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At Cencora, we are united in our responsibility to create healthier futures, and every person here is essential to us being able to deliver on that purpose. If you want to make a difference at the center of health, come join our innovative company and help us improve the lives of people and animals everywhere. Apply today!\nJob Details\nOur team members are at the heart of everything we do. At World Courier (a Cencora company), we are united in our responsibility to create healthier futures, and every person here is essential to us being able to deliver on that purpose.\nThis role will sit within the Global Data and Technology Solutions (GDATS) organization in World Courier and is a key member of the Architecture & Analysis team. We’re re-imagining IT - not as a support function, but as a strategic partner to the World Courier business.\nWe exist to help the organisation rise, adapt, and grow, using technology that is innovative, integrated, reliable, secure and designed around real operational needs.\nThe Solutions Architect II plays a key role in shaping and delivering end-to-end technology solutions across the full lifecycle of logistics operations - from order entry and orchestration, through execution, to order-to-cash outcomes. This includes designing how systems work together across customer interaction, order management, transportation, route planning, inventory/depot operations, driver and vehicle technologies, and financial processing.\nWhy this role matters\nWorld Courier operates in a complex, time-critical, highly regulated environment where every shipment can represent life-saving therapy. This role ensures that technology architecture enables precision, reliability, and trust by connecting order capture, planning, execution, visibility, and financial processes into a cohesive system.\nArchitecture decisions can directly impact operational performance, compliance, and customer trust - making this role central to delivering safe, efficient, high-touch logistics services globally.\nWhat you’ll do\nDesign end-to-end solutions across the logistics order-to-cash lifecycle\nDeliver architecture across order capture, planning, execution, and financial processes\n\nDesign integration across ERP, portals, Salesforce, TMS, route planning, inventory, monitoring, and driver/vehicle systems\n\nDefine API-first architecture across internal and external platforms\n\nDesign event-driven systems for real-time orchestration and tracking\n\nEnsure timely, accurate, and trusted data across systems\n\nEnd-to-end platform and integration architecture\nDesign how multiple platforms operate as a cohesive ecosystem\n\nDefine integration patterns across systems using APIs and events\n\nSupport cloud migration and cloud-first architecture decisions, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, resilient, and aligned to enterprise standards.\n\nEnable interoperability with vendors and third party tools\n\nMaintain a holistic architecture view across domains\n\nDelivery enablement\nPartner with engineering and delivery teams\n\nProvide guidance that enables progress without over-engineering\n\nSupport investment and prioritization decisions, including trade-offs, as appropriate\n\nUpholding best-practice in architecture methods and standards\n\nDefine solution artifacts and architecture documentation that are connected through AI to code and the delivery pipeline, and that can evolve iteratively with each release\n\nContribute to reusable patterns and enterprise standards, while knowing when and how to make a clear case for challenging them appropriately when they are not suitable for the business use case\n\nAI-enabled architecture methods\nUse AI tools and agents to support architecture design, analysis, and documentation\n\nApply AI to model integrations, dependencies, and solution options\n\nWork effectively alongside architecture AI agents to accelerate design thinking, explore options, and strengthen solution quality\n\n.\nWhat we’re looking for\nSolutions delivered are API-first, highly integrated, and event-driven, ensuring real-time data flow, interoperability, and resilience.\nYou’ll thrive in our team if you:\nFocus on outcomes over outputs\n\nWork well in ambiguity\n\nCommunicate clearly to technical and non-technical audiences\n\nExperience that will help you succeed:\nExperience in solution architecture in complex, regulated environments\n\nExperience with logistics, transportation, or supply chain ecosystems\n\nStrong API-first and event-driven architecture experience\n\nExperience integrating multiple enterprise platforms\n\nFamiliarity with architecture frameworks (e.g., TOGAF)\n\nExperience creating clear architecture artifacts using structured modelling approaches, such as C4\n\nWhat success looks like in this role\nArchitecture aligns to business and operational needs\n\nSystems provide reliable, real-time visibility\n\nArchitecture enables, not blocks delivery\n\nThe design phase becomes faster and more effective, enabling confident decisions and smoother progression into delivery\n\nStrong trust between business and IT architecture\n\nWhy join World Courier GDATS?\nYou’ll have the opportunity to:\nPlay a key role in a re-imagined IT function\n\nWork with smart, committed people who care about doing the right thing\n\nShape a modern, people-centred, visible, high-impact [support] function\n\nMake a real difference to how people experience technology every day\n\nWork in a purpose-driven business that makes a difference to people’s lives, delivering essential pharma logistics services.\n\nHow you’ll be working\nThis role operates within a global, matrixed IT organisation, working closely with Design, Product, Engineering, Delivery, QA and business stakeholders.\n\nCollaboration across time zones and regions is required\n\nFlexible and hybrid working arrangements apply in line with World Courier policies\n\nWhat Cencora offers\nBenefit offerings outside the US may vary by country and will be aligned to local market practice. The eligibility and effective date may differ for some benefits and for team members covered under collective bargaining agreements.\nFull timeAffiliated Companies\nAffiliated Companies: World Courier Management Ltd.Equal Employment Opportunity\nCencora is committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or membership in any other class protected by federal, state or local law.\nThe company’s continued success depends on the full and effective utilization of qualified individuals. Therefore, harassment is prohibited and all matters related to recruiting, training, compensation, benefits, promotions and transfers comply with equal opportunity principles and are non-discriminatory.\nCencora is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the employment process which are consistent with legal requirements. If you wish to request an accommodation while seeking employment, please call 888.692.2272 or email . We will make accommodation determinations on a request-by-request basis. 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