McKesson
Columbus, Ohio
McKesson is an impact-driven, Fortune 10 company that touches virtually every aspect of healthcare. We are known for delivering insights, products, and services that make quality care more accessible and affordable. Here, we focus on the health, happiness, and well-being of you and those we serve - we care. What you do at McKesson matters. We foster a culture where you can grow, make an impact, and are empowered to bring new ideas. Together, we thrive as we shape the future of health for patients, our communities, and our people. If you want to be part of tomorrow's health today, we want to hear from you. We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership across the CoverMyMeds Access Engineering portfolio. Reporting to the Senior Director of Access Engineering, this role operates across multiple engineering teams and product domains, driving architectural consistency, engineering excellence, and technical strategy. This is a highly influential individual contributor role focused on solving complex technical challenges, improving engineering effectiveness, and shaping the future of software development within Access Engineering. Success in this position is measured by organizational impact, technical leadership, and the outcomes enabled across teams rather than individual code contributions alone. What You'll Do Technical Leadership & Architecture Define and influence architectural direction across the Access Engineering portfolio. Lead technical strategy for initiatives that span multiple products, systems, and engineering teams. Evaluate architectural tradeoffs and guide teams toward scalable, maintainable solutions. Create reusable technical patterns, reference implementations, and engineering standards. Engineering Excellence Establish and promote best practices for software quality, reliability, security, observability, and maintainability. Help teams improve automated testing, production readiness, operational excellence, and system performance. Drive consistency in engineering practices while minimizing unnecessary complexity. Platform & Developer Productivity Identify opportunities to improve shared tooling, platform capabilities, and development workflows. Reduce technical friction and operational overhead, enabling engineers to focus on delivering customer value. Champion improvements that increase engineering velocity, quality, and sustainability. AI-Enabled Engineering Define and advance Access Engineering's strategy for AI-assisted software development and AI-enabled engineering practices. Partner with enterprise AI teams to adopt established standards while identifying use cases specific to Access Engineering. Evaluate tools, practices, and safeguards that support the responsible use of AI throughout the software development lifecycle. Technical Mentorship & Influence Mentor senior engineers and help strengthen technical leadership across the organization. Foster a culture of technical excellence, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement. Influence engineering, product, and leadership stakeholders through technical expertise and strategic thinking. Hands-On Technical Contribution Remain actively engaged with implementation details to ensure architectural decisions are practical and executable. Contribute to software design, prototyping, troubleshooting, and critical development efforts when appropriate. Partner with engineering teams to solve complex technical and operational challenges. Priority will be given to candidates who reside in the Columbus, OH metropolitan area. We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role presently or in the future. Minimum Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field; equivalent practical experience considered. 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including experience designing and building enterprise-scale software systems. Demonstrated experience leading technical initiatives across multiple teams, products, or organizational boundaries. Experience designing distributed systems, APIs, integration platforms, or cloud-native applications. Proven ability to influence technical direction without formal management authority. Experience mentoring engineers and driving engineering best practices. Critical & Required Skills The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong capabilities in the following areas: Software Architecture Enterprise application architecture Distributed systems design Microservices and service-oriented architectures API strategy and integration patterns Event-driven architectures System scalability and performance optimization Engineering Leadership Technical strategy and roadmap development Cross-team collaboration and influence Architectural governance and standards Technical decision-making and tradeoff analysis Leading large-scale, complex technical initiatives Software Quality & Reliability Automated testing strategies Observability and monitoring Site reliability principles Secure software development practices Production readiness and operational excellence Cloud & Modern Development Cloud-native architectures CI/CD and DevOps practices Infrastructure automation Modern software engineering practices Developer productivity and platform engineering concepts AI Readiness & Engineering Innovation Experience evaluating or implementing AI-assisted development tools Understanding of responsible AI practices and governance considerations Ability to identify practical AI use cases that improve engineering effectiveness Preferred Qualifications Experience in healthcare technology, health