Technical Product Owner

McKesson•Alpharetta, GA

1d•Hybrid

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. This role offers location flexibility and is open to candidates across the United States. Candidates based in the Dallas–Fort Worth (DFW) area will be hired in a hybrid capacity and are expected to work onsite at our Las Colinas office a minimum of two (2) days per week, with the remaining days worked remotely. Specific in‑office days may be designated based on team needs and business priorities. Current Need: The Technical Product Owner supports the delivery of productized interoperability capabilities by executing against an established product strategy and prioritized backlog. This role partners closely with the Technical Product Manager, engineering teams, and cross‑functional stakeholders to translate requirements into well‑defined user stories and ensure high‑quality, predictable delivery within Agile frameworks. The Technical Product Owner independently owns a defined technical product or service area at the execution level, driving value sprint‑by‑sprint by ensuring the team builds the right technical solution, the right way, at the right time. This role requires strong product judgment, technical curiosity, execution discipline, and empathy for both internal platform consumers and downstream external users.

Requirements

Degree or equivalent and typically requires 4+ years of relevant experience.
4+ years of experience as a Technical Product Owner or equivalent engineering role in healthcare or health IT
Software or systems engineering background, or equivalent technical degree
Experience working with EMR systems and provider‑facing healthcare technologies
Working knowledge of interoperability standards such as FHIR and HL7
Experience operating within Agile/Scrum delivery environments

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with CMS interoperability requirements and healthcare data exchange concepts
Experience supporting platform or shared‑services products
Comfort balancing delivery commitments across technical debt, maintenance, and new capabilities
Ability to travel up to 10%

Responsibilities

Backlog Ownership & Execution Own and maintain a prioritized technical backlog aligned to product goals, OKRs, and platform standards
Translate product and technical requirements into clear, actionable user stories with well‑defined acceptance criteria
Facilitate backlog refinement, estimation, sequencing, and scope trade‑off discussions with engineering
Prioritize work across features, technical debt, and maintenance activities
Delivery & Quality Partner with engineering to remove blockers and ensure predictable, high‑quality delivery
Own acceptance criteria and readiness gates for release
Support go/no‑go recommendations for production based on technical readiness (observability, security, performance)
Ensure non‑functional requirements are met, including SLO/SLA expectations
Technical & Operational Readiness Maintain a living catalog of functional and non‑functional requirements for the assigned product area
Coordinate dependencies across agile teams, including API versions, schema changes, and infrastructure needs
Ensure operational readiness, including monitoring, alerting, logging, runbooks, and release/rollback plans
Own the defect backlog and support incident triage with engineering, SRE, and support teams
Participate in post‑incident reviews and capture remediation actions into the backlog
Collaboration & Compliance Work closely with the Technical Product Manager to ensure backlog alignment with product roadmap and strategy
Engage security and compliance partners to meet organizational standards
Support adoption efforts by ensuring technical deliverables are usable, reliable, and well‑documented