Senior Director, Software Development and Engineering

Senior Director of Software Development and Engineering

Senior Director of Software Development and Engineering for Specialty Access and Affordability Solutions. You will lead multiple development teams responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining high-quality software solutions for this groundbreaking initiative. You will be accountable for the technical direction, delivery, and long-term strategy of our enterprise-level applications, ensuring that they meet the needs of both internal stakeholders and external customers. Your leadership will drive both innovation and operational excellence while promoting a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.

* Our ideal candidate will reside in the Columbus, OH, but we may consider a well-qualified, fully remote candidate. At this time, we are not able to offer sponsorship for employment visas. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis without the need for current or future sponsorship.

Key Responsibilities

• Oversee and mentor engineering managers, directors, and teams across multiple product lines and business units, ensuring high performance and adherence to best practices.

• Manage departmental sub‑functions within broader organizational initiatives, contributing to long‑term technical vision and operational success.

• Define, communicate, and enforce technology standards, methodologies, and best practices across the engineering organization.

• Develop and manage budgets, timelines, and policies for the engineering department, ensuring on‑time and on‑budget project delivery.

• Lead the development and implementation of the technical strategy ensuring alignment with overall business goals for SaaS.

• Partner with the Principal Architect(s) to design and implement scalable, secure, and high‑performance enterprise‑level software applications, focusing on cloud‑based solutions, microservices, and event‑driven streaming architectures.

• Ensure all systems are designed with scalability and security at their core, leveraging modern technologies.

• Ensure all software development is aligned with best practices, ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and seamless integration with other enterprise systems.

• Proven experience designing and operating enterprise‑scale, high‑availability applications entirely on Microsoft Azure.

• Collaborate with product, operations, and executive teams to define product requirements, timelines, and delivery strategies.

• Interface regularly with executive stakeholders, both internal and external, to ensure alignment and effective communication of technical solutions.

• Guide teams in delivering customer‑facing applications that meet business requirements while driving operational efficiency and scalability.

• Champion Agile practices across the software engineering teams, ensuring that teams deliver high‑quality software iteratively.

• Oversee the end‑to‑end software development lifecycle (SDLC), from requirements gathering to post‑deployment support, ensuring best practices are followed throughout.

• Identify and address operational inefficiencies, implementing process improvements to enhance team productivity and project delivery.

• Build and scale high‑performing engineering teams by hiring, training, and mentoring engineers, managers, and technical leaders.

• Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement, ensuring that teams constantly evolve and grow their technical capabilities.

• Encourage cross‑team collaboration and knowledge sharing, promoting a strong technical culture across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience; typically requires 10+ years of professional experience in software engineering with at least 4+ years in a senior leadership role managing large, cross‑functional teams.

• Proven experience architecting, designing, and delivering enterprise‑level software applications, particularly in cloud environments with microservices architectures.

• Hands‑on experience with technologies such as Java, Golang, ReactJS, Node.js, Angular, MVC frameworks (Spring, JSF), and event‑driven architectures.

• Experience managing software development for healthcare‑related products or platforms is a strong plus.

Skills Required

• Deep technical expertise in building scalable, distributed systems and leading teams in delivering complex projects on time and within budget.

• Strong leadership and management skills, with the ability to inspire teams and build high‑performing engineering organizations.

• Strong business acumen, with the ability to manage budgets, resources, and deliver on technical objectives in alignment with broader business goals.

• Expertise in Agile methodologies, including Scrum, Kanban, SAFE, and continuous improvement processes.

• Ability to effectively communicate complex technical concepts to non‑technical stakeholders, including executives and customers.

• Expertise in modern technologies, such as machine learning, cloud computing, and mobile app development.

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.

Our Base Pay Range for this position

183,800 - 306,300

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.

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