tech, pharmacy technology, payer technology, or regulated industries. Familiarity with prior authorization workflows, healthcare interoperability, or healthcare integrations. Experience supporting engineering organizations with 50+ developers across multiple products. Experience building developer platforms, shared services, or internal engineering tooling. Experience with architectural modernization initiatives involving legacy systems. Experience implementing engineering effectiveness metrics and software quality frameworks. Experience with AWS or other major cloud platforms. Prior experience serving as a Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, Lead Architect, or equivalent senior individual contributor. We are proud to offer a competitive compensation package at McKesson as part of our Total Rewards. This is determined by several factors, including performance, experience and skills, equity, regular job market evaluations, and geographical markets. The pay range shown below is aligned with McKesson's pay philosophy, and pay will always be compliant with any applicable regulations. In addition to base pay, other compensation, such as an annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may be offered. For more information regarding benefits at McKesson, please click here. Our Base Pay Range for this position $155,300 - $258,800 McKesson has become aware of online recruiting-related scams in which individuals who are not affiliated with or authorized by McKesson are using McKesson's (or affiliated entities, like CoverMyMeds or RxCrossroads) name in fraudulent emails, job postings or social media messages. In light of these scams, please bear the following in mind: McKesson Talent Advisors will never solicit money or credit card information in connection with a McKesson job application. McKesson Talent Advisors do not communicate with candidates via online chatrooms or using email accounts such as Gmail or Hotmail. Note that McKesson does rely on a virtual assistant (Gia) for certain recruiting-related communications with candidates. McKesson job postings are posted on our career site: . McKesson is an Equal Opportunity Employer McKesson provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age, genetic information, or any other legally protected category. For additional information on McKesson's full Equal Employment Opportunity policies, visit our Equal Employment Opportunity page. McKesson is committed to being an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and offers opportunities to all job seekers including job seekers with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, please contact us by sending an email to (United States) or (Canada) . Resumes or CVs submitted to this email box will not be accepted. Join us at McKesson!
McKesson is an impact-driven, Fortune 10 company that touches virtually every aspect of healthcare. We are known for delivering insights, products, and services that make quality care more accessible and affordable. Here, we focus on the health, happiness, and well-being of you and those we serve - we care. What you do at McKesson matters. We foster a culture where you can grow, make an impact, and are empowered to bring new ideas. Together, we thrive as we shape the future of health for patients, our communities, and our people. If you want to be part of tomorrow's health today, we want to hear from you. We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer to provide technical leadership across the CoverMyMeds Access Engineering portfolio. Reporting to the Senior Director of Access Engineering, this role operates across multiple engineering teams and product domains, driving architectural consistency, engineering excellence, and technical strategy. This is a highly influential individual contributor role focused on solving complex technical challenges, improving engineering effectiveness, and shaping the future of software development within Access Engineering. Success in this position is measured by organizational impact, technical leadership, and the outcomes enabled across teams rather than individual code contributions alone. What You'll Do Technical Leadership & Architecture Define and influence architectural direction across the Access Engineering portfolio. Lead technical strategy for initiatives that span multiple products, systems, and engineering teams. Evaluate architectural tradeoffs and guide teams toward scalable, maintainable solutions. Create reusable technical patterns, reference implementations, and engineering standards. Engineering Excellence Establish and promote best practices for software quality, reliability, security, observability, and maintainability. Help teams improve automated testing, production readiness, operational excellence, and system performance. Drive consistency in engineering practices while minimizing unnecessary complexity. Platform & Developer Productivity Identify opportunities to improve shared tooling, platform capabilities, and development workflows. Reduce technical friction and operational overhead, enabling engineers to focus on delivering customer value. Champion improvements that increase engineering velocity, quality, and sustainability. AI-Enabled Engineering Define and advance Access Engineering's strategy for AI-assisted software development and AI-enabled engineering practices. Partner with enterprise AI teams to adopt established standards while identifying use cases specific to Access Engineering. Evaluate tools, practices, and safeguards that support the responsible use of AI throughout the software development