Director of Software Engineering

McKesson Corporation

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Work type
Hybrid
Location
Irving, TXThe Woodlands, TX
Salary
$155,900–$259,900 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
15 days ago
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Below market

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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 137 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Director of Software Engineering

The Director of Software Engineering provides strategic, technical, and people leadership for Ontada’s engineering organization. This leader owns the vision and execution for scalable healthcare data platforms, pipelines, data products, analytics, and integrations that power value-based care programs and actionable clinical and business insights. The role involves defining technical visions for cloud data ecosystems, managing multi-release roadmaps, and leading managers, architects, and engineers. Key responsibilities include establishing standards for data quality, lineage, and observability while overseeing enterprise web and SaaS application engineering. The position requires deep expertise in Databricks, Spark, Python, SQL, Delta Lake, and cloud-native delivery. The work focuses on solving complex healthcare data challenges, including population health, quality measures, and payer-provider exchange, while ensuring compliance with HIPAA and PHI protection standards.

What you'll do

  • Define and lead the technical vision for the value-based care data ecosystem and cloud platforms.
  • Build and deliver multi-release roadmaps to support quality measurement, performance reporting, and population insights.
  • Lead and mentor managers, architects, and engineers to build a high-performance engineering culture.
  • Establish standards for data contracts, lineage, observability, testing, and incident management.
  • Provide hands-on oversight of data architecture and critical design decisions using Databricks and Spark.
  • Deliver reusable data products and integrations across clinical, claims, financial, and operational domains.
  • Ensure the data platform integrates effectively with enterprise web and SaaS applications via microservices and APIs.
  • Manage stakeholder relationships to align technology strategy with business goals and regulatory compliance.

What we're looking for

  • Must have a degree or equivalent experience.
  • Requires 12+ years of professional technology experience and 4+ years of management experience.
  • Requires 4+ years in technical leadership roles overseeing multiple teams or managers.
  • Must have deep experience designing and operating enterprise-scale cloud data platforms, lakehouse/warehouse solutions, and batch/streaming pipelines.
  • Must possess strong knowledge of Databricks, Apache Spark, Python, SQL, Delta Lake, and data quality controls.
  • Must have experience delivering data capabilities for value-based care, population health, or clinical analytics.
  • Must have experience with enterprise web or SaaS platforms, microservices, APIs, and cloud-native design.
  • Must reside within a commutable distance to Irving, TX and/or The Woodlands, TX.

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