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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.\nWhat 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.\nRole Overview\nThe Director, Technical & Platform Product Management will lead the strategy, development, launch, and adoption of capabilities for the Platform for McKesson’s pharmacy technology business across data, analytics, and and related technology platforms. This role will partner cross-functionally to understand what data they need, how they need to consume it, and which business capabilities it must support. The role will own the data product backlog and translate these needs into capabilities, epics, stories, acceptance criteria, and roadmap priorities and partner closely with engineering and other product team members to execute. Success will be measured through data freshness, completeness, quality, availability, adoption, delivery efficiency, and measurable business value.\nKey Responsibilities\nDefine data platform strategy and roadmap: Own the data capability vision, target consumers, value propositions, roadmap priorities, and build-versus-buy decisions for McKesson Pharmacy System’s Platform.\nLead data product discovery: Partner with other data teams to define the data needed for McKesson Pharmacy System’s Platform, consumption methods, and supported business capabilities. Validate needs and feasibility with engineering and architecture before investment.\nShape reusable data capabilities: Define requirements for data ingestion and pipelines, including batch, streaming, and change data capture, and transactional and analytical data modeling. Make data available through APIs, events, extracts, and data products.\nOwn the data product backlog: Translate consumer needs into capabilities, epics, stories, acceptance criteria, and roadmap priorities engineering can execute. Define what McKesson Pharmacy System’s Platform must deliver from a data perspective, balancing business value, dependencies, risk, security, technical debt, and cost.\nDrive data migration and adoption: Define legacy-platform data migration requirements, including transformation, mapping, enrichment, and reconciliation. Develop onboarding, documentation, and feedback strategies for data consumers.\nDefine and measure data expectations: Establish measurable expectations for data freshness, completeness, quality, and availability. Monitor adoption, pipeline reliability, latency, cost, and consumer experience; use telemetry and feedback to guide roadmap decisions.\nGuide data governance and lifecycle decisions: Partner with engineering, architecture, security, and data teams on data quality, governance, lineage, cataloging, and stewardship, including PHI/PII, retention, security, access controls, versioning, migration, and deprecation.\nInfluence technical and business decisions: Communicate data platform trade-offs to engineering, product, customers and executive audiences. Align cross-functional decisions on business capabilities, consumer needs, architecture, reliability, security, and cost without prescribing engineering implementation.\nMinimum Requirement\nDegree or equivalent and typically requires 10+ years of relevant experience. Less years required if has relevant Master’s or Doctorate qualifications.\nEducation\nBachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, a related technical discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience.\nPreferred Skills\nCritical Skills\n10+ years of progressive product management experience supporting enterprise software, SaaS, platform, infrastructure, or developer-facing technology products.\nExperience leading at least one technically complex platform or product from initial concept through production launch and adoption. Examples may include API platforms, integration platforms, developer platforms, data platforms, identity and access management, cloud-native SaaS infrastructure, or engineering tooling.\nExperience defining product strategy, roadmaps, requirements, priorities, success measures, and adoption plans for technical data products - data lake, data warehouse and/or enterprise data warehouse.\nExperience working directly on data migration with software engineers and architects on distributed systems, APIs, integrations, data models, cloud architecture, scalability, reliability, security, or observability.\nHands-on experience with at least one of the following: reviewing API specifications, querying data using SQL or Python, evaluating logs or telemetry, or developing lightweight technical prototypes.\nExperience defining and using measurable platform or service indicators such as adoption, availability, latency, throughput, error rates, recovery objectives, delivery cycle time, infrastructure cost, or developer experience.\nExperience managing platform interfaces through versioning, backward compatibility, migration planning, dependency management, or deprecation.\nExperience with databricks and/or snowflake environments and application of their AI/ML features.\nAdditional Skills\nPrevious experience in software engineering, systems architecture, technical leadership, data engineering, or infrastructure engineering.\nExperience developing products for technical users, including APIs, SDKs, developer portals, self-service workflows, integration standards, documentation, or CI/CD tooling.\nExperience with public cloud platforms, containerized applications, event streaming, infrastructure as code, observability platforms, identity services, or developer platforms.\nExperience with AI or machine learning platforms, large language model orchestration, vector databases, responsible AI practices, or production data pipelines.\nExperience launching pilot or beta programs with defined user groups, measurable success criteria, operational readiness requirements, and data-informed launch decisions.\nExperience with marketplace or multi-sided platform products.\nAdvanced degree in computer science, engineering, data science, business, or a related discipline.\nWorking Conditions\nThis position offers the possibility of a hybrid work arrangement based on recent updates to our in-office/work-from-home model. If located in DFW area, the selected candidate may be expected to work on-site 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 according to team needs and business priorities.\nSome travel may be required for cross-site collaboration and customer or partner engagements.\nAbout McKesson Pharmacy Technology\nMcKesson's pharmacy technology business develops solutions that support pharmacy operations and the delivery of patient care. This role offers the opportunity to shape a foundational platform used by technical teams to build, integrate, and deliver scalable capabilities across the business.\nMcKesson complies with all applicable U.S. immigration laws and regulations. The Company does not provide employer support or sponsorship for any immigration related employment benefit for this role.\nApplicants 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.\nIf you will require McKesson to provide immigration support or sponsorship now or in the future, you should not apply for this position.\nWe 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.\nOur Base Pay Range for this position\n$143,300 - $238,900McKesson has become aware of online recruiting-related scams in which individuals who are not affiliated with or authorized by McKesson are using McKesson’s (or affiliated entities, like CoverMyMeds or RxCrossroads) name in fraudulent emails, job postings or social media messages. In light of these scams, please bear the following in mind:\nMcKesson Talent Advisors will never solicit money or credit card information in connection with a McKesson job application.\nMcKesson Talent Advisors do not communicate with candidates via online chatrooms or using email accounts such as Gmail or Hotmail. Note that McKesson does rely on a virtual assistant (Gia) for certain recruiting-related communications with candidates.\nMcKesson job postings are posted on our career site: careers.mckesson.com.\nMcKesson is an Equal Opportunity Employer\nMcKesson provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age, genetic information, or any other legally protected category. For additional information on McKesson’s full Equal Employment Opportunity policies, visit our Equal Employment Opportunity page.\nMcKesson is committed to being an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and offers opportunities to all job seekers including job seekers with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, please contact us by sending an email to (United States)  or (Canada) . 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