Senior Technical Lead - AI-Driven Microservices

McKesson Corporation; Irving (TX); Hybrid; USD 126,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

McKesson Pharmacy Systems (MPS) invites a Senior Software Engineer to drive architectural design for the EnterpriseRx platform, leading complex initiatives from design through delivery. You will mentor peers, participate in Agile ceremonies, and collaborate with Product, QA, and Operations to ensure scalable, secure software delivery.

You will work with Angular, Spring Boot, SQL, Azure, Docker, and AI-assisted tools, while remediating security vulnerabilities and aligning with SOC1/SOC2, PHI

Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant software-engineering experience.
• Proficiency in Java (17/21+), Spring Boot, and Gradle.
• Experience with event-driven systems such as Kafka.
• Microservices design and API-first architecture (OpenAPI, OAuth2).
• Relational databases and SQL (Oracle); Snowflake a plus.
• SDLC and Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban/SAFe).

Responsibilities

• Provides technical leadership for one or more software engineering teams through the full development lifecycle, defining and refining design requirements with stakeholders, architecting scalable solutions, and ensuring interoperability across services.
• Applies deep technical expertise to solve complex engineering challenges through diagnostic analysis, operational insight, and product alignment, and codes solutions independently.
• Serves as technical lead across one or more applications and functional areas, actively participating in technical design and code reviews.
• Develops and reviews User Stories, and writes and executes unit and integration tests to validate functionality.
• Remediates defects thoroughly by solving the reported problem, testing to confirm resolution, and leaving the surrounding code in a better state than found.
• Mentors peers through code reviews, debugging, and refactoring, and establishes standards and best practices for consistency, scalability, and reliability across teams.
• Identifies and resolves severe security vulnerabilities, contributes to secure-coding and security-by-design strategies, and ensures compliance in a regulated (SOC1/SOC2, PHI) environment.
• Drives process and productivity improvements in collaboration with cross-functional teams including Product, QA, SREs, Architects, and Project Management, and embeds AI across the SDLC (design, code, test, release, operate).
• Demonstrates thought leadership through technical guidance, coaching, and participation in senior-leadership discussions, and presents complex topics to business leaders and customers in Sprint Reviews.
• Understands the retail pharmacy and clinical services domain, learning how customers use McKesson products to manage their business.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Gradle

RESTful services

Kafka

OpenAPI

OAuth2

SQL

Snowflake

Angular

Azure

Docker

Education

Degree or equivalent

Master's + 4+ years

Tools

Docker

Azure

Job description

McKesson Pharmacy Systems (MPS) invites a Senior Software Engineer to drive architectural design for the EnterpriseRx platform, leading complex initiatives from design through delivery. You will mentor peers, participate in Agile ceremonies, and collaborate with Product, QA, and Operations to ensure scalable, secure software delivery.

You will work with Angular, Spring Boot, SQL, Azure, Docker, and AI-assisted tools, while remediating security vulnerabilities and aligning with SOC1/SOC2, PHI