Sr. Manager, Software Engineering

McKesson • Columbus, OH

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

McKesson is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the FastAuth team within the Specialty Access & Affordability value stream. FastAuth helps move specialty prescriptions through prior authorization faster, reducing the time between prescription and the start of therapy. The manager owns delivery, team health, and technical direction across multiple major workstreams, and partners with peer engineering leaders on decisions that affect the broader value stream.

The team works across React front ends, .NET services, and event-driven integrations on Azure. It ships continuously and owns the systems it builds. The role is hybrid and based out of McKesson’s Columbus, Ohio office, with regular collaboration across time zones. Priority will be given to candidates residing in the Columbus metropolitan area. Sponsorship is not available now or in the future.

McKesson offers a competitive compensation package. The base pay range is $126,000–$210,000, and an annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may also be offered. Compensation depends on factors including performance, experience, skills, equity, market evaluations, and geography.

Requirements

• Degree or equivalent experience, with typically 10 or more years of relevant professional experience, including 4 or more years of engineering management experience.
• At least 4 years leading software engineering teams, including hiring, performance management, and career development.
• Track record of delivering multiple concurrent workstreams with business impact.
• Technical foundation sufficient to participate credibly in design discussions about modern web stacks and cloud platforms; TypeScript, React, .NET, and Azure are particularly relevant.
• Working understanding of event-driven architecture and its tradeoffs.
• Experience in a scaled agile environment such as SAFe or equivalent, including planning across teams.
• Data-driven approach to delivery health, including flow metrics such as throughput, cycle time, and predictability.
• Demonstrated ability to drive adoption of AI tooling in engineering workflows.
• Ability to resolve cross-team misalignment directly without routing every disagreement through escalation.
• Clear written and verbal communication for engineering and executive audiences.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with healthcare applications, particularly EHR integrations.
• Prior authorization, pharmacy, or payer domain experience.
• Experience with the FHIR standard, SMART on FHIR integrations, and healthcare data exchange.
• Experience leading other people managers or building a leadership bench.
• Experience scaling a team through significant growth, transition, or restructuring.
• Contributions to engineering communities of practice, internal or external.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute across multiple workstreams, set goals, and hold the team accountable for results.
• Prioritize investment across projects and refocus effort when it is not advancing business goals.
• Run efficient operating cadences within SAFe, including PI planning, while minimizing process overhead.
• Address root causes that block the team.
• Protect long-term growth, retention, and psychological safety while delivering results.
• Define a FastAuth vision aligned with value stream and company priorities, and bring engineers and cross-functional partners along.
• Partner with architects and staff engineers on design decisions involving TypeScript, React, .NET, Azure, and event-driven architecture.
• Resolve misalignment with partner teams and stakeholders.
• Lead the team through change, complexity, and ambiguity.
• Attract, hire, and retain a diverse engineering team with long-term organizational health in mind.
• Interview and assess senior candidates, and calibrate team members as interviewers.
• Set clear performance expectations, motivate high performers, and address low performance.
• Develop careers by matching opportunities to individual goals and providing next-level work when appropriate.
• Structure the team effectively and plan headcount for sustained success.
• Break down silos across engineering, product, design, and quality, and influence toward business-wide outcomes.
• Build cross-functional relationships, facilitate discussions, and resolve disagreements by managing competing viewpoints.
• Disagree and commit when needed to advance critical priorities.
• Promote inclusion, proactively surface cultural issues, and follow through on concerns.
• Communicate clearly in writing and verbally, tailor messages to the audience, and keep relevant stakeholders aligned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior