Director, Technical & Platform Product Management

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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 \u2013 we care.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\u0022text-align:inherit\u0022\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\u0022text-align:left\u0022\u003EWhat 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\u2019s health today, we want to hear from you.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\u0022text-align:inherit\u0022\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp style=\u0022text-align:inherit\u0022\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003ERole Overview\u003C/b\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Director, Technical \u0026 Platform Product Management will lead the strategy, development, launch, and adoption of capabilities for the Platform for McKesson\u2019s pharmacy technology business across data, analytics, and and related technology platforms. This role will partner cross-functionally to understand what data they need, how they need to consume it, and which business capabilities it must support. The role will own the data product backlog and translate these needs into capabilities, epics, stories, acceptance criteria, and roadmap priorities and partner closely with engineering and other product team members to execute. Success will be measured through data freshness, completeness, quality, availability, adoption, delivery efficiency, and measurable business value.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003EKey Responsibilities\u003C/b\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cb\u003EDefine data platform strategy and roadmap: \u003C/b\u003EOwn the data capability vision, target consumers, value propositions, roadmap priorities, and build-versus-buy decisions for McKesson Pharmacy System\u2019s Platform.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cb\u003ELead data product discovery: \u003C/b\u003EPartner with other data teams to define the data needed for McKesson Pharmacy System\u2019s Platform, consumption methods, and supported business capabilities. Validate needs and feasibility with engineering and architecture before investment.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cb\u003EShape reusable data capabilities: \u003C/b\u003EDefine requirements for data ingestion and pipelines, including batch, streaming, and change data capture, and transactional and analytical data modeling. Make data available through APIs, events, extracts, and data products.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cb\u003EOwn the data product backlog: \u003C/b\u003ETranslate consumer needs into capabilities, epics, stories, acceptance criteria, and roadmap priorities engineering can execute. Define what McKesson Pharmacy System\u2019s Platform must deliver from a data perspective, balancing business value, dependencies, risk, security, technical debt, and cost.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cb\u003EDrive data migration and adoption: \u003C/b\u003EDefine legacy-platform data migration requirements, including transformation, mapping, enrichment, and reconciliation. Develop onboarding, documentation, and feedback strategies for data consumers.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cb\u003EDefine and measure data expectations: \u003C/b\u003EEstablish measurable expectations for data freshness, completeness, quality, and availability. Monitor adoption, pipeline reliability, latency, cost, and consumer experience; use telemetry and feedback to guide roadmap decisions.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cb\u003EGuide data governance and lifecycle decisions: \u003C/b\u003EPartner with engineering, architecture, security, and data teams on data quality, governance, lineage, cataloging, and stewardship, including PHI/PII, retention, security, access controls, versioning, migration, and deprecation.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cb\u003EInfluence technical and business decisions: \u003C/b\u003ECommunicate data platform trade-offs to engineering, product, customers and executive audiences. Align cross-functional decisions on business capabilities, consumer needs, architecture, reliability, security, and cost without prescribing engineering implementation.\u003C/li\u003E\u003C/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cb\u003EMinimum Requirement\u003C/b\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDegree or equivalent and typically requires 10\u002B years of relevant experience. Less years required if has relevant Master\u2019s or Doctorate qualifications.\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003EEducation\u003C/b\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBachelor\u0027s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, a related technical discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPreferred Skills\u003Cbr /\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cb\u003ECritical Skills\u003C/b\u003E\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E10\u002B years of progressive product management experience supporting enterprise software, SaaS, platform, infrastructure, or developer-facing technology products.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EExperience leading at least one technically complex platform or product from initial concept through production launch and adoption. Examples may include API platforms, integration platforms, developer platforms, data platforms, identity and access management, cloud-native SaaS infrastructure, or engineering tooling.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EExperience defining product strategy, roadmaps, requirements, priorities, success measures, and adoption plans for technical data products \u2013 data lake, data warehouse and/or enterprise data warehouse.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EExperience working directly on data migration with software engineers and architects on distributed systems, APIs, integrations, data models, cloud architecture, scalability, reliability, security, or observability.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EHands-on experience with at least one of the following: reviewing API specifications, querying data using SQL or Python, evaluating logs or telemetry, or developing lightweight technical prototypes.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EExperience defining and using measurable platform or service indicators such as adoption, availability, latency, throughput, error rates, recovery objectives, delivery cycle time, infrastructure cost, or developer experience.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EExperience managing platform interfaces through versioning, backward compatibility, migration planning, dependency management, or deprecation.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EExperience