McKesson

Healthcare

Sr.Manager,TechnicalEngineering

$124–206k Columbus, Ohio, United States FULL TIME Remote Friendly
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The Brief

“Sr. Manager, Technical Engineering at McKesson. Skills: Production support, Systems engineering, Reliability engineering. Own operational performance. Lead major incident response”

What You'll Achieve.

Reduce toil; Improve support efficiency; Ensure operational acceptance; Improve release quality; Improve production outcomes; Improve early detection; Improve service quality; Reduce repeat incidents; Improve MTTR

Industry & Context.

Healthcare
Problems you'll solve

Root-cause analysis; Troubleshooting

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

9+ years of professional experience, 1+ years of supervisory experience, 4+ years systems engineering experience, 4+ years application support experience, 4+ years infrastructure operations experience, 4+ years production engineering experience, 1+ year leadership role experience, Incident management experience, Problem management experience, Change management experience, Experience in regulated environment, Lead cross-functional initiative experience

Nice to Have

Reside in Columbus, OH area

What You'll Do.

Own operational performance

Lead major incident response

Ensure timely communications

Coordinate stakeholders

Drive problem management

Reduce repeat incidents

Establish operational processes

Improve knowledge management

Improve support efficiency

Guide technical planning

Guide system integration

Define operational acceptance criteria

Coordinate release planning

Coordinate deployment readiness

Coordinate production validation

Ensure functional requirements translate

Ensure non-functional requirements translate

Provide operational feedback

Define monitoring strategies

Define alerting strategies

Define service health indicators

Improve early detection

Improve service quality

Drive systemic improvements

Champion disciplined change management

Ensure DR plans are accurate

Ensure DR plans are testable

Own readiness artifacts

Ensure adherence to security standards

Ensure adherence to regulatory obligations

Ensure adherence to operational support audits

Embed secure-by-design practices

Provide people-leadership

Build high-performing culture

Manage vendor relationships

Manage vendor contracts

Coordinate capacity planning

Coordinate growth planning

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Partner with Application Development; Partner with Product; Partner with Infrastructure; Partner with Security; Partner with Quality; Partner with Product Owners; Partner with Business Analysts; Partner with QA; Partner with Project Management; Partner with system teams; Partner with network teams; Partner with storage teams; Partner with platform teams

Communication Scope

Stakeholder coordination; Timely communications

Process & Methodology

Release planning, Capacity planning, Workforce planning

Full Job Description

McKesson is an impact-driven, Fortune 10 company that touches virtually every aspect of healthcare. 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. What 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. The **Sr. Manager, Technical Engineering** – Application Support leads a specialized production support organization responsible for L2/L3 application support, systems engineering, and operational readiness for business-critical healthcare platforms. This leader ensures reliable service delivery by guiding incident/problem management, monitoring and observability strategy, change/release execution, and disaster recovery readiness, while partnering closely with Application Development, Product, Infrastructure, Security, and Quality teams to translate product and customer requirements into resilient operational solutions. This role applies systems engineering discipline to the full solution lifecycle—concept, design, implementation, validation, deployment, operations, maintenance, and decommissioning—ensuring that technical, schedule, cost, and risk constraints are considered and that requirements are converted into measurable operational outcomes (SLO/SLA adherence, availability, performance, and compliance). **Key Responsibilities** **1) Service Operations Leadership (L2/L3 Production Support)** * Own day-to-day operational performance for assigned applications/services, including **stability, availability, latency/performance, and operational risk**. * Lead **major incident** response and escalation management; ensure timely communications, stakeholder coordinatio

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