McKesson

Lead Data Platform Engineer 1

McKesson
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1 day ago
Mississauga, CanadaStaff+

Base Salary

$122k - $163k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define technical strategy, architecture standards, reusable patterns, platform guardrails, and engineering standards for enterprise data platforms.
  • Design, implement, optimize, modernize, migrate, and transform scalable cloud-based data platforms supporting analytics, AI, machine learning, and reporting workloads.
  • Establish DataOps, DevOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code, configuration automation, and platform automation practices.
  • Implement governance, security, compliance, identity and access management, data protection, zero-trust, and least-privilege controls in regulated environments.
  • Partner with architecture, security, product, engineering, and business leaders to influence platform roadmaps, technical decisions, and architectural trade-offs.
  • Lead incident response, platform reliability, monitoring, observability, operational excellence, and service-level reporting initiatives.
  • Mentor engineers and promote technical excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of professional experience in Data Engineering, Data Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, or related disciplines.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Experience designing enterprise-scale data architectures, ETL/ELT pipelines, modern data platforms, distributed systems, batch and real-time data platforms, streaming technologies, data warehouses, and databases.
  • Advanced proficiency with SQL and Python for large-scale data processing and performance optimization.
  • Hands-on experience administering Azure Databricks and working with Snowflake, Azure Data Lake Storage, and Azure Data Factory.
  • Experience with cloud security, governance, identity and access management, compliance controls, data quality, lineage, networking, storage, secrets management, and data protection.
  • Experience with Azure, Databricks, Kubernetes, Kafka, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana.
  • Proven ability to lead complex technical initiatives, influence architectural decisions across multiple teams, communicate technical concepts to diverse audiences, and manage stakeholders.
  • Preferred experience with cloud-based data, analytics, AI, and machine learning platforms; secure AI application and agent integration patterns; vector search; private connectivity; content controls; approved model providers; observability; centralized logging; GitOps; and platform lifecycle management.
  • Azure Administrator Certification is preferred.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation package with base pay of $122,100-$162,800; annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may also be offered.
  • Benefits information is available through McKesson's Total Rewards program.
  • McKesson is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities.

Tech Stack

Apache KafkaAzureDatabricksGrafanaKubernetesMicrosoft SQL ServerMongoDBPostgreSQLPrometheusPythonSnowflakeSQL

Categories

Data EngineeringDevOps
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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