Senior Director, Cloud Onboarding Service

McKesson; United States; Remote; USD 177,000 - 296,000; Full time

Job summary

McKesson is seeking a Senior Director for Cloud Onboarding Services, responsible for leading cloud migration strategies across the enterprise. This role requires deep technical expertise and the ability to manage diverse teams to ensure collaboration and successful project delivery. Ideal candidates will have a track record in cloud services and a strategic mindset, essential for integrating cloud technologies into business operations.

Qualifications

• Typically requires 10+ years of professional experience.
• Experience in leading large-scale cloud migration projects.
• Ability to think big picture and connect market trends.

Responsibilities

• Spearhead comprehensive migration strategies aligned with business objectives.
• Drive migration projects to successful completion with minimal disruption.
• Foster cross-departmental synergy ensuring seamless integration.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Project Management

Technical Expertise

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Advanced degree or professional certifications in cloud computing

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud Platform

Job description

McKesson is an impact-driven, Fortune 10 company that touches virtually every aspect of healthcare. We are known for delivering insights, products, and services that make quality care more accessible and affordable. Here, we focus on the health, happiness, and well-being of you and those we serve – we care.

What you do at McKesson matters. We foster a culture where you can grow, make an impact, and are empowered to bring new ideas. Together, we thrive as we shape the future of health for patients, our communities, and our people. If you want to be part of tomorrow’s health today, we want to hear from you.

Job Title: Senior Director, Cloud Onboarding Service

About the Role:

The Cloud Onboarding leader is a strategic leadership position responsible for enabling and accelerating McKesson’s adoption of cloud services across the enterprise. Reporting to the VP of Cloud Services, this role is essential to ensuring McKesson has the tools, guidance, and support they need to successfully leverage cloud platforms, specifically focusing on migrations and the onboarding process. You will act as a trusted partner across McKesson, ensuring alignment between their cloud adoption roadmaps and organizational objectives.

This role requires a combination of technical expertise in solution architecture, deep experience in cloud migration, and strong communication and leadership skills to engage with business and technical stakeholders across the enterprise. The ideal candidate will be both a strategic thinker and a hands-on leader capable of driving results in a complex, fast-paced environment. They will be able to recognize patterns of technology use and work with platform owners to create scalable solutions to improve time to market and create consistency in deployment.

What You’ll Do:

• Spearhead Comprehensive Migration Strategies. Lead the development and execution of enterprise-wide migration strategies, ensuring they align with business objectives and technology roadmaps. Drive the planning and prioritization of migration projects to cloud platforms. Directs work of matrixed teams, scaling impact across MT.
• Drive Migration Projects to Successful Completion. Cultivate and manage end-to-end execution of migration projects, overseeing timelines, resource allocation, and budget management. Utilize project management best practices to ensure on-time, within-budget delivery with minimal disruption. Execution could involve internal resources or vendor management/oversight to ensure the solution is delivered on time and with quality. Regularly interact with Sr Management and executive team on matters concerning cloud migration journey.
• Provide Technical Leadership and Solution Architecture Expertise. Offer technical guidance and architectural solutions for cloud migrations, ensuring best practices are followed, and custom solutions are designed to meet specific business needs.
• Foster Cross-Departmental Synergy. Collaborate with IT, security, compliance, and business units to ensure seamless integration of cloud migrations into the organizational ecosystem. Drive communication and alignment across teams to support migration objectives.
• Ensure Risk Mitigation and Regulatory Compliance. Develop and implement risk management strategies for cloud migrations, addressing potential security, compliance, and operational risks. Ensure migrations comply with regulatory requirements and industry standards.
• Lead Performance Analysis and Optimize Migration Processes. Establish metrics and KPIs to measure the success of migration projects. Utilize feedback and performance data to drive continuous improvement in migration strategies and execution.
• Build and Lead a High-Performing Migration Team. Recruit, develop, and mentor a team dedicated to cloud migration projects. Promote a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence within the team. This leader should foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and excellence aligned to McKesson’s ICARE and ILEAD values. This also includes mentorship and guidance to team members to ensure professional development and growth.

What We’re Looking For:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field; advanced degree or professional certifications in cloud computing or project management preferred.
• Typically requires 10+ years of professional experience and 6+ years of diversified leadership, planning, communication, organization, and people motivation skills (or equivalent experience).Ability to think big picture and connect market trends to shape internal strategies proactively

Critical Skills/Experience:

• Experience:
  • Advanced understanding of current and emerging technologies and how they are used to achieve outcomes
  • Exceptional leadership, training and presentation skills, and experience in leading multiple, highly-diverse teams to achieve results.
  • Experience working with key stakeholders to create and manage solution roadmaps
  • Experience creating business case for cloud migrations and budgets/forecasts for new cloud solutions.
• Technical Expertise:
  • Proven experience in leading large-scale cloud migration projects, with a strong background in cloud platforms, infrastructure, and services (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform).
  • Knowledge of cloud design patterns and best practices for supporting cloud-based production workloads with an understanding of security, governance, high availability, and disaster recovery in a highly regulated industry.
  • Experience with Azure landing zone architectures, cloud networking, security best practices, IAM, delivery pipelines, secrets management, FinOps, and observability.
  • Experience with Azure Kubernetes (AKS) and containerization technology.
  • Experience with DevOps and Agile methodology practices.
  • Experience managing and mentoring senior-level technical teams.

Physical Requirements: General Office Demands

Candidate must be authorized to work in the U.S, now or in the future, without the support from McKesson.

Relocation is NOT budgeted for this position.

