Job Summary

The Director, Enterprise Architecture is a senior technology leader within the Walgreens Enterprise Architecture organization, responsible for defining, evolving, and governing enterprise architecture across assigned corporate systems and business domains. This role partners closely with business, product, technology, and operational leaders to translate enterprise strategy into actionable architectural roadmaps that enable modernization, integration, scalability, security, and operational efficiency.

The Director contributes to the development of Walgreens’ enterprise architecture strategy, leads domain-level architectural direction, and ensures technology decisions align with enterprise standards, regulatory requirements, financial considerations, and long-term business objectives. The role plays a key part in shaping the future of large-scale corporate and back-office technology environments supporting corporate and shared business functions.

The ideal candidate will bring broad enterprise or solution architecture experience across complex technology environments, which may include packaged or commercially available platforms, cloud-based services, system integrations, data flows, and vendor-supported ecosystems. This individual will help establish target-state architectures, guide platform and integration decisions, identify opportunities for simplification and reuse, and ensure technology investments support an integrated and sustainable enterprise environment.

Outcomes influence major programs, cross-functional initiatives, platform strategies, and investment decisions, with moderate to significant impact on Walgreens’ technology direction and delivery. The incumbent serves as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, communicates complex architectural considerations in clear business terms, and represents the Walgreens enterprise technology vision in alignment with the company’s strategy, purpose, and values.

Location & Work Model:
This role is based in Deerfield, Illinois and follows a hybrid work model, with an expectation of 4 days onsite per week and 1 day remote.

Work Authorization:
Work visa sponsorship is not available for this role.

Job responsibility

• Contributes to the development and evolution of enterprise application and infrastructure architecture strategy in alignment with Walgreens’ business and technology priorities.

• Defines target-state architectures and transition roadmaps for assigned domains, balancing near-term delivery needs with long-term strategic objectives.

• Evaluates emerging technologies, platforms, and architectural patterns to inform recommendations and future-state designs.

• Leads and participates in architecture governance forums to ensure solutions align with enterprise standards, architectural principles, security requirements, and financial guardrails.

• Develops, maintains, and enforces architectural standards, reference architectures, and design patterns.

• Partners with solution architects, engineering, and delivery teams to guide solution design and resolve complex architectural issues.

• Develops and maintains domain-level architecture roadmaps that guide modernization, platform evolution, and technical debt reduction.

• Collaborates with portfolio, product, and delivery leaders to align investment decisions with architectural strategy.

• Supports application and infrastructure portfolio management activities, including asset inventory, classification, and rationalization.

• Works across business units and IT functions to identify opportunities to leverage shared platforms, reusable capabilities, and common services.

• Acts as a trusted architectural advisor to senior leaders, product teams, and program leaders.

• Communicates architectural direction, trade-offs, and impacts in clear, business-focused terms.

• Supports large-scale technology and business transformation initiatives through architectural leadership and change enablement.

• Helps drive simplification, standardization, and modernization across enterprise platforms and infrastructure.

• Champions architectural best practices and continuous improvement across the architecture community.

• Serves as a subject-matter expert and thought leader within Enterprise Architecture and the broader IT organization.

• Provides mentorship and architectural guidance through matrixed leadership and community engagement.

• Champions Walgreens’ customers (internal and external, as appropriate), drives for results, and models the company’s purpose and values.

About Walgreens
Founded in 1901, Walgreens (www.walgreens.com) proudly serves nearly 9 million customers and patients each day across its approximately 8,500 stores throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Walgreens has approximately 220,000 team members, including nearly 90,000 healthcare service providers, and is committed to being the first choice for pharmacy, retail and health services, building trusted relationships that create healthier futures for customers, patients, team members and communities.

• Bachelor’s Degree and at least 7 years of progressive IT experience at a senior professional level OR
• High School Diploma / GED and at least 10 years of progressive IT experience.
• Experience contributing to enterprise or domain-level architecture strategy.
• At least 5 years of experience working in Enterprise Architecture within a large, complex, and preferably global organization.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and influencing without formal authority.
• Experience supporting or participating in large-scale technology change or transformation programs.
• Strong stakeholder management experience within a matrixed organization.
• 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/at least 10% of the time for business purposes (within state and out of state).

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Experience supporting corporate systems, back-office technology, or shared enterprise functions such as Finance, Human Resources, Legal, Procurement, or other corporate services.
• Experience developing architecture strategies and roadmaps for packaged, commercially available, or SaaS-based enterprise platforms.
• Experience with enterprise platforms such as SAP, SuccessFactors, Salesforce, Workday, Oracle, ServiceNow, Microsoft Dynamics, or similar technologies.
• Experience architecting integrations across enterprise platforms, including APIs, middleware, data exchanges, identity services, and vendor-supported solutions.
• Experience evaluating platform capabilities, vendor roadmaps, implementation approaches, and the long-term architectural impact of technology investments.
• Experience with application and platform portfolio rationalization, technical debt reduction, simplification, and modernization.
• Experience participating in architecture governance, defining technology standards, and guiding platform and solution decisions across a complex organization.
• Experience working with systems integrators, technology vendors, managed-service providers, or other external partners.
• Experience communicating architecture strategies, recommendations, risks, and trade-offs to senior leaders and nontechnical stakeholders.
• Experience leading through influence across business, technology, product, security, finance, and delivery teams.
• Experience in retail, healthcare, pharmaceutical, financial services, or another large and highly regulated industry.
• Experience working in a global, multi-region, or highly matrixed enterprise environment.