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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.\nSummary\nThe Lead Data Specialist is a senior individual contributor within McKesson’s Decision Intelligence organization, responsible for leading the design, delivery, and operationalization of scalable data engineering and analytics solutions across the PSaS Business Unit. This role serves as a technical leader and player-coach, combining deep hands-on engineering with solution leadership, mentorship, and cross-functional influence.\nWhat You’ll Do\nLead end-to-end technical delivery for complex data engineering initiatives or domains.\nServe as a senior technical point of contact for data engineering within cross-functional squads.\nDesign and build scalable, reliable batch and real-time data pipelines across internal and external systems.\nLead solution design and influence architectural decisions in collaboration with Data Architects and enterprise teams.\nDefine and uphold engineering standards, patterns, and best practices aligned with enterprise data strategy.\nMentor and guide data engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and technical coaching.\nEnsure quality, reliability, performance, and long-term maintainability of data products.\nPartner with Product Managers, Data Scientists, Analysts, and business stakeholders to translate analytical requirements into scalable solutions.\nDrive an automation-first and reusability-focused mindset across data engineering solutions.\nOversee testing strategies, production readiness, observability, and operational stability of data pipelines.\nProactively identify technical debt and lead remediation efforts.\nEnable advanced analytics and ML use cases through optimized data models and pipelines.\nCommunicate technical designs, tradeoffs, risks, and outcomes clearly to stakeholders.\nWhat You Bring\nRecognized expertise in data engineering and analytics within large, enterprise environments.\nStrong ability to independently lead complex technical initiatives with minimal oversight.\nProven experience influencing technical direction and mentoring other engineers without formal people-management responsibility.\nDeep understanding of data architecture, ETL/ELT patterns, and large-scale data processing.\nStrong stakeholder communication and collaboration skills.\nTechnical Skills\nAdvanced proficiency in SQL, Python, and scripting.\nStrong hands-on experience with: Databricks, Snowflake, Azure Data Factory\nConfluent Kafka / Azure Event Hub\nPySpark and analytical SQL\nPower BI and/or Tableau\n Apache Airflow, dbt, Alation\n\nStrong understanding of data modeling, metadata, lineage, and data quality practices.\nExperience with cloud platforms (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS).\nExperience implementing automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).\nAbility to support advanced analytics and ML enablement (non-pure DS focus).\nMinimum Requirements\nDegree or equivalent and typically requires 10+ years of relevant experience.\nPreferable Skills & Experience\nExperience leading enterprise-scale or BU-wide data initiatives.\nExposure to real-time, event-driven data architectures.\nFamiliarity with data governance programs and stewardship responsibilities.\nExperience experimenting with emerging data and AI technologies.\nBackground in highly regulated or complex business environments.\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$122,100 - $162,800McKesson 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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