lifecycle. Technical Mentorship & Influence Mentor senior engineers and help strengthen technical leadership across the organization. Foster a culture of technical excellence, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement. Influence engineering, product, and leadership stakeholders through technical expertise and strategic thinking. Hands-On Technical Contribution Remain actively engaged with implementation details to ensure architectural decisions are practical and executable. Contribute to software design, prototyping, troubleshooting, and critical development efforts when appropriate. Partner with engineering teams to solve complex technical and operational challenges. Priority will be given to candidates who reside in the Columbus, OH metropolitan area. We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role presently or in the future. Minimum Qualifications Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field; equivalent practical experience considered. 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including experience designing and building enterprise-scale software systems. Demonstrated experience leading technical initiatives across multiple teams, products, or organizational boundaries. Experience designing distributed systems, APIs, integration platforms, or cloud-native applications. Proven ability to influence technical direction without formal management authority. Experience mentoring engineers and driving engineering best practices. Critical & Required Skills The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong capabilities in the following areas: Software Architecture Enterprise application architecture Distributed systems design Microservices and service-oriented architectures API strategy and integration patterns Event-driven architectures System scalability and performance optimization Engineering Leadership Technical strategy and roadmap development Cross-team collaboration and influence Architectural governance and standards Technical decision-making and tradeoff analysis Leading large-scale, complex technical initiatives Software Quality & Reliability Automated testing strategies Observability and monitoring Site reliability principles Secure software development practices Production readiness and operational excellence Cloud & Modern Development Cloud-native architectures CI/CD and DevOps practices Infrastructure automation Modern software engineering practices Developer productivity and platform engineering concepts AI Readiness & Engineering Innovation Experience evaluating or implementing AI-assisted development tools Understanding of responsible AI practices and governance considerations Ability to identify practical AI use cases that improve engineering effectiveness Preferred Qualifications Experience in healthcare technology, health tech, pharmacy technology, payer technology, or regulated industries. Familiarity with prior authorization workflows, healthcare interoperability, or healthcare integrations. Experience supporting engineering organizations with 50+ developers across multiple products. Experience building developer platforms, shared services, or internal engineering tooling. Experience with architectural modernization initiatives involving legacy systems. Experience implementing engineering effectiveness metrics and software quality frameworks. Experience with AWS or other major cloud platforms. Prior experience serving as a Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, Lead Architect, or equivalent senior individual contributor. We are proud to offer a competitive compensation package at McKesson as part of our Total Rewards. This is determined by several factors, including performance, experience and skills, equity, regular job market evaluations, and geographical markets. The pay range shown below is aligned with McKesson's pay philosophy, and pay will always be compliant with any applicable regulations. In addition to base pay, other compensation, such as an annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may be offered. For more information regarding benefits at McKesson, please click here. Our Base Pay Range for this position $155,300 - $258,800 McKesson has become aware of online recruiting-related scams in which individuals who are not affiliated with or authorized by McKesson are using McKesson's (or affiliated entities, like CoverMyMeds or RxCrossroads) name in fraudulent emails, job postings or social media messages. In light of these scams, please bear the following in mind: McKesson Talent Advisors will never solicit money or credit card information in connection with a McKesson job application. McKesson Talent Advisors do not communicate with candidates via online chatrooms or using email accounts such as Gmail or Hotmail. Note that McKesson does rely on a virtual assistant (Gia) for certain recruiting-related communications with candidates. McKesson job postings are posted on our career site: . McKesson is an Equal Opportunity Employer McKesson provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age, genetic information, or any other legally protected category. For additional information on McKesson's full Equal Employment Opportunity policies, visit our Equal Employment Opportunity page. McKesson is committed to being an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and offers opportunities to all job seekers including job seekers with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, please contact us by sending an email to (United States) or (Canada) . Resumes or CVs submitted to this email box will not be accepted. Join us at McKesson!
