Director, Database Management

McKesson Corporation

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Work type
On-site
Location
Richmond, VA
Salary
$141,000–$235,000 / yr
Posted
33 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday
Closes
Sep 25, 2026 (soon)

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Salary context

Below market

How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $226k
This role $188k
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This role pays less than 74% of similar roles. Most pay $187,218–$264,250 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $188k versus about $226k for comparable roles.

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About McKesson Corporation

McKesson Corporation is a premier American healthcare services company that distributes pharmaceuticals, medical-surgical supplies, and provides technology to the healthcare industry.

McKesson Corporation currently has 60 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $120,250–$200,450 across 60 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Director, Database Management

Director, Database Management leads strategic oversight, operational excellence, and cloud modernization for enterprise healthcare data platforms. This role involves managing a vendor team responsible for 24/7 Oracle operations, performance tuning, and PL/SQL development while ensuring strict adherence to HIPAA and SOX compliance. The position requires overseeing robust ETL/ELT pipelines that ingest data from Oracle, Snowflake, and various healthcare streams into analytics engines. Key responsibilities include defining future-state architecture during cloud transitions, managing total cost of ownership for infrastructure, and translating complex clinical operations into technical requirements. Candidates must possess expert knowledge of Oracle Database administration and experience with Snowflake, Databricks, and Google Big Query. The role addresses critical challenges in healthcare data models, ensuring high availability and security for protected health information while navigating the complexities of large-scale migrations between cloud data warehouses without business disruption.

What you'll do

  • Manage a strategic vendor team responsible for 24/7 Oracle database operations, support, and development.
  • Enforce strict SLAs for system uptime, data availability, and incident resolution across all platforms.
  • Oversee the engineering of ETL/ELT pipelines to ingest healthcare data into various analytics engines.
  • Design and manage data architectures that ensure continuous availability during large-scale cloud migrations.
  • Architect and maintain data environments that strictly comply with HIPAA regulations for protected health information.
  • Implement and audit rigorous data controls and access logging to satisfy SOX compliance requirements.
  • Translate complex healthcare business workflows into technical data requirements for executive stakeholders.
  • Manage the total cost of ownership for database infrastructure, cloud consumption, and vendor contracts.

What we're looking for

  • Minimum 15 years of experience in enterprise data engineering, database administration, and data architecture.
  • At least 5 years of experience in a formal manager-level role managing external global vendors and cross-functional teams.
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Health Informatics, Management Information Systems, or a related field (master’s preferred).
  • Expert-level knowledge of Oracle Database administration, architecture, and performance optimization.
  • Advanced knowledge of data governance frameworks tailored to HIPAA, PHI, and SOX environments.
  • Experience working within the healthcare, pharmaceutical, or health tech sectors with an understanding of healthcare data models.
  • Ability to communicate complex database architecture and compliance risks to non-technical executive stakeholders.
  • Experience with Snowflake, Databricks, and Google Cloud Platform (Big Query) is preferred.

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