Director, Database Management

McKesson; Irving (TX); Hybrid; USD 141,000 - 235,000; Full time

Job summary

McKesson is seeking a Director of Database Management to lead strategic oversight of enterprise data platforms, manage a vendor-driven team, and drive cloud modernization. The role demands 15+ years in data engineering and strong healthcare domain acumen.

The position requires leadership over global vendors, alignment with clinical operations and payer/provider analytics, and governance with strict regulatory compliance. Hybrid work with travel to Richmond, VA as needed.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of progressive experience in enterprise data engineering, database administration, and data architecture.
• Deep healthcare data domain experience with HIPAA/SOX compliance.
• 5+ years in a formal manager-level role managing global external vendors and cross-functional teams.
• Bachelor’s degree in CS, Health Informatics, MIS, or related field; master’s preferred.

Responsibilities

• Oversee 24/7 Oracle DBA operations and vendor performance against SLAs.
• Define future-state data architecture and manage cloud modernization during migrations.
• Ensure HIPAA, PHI, and SOX compliance across data environments and privacy controls.
• Act as IT liaison to executives, aligning data initiatives with business goals.

Skills

Vendor management

Leadership

Regulatory knowledge

Healthcare domain knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Oracle Database

Snowflake

Databricks

Google BigQuery

Job description

Core Responsibilities

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 Director, Database Management leads the strategic oversight, operational excellence, and cloud modernization of our enterprise healthcare data platforms. You will manage a strategic vendor team responsible for Oracle operations, support, and development. This role requires 15+ years of data experience, sharp healthcare business acumen, and an ironclad commitment to regulatory compliance (HIPAA, SOX).

Vendor & Operational Management

• Manage Vendor Teams: Oversee a strategic partner vendor team handling 24/7 Oracle DBA operations and production support.
• SLA Enforcement: Establish, monitor, and enforce strict SLAs for system uptime, data availability, and incident resolution.
• Development Oversight: Guide vendor engineering resources on Oracle database enhancements, performance tuning, and PL/SQL development.

Data Architecture & Migration

• Pipeline Engineering: Oversee robust ETL/ELT pipelines ingesting data from Oracle, Snowflake, and varied healthcare data streams into target analytics engines.
• Modernization: Define the future-state data architecture, ensuring continuous data availability during critical cloud transitions.

Compliance, Governance & Security

• Healthcare Compliance: Architect and maintain data environments that strictly adhere to HIPAA regulations to protect Protected Health Information (PHI).
• Global Privacy: Ensure all data pipelines, storage systems, and cloud environments comply with data privacy and sovereignty.
• Financial Controls: Implement and audit rigorous data controls, access logging, and lifecycle management to satisfy SOX compliance requirements.

Healthcare Business Alignment & Leadership

• Functional Alignment: Translate complex healthcare business workflows (clinical operations, payer/provider relations, patient analytics) into technical data requirements.
• Stakeholder Management: Serve as the primary IT liaison to executive business leaders, medical officers, and data governance boards.
• Budgetary Ownership: Manage the total cost of ownership (TCO) for database infrastructure, rising cloud consumption, licensing costs and vendor contracts.

Qualifications

Experience & Education

• Experience: Minimum 15 years of progressive experience in enterprise data engineering, database administration, and data architecture.
• Industry Domain: Deep experience working within the healthcare, pharmaceutical, or health tech sectors with a strong grasp of healthcare data models.
• Leadership: At least 5 years in a formal manager-level role managing external global vendors and cross-functional engineering teams.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Health Informatics, Management Information Systems, or a related field (master’s preferred).

Technical Competencies

• Databases: Expert-level knowledge of Oracle Database administration, architecture, and performance optimization.

Leadership & Compliance Skills

• Regulatory Mastery: Advanced knowledge of data governance frameworks tailored to HIPAA, PHI and SOX environments.
• Geographic Presence: Ability to travel to work out of our Richmond, VA offices as required by our hybrid model.
• Communication: Exceptional ability to explain highly complex database architecture and compliance risks to non-technical executive stakeholders.

Nice to Have

• Cloud Data Migration: Drive strategy, road mapping, and execution of migrating massive datasets from Snowflake and Databricks into Google Big Query.
• Cloud Ecosystems: Deep, practical experience managing workloads inside Snowflake, Databricks, and Google Cloud Platform (Big Query).
• Migration Expertise: Proven track record of executing large-scale, secure data migrations between cloud data warehouses without business disruption.
• Architecture Expertise: Be part of the team to understand the architecture and execute our high-profile enterprise migration from Snowflake and Databricks to Google Big Query.

About McKesson

Medical-Surgical McKesson Medical-Surgical (MMS), which is expected to become Wellverse in early 2027, is a subsidiary and publicly reported segment of the McKesson Corporation. MMS distributes medical‑surgical supplies, pharmaceuticals, diagnostic equipment and supplies, along with other solutions and services to virtually every type of healthcare setting and provider outside of the traditional hospital. These markets – often referred to as Alternate Care or Non‑Acute Care – include physician offices, surgery centers, long‑term care providers, laboratories, home health and hospice agencies, health systems, government facilities and online marketplaces and retailers.

Alternate Care markets are growing rapidly and MMS is proud to be a leader in this space. With a team of approximately 8,000 employees, a network of 15 distribution centers and approximately 900 delivery vehicles, we collaborate with more than 2,200 leading manufacturers and serve over 200,000 customer accounts across the U.S. Our catalog includes more than 270,000 SKUs of branded and private‑label medical‑surgical products – from bandages to specialty pharmaceuticals and COVID‑19 tests.

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. The pay range shown below is aligned with McKesson's pay philosophy, and pay will always be compliant with any applicable regulations. In addition to base pay, other compensation, such as an annual bonus or long‑term incentive opportunities may be offered. For more information regarding benefits at McKesson, please click here.

Our Base Pay Range for this position

$141,000 - $235,000

McKesson is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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