McKesson

Lead Software Development Engineering

McKesson
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2 months ago
Remote, United States +2 moreStaff+

Base Salary

$163k - $272k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define technology vision, architecture strategy, modernization roadmaps, and enterprise platform standards.
  • Lead architecture reviews and govern solutions for scalability, security, reliability, performance, maintainability, privacy, and compliance.
  • Architect cloud-native platforms, microservices, APIs, event-driven systems, integrations, and healthcare data exchange solutions.
  • Drive adoption of Azure, AWS, GCP, containerization, Kubernetes, DevSecOps, and infrastructure-as-code.
  • Provide technical leadership, mentor engineering teams, influence technology decisions, and communicate architecture to executive stakeholders.
  • Evaluate emerging technologies, cloud services, vendor partnerships, and investment opportunities.
  • Drive AI adoption through scalable LLM, NLP, RAG, MLOps, LLMOps, evaluation, governance, and responsible AI practices.
  • Promote operational excellence, resiliency, observability, performance optimization, security, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

  • A degree or equivalent experience is required; fewer years may be accepted with relevant Master’s or Doctorate qualifications.
  • At least 10 years of software engineering experience, including at least 5 years of architecture and technical leadership across complex distributed systems.
  • Deep expertise in Java, Spring Boot, microservices, cloud-native architecture, and large-scale enterprise platforms.
  • Strong experience with REST APIs, API gateways, event-driven architectures, Kafka, messaging, and enterprise integration patterns.
  • Hands-on experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP, including Docker, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, observability, and resiliency patterns.
  • Experience designing and operating secure, scalable, highly available, multi-tenant applications with strong performance and reliability focus.
  • Experience with DevSecOps, CI/CD, test automation, architecture governance, and engineering best practices.
  • Knowledge of relational databases, caching, search technologies, analytics platforms, AI/GenAI, LLMs, prompt engineering, and RAG architectures.
  • Ability to lead architecture decisions, mentor engineering teams, influence stakeholders, and communicate clearly.
  • Knowledge of security, compliance, regulated environments, and preferably healthcare interoperability standards such as FHIR, HL7, and SMART on FHIR.
  • A relevant Master’s degree, healthcare or clinical software experience, enterprise modernization, cloud migration, and vendor relationship management are preferred.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work arrangement may be available; employees in the DFW area may be expected onsite at the Las Colinas office at least two days per week, with remaining days remote.
  • McKesson offers a competitive total rewards package, with additional bonus or long-term incentive opportunities potentially available.
McKesson

About McKesson

10,000+ employees

McKesson is a public healthcare company that distributes pharmaceuticals and medical‑surgical supplies and provides pharmacy and provider technology and services. It sells to pharmacies, hospitals, health systems, and biopharma manufacturers through logistics, specialty and oncology support, pharmacy management, and healthcare IT/analytics offerings. Founded in 1833 and headquartered in Irving, Texas, it trades on the NYSE under the ticker MCK.

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