Sr. Manager, Software Engineering
About The Position
McKesson is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the FastAuth team in its Specialty Access & Affordability value stream. FastAuth helps move specialty prescriptions through prior authorization faster, reducing the time between a prescription being written and a patient starting therapy. The manager owns delivery, team health, and technical direction across multiple major workstreams, and partners with other engineering leaders on decisions affecting 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 software it builds. The role involves setting delivery priorities, providing technical and strategic direction, hiring and developing talent, and collaborating across engineering, product, design, quality, and partner teams. The position is hybrid and based out of McKesson’s Columbus, Ohio office, with regular collaboration across time zones. Priority will be given to candidates who reside in the Columbus metropolitan area. McKesson is unable to provide current or future sponsorship for this role.
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 meaningful business impact.
- Technical foundation sufficient to contribute credibly to 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 an 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 suited to both 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, internally or externally.
Responsibilities
- Plan and execute multiple workstreams, set goals, and hold the team accountable for results.
- Prioritize investment across projects and redirect effort when results are not advancing the business.
- Run SAFe operating cadences, including PI planning, while minimizing process overhead.
- Unblock the team by addressing root causes.
- Protect long-term team growth, retention, and psychological safety while delivering results.
- Define a FastAuth vision aligned with value stream and company priorities, and bring engineers and partners along with it.
- 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.
- Coach 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 performance expectations, motivate high performers, and address low performance.
- Develop employee careers by matching opportunities to individual goals and offering next-level work when appropriate.
- Structure the team and plan headcount for sustained success.
- Break down silos across engineering, product, design, and quality, and influence toward the best business outcome.
- Build cross-functional relationships, facilitate discussions, and resolve disagreements among competing viewpoints.
- Disagree and commit when it advances a critical priority.
- Remove barriers to inclusion, proactively surface cultural issues, and follow through on concerns.
- Communicate clearly in writing and verbally, tailor messages to the audience, and share information to keep stakeholders aligned.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package.
- Annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may be offered.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
