Director of Software Engineering

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. This 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.

The Director, Software Engineering provides strategic, technical, and people leadership for Ontada’s engineering organization. This leader owns the vision and execution for scalable healthcare data platforms, pipelines, data products, analytics, and integrations that power value-based care programs and actionable clinical and business insights. The role requires deep expertise in modern data engineering, including cloud data platforms, batch and streaming architectures, data quality, governance, interoperability, and secure handling of healthcare data. Experience leading enterprise web and SaaS application engineering—including microservices, APIs, distributed systems, and cloud-native delivery—is also required but serves as a secondary capability that enables end-to-end VBC solutions. The Director partners with Product, Analytics, Data Science, Clinical Informatics, Architecture, Security, and Operations to translate VBC strategy into reliable, trusted, and measurable technology outcomes.

Data Engineering & Platform Leadership: Define and lead the technical vision for Ontada’s VBC data ecosystem, including cloud data platforms, lakehouse and warehouse architectures, batch and streaming pipelines, shared data services, and governed data products.  VBC Strategy & Execution: Build and deliver multi-release roadmaps that support value-based care workflows, quality measurement, performance reporting, risk and population insights, and partner data exchange. Align investments to product priorities, customer outcomes, regulatory needs, and measurable business value.

Leadership: Lead managers, architects, data engineers, analytics engineers, and software engineers within the organization. Set clear accountability, strengthen technical leadership, and build a high-performance culture grounded in engineering discipline, collaboration, and continuous improvement.  Data Quality & Operational Excellence: Establish standards for data contracts, lineage, observability, reconciliation, testing, metadata, incident management, and service-level objectives. Drive root-cause analysis and durable fixes that improve the accuracy, timeliness, reliability, security, and auditability of data.  Architecture & Innovation: Provide hands-on oversight of data architecture and critical design decisions. Advance modern patterns using Databricks, Spark, Python, SQL, Delta Lake, orchestration, event streaming, cloud services, AI/ML, and automation where they create clear value.  Healthcare Data Products & Integration: Deliver reusable, trusted data products and integrations across clinical, claims, quality, financial, and operational domains. Support healthcare interoperability and partner exchange using appropriate standards, APIs, and event-driven patterns.  Application Engineering Oversight: Ensure the VBC data platform integrates effectively with enterprise web and SaaS applications. Guide