Kaiser Permanente
Greensboro, North Carolina
Tech Summary This principal-level individual contributor serves within Kaiser Permanente's Container Platform and Adoption Services organization and provides technical leadership for the enterprise container platform service spanning on-premises and public-cloud environments. The department's mission is to deliver a consistent, secure, resilient, and supportable platform experience that enables application modernization and scalable adoption across the organization. The Container Platform Engineering Lead sets the technical direction for platform engineering and establishes the reusable standards, architectural guardrails, automation approaches, and engineering practices needed to operate the service as one enterprise capability. The position leads complex designs for shared platforms, dedicated environments, application onboarding, developer tooling, data services, enterprise middleware, and other specialized workloads while remaining actively engaged in engineering and implementation. The role works across application delivery, cloud and infrastructure engineering, cybersecurity, networking, observability, reliability engineering, enterprise architecture, and external service providers to translate strategy and risk requirements into practical platform outcomes. Through design leadership, technical governance, mentoring, and partnership with the Operations Lead, this position reduces fragmented solutions, improves engineering quality and platform reliability, and creates the repeatable capabilities required to modernize mission-critical healthcare applications at enterprise scale. This principal-level individual contributor serves within Kaiser Permanente's Container Platform and Adoption Services organization and provides technical leadership for the enterprise container platform service spanning on-premises and public-cloud environments. The department's mission is to deliver a consistent, secure, resilient, and supportable platform experience that enables application modernization and scalable adoption across the organization. The Container Platform Engineering Lead sets the technical direction for platform engineering and establishes the reusable standards, architectural guardrails, automation approaches, and engineering practices needed to operate the service as one enterprise capability. The position leads complex designs for shared platforms, dedicated environments, application onboarding, developer tooling, data services, enterprise middleware, and other specialized workloads while remaining actively engaged in engineering and implementation. The role works across application delivery, cloud and infrastructure engineering, cybersecurity, networking, observability, reliability engineering, enterprise architecture, and external service providers to translate strategy and risk requirements into practical platform outcomes. Through design leadership, technical governance, mentoring, and partnership with the Operations Lead, this position reduces fragmented solutions, improves engineering quality and platform reliability, and creates the repeatable capabilities required to modernize mission-critical healthcare applications at enterprise scale. Job Summary: This senior level employee is primarily responsible for influencing and leveraging the technical direction of integrated business and/or enterprise application solutions and for serving as an expert for technical teams. This employee is accountable for ensuring software solutions are managed with full adherence to industry best practices. Essential Responsibilities: Drives the execution of multiple work streams by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and updating new procedures and policies; gaining cross-functional support for objectives and priorities; translating business strategy into actionable business requirements; obtaining and distributing resources; setting standards and measuring progress; removing obstacles that impact performance; guiding performance and developing contingency plans accordingly; solving highly complex issues; and influencing the completion of project tasks by others. Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by soliciting and acting on performance feedback; building collaborative, cross-functional relationships; communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; providing feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership; influencing, mentoring, and coaching team members; fostering open dialogue amongst team members; evaluating and responding to the strengths and weaknesses of self and unit members; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback. Provides insight into recommendations for complex technical solutions that meet design and functional needs. Serves as an expert for innovative technical solutions that meet design and functional needs. Collaborates with architects and/or software consultants to ensure functional specifications are converted into flexible, scalable, and maintainable solution designs. Provides technical expertise for the development, configuration, or modification of integrated business and/or enterprise application solutions within various computing environments by providing insight, guidance, and an escalation point for the design and coding of component-based applications. Translates business requirements and functional specifications into physical program designs, code modules, stable application systems, and software solutions by partnering with Business Analysts and other team members to understand business needs and functional specifications. Leverages networks to drive collaboration between technical teams, architects, and/or software consultants, and ensure functional specifications are converted into flexible, scalable, and maintainable solution designs. Builds and maintains trusting relationships with internal customers, third party vendors, and senior management to ensure the alignment, buy-in, and support of diverse project stakeholders. Oversees the review and