in an IT engineering role.
At least 6 years of experience developing and implementing Architecture
Experience in domain-specific architecture concepts and emerging technologies, such as
Infrastructure, Network design, compute/storage, design patterns, , frameworks, mobile and
current application architectures, mobile device architectures.
Experience creating and promoting guiding development principles and influencing development
teams, business users and management in adoption of technical solutions.
Experience in at least one of the following platforms, languages and/or related frameworks:
Windows, Android, *nix, Java, NodeJS (JavaScript, TypeScript)
Experience in at least one of the following Cloud providers: Azure, GCP, AWS
Experience with Microservices and Event based architecture
At least 5 years of experience contributing to financial decisions in the workplace.
At least 5 years of direct leadership, indirect leadership and/or cross functional team leadership
Willing to travel up to 10% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).

Preferred Qualifications

Master's degree in Computer Science, Information technology, Engineering, Science, or Math.
At least 5 years of experience in domain-specific Architecture.
Experience with enterprise integration and data processing approaches, such as Kafka, Event Hub, or ETL tooling
Experience with CI/CD pipelines
Experience designing and implementing APIs
Experience with front-end technologies such as Mobile, Browser, Push, SMS, IVR and Digital Assistants
Experience working with matrix teams including teams in different time zones

We will consider employment of qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.