Platform Engineering Manager

McKesson•Columbus, OH

About The Position

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. As a Platform Engineering Manager on the CoverMyMeds (CMM) team, you'll lead a team of platform engineers responsible for building and operating the infrastructure that enables CMM's product development. Your team maintains critical shared systems—both modern cloud-native platforms and legacy on-premises infrastructure—that 400+ developers depend on daily. This is a people leadership role. You won't be writing code, but you'll need enough technical fluency to review your team's work, make informed tradeoffs, and advocate effectively for platform investments. Your success will be measured by your team's effectiveness, the reliability of the systems they own, and the experience of the developers who build on your platform. At this time, we are not able to offer sponsorship for employment visas. This includes individuals currently on F-1 OPT, STEM OPT, or any other visa status that would require future sponsorship. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States on a permanent basis without the need for current or future sponsorship.

Requirements

Degree or equivalent experience, and typically requires 9+ years of relative experience including 1+ years of leading engineering teams with direct experience managing individual contributors (includes hiring, developing and retaining technical talent
Background in software engineering, SRE, or platform/infrastructure engineering
Familiarity with cloud infrastructure concepts (we use Azure), containerization (Kubernetes), and CI/CD practices
Ability to review technical work, ask good questions, and recognize quality
Understanding of infrastructure-as-code approaches
Comfort with ambiguity and working thru competing priorities, in a large complex organization
Clear written and verbal communication with both technical and non-technical audiences
Ability to make decisions with incomplete information and adjust as you learn more
Skilled at building relationships across organizational boundaries

Nice To Haves

Experience in healthcare technology or other regulated industries
Familiarity with our specific stack: Terraform, ArgoCD, Azure
Experience managing platform teams that serve internal developer customers
Background operating legacy systems alongside modern infrastructure

Responsibilities

Lead and develop your team
Manage a team of 4-6 engineers, including senior individual contributors
Hire, onboard, and retain strong platform engineers
Conduct regular 1:1s, provide feedback, and support career growth
Build a team culture that balances operational excellence with sustainable pace
Deliver platform capabilities
Partner with other engineering managers to plan and execute platform initiatives
Own delivery of your team's roadmap commitments while managing operational load
Navigate the tension between building new capabilities and maintaining existing systems
Manage contractors and vendors as needed
Operate in a regulated environment
Ensure your team's work meets SOX and ITGC compliance requirements
Participate in change management, architecture review, and audit processes
Balance governance requirements with development velocity
Serve your internal customers
Understand the needs of product engineering teams who depend on your platform
Translate developer pain points into platform improvements
Communicate platform changes, incidents, and roadmap clearly to stakeholders
Represent platform engineering organizationally
Coordinate with peer engineering managers on shared responsibilities
Contribute to technical strategy and infrastructure investment decisions
Escalate blockers and advocate for your team's priorities