implementation of recommendations of technical solutions across multiple functions. Takes accountability for ensuring specific interfaces, methods, parameters, procedures, and functions support technical solutions and are aligned with architectural designs. Derives an overall strategy of data management, within an established Information Architecture, that supports the business model. Identifies information structures and detail to enable the development and secure operation of new information services. Takes overall responsibility for planning effective information storage, sharing, and publishing within the organization. Sets strategies for effective use of database technology taking account of the complex interrelations between hardware/software. Provides specialist expertise in the development, use, or operation of database management system tools and facilities. Provides expert knowledge in the selection, provision, and use of database architectures, software, and facilities, typically taking responsibility for a team of technical staff. Facilitates and serves as a technical expert for project teams throughout the release schedule of business and enterprise software solutions. Provides expertise and guidance to team members for systems incident responses for complex issues. Fosters and leverages partnerships with IT teams and vendors to ensure written code adheres to company architectural standards, design patterns, and technical specification. Maintains and enhances technical expertise and knowledge of industry trends by attending participating conferences, and developing a network with other IT industry experts. Leads consultation efforts to help ensure new and existing software solutions are developed with insight into industry best practices, strategies, and architectures. Provides expert technical advice and recommendations to others within the organization on matters related to software engineering, including market trends, and new programs and applications. Reviews and verifies resource estimates for complex technical design, coding, and testing efforts. Identifies specific interfaces, methods, parameters, procedures, and functions, as required, to support technical solutions, serving as an escalation point for complex or unresolved issues related to requirements translation. As part of the IT Engineering job family, this position is responsible for leveraging DEVOPS, and both Waterfall and Agile practices, to design, develop, and deliver resilient, secure, multi-channel, high-volume, high-transaction, on/off-premise, cloud-based solutions. Minimum Qualifications: Minimum six (6) years experience working on project(s) involving the implementation of solutions applying development life cycles (e.g., SDLC). Minimum four (4) years in a technical leadership role with or without direct reports. Bachelors degree in Computer Science, CIS, or related field and Minimum ten (10) years experience in software development or a related field. Additional equivalent work experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.
Tech Summary This principal-level individual contributor serves within Kaiser Permanente's Container Platform and Adoption Services organization and provides technical leadership for the enterprise container platform service spanning on-premises and public-cloud environments. The department's mission is to deliver a consistent, secure, resilient, and supportable platform experience that enables application modernization and scalable adoption across the organization. The Container Platform Engineering Lead sets the technical direction for platform engineering and establishes the reusable standards, architectural guardrails, automation approaches, and engineering practices needed to operate the service as one enterprise capability. The position leads complex designs for shared platforms, dedicated environments, application onboarding, developer tooling, data services, enterprise middleware, and other specialized workloads while remaining actively engaged in engineering and implementation. The role works across application delivery, cloud and infrastructure engineering, cybersecurity, networking, observability, reliability engineering, enterprise architecture, and external service providers to translate strategy and risk requirements into practical platform outcomes. Through design leadership, technical governance, mentoring, and partnership with the Operations Lead, this position reduces fragmented solutions, improves engineering quality and platform reliability, and creates the repeatable capabilities required to modernize mission-critical healthcare applications at enterprise scale. This principal-level individual contributor serves within Kaiser Permanente's Container Platform and Adoption Services organization and provides technical leadership for the enterprise container platform service spanning on-premises and public-cloud environments. The department's mission is to deliver a consistent, secure, resilient, and supportable platform experience that enables application modernization and scalable adoption across the organization. The Container Platform Engineering Lead sets the technical direction for platform engineering and establishes the reusable standards, architectural guardrails, automation approaches, and engineering practices needed to operate the service as one enterprise capability. The position leads complex designs for shared platforms, dedicated environments, application onboarding, developer tooling, data services, enterprise middleware, and other specialized workloads while remaining actively engaged in engineering and implementation. The role works across application delivery, cloud and infrastructure engineering, cybersecurity, networking, observability, reliability engineering, enterprise architecture, and external service providers to translate strategy and risk requirements into practical platform outcomes. Through design leadership, technical governance, mentoring, and partnership with the Operations Lead, this position reduces fragmented solutions, improves