Platform Director, Capabilities & Developer Experience

McKesson; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 184,000 - 306,000; Full time

Job summary

McKesson is leading the charge in healthcare automation, with the Sr Director, Shared Capabilities & Engagement Experience role overseeing a broad platform and external partner engagement surface. You will own Shared Platform Capabilities and the Subscription/Internal Developer Portals, driving AI-native tooling, GitOps standards, and a strong focus on reducing toil for multiple product teams.

In this executive role, you will mentor two engineering teams, define strategy for portal experiences,

Qualifications

• 13+ years of software engineering with leadership in platform engineering, shared services, or developer experience at scale.
• 6+ years of diversified leadership, planning, and people management.
• Strong GitOps and IaC practices as operating standards.

Responsibilities

• Define and own multi-year strategy for shared platform capabilities, developer portals, and partner engagement.
• Lead two engineering teams across multiple disciplines and set engineering excellence standards.
• Drive DORA metrics and production-grade observability from day one.

Skills

GitOps

AI-native tooling

Platform engineering

Developer experience

Tools

Terraform

Azure AKS

Backstage

Port

Cortex

Kafka

Confluent Platform

Job description

McKesson is leading the charge in healthcare automation, with the Sr Director, Shared Capabilities & Engagement Experience role overseeing a broad platform and external partner engagement surface. You will own Shared Platform Capabilities and the Subscription/Internal Developer Portals, driving AI-native tooling, GitOps standards, and a strong focus on reducing toil for multiple product teams.

In this executive role, you will mentor two engineering teams, define strategy for portal experiences,