Tech Lead - Cloud-Native Software Engineer

Cardinal Health, Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision coverage

401k savings plan

Paid time off plan

Health savings account (HSA)

Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)

Disability coverage

Work-Life resources

Paid parental leave

Healthy lifestyle programs

Job summary

Cardinal Health is seeking a Senior Software Engineer / Technical Lead to provide technical leadership, architecture guidance, and hands-on development across complex enterprise applications, integrations, and cloud-native platforms.

You will partner with Product, Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, and Delivery teams to drive end-to-end solution delivery, establish engineering best practices, and mentor engineers across multiple streams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in related field, or equivalent work experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development, implementation, and support of enterprise applications, APIs, integrations, and cloud-native solutions.
• Own end-to-end technical solution delivery across multiple workstreams, ensuring scalability, security, reliability, and maintainability.
• Define and drive technical architecture, engineering standards, design patterns, and development best practices across teams.
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions and guide teams through implementation strategies.
• Lead technical planning, estimation, and architecture reviews for all initiatives.
• Drive design decisions that balance business objectives, technical debt, operational supportability, performance, cost, and risk.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to developers, engineers, and managed service partners.
• Serve as the primary escalation point for complex technical challenges, production incidents, and architecture-related decisions.
• Lead root cause analysis efforts and ensure preventive measures are implemented to improve system stability and reliability.
• Review application designs, code, infrastructure components, and deployment strategies to ensure quality and compliance with organizational standards.
• Drive adoption of modern engineering practices including DevSecOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automated testing, and observability.
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Security, Risk, Compliance, and Platform Engineering teams to implement secure and compliant solutions.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend innovative solutions that improve business outcomes and developer productivity.
• Design and implement integration solutions across internal and external platforms using APIs, event-driven architectures, and integration platforms.
• Provide end-to-end technical oversight across application, integration, data, security, infrastructure, and operational domains.
• Establish technical roadmaps and identify opportunities for modernization, automation, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure applications meet operational excellence requirements including monitoring, alerting, HA/DR, performance, and supportability.
• Influence technical strategy and engineering direction across multiple products and teams.
• Lead technical discussions with business stakeholders, vendors, architects, and leadership teams.
• Define project milestones, technical deliverables, dependencies, risks, and mitigation plans.
• Foster a culture of engineering excellence, accountability, innovation, quality, and continuous learning.

Job description

Cardinal Health is seeking a Senior Software Engineer / Technical Lead to provide technical leadership, architecture guidance, and hands-on development across complex enterprise applications, integrations, and cloud-native platforms.

You will partner with Product, Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, and Delivery teams to drive end-to-end solution delivery, establish engineering best practices, and mentor engineers across multiple streams.