Pharmacy Applications Engineering Manager

Cardinal Health; Boise (ID); On-site; USD 123,000 - 176,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision coverage

Paid time off plan

Health savings account (HSA)

401k savings plan

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Cardinal Health is seeking a seasoned leader for Pharmacy Applications delivery within Commercial Technologies Software Engineering. You will own end-to-end outcomes, drive architecture decisions, and align pharmacy platforms with business goals across intake, build, and run phases.

Responsibilities include defining delivery plans, prioritizing enhancements, and managing cross-functional teams to ensure stability, compliance, and scalable platform health across pharmacy operations.

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, 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 execution.
• Demonstrated ability to manage delivery plans, budgets, and capacity across multiple initiatives.
• Experience operating in regulated or operationally critical environments.
• Demonstrated use of structured delivery artifacts (e.g., WBS, interface inventories, LOE-based estimates, RAID logs, change control).
• Experience directly managing a small technical team, including technical leads, business analysts, and engineers.
• Experience owning application roadmaps, platform health, prioritization decisions, and vendor delivery outcomes.
• Experience supporting pharmacy, healthcare, regulated, or operationally critical platforms preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end outcomes for assigned 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.

Skills

Enterprise systems

Middleware

APIs

SQL-based data access

Hybrid cloud environments

Delivery governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Job description

Cardinal Health is seeking a seasoned leader for Pharmacy Applications delivery within Commercial Technologies Software Engineering. You will own end-to-end outcomes, drive architecture decisions, and align pharmacy platforms with business goals across intake, build, and run phases.

Responsibilities include defining delivery plans, prioritizing enhancements, and managing cross-functional teams to ensure stability, compliance, and scalable platform health across pharmacy operations.