Senior Data Platform Engineer: Scalable Pipelines & Analytics

McKesson; United States; On-site; USD 99,000 - 132,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Long-term incentives

Job summary

McKesson, a Fortune 10 healthcare leader, seeks a Sr. Data Engineer to lead enterprise data infrastructure, build scalable pipelines and ensure data integrity in a regulated environment.

You'll collaborate with architects, analysts, and data scientists to deliver production-ready solutions that support strategic and operational objectives, mentoring junior engineers.

The role emphasizes governance, security, and quality across platforms, with competitive compensation and total rewards.

Qualifications

• Experience designing scalable data pipelines and ETL across complex systems.
• Advanced SQL and Python skills for data processing and optimization.
• Strong data modeling and metadata management knowledge.
• Familiarity with Hadoop, Kafka, and distributed storage.
• Experience ensuring governance and regulatory compliance.
• Ability to mentor junior engineers and lead teams.
• Healthcare or regulated industry experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable data pipelines and ETL integrating diverse sources.
• Write and optimize SQL and Python queries to enhance performance.
• Develop and maintain metadata repositories for enterprise systems.
• Standardize data across platforms to improve reliability and quality.
• Troubleshoot production and development data issues in DBMS.
• Create query libraries and custom components to support analytics.
• Recommend tools and best practices to boost data engineering capabilities.
• Ensure governance and regulatory compliance through data quality checks.
• Collaborate with architects and analysts to align data solutions.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor junior teams.

Skills

Data pipelines

SQL

Python

Data modeling

Metadata management

Hadoop

Apache Kafka

Governance & compliance

Troubleshooting

Leadership mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

McKesson, a Fortune 10 healthcare leader, seeks a Sr. Data Engineer to lead enterprise data infrastructure, build scalable pipelines and ensure data integrity in a regulated environment.

You'll collaborate with architects, analysts, and data scientists to deliver production-ready solutions that support strategic and operational objectives, mentoring junior engineers.

The role emphasizes governance, security, and quality across platforms, with competitive compensation and total rewards.