Manager, Software Engineering, PharmaApps
What Commercial Technologies Software Engineering contributes to Cardinal Health
Commercial Technologies manages the enterprise's portfolio of commercial technologies to maximize the business value of the technologies and enhance the customer experience. This function creates strategies for the portfolio and innovative solutions based on relationships with business leaders, develops back-end solutions and capabilities, and improves the front-end experience.
Commercial Technologies Software Engineering develops design options, processimprovementsand back-end solutions for commercial technologies to maximize performance and suitability for business needs. This job family manages engineering projects and plans for commercial technologies and interfaces with product managers to developobjectives. This job family assesses product systems,identifiesopportunities for process and system improvements, and develops solutions through application of engineering principles.
Responsibilities
Solution Ownership & Delivery
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Ownend‑to‑endoutcomes for assigned Pharmacy Applications across intake, build/configuration, integration, transition to run, and ongoing support
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Serve as the single accountable owner for pharmacy system delivery, stability, and outcomes,eliminatingfragmented ownership across platforms and vendors
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Translate pharmacy, operations, and business goals into executable delivery and integration plans with clear scope, dependencies, success criteria, and risk awareness
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Ensure predictable delivery through disciplined planning, estimation, execution, andfollow‑throughin anintegration‑heavy, operationally sensitive environment
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Establish and enforcesolution‑leveldecision rights for Pharmacy Apps, reducingday‑to‑dayescalation by driving decisions with clear options, tradeoffs, and recommended paths
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Serve as the technology owner for assigned pharmacy applications,establishingplatform strategy, priorities, roadmap, operationalobjectives, and investment recommendations
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Own intake evaluation, prioritization, and sequencing of enhancement requests, operational improvements, technical debt remediation, regulatory requirements, and platform modernization initiatives
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Accountable for solution-level architecture decisions within assigned pharmacy platforms, including integration patterns, technical tradeoffs, lifecycle planning, scalability, resiliency, and maintainability in partnership with Enterprise Architecture
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Understand and actively manage the business impact of platform performance on patient onboarding, therapy fulfillment, case processing, reimbursement workflows, pharmacy operations, and client commitments
Strategy, Roadmap & Platform Evolution
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Develop andmaintainmulti-year application roadmaps that align business priorities, technical debt reduction, platform modernization, regulatory requirements, and operational risk management
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Balance feature delivery, run stability, remediation work, lifecycle management, and modernization investments across assigned pharmacy platforms
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Identifyautomation, simplification, and platform rationalization opportunities that improve scalability, reliability, cost efficiency, and business usability
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Provide clear investment recommendations and tradeoffs to business and technology leadership based on business value, operational risk, compliance needs, and platform health
Planning, Financial & Capacity Management
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Develop and manage delivery plans, schedules, and budgets for Pharmacy Applications and supporting middleware
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Translate systems and integration LOE (interfaces, data flows, environments, validation) into schedule and cost forecasts
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Maintain capacity plans across onshore and offshore teams, aligning priorities to skills in systems integration, SQL, API development, and operational support
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Ownsolution‑levelresