Lead Software Development Engineering

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About the Organization

This role is part of McKessons Ontada technology division which develops innovative technology and data solutions for oncology care. The iKnowMed G2 platform is a cornerstone of our provider technology portfolio and all supporting applications including ontadahealth portal Mobile practice Insights Clinical Content mgmt. and Value Based Care measures enabling community oncology practices to deliver high-quality patient-centered care. As Lead Software Engineer you will have the opportunity to provide architecture advancing a platform that directly impacts patient outcomes and the future of oncology healthcare.

Position Summary

The Lead Software Engineer provides technical leadership and architecture guidance across multiple software engineering teams responsible for McKessons iKnowMed G2 platform including Ontada Health Portal Practice Insights Clinical Content Mgmt and Value-Based Care solutions that support thousands of clinicians across the United States in delivering cancer care. Operating in a highly regulated healthcare environment this role designs and architects next-generation products frameworks and cloud-native platforms built on modern microservices architectures leveraging Java Databricks Oracle PostgreSQL MongoDB APIs and event-driven integration patterns. The Lead Software Engineer owns and drives solution and platform architecture for secure scalable reliable and high-performing systems including API-led connectivity cloud-native integrations and data exchange across Ontada products with familiarity in healthcare interoperability standards such as HL7/FHIR and SMART on FHIR considered a plus.

Partnering closely with Senior Technology Managers Technology Directors Product Management and cross-functional stakeholders to develop the technology strategy based on business objectives while championing innovation engineering excellence and operational scalability. The Lead Software Engineer remains deeply engaged in developing the POCs technical problem-solving establishes and drives architectural standards influences technology decisions across initiatives and helps advance intelligent product experiences through AI/ML NLP LLM-enabled workflows Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) patterns evaluation and governance capabilities. Success in this role is measured by the adoption of architectural standards the reliability and scalability of the platforms and integration ecosystem delivered and the ability to influence outcomes and elevate engineering excellence across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Architecture Leadership: Define and drive the technology vision architecture strategy and modernization roadmap for enterprise platforms leveraging cloud-native architectures microservices APIs event-driven systems and platform engineering practices.

• Solution Design & Governance: Lead architecture reviews establish technology standards and ensure solutions align with enterprise principles for scalability security reliability performance and maintainability.

• Cloud & Platform Modernization: Drive adoption of modern cloud platforms (Azure AWS GCP) containerization Kubernetes DevSecOps and infrastructure-as-code to improve platform agility and operational excellence.

• Enterprise Integration: Architect secure and scalable integration solutions using REST APIs messaging platforms event-driven architectures service buses and healthcare interoperability standards where applicable.

• Technology Strategy & Roadmaps: Develop multi-year architecture roadmaps evaluate emerging technologies and guide investment decisions that align business objectives with long-term technology strategy.

• Technical Leadership: Provide architectural guidance across engineering teams and foster engineering excellence through design reviews best practices and technical governance.

• Innovation & Emerging Technologies: Champion innovation through adoption of AI/GenAI advanced analytics automation and modern engineering practices to accelerate business value and platform transformation.

• Operational Excellence: Promote reliability security performance optimization and continuous improvement through architecture best practices and operational governance.

• Stakeholder Engagement: Partner with engineering product security and business leaders to align technology solutions with organizational priorities and communicate architectural decisions to executive stakeholders.

• Technology Management: Evaluate technology platforms cloud services and strategic vendor partnerships to maximize business value scalability and operational efficiency.

• Compliance & Risk Management: Ensure architecture solutions meet regulatory security privacy and compliance requirements including healthcare standards and enterprise governance frameworks.

• Organizational Impact: Influence enterprise technology direction drive digital transformation initiatives and deliver measurable outcomes through scalable secure and innovative technology solutions.

• Drive AI adoption by delivering scalable LLM NLP and RAG solutions that accelerate business outcomes.

• Establish secure compliant and reliable AI operations through MLOps/LLMOps and responsible AI practices.

Minimum Requirement

Degree or equivalent and typically requires 10 years of relevant experience. Less years required if has relevant Masters or Doctorate qualifications.

Critical Skills

• 10 years of software engineering experience including 5 years of architecture and technical leadership across complex distributed systems.

• Deep expertise in Java Spring Boot microservices cloud-native architecture and large-scale enterprise platforms.

• Strong experience with REST APIs API gateways event-driven architectures Kafka messaging and enterprise integration patterns.

• Hands-on expertise in Azure AWS or GCP including Docker Kubernetes Infrastructure as Code observability and resiliency patterns.

• Proven track record designing and operating secure scalable highly available multi-tenant applications with strong focus on performance reliability and operational excellence.

• Experience with DevSecOps CI/CD test automation architecture governance and engineering best practices.

• Strong knowledge of relational databases caching search technologies and analytics platforms.

• Ability to lead architecture decisions mentor engineering teams and influence stakeholders through clear communication and technical leadership.

• Familiarity with AI/GenAI technologies including LLMs Prompt Engineering and RAG architectures.

• Knowledge of security compliance and regulated environments; healthcare interoperability (FHIR HL7 SMART on FHIR) is a plus.

• Drive AI adoption by delivering scalable LLM NLP and RAG solutions that accelerate business outcomes.

• Establish secure compliant and reliable AI operations through MLOps/LLMOps and responsible AI practices.

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced Credentials: Masters degree in a relevant technical field (e.g. M.S. in Computer Science Software Engineering).

• Healthcare & Enterprise Experience: Prior experience leading technology teams in healthcare IT clinical software or other highly regulated environments is strongly preferred. Experience modernizing legacy enterprise systems (e.g. monolith-to-microservices transformation cloud migration) is a plus.

Additional Skills

• Strong awareness of emerging trends in software engineering and cloud technologies demonstrating a commitment to continuous learning and technical excellence.

• Experience managing relationships with third-party vendors and partners.

This position offers the possibility of a hybrid work arrangement based on recent updates to our in-office/workfromhome model. If located in DFW area the selected candidate may be expected to work onsite at our Las Colinas office a minimum of two (2) days per week with the remaining days worked remotely. Specific inoffice days may be designated according to team needs and business priorities.

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Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a fulltime basis without the need for employer support or sponsorship now or in the future. This includes having the legal right to work in the United States without the need for McKesson support or sponsorship for any immigration related employment authorization (e.g. H1B O1 E3 H1B1 TN F1 OPT F1 STEM OPT F1 CPT etc.) now or in the future.

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