Success Profile
What makes a successful Sr. Platform Engineer? Here are the top traits.
- Conceptual
- Proactive
- Problem-Solver
- Strategic
- Technologically Savvy
- Visual Thinker
Culture
Accomplish
Make an impact by using your problem-solving skills to assure maximum “uptime” for our products and a smooth experience for our customers, while maintaining a healthy work-life balance.
Innovate
Monitor and analyze insights on the next steps of improving care through our evolving data and technology tools.
From Creating
solutions that help break down affordability barriers to improving distribution that helps maintain drug efficacy, you’ll play a key role in shaping a global industry.
Benefits
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Coverage you can rely on
- Medical, Dental, and Vision
- Health Spending Accounts
- Flexible Spending Accounts
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Benefits that go beyond your base pay
- 401(k) (U.S.)
- Pension (Canada)
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
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Support for total well-being
- Mental Health Programs
- Flexible Schedules
- Paid Time Off
- Wellness Program
- Education Reimbursement
- Volunteer Opportunities
- Flexible Work Environment
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A global leader of inclusion
McKesson’s commitment to diversity and inclusion starts at the top. We have also been named a Best Employer for Diversity by Forbes.
Responsibility
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.
Job Responsibilities
- You will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining our data platform infrastructure
- Implement and uphold modern software design principles, ensuring best practices in CI/CD, DevOps, and infrastructure-as-code
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, such as data engineers, software engineers, infrastructure teams, and business units to enable effective data cohesion to support business processes and analytics
- You will work closely with the application teams, data analysts, and data scientists to provide data access and enable analytics
- Enable and support self-serve data engineering solutions for both the wider data team and engineers
- Proactively ensure the security and integrity of the platform and data feeds and take part in security and privacy design reviews
- Perform application deployments acting as a gatekeeper to the production environment
- Identify areas for improvement in the data platform infrastructure and develop solutions to address them
- Experience working with large datasets, pipelines, modern warehouse technologies, and data processing (real-time and batch) at large scale
- Collaborate with other teams to ensure successful implementation of data-driven solutions
- Developing and implementing best practices for data integration, data quality, and data governance
- Keeping up-to-date with emerging technologies and trends in data engineering and healthcare technology
- Monitor system performance and troubleshoot any issues
- Ensuring the scalability, reliability, and security of the data platform
- Develop and maintain documentation related to the data platform infrastructure
- Perform incident investigation, diagnosis and provide resolution
- Ensures business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives
- Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application, ensuring compliance with them
- Demonstrating creative, critical thinking & troubleshooting skills
- Up to 10-15% travel may be required (domestic and international)
Minimum requirement is to have 7+ years of experience
Critical Skills
- Strong experience in designing, developing, and managing data platforms, and be a self-starter who can work independently and in a team
- Strong communication skills who quickly establishes credibility and is capable of leading cross-functional technical teams
- Highly motivated and technically skilled Senior data platform engineer, and you are passionate about developing data-driven solutions
- Experience working with large datasets, pipelines, modern technologies(Snowflake, Databricks), real-time and batch
- Experience with cloud technologies, such as Azure
- Experience with distributed systems, streaming systems, and data tools, such as Kubernetes, Kafka
- Design and manage data platforms, including data storage, data processing, data security
Additional Knowledge / Skills:
- Understanding of the agile software development methodology (e.g. Scrum, Kanban)
- Strong experience with the distributed cluster management. Understanding of Docker/ Kubernetes container orchestration technologies.
- Able to use sound judgment and prioritize
- Must be flexible, team oriented and able to accept and create change
- Fast and capable learner. Results oriented, enthusiastic, creative thinker
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
$116,000 - $193,300McKesson is an Equal Opportunity Employer
McKesson provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees and is committed to a diverse and inclusive environment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age or genetic information. For additional information on McKesson’s full Equal Employment Opportunity policies, visit our Equal Employment Opportunity page.
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