Senior Manager, Cloud Data Platform & AI Engineering

McKesson’s Corporate; Cork; On-site; EUR 69,000 - 114,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Total Rewards package

Bonus opportunities

Long-term incentive opportunities

Job summary

McKesson is seeking a Senior Manager to lead the strategy and governance of our enterprise cloud data platform engineering. You will oversee teams delivering reliable, secure, and cost‑effective platform services that enable analytics, data engineering, and AI capabilities across the organization.

You will partner with engineering, security, and business stakeholders to modernize cloud platforms, establish governance standards, and drive measurable business outcomes while managing budgets and

Qualifications

• Requires a degree or equivalent experience, 9+ years of professional experience, and 1+ years of supervisory and/or management experience.
• Hands-on experience supporting enterprise cloud platforms in Azure.
• Experience with Azure Databricks administration, governance, monitoring, security, and operational support.
• Experience leading platform operations for business‑critical data, analytics, or AI solutions.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, identity and access management, compliance, and governance frameworks.
• Proven experience managing service performance, incident management, operational excellence, and stakeholder communications.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise cloud data platform strategy, roadmap development, and service delivery execution.
• Manage managers, engineers, and platform teams responsible for platform reliability, governance, and operational excellence.
• Drive modernization initiatives supporting Azure-based data, analytics, AI, and machine learning platforms.
• Establish platform governance, security controls, compliance standards, and operational guardrails.
• Oversee service performance, KPIs, SLAs, capacity planning, risk management, and executive reporting.
• Champion automation, Infrastructure as Code, DevOps, DataOps, MLOps, and continuous improvement practices.
• Partner with business, technology, security, and AI stakeholders to enable platform adoption and innovation.
• Manage technology investments, vendor relationships, budgets, and resource planning while delivering scalable and cost‑effective platform services.

Skills

Azure Databricks

CI/CD

DevOps

DataOps

MLOps

Cloud security

Governance

Leadership

Budgeting

Azure governance

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Terraform

Azure Monitor

Azure Policy

Azure RBAC

Microsoft Entra ID

Delta Lake

Azure Storage

Job description

McKesson is seeking a Senior Manager to lead the strategy and governance of our enterprise cloud data platform engineering. You will oversee teams delivering reliable, secure, and cost‑effective platform services that enable analytics, data engineering, and AI capabilities across the organization.

You will partner with engineering, security, and business stakeholders to modernize cloud platforms, establish governance standards, and drive measurable business outcomes while managing budgets and