Director, Software Engineering

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.

Director, Software Development & Engineering – SCP Suite

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.

Director, Software Development & Engineering – SCP Suite

Role Overview
As the Director of Software Development and Engineering for the SCP (Strategic Capabilities & Partnership) suite, you will lead multiple development teams responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining high-quality software solutions for our SCP suite. 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.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & Strategy

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

• Oversee and mentor engineering managers 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.

Architecture & Technical Excellence

• Partnering with the CMM Principal Architect(s), design, and implement scalable, secure, and high-performance enterprise-level software applications, with a strong focus on cloud-based solutions, microservices, and event-driven streaming architectures.

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

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

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Collaborate with product, business, and executive teams to define product requirements, timelines, and delivery strategies for multiple lines of business.

• 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.

Process & Methodology

• Champion Agile practices (Scrum, Kanban) across the software engineering teams, ensuring that teams are delivering high-quality software iteratively.

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

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

Team & Talent Development

• 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 are constantly evolving and growing their technic