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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.\nJob title: Senior/Lead Data Engineer\nCurrent Need:\nThe Senior / Lead Data Engineer will bepart of McKesson Decision Intelligence team, and responsibilities include managing data exploration and analysis, requirements assessment, data source identification, exploratory research, and defining as well asmaintainingdata definitions, business rules, and lineage.Additionalduties involve documentation, collaborating with Data Architects and Engineers on product design, data stewardship, metadata management, ensuring data quality, conductingdifferent typesof testing(functional, regression, exploratory), and preparing and executing test cases and plans.\nKey Responsibilities\nSupport a cross-functional team andprovidein-depth data insights for complex business problems that can be approached with advanced analytics\n\nWork closely with the other Data Engineers and Scientists to deliver results\n\nCitizen of PSAS BU data engineering team and enable the BU Driven Data Insights\n\nCoordinate and collaborate with program managers and other internal stakeholders including gathering requirements and modeling criteria\n\nLeverage tools and resources to plan,evaluateand execute strategic initiatives\n\nStrong delegation and management skills to ensure work is conducted ina timely, quality fashion by internal and external partners and multi-shore teams/resources.\n\nContinuously improve andoptimizebusiness processes and operations.Identifying, publicizing the tech debt across data landscape and championing addressal pursuits.\n\nData Engineering and Analytics support\n\nThinks in automation first, enterprise first and reusability mindset. Develops solution architectures and designs and helps build consensus among teams to champion the data solutions.\n\nCollaborates with and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions with full stack of Data technologies,toolsand processes.\n\nImplements data governance practices in partnership with business stakeholders and peers, data governance officeteamsand solution teams to advocate for data literacy and data democratization across enterprise.\n\nBuilds scalable and reliable data engineering solutions for moving data efficiently across systems from various internal and external data sources in the batch and real-time mode\n\nAnalyzes, models structured data and implement/scale algorithms to support analysis using advanced statistical and mathematical methods from statistics, data mining, econometrics, and operations research, using distributed and parallel programming techniques.\n\nMust be well versed in general infrastructure technology and understand public and private cloud concepts such as Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Desktop as a Service (DaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Experience with automation to Infrastructure (IaC- Infrastructure as Code)\n\nTroubleshooting, Monitoring and Performance Tuning of various software components of various data science analytical solutions, RESTful web services etc...\n\nUnderstanding oflarge database mining tools and statistical languagesutilizedto efficiently build approaches andexecute onanalytical use cases. Specific experience withSnowflake, Databricks, Azure data factory,PySpark,Analytical SQL,Splunk,Alation,R, Python.Experience with SAP and IBM DataStage is also extremely beneficial.\n\nCommunicateresults and educate others through reports and presentations.\n\nMinimum Job Qualifications(Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities):\nEducation/Training -\nBachelor's or master's degree in data science, Statistics, Computer Science, Economics, ora relatedfield.\n\n7+ years of experience in data analytics, with at least 2 years in a leadership or mentorship role.\n\nProficiencyin SQL, Python, R, or similar analytical tools.\n\nExperience with data visualization platforms such as Power BI, Tableau, or Looker.\n\nStrong understanding of statistical analysis, predictive modeling, and data mining techniques.\n\nExperience with analytical tools such as Databricks & Snowflake\n\nExcellent communication and stakeholder management skills.\n\nAbility to manage multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced environment.\n\nSpecialized Knowledge/Skills -\nLeadership Skills: Exceptional ability to lead, mentor, and inspire teams, fostering an environment of accountability and innovation. This positionoperatesunder consultative direction towards broad corporate goals, requiring a high degree of initiative and independence in achieving project outcomes.\n\nStrategic Thinking: Strong analytical skills and the ability to develop strategies that align with long-termobjectives.\n\nProblem Solving: Innovative and creative problem-solving skills capable of handling complex challenges.\n\nWorking Conditions: Environment (Office, warehouse, etc.) -\nTraditional officeenvironment.\n\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. 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.\nMcKesson is an Equal Opportunity Employer\nMcKesson 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. 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