We are proud to offer a competitive compensation package at McKesson as part of our Total Rewards. This is determined by several factors, including performance, experience and skills, equity, regular job market evaluations, and geographical markets. The pay range shown below is aligned with McKesson's pay philosophy, and pay will always be compliant with any applicable regulations. In addition to base pay, other compensation, such as an annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may be offered. For more information regarding benefits at McKesson, please click here.

Our Base Pay Range for this position

$177,600 - $296,000

McKesson is an impact-driven, Fortune 10 company that touches virtually every aspect of healthcare. We are known for delivering insights, products, and services that make quality care more accessible and affordable. Here, we focus on the health, happiness, and well-being of you and those we serve – we care.

What you do at McKesson matters. We foster a culture where you can grow, make an impact, and are empowered to bring new ideas. Together, we thrive as we shape the future of health for patients, our communities, and our people. If you want to be part of tomorrow’s health today, we want to hear from you.

Job Title: Senior Director, Cloud Onboarding Service

About the Role:

The Cloud Onboarding leader is a strategic leadership position responsible for enabling and accelerating McKesson’s adoption of cloud services across the enterprise. Reporting to the VP of Cloud Services, this role is essential to ensuring McKesson has the tools, guidance, and support they need to successfully leverage cloud platforms, specifically focusing on migrations and the onboarding process. You will act as a trusted partner across McKesson, ensuring alignment between their cloud adoption roadmaps and organizational objectives.

This role requires a combination of technical expertise in solution architecture, deep experience in cloud migration, and strong communication and leadership skills to engage with business and technical stakeholders across the enterprise. The ideal candidate will be both a strategic thinker and a hands-on leader capable of driving results in a complex, fast-paced environment. They will be able to recognize patterns of technology use and work with platform owners to create scalable solutions to improve time to market and create consistency in deployment.

What You’ll Do:

• Spearhead Comprehensive Migration Strategies. Lead the development and execution of enterprise-wide migration strategies, ensuring they align with business objectives and technology roadmaps. Drive the planning and prioritization of migration projects to cloud platforms. Directs work of matrixed teams, scaling impact across MT.
• Drive Migration Projects to Successful Completion. Cultivate and manage end-to-end execution of migration projects, overseeing timelines, resource allocation, and budget management. Utilize project management best practices to ensure on-time, within-budget delivery with minimal disruption. Execution could involve internal resources or vendor management/oversight to ensure the solution is delivered on time and with quality. Regularly interact with Sr Management and executive team on matters concerning cloud migration journey.
• Provide Technical Leadership and Solution Architecture Expertise. Offer technical guidance and architectural solutions for cloud migrations, ensuring best practices are followed, and custom solutions are designed to meet specific business needs.
• Foster Cross-Departmental Synergy. Collaborate with IT, security, compliance, and business units to ensure seamless integration of cloud migrations into the organizational ecosystem. Drive communication and alignment across teams to support migration objectives.
• Ensure Risk Mitigation and Regulatory Compliance. Develop and implement risk management strategies for cloud migrations, addressing potential security, compliance, and operational risks. Ensure migrations comply with regulatory requirements and industry standards.
• Lead Performance Analysis and Optimize Migration Processes. Establish metrics and KPIs to measure the success of migration projects. Utilize feedback and performance data to drive continuous improvement in migration strategies and execution.
• Build and Lead a High-Performing Migration Team. Recruit, develop, and mentor a team dedicated to cloud migration projects. Promote a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence within the team. This leader should foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and excellence aligned to McKesson’s ICARE and ILEAD values. This also includes mentorship and guidance to team members to ensure professional development and growth.

What We’re Looking For:

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field; advanced degree or professional certifications in cloud computing or project management preferred.
• Typically requires 10+ years of professional experience and 6+ years of diversified leadership, planning, communication, organization, and people motivation skills (or equivalent experience).Ability to think big picture and connect market trends to shape internal strategies proactively

Critical Skills/Experience:

• Experience:
  • Advanced understanding of current and emerging technologies and how they are used to achieve outcomes
  • Exceptional leadership, training and presentation skills, and experience in leading multiple, highly-diverse teams to achieve results.
  • Experience working with key stakeholders to create and manage solution roadmaps
  • Experience creating business case for cloud migrations and budgets/forecasts for new cloud solutions.

• Technical Expertise:
  • Proven experience in leading large-scale cloud migration projects, with a strong background in cloud platforms, infrastructure, and services (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform).
  • Knowledge of cloud design patterns and best practices for supporting cloud-based production workloads with an understanding of security, governance, high availability, and disaster recovery in a highly regulated industry.
  • Experience with Azure landing zone architectures, cloud networking, security best practices, IAM, delivery pipelines, secrets management, FinOps, and observability.
  • Experience with Azure Kubernetes (AKS) and containerization technology.
  • Experience with DevOps and Agile methodology practices.
  • Experience managing and mentoring senior-level technical teams.

Physical Requirements: General Office Demands

Candidate must be authorized to work in the U.S, now or in the future, without the support from McKesson.

Relocation is NOT budgeted for this position.

We are proud to offer a competitive compensation package at McKesson as part of our Total Rewards. This is determined by several factors, including performance, experience and skills, equity, regular job market evaluations, and geographical markets. The pay range shown below is aligned with McKesson's pay philosophy, and pay will always be compliant with any applicable regulations. In addition to base pay, other compensation, such as an annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may be offered. For more information regarding benefits at McKesson, please click here.

Our Base Pay Range for this position

$177,600 - $296,000

McKesson is an Equal Opportunity Employer

McKesson provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees and is committed to a diverse and inclusive environment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age or genetic information. For additional information on McKesson’s full Equal Employment Opportunity policies, visit our Equal Employment Opportunity page.

Join us at McKesson!

About the company

McKesson Corporation is an American company distributing pharmaceuticals and providing health information technology, medical supplies, and care management tools.

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