Director, Database Management

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The Director Database Management leads the strategic oversight operational excellence and cloud modernization of our enterprise healthcare data platforms. You will manage a strategic vendor team responsible for Oracle operations support and development. This role requires 15 years of data experience sharp healthcare business acumen and an ironclad commitment to regulatory compliance (HIPAA SOX).

Core Responsibilities

Vendor & Operational Management

• Manage Vendor Teams: Oversee a strategic partner vendor team handling 24/7 Oracle DBA operations and production support.

• SLA Enforcement: Establish monitor and enforce strict SLAs for system uptime data availability and incident resolution.

• Development Oversight: Guide vendor engineering resources on Oracle database enhancements performance tuning and PL/SQL development.

Data Architecture & Migration

• Pipeline Engineering: Oversee robust ETL/ELT pipelines ingesting data from Oracle Snowflake and varied healthcare data streams into target analytics engines.

• Modernization: Define the future-state data architecture ensuring continuous data availability during critical cloud transitions.

Compliance Governance & Security

• Healthcare Compliance: Architect and maintain data environments that strictly adhere to HIPAA regulations to protect Protected Health Information (PHI).

• Global Privacy: Ensure all data pipelines storage systems and cloud environments comply with data privacy and sovereignty.

• Financial Controls: Implement and audit rigorous data controls access logging and lifecycle management to satisfy SOX compliance requirements.

Healthcare Business Alignment & Leadership

• Functional Alignment: Translate complex healthcare business workflows (clinical operations payer/provider relations patient analytics) into technical data requirements.

• Stakeholder Management: Serve as the primary IT liaison to executive business leaders medical officers and data governance boards.

• Budgetary Ownership: Manage the total cost of ownership (TCO) for database infrastructure rising cloud consumption licensing costs and vendor contracts.

Qualifications

Experience & Education

• Experience: Minimum 15 years of progressive experience in enterprise data engineering database administration and data architecture.

• Industry Domain: Deep experience working within the healthcare pharmaceutical or health tech sectors with a strong grasp of healthcare data models.

• Leadership: At least 5 years in a formal manager-level role managing external global vendors and cross-functional engineering teams.

• Education: Bachelors degree in computer science Health Informatics Management Information Systems or a related field (masters preferred).

Technical Competencies

• Databases: Expert-level knowledge of Oracle Database administration architecture and performance optimization.

Leadership & Compliance Skills

• Regulatory Mastery: Advanced knowledge of data governance frameworks tailored to HIPAA PHI and SOX environments.

• Geographic Presence: Ability to travel to work out of our Richmond VA offices as required by our hybrid model.

• Communication: Exceptional ability to explain highly complex database architecture and compliance risks to non-technical executive stakeholders.

Nice to Have

• Cloud Data Migration: Drive strategy road mapping and execution of migrating massive datasets from Snowflake and Databricks into Google Big Query.

• Cloud Ecosystems: Deep practical experience managing workloads inside Snowflake Databricks and Google Cloud Platform (Big Query).

• Migration Expertise: Proven track record of executing large-scale secure data migrations between cloud data warehouses without business disruption.

• Architecture Expertise: Be part of the team to understand the architecture and execute our high-profile enterprise migration from Snowflake and Databricks to Google Big Query.

About McKesson

Medical-Surgical McKesson Medical-Surgical (MMS) which is expected to become Wellverse in early 2027 is a subsidiary and publicly reported segment of the McKesson Corporation. MMS distributes medical-surgical supplies pharmaceuticals diagnostic equipment and supplies along with other solutions and services to virtually every type of healthcare setting and provider outside of the traditional hospital. These markets often referred to as Alternate Care or Non-Acute Care include physician offices surgery centers long-term care providers laboratories home health and hospice agencies health systems government facilities and online marketplaces and retailers.

Alternate Care markets are growing rapidly and MMS is proud to be a leader in this space. With a team of approximately 8000 employees a network of 15 distribution centers and approximately 900 delivery vehicles we collaborate with more than 2200 leading manufacturers and serve over 200000 customer accounts across the U.S. Our catalog includes more than 270000 SKUs of branded and private-label medical-surgical products from bandages to specialty pharmaceuticals and COVID-19 tests.

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