engineering quality and platform reliability, and creates the repeatable capabilities required to modernize mission-critical healthcare applications at enterprise scale. Job Summary: This senior level employee is primarily responsible for influencing and leveraging the technical direction of integrated business and/or enterprise application solutions and for serving as an expert for technical teams. This employee is accountable for ensuring software solutions are managed with full adherence to industry best practices. Essential Responsibilities: Drives the execution of multiple work streams by identifying customer and operational needs; developing and updating new procedures and policies; gaining cross-functional support for objectives and priorities; translating business strategy into actionable business requirements; obtaining and distributing resources; setting standards and measuring progress; removing obstacles that impact performance; guiding performance and developing contingency plans accordingly; solving highly complex issues; and influencing the completion of project tasks by others. Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by soliciting and acting on performance feedback; building collaborative, cross-functional relationships; communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; providing feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership; influencing, mentoring, and coaching team members; fostering open dialogue amongst team members; evaluating and responding to the strengths and weaknesses of self and unit members; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback. Provides insight into recommendations for complex technical solutions that meet design and functional needs. Serves as an expert for innovative technical solutions that meet design and functional needs. Collaborates with architects and/or software consultants to ensure functional specifications are converted into flexible, scalable, and maintainable solution designs. Provides technical expertise for the development, configuration, or modification of integrated business and/or enterprise application solutions within various computing environments by providing insight, guidance, and an escalation point for the design and coding of component-based applications. Translates business requirements and functional specifications into physical program designs, code modules, stable application systems, and software solutions by partnering with Business Analysts and other team members to understand business needs and functional specifications. Leverages networks to drive collaboration between technical teams, architects, and/or software consultants, and ensure functional specifications are converted into flexible, scalable, and maintainable solution designs. Builds and maintains trusting relationships with internal customers, third party vendors, and senior management to ensure the alignment, buy-in, and support of diverse project stakeholders. Oversees the review and implementation of recommendations of technical solutions across multiple functions. Takes accountability for ensuring specific interfaces, methods, parameters, procedures, and functions support technical solutions and are aligned with architectural designs. Derives an overall strategy of data management, within an established Information Architecture, that supports the business model. Identifies information structures and detail to enable the development and secure operation of new information services. Takes overall responsibility for planning effective information storage, sharing, and publishing within the organization. Sets strategies for effective use of database technology taking account of the complex interrelations between hardware/software. Provides specialist expertise in the development, use, or operation of database management system tools and facilities. Provides expert knowledge in the selection, provision, and use of database architectures, software, and facilities, typically taking responsibility for a team of technical staff. Facilitates and serves as a technical expert for project teams throughout the release schedule of business and enterprise software solutions. Provides expertise and guidance to team members for systems incident responses for complex issues. Fosters and leverages partnerships with IT teams and vendors to ensure written code adheres to company architectural standards, design patterns, and technical specification. Maintains and enhances technical expertise and knowledge of industry trends by attending participating conferences, and developing a network with other IT industry experts. Leads consultation efforts to help ensure new and existing software solutions are developed with insight into industry best practices, strategies, and architectures. Provides expert technical advice and recommendations to others within the organization on matters related to software engineering, including market trends, and new programs and applications. Reviews and verifies resource estimates for complex technical design, coding, and testing efforts. Identifies specific interfaces, methods, parameters, procedures, and functions, as required, to support technical solutions, serving as an escalation point for complex or unresolved issues related to requirements translation. As part of the IT Engineering job family, this position is responsible for leveraging DEVOPS, and both Waterfall and Agile practices, to design, develop, and deliver resilient, secure, multi-channel, high-volume, high-transaction, on/off-premise, cloud-based solutions. Minimum Qualifications: Minimum six (6) years experience working on project(s) involving the implementation of solutions applying development life cycles (e.g., SDLC). Minimum four (4) years in a technical leadership role with or without direct reports. Bachelors degree in Computer Science, CIS, or related field and Minimum ten (10) years experience in software development or a related field. Additional equivalent work experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.