Senior Platform / Devops Engineer

The Lead Data Platform Engineer will perform the following :

• You will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining our data platform infrastructure
• Implement and uphold modern software design principles, ensuring best practices in CI / CD, DevOps, and infrastructure-as-code
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, such as data engineers, software engineers, infrastructure teams, and business units to enable effective data cohesion to support business processes and analytics
• You will work closely with the application teams, data analysts, and data scientists to provide data access and enable analytics
• Enable and support self-serve data engineering solutions for both the wider data team and engineers
• Proactively ensure the security and integrity of the platform and data feeds and take part in security and privacy design reviews
• Perform application deployments acting as a gatekeeper to the production environment
• Identify areas for improvement in the data platform infrastructure and develop solutions to address them
• Experience working with large datasets, pipelines, modern warehouse technologies, and data processing (real-time and batch) at large scale
• Collaborate with other teams to ensure successful implementation of data-driven solutions
• Developing and implementing best practices for data integration, data quality, and data governance
• Keeping up-to-date with emerging technologies and trends in data engineering and healthcare technology
• Monitor system performance and troubleshoot any issues
• Ensuring the scalability, reliability, and security of the data platform
• Develop and maintain documentation related to the data platform infrastructure
• Perform incident investigation, diagnosis and provide resolution
• Ensures business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives
• Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application, ensuring compliance with them
• Demonstrating creative, critical thinking & troubleshooting skills
• Up to 10-15% travel may be required (domestic and international)

Minimum Requirements

10+ years Data Platform Engineering experience

Critical Skills

• Strong experience in designing, developing, and managing data platforms, and be a self-starter who can work independently and in a team
• Strong communication skills who quickly establishes credibility and is capable of leading cross-functional technical teams
• Highly motivated and technically skilled Senior data platform engineer, and you are passionate about developing data-driven solutions
• Experience working with large datasets, pipelines, modern warehouse technologies(Snowflake), and data processing, analytical capabilities(Databricks)at real-time and batch
• Experience with Terraform Github and Git Actions
• You should also have experience with cloud technologies Azure,
• Experience with distributed systems, streaming systems, and data tools, such as Kubernetes, Kafka
• Strong knowledge of database technologies, such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB
• Experience with Data Governance concept such as Data lineage, Data Quality etc.
• Design and manage data platforms, including data storage, data processing, data security, and data quality
• Additional Knowledge / Skills :
• Understanding of the agile software development methodology (e.g. Scrum, Kanban)
• Strong experience with the distributed cluster management. Understanding of Docker / Kubernetes container orchestration technologies.
• Able to use sound judgment and prioritize
• Must be flexible, team oriented and able to accept and create change
• Enjoys working with numbers and data sets
• Fast and capable learner. Results oriented, enthusiastic, creative thinker

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical field such as Computer science, Applied Mathematics, Engineering or related quantitative.

General Office Demands Benefits & Company Statement McKesson believes superior performance individual and team that helps us drive innovations and solutions to promote better health should be recognized and rewarded.

We provide a competitive compensation program to attract, retain and motivate a high-performance workforce, and it’s flexible enough to meet the different needs of our diverse employee population.

We are in the business of better health and we touch the lives of patients in virtually every aspect of healthcare. We partner with payers, hospitals, physician offices, pharmacies, pharmaceutical companies and others across the spectrum of care to build healthier organizations that deliver better care to patients in every setting.

But we can’t do it without you. Every single McKesson employee contributes to our mission whatever your title, whatever your role, you act as a catalyst in a chain of events that helps millions of people all over the globe.

Talented, compassionate people are the future of our company and of healthcare. At McKesson, you’ll collaborate on the products and solutions that help us carry out our mission to improve lives and advance healthcare.

Working here is your opportunity to shape an industry that’s vital to us all.

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We 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.

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Our Base Pay Range for this position

$122,900 - $204,800