Senior Manager, Pharmacy Software Engineering

Cardinal Health; Nashville (TN); 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

Healthy lifestyle programs

Work-Life resources

Job summary

Cardinal Health is seeking a Senior Pharmacy Applications leader to own end‑to‑end delivery of pharmacist‑facing systems. You will drive strategy, architecture, and execution across intake, build, integration, and run, partnering with business and technology leaders to deliver reliable, compliant platforms.

The role requires 8–12 years of experience in regulated environments, strong SDLC governance, and proven ability to manage cross‑functional delivery teams and vendor relationships.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Experience owning roadmaps, platform health, prioritization decisions, and vendor delivery outcomes.

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 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.
• Lead 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.
• 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

Leadership

Delivery planning

Stakeholder management

Estimation & SDLC governance

Regulatory awareness

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

SQL

APIs

Hybrid cloud

Middleware

Job description

Cardinal Health is seeking a Senior Pharmacy Applications leader to own end‑to‑end delivery of pharmacist‑facing systems. You will drive strategy, architecture, and execution across intake, build, integration, and run, partnering with business and technology leaders to deliver reliable, compliant platforms.

The role requires 8–12 years of experience in regulated environments, strong SDLC governance, and proven ability to manage cross‑functional delivery teams and vendor relationships.