Job Summary

Join the Walgreens Enterprise Architecture team and help shape the future of retail and supply chain technology at one of the nation’s largest pharmacy and retail networks.
This is a senior-level role offering significant autonomy and influence. As part of a highly strategic and agile architecture team, you will help define and evolve the enterprise reference architecture and lead its application across Walgreens’ retail and supply chain systems. You’ll collaborate closely with engineering, product, and business stakeholders to align technology solutions with customer and operational needs—transforming real-world challenges into scalable, sustainable outcomes.
You’ll serve as a thought leader and change agent—diving deep into existing systems and processes, identifying opportunities for modernization and simplification, and guiding teams across functions to align with enterprise strategies. Your work will directly impact the performance, agility, and customer experience of Walgreens' retail and supply chain platforms.
The ideal candidate brings a strong background in enterprise and solution architecture, hands-on software engineering expertise, and the ability to operate across a broad and complex technology and organizational landscape.

• Develops the technical “vision” and designs specifications of strategic/complex projects. Implements activities that impact the critical directions of the organization.
• Assigned to the most critical, strategic, complex and/or high-risk initiatives. Conceptualizes the architectural frameworks.
• Develops the technical “vision” and designs specifications of strategic/complex projects. Implements activities that impact the critical directions of the organization.
• Assigned to the most critical, strategic, complex and/or high-risk initiatives. Conceptualizes the architectural frameworks.
• Translates highly complex technical issues, trends, and approaches to leadership to drive innovation and enable leaders to make strategic, well-informed decisions about data architecture
• Leads research, development, and implementation of enterprise-wide architectural concepts, principles and tools. Leads in defining major sections of architecture to ensure that the organization's architectural solutions are built within a consistent framework. Serves as subject matter expert to the architecture function
• Assesses business viability of new technologies. Consults with other senior level IT professionals and senior management to assess and evaluate current strategies. Makes recommendations, gains approval and develops implementation strategy for new technologies. Leads the decision-making processes related to the selection of architecture solutions. Performs systems and applications performance characterization and trade-off studies through analysis and simulation for most complex technologies.
• Acts as advocate for change to provide innovative, creative technology solutions. Prepares and delivers presentations to top-level management on new technology and its impact on the organization.
• Oversees the creation of design documents that ensure consistency in development across the organization.
• Serves as a technical and business-savvy resource to engineering personnel on a wide range of design issues.
• Implements and improves core architectural infrastructure. Develops improvements to core architectural infrastructure and coding standards. Reviews and approves design documents that ensure consistency in development across the organization.
• Develops the technical “vision” and designs specifications of strategic/complex projects. Implements activities that impact the critical directions of the organization. Assigned to the most critical, strategic, complex and/or high risk initiatives.
• Recognized internally and externally as an expert in the field. Determines leading edge technical / business approaches and/or develops major new technical tools.
• Interacts with internal and external peers and management to develop unprecedented solutions that affect several departments. "Evangelizes" new ideas, technologies and solutions to gain acceptance from a wide range of audiences.
• Serves as a liaison between engineering, quality assurance and non-technical stakeholders throughout the development and deployment process. 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.
• Performs systems and applications performance characterization and trade-off studies through analysis and simulation.
• Provides guidance to other architects throughout the enterprise. Guides and mentors, a wide range of audiences. Leads teams on projects to guide timely and accurate delivery of new features or technical improvements.
• Stays abreast of the latest technology infrastructure and processes in the industry and marketplace. Makes decisions/recommendations to use innovative, creative approaches as appropriate to meet business needs.
• Mentors less experienced members of the team. Leads teams / projects and implementations.
• May represent Technology in internal or external forums.

About Walgreens
Founded in 1901, Walgreens (www.walgreens.com) has a storied heritage of caring for communities for generations and proudly serves nearly 9 million customers and patients each day across its approximately 8,500 stores throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico, and leading omni channel platforms. Walgreens has approximately 220,000 team members, including nearly 90,000 healthcare service providers, and is committed to being the first choice for retail pharmacy and health services, building trusted relationships that create healthier futures for customers, patients, team members and communities.
Walgreens is the flagship U.S. brand of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (Nasdaq: WBA), an integrated healthcare, pharmacy and retail leader. Its retail locations are a critical point of access and convenience in thousands of communities, with Walgreens pharmacists playing a greater role as part of the healthcare system and patients care teams than ever before. Walgreens Specialty Pharmacy provides critical care and pharmacy services to millions of patients with rare disease states and complex, chronic conditions.

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 More Company information is available at www.walgreensbootsalliance.com.

• Bachelor's degree and at least 8 years of experience in a technical engineering and/or architecture role OR High school / GED and at least 11 years of experience in a technical engineering and/or architecture role
• At least 6 years of leadership experience in server side or client side technologies
• Experience in domain-specific architecture concepts and emerging technologies. (Design patterns, frameworks, current Java based solutions, mobile, OR Infrastructure Administration OR Data Sciences)
• Experience creating and promoting guiding development principles and influencing development teams, business users and management in adoption of technical solutions.
• 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)

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Mathematics or Information Technology.
• Master's degree.
• Proven self-starter with a bias for action and a high level of ownership.
• Deep experience designing, building, and operating enterprise systems both on-premise and in public cloud environments (e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Expertise in microservices, event-driven architecture, and API-first design.
• Strong DevOps and automation mindset with a track record of driving CI/CD adoption and improving software delivery performance.
• Demonstrated experience modernizing legacy systems, including re-platforming, refactoring, and decomposing monoliths.
• Strong understanding of retail and/or supply chain business processes and systems (e.g., OMS, WMS, ERP, replenishment, forecasting).
• Hands-on background in software engineering, including design patterns, scalability, and performance optimization.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills; able to work across technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leadership
• Bonus: Experience with robotic automation, smart warehouse management systems, or IoT in a retail or logistics context.
• Experience working with matrix teams including teams in different time zones.

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