Manager, Software Engineering

Cardinal Health

Jackson (MS)

On-site

USD 123,000 - 176,000

Full time

44 hours ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision coverage
Paid time off
401k savings plan
Health savings account (HSA)
Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
Disability coverage
Work-Life resources
Paid parental leave

Job summary

Cardinal Health seeks a Solution Owner to drive end-to-end ownership of one or more Sonexus solutions on a Salesforce-based, hybrid technology stack. You will lead cross-functional delivery teams to deliver, sustain, and transition solutions in alignment with the SDLC and enterprise governance.

The role emphasizes predictable delivery, financial stewardship, and strong partner alignment with business and product teams, ensuring run stability and measurable outcomes across intake, build,

Qualifications

  • 8-12 years of experience in delivery leadership, preferably in healthcare or enterprise software.
  • Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
  • Experience leading cross-functional delivery teams (Engineering, QA, BA, PM).
  • Strong understanding of Salesforce-based solutions and enterprise environments.
  • Proven ability to estimate, plan, govern SDLC, and manage delivery budgets and capacity.
  • Experience operating in regulated environments and using structured delivery artifacts.

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end outcomes for assigned solutions across intake, build, and run phases.
  • Serve as the single accountable owner for solution delivery and stability.
  • Translate product and business goals into executable delivery plans with milestones.
  • Ensure predictable delivery through disciplined planning and execution.
  • Establish governance with clear decision rights and trade-off analysis.
  • Lead cross-functional teams and align stakeholders across functions.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership
Delivery planning
Estimation & budgeting
SDLC governance
Stakeholder management
Execution discipline
Business & product alignment

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Salesforce
WBS & RAID logs

Job description

US-Nationwide-FIELD

Full time

20185050

The Solution Owner is accountable for end to end ownership of one or more Sonexus solutions, ensuring predictable delivery, operational stability, financial stewardship, and strong alignment with business and product partners. This role serves as the primary point of accountability for solution outcomes, reducing fragmented ownership, minimizing escalation driven delivery, improving consistency of execution, and ensuring build to run transitions and run stability are explicitly owned and measurable.

This role leads cross functional delivery teams responsible for building, implementing, and sustaining solutions on a customized Salesforce platform and hybrid technology stack. The Solution Owner ensures work is planned, governed, delivered, and transitioned to run in alignment with the Sonexus IT operating model and SDLC standards.

What Commercial Technologies Software Engineering contributes to Cardinal Health

Commercial Technologies manages the enterprise's portfolio of commercial technologies to maximize the business value of the technologies and enhance the customer experience. This function creates strategies for the portfolio and innovative solutions based on relationships with business leaders, develops back-end solutions and capabilities, and improves the front-end experience.

Commercial Technologies Software Engineering develops design options, process improvements and back-end solutions for commercial technologies to maximize performance and suitability for business needs. This job family manages engineering projects and plans for commercial technologies and interfaces with product managers to develop objectives. This job family assesses product systems, identifies opportunities for process and system improvements, and develops solutions through application of engineering principles.

Responsibilities
Solution Ownership & Delivery
  • Own end-to-end outcomes for assigned solutions across intake, build, implementation, transition to run, and ongoing support
  • Serve as the single accountable owner for solution delivery, stability, and outcomes, eliminating fragmented ownership across teams
  • Translate product and business goals into executable delivery plans with clear scope, milestones, dependencies, and success criteria
  • Ensure predictable delivery through disciplined planning, estimation, execution, and follow-through
  • Establish and enforce solution-level decision rights, reducing day-to-day escalation by driving decisions with clear options, tradeoffs, and recommended paths
Planning, Financial & Capacity Management
  • Develop and manage delivery plans, schedules, and budgets for assigned solutions
  • Translate LOE -> schedule -> cost to enable realistic forecasting and commitment management
  • Maintain capacity plans across teams, aligning priorities to available skills and avoiding role overlap or single-threading
  • Own solution-level resource management across Engineering, BA, QA, PM, and partner teams
  • Understand and manage capital vs. expense treatment aligned to enterprise finance standards
  • Protect Sonexus revenue by understanding financial impact, margin implications, and revenue risk tied to delivery decisions
SDLC Governance, Delivery Discipline & Flow of Work
  • Define and operate a consistent, well-understood flow of work for the solution from intake through delivery, release, hypercare, and run
  • Ensure adherence to enterprise SDLC gates, QA standards, and structured change control
  • Maintain delivery hygiene through WBS, RAID logs, risk management, decision logs, and issue tracking
  • Apply governance that is disciplined and right-sized, avoiding over-engineered processes used to compensate for weak delivery fundamentals
  • Identify recurring delivery and operational breakdowns and drive targeted process improvements rooted in root-cause analysis
  • Adjust planning, governance, and communication practices based on delivery phase and observed outcomes, reinforcing continuous improvement
Build-to-Run Transition & Run Stability
  • Ensure build-to-run transitions are clearly defined, documented, and executed, including readiness criteria and knowledge transfer
  • Be accountable for solution stability post-release
  • Partner with support and run teams to triage, prioritize, and resolve issues effectively
  • Own intake and prioritization of break/fix work, technical debt, and remediation initiatives
  • Drive root-cause analysis to prevent recurring issues and reduce rework
Quality, Compliance & Evidence-Based Readiness
  • Enforce consistent requirements and testing practices to strengthen end-to-end quality accountability
  • Ensure QA, accessibility, security, and compliance requirements are met, including required evidence, sign-offs, and remediation
  • Maintain clean, validated, PHI-safe demos and deliverables prior to internal or client-facing reviews
  • Strengthen delivery confidence through evidence-based readiness rather than last-minute escalation
Cross-Functional Leadership & Stakeholder Alignment
  • Lead and align Engineering, BA, QA, PM, Product, APS, and Business stakeholders
  • Maintain clear ownership, accountability, and communication across teams
  • Ensure consistent, aligned messaging across functions to reduce churn, rework, and conflicting direction
  • Partner effectively with APS and Product leadership on roadmap impacts, client risks, and solution evolution
Stakeholder Leadership & Client Presence
  • Demonstrate strong executive presence in internal and client-facing interactions
  • Prepare and lead meetings with clear pre-reads, agendas, risks, decisions, and recommended paths
  • Communicate clearly in writing and verbally, maintaining appropriate internal vs. external voice
  • Influence and negotiate without authority by presenting tradeoffs grounded in data and delivery realities
Leadership & People Development
  • Coach and develop BAs, PMs, Technical Leads, Engineers, and QAs to build sustainable delivery and leadership capability
  • Hold teams accountable for outcomes while fostering a culture of ownership and follow-through
Qualifications
  • 8-12 years of experience, preferred
  • Bachelor’s degree in related field, or equivalent work experience, preferred
  • Experience leading cross-functional delivery teams (Engineering, QA, BA, PM)
  • Strong understanding of Salesforce-based solutions and enterprise application environments
  • Demonstrated capability in estimation, planning, SDLC governance, and delivery execution
  • Demonstrated ability to manage delivery plans, budgets, and capacity across multiple initiatives
  • Experience operating in regulated environments (healthcare or adjacent industries preferred)
  • Demonstrated use of structured delivery artifacts (e.g., WBS, LOE-based estimates, schedules, RAID logs, change control)
What is expected of you and others at this level
  • Manages department operations and supervises professional employees, front line supervisors and/or business support staff
  • Participates in the development of policies and procedures to achieve specific goals
  • Ensures employees operate within guidelines
  • Decisions have a short term impact on work processes, outcomes and customers
  • Interacts with subordinates, peers, customers, and suppliers at various management levels; may interact with senior management
  • Interactions normally involve resolution of issues related to operations and/or projects
  • Gains consensus from various parties involved

Anticipated salary range: $123,400 - $176, 300

Bonus eligible: Yes

Benefits: Cardinal Health offers a wide variety of benefits and programs to support health and well-being.

  • Medical, dental and vision coverage
  • Paid time off plan
  • Health savings account (HSA)
  • 401k savings plan
  • Access to wages before pay day with myFlexPay
  • Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
  • Short- and long-term disability coverage
  • Work-Life resources
  • Paid parental leave
  • Healthy lifestyle programs

Cardinal Health supports an inclusive workplace that values diversity of thought, experience and background. We celebrate the power of our differences to create better solutions for our customers by ensuring employees can be their authentic selves each day. Cardinal Health is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, veteran status, marital status, creed, status with regard to public assistance, genetic status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.

Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, Cardinal Health, Inc. (NYSE: CAH) is a distributor of pharmaceuticals, a global manufacturer and distributor of medical and laboratory products, and a provider of performance and data solutions for healthcare facilities.

We are a crucial link between the clinical and operational sides of healthcare, delivering end-to-end solutions and data-driving insights that advance healthcare and improve lives every day. With deep partnerships, diverse perspectives and innovative digital solutions, we build connections across the continuum of care.

With more than 50 years of experience, we seize the opportunity to address healthcare's most complicated challenges - now, and in the future.

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