Pharma Apps Software Engineering Lead

Cardinal Health

Des Moines (IA)

Remote

USD 123,000 - 176,000

Full time

10 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision coverage

Paid time off

401k savings plan

Flexible spending accounts

Job summary

Cardinal Health seeks an experienced leader to own end‑to‑end delivery for Pharmacy Applications across intake, build, integration, and run. You will align business goals to concrete delivery plans, manage architecture decisions, and drive platform modernization in a regulated healthcare environment.

You will lead cross‑functional teams, set roadmaps, ensure run stability, and coordinate with vendors and enterprise architecture.

Qualifications

8–12 years of experience in delivery leadership in enterprise IT.
Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
Experience leading cross-functional delivery teams (Engineering, Integration, QA, PM).
Strong understanding of enterprise systems, middleware, APIs, SQL-based data access, and hybrid cloud environments.
Demonstrated capability in estimation, planning, SDLC governance, and operational delivery.
Ability to manage delivery plans, budgets, and capacity across initiatives.
Experience in regulated or operationally critical environments.
Familiarity with WBS, RAID logs, LOE estimates and change control.
Experience directly managing a small technical team (TLs, BAs, engineers).
Experience owning application roadmaps, platform health, vendor delivery outcomes.
Experience supporting pharmacy/healthcare platforms.

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end outcomes for Pharmacy Applications across intake, build/configuration, integration, transition to run, and ongoing support.
Serve as the single accountable owner for pharmacy system delivery, stability, and outcomes, eliminating fragmented ownership across platforms and vendors.
Translate pharmacy, operations, and business goals into executable delivery and integration plans with clear scope, dependencies, success criteria, and risk awareness.
Ensure predictable delivery through disciplined planning, estimation, execution, and follow‑through in an integration‑heavy, operationally sensitive environment.
Establish and enforce solution‑level decision rights for Pharmacy Apps, reducing day‑to‑day escalation by driving decisions with clear options, tradeoffs, and recommended paths.
Serve as the technology owner for assigned pharmacy applications, establishing platform strategy, priorities, roadmap, operational objectives, and investment recommendations.
Own intake evaluation, prioritization, and sequencing of enhancement requests, operational improvements, technical debt remediation, regulatory requirements, and platform modernization initiatives.
Accountable for solution‑level architecture decisions within assigned pharmacy platforms, including integration patterns, technical tradeoffs, lifecycle planning, scalability, resiliency, and maintainability in partnership with Enterprise Architecture.
Understand and actively manage the business impact of platform performance on patient onboarding, therapy fulfillment, case processing, reimbursement workflows, pharmacy operations, and client commitments.