What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director, Product Engineering position at McKesson?
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.
What You’ll Do:
As a Director of Software Engineering, you will lead several Suite Areas within the Hub Solutions Suite and serve as the Suite Area Lead (SAL) for each. This is a highly strategic and technical leadership role requiring deep experience in modern software engineering practices and the ability to influence at scale.
The successful candidate will be responsible for defining and executing a multi-year technical strategy, providing definitive architectural guidance to engineering teams, and developing the next generation of Engineering Managers. This position requires a leader who can operate 12-18 months out, balancing immediate client delivery needs with the long-term health and scalability of the platform.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic & Technical Leadership
You are a proven technology leader who thrives in complexity and scale. You combine deep technical expertise with strategic vision, and you know how to lead through others while influencing across the organization.
Minimum Qualifications
This Director role is pivotal to the growth and success of the Hub Solutions Suite. You will shape the technical and delivery strategy across multiple product areas, elevate engineering leadership maturity, and ensure our platforms deliver value to customers with quality, reliability, and innovation.
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
$152,300 - $253,900
McKesson 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.
Join us at McKesson!
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.
What You’ll Do:
As a Director of Software Engineering, you will lead several Suite Areas within the Hub Solutions Suite and serve as the Suite Area Lead (SAL) for each. This is a highly strategic and technical leadership role requiring deep experience in modern software engineering practices and the ability to influence at scale.
The successful candidate will be responsible for defining and executing a multi-year technical strategy, providing definitive architectural guidance to engineering teams, and developing the next generation of Engineering Managers. This position requires a leader who can operate 12-18 months out, balancing immediate client delivery needs with the long-term health and scalability of the platform.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic & Technical Leadership
- Define and execute the technical and delivery strategy for multiple Suite Areas, ensuring alignment with product priorities and organizational objectives.
- Partner with Product leadership to define quarterly goals, manage suite-area backlogs, and deliver against commitments.
- Provide architectural oversight and governance, guiding engineering decisions grounded in scalability, reliability, and security.
- Set and execute a multi-year roadmap balancing innovation, modernization, and operational stability.
- Lead through engineering managers, ensuring they are focused on agile delivery while you own SAL responsibilities.
- Establish measurable goals for quality, predictability, and customer impact; drive accountability through metrics and results.
- Ensure sound balance between new feature delivery, platform stability, and technical debt reduction.
- Build, coach, and develop high-performing managers and technical leaders.
- Manage career development, succession planning, and performance for direct reports.
- Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous improvement across teams.
- Collaborate with Product, UX, and Analytics to enable empowered product delivery teams.
- Represent engineering in executive-level discussions and customer engagements as a senior technical sponsor.
- Partner across other suites and shared services to advance platform and organizational maturity.
You are a proven technology leader who thrives in complexity and scale. You combine deep technical expertise with strategic vision, and you know how to lead through others while influencing across the organization.
Minimum Qualifications
- 12 years of professional software engineering experience, including hands-on technical leadership in building scalable, reliable, and secure web-based platforms.
- Strong architectural and technical depth; able to guide decisions on frameworks, scalability, reliability, and security.
- Experience managing managers and multiple teams in a matrixed environment.
- Demonstrated success in owning technical strategy and delivering outcomes across multiple product areas.
- Strategic thinker with the ability to translate business objectives into actionable engineering plans.
- Exceptional leadership presence; skilled at influencing senior stakeholders and driving alignment.
- Outstanding communication skills—able to distill complex technical concepts for diverse audiences.
- Experience in healthcare or regulated industries.
- Proven ability to lead transformation in organizations evolving from start-up to enterprise scale.
- Demonstrated success modernizing platforms and practices across multiple teams or business lines.
This Director role is pivotal to the growth and success of the Hub Solutions Suite. You will shape the technical and delivery strategy across multiple product areas, elevate engineering leadership maturity, and ensure our platforms deliver value to customers with quality, reliability, and innovation.
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
$152,300 - $253,900
McKesson 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.
Join us at McKesson!
Salary : $152,300 - $253,900