Senior Engineer - Tech Lead

What Commercial Technologies Software Engineering contributes to Cardinal Health

Commercial Technologies manages the enterprise's portfolio of commercial technologies to maximize the business value of the technologies and enhance the customer experience. This function creates strategies for the portfolio and innovative solutions based on relationships with business leaders, develops back-end solutions and capabilities, and improves the front-end experience.

Commercial Technologies Software Engineering develops design options, process improvements and back-end solutions for commercial technologies to maximize performance and suitability for business needs. This job family manages engineering projects and plans for commercial technologies and interfaces with product managers to develop objectives. This job family assesses product systems, identifies opportunities for process and system improvements, and develops solutions through application of engineering principles.

Responsibilities

• Operates as a senior individual contributor, providing deep technical leadership without direct responsibility for enterprise‑level ownership
• Leads technical execution on complex initiatives, independently defining implementation approaches, tasks, and technical deliverables
• Owns technical standards, code quality, and design integrity for assigned solution areas
• Translates business and solution intent into sound technical designs and implementation decisions
• Partners closely with Solution Owners, Product, and delivery teams to assess feasibility, identify risks, and recommend tradeoffs
• Serves as a technical authority and escalation point for complex engineering and production issues
• Applies SDLC practices consistently and reinforces engineering discipline across design, build, test, and release activities
• Influences outcomes through expertise and collaboration rather than positional authority
• Coaches and mentors engineers, raising overall team technical maturity and execution consistency
• Success is measured by technical leadership, execution quality, and enablement of delivery teams—not by ownership of budgets, roadmaps, or end‑to‑end delivery outcomes.
• High‑quality technical delivery with reduced rework and fewer preventable defects
• Consistent application of engineering standards, effective code/design review discipline, and improved team technical maturity
• Improved run stability and faster resolution of complex technical issues through monitoring‑informed troubleshooting and root‑cause analysis
• Strong partnership with Solution Owners by providing feasible technical options and risk tradeoffs without assuming enterprise ownership

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience
• 8+ years of hands‑on software development and/or application development experience (custom and/or enterprise platforms) preffered
• Experience in SDLC processes including requirements analysis and system design, and/or software engineering principles
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical initiatives, define deliverables, and resolve production issues effectively
• Experience with build & run operational practices (incident/change concepts, CMDB/ITIL‑adjacent exposure)
• Experience partnering with Risk/Security and operating in regulated environments where reliability and controls matter
• Experience producing reference standards, technical roadmaps, and reusable patterns within a platform or solution domain

What is expected of you and others at this level

• Applies advanced knowledge and understanding of concepts, principles, and technical capabilities to manage a wide variety of projects

• Participates in the development of policies and procedures to achieve specific goals

• Recommends new practices, processes, metrics, or models

• Works on or may lead complex projects of large scope

• Projects may have significant and long-term impact

• Provides solutions which may set precedent

• Independently determines method for completion of new projects

• Receives guidance on overall project objectives

• Acts as a mentor to less experienced colleagues

Anticipated salary range: $123,400 - $176,300

Bonus eligible: Yes

Benefits: Cardinal Health offers a wide variety of benefits and programs to support health and well-being.

• Medical, dental and vision coverage

• Paid time off plan

• Health savings account (HSA)

• 401k savings plan

• Access to wages before pay day with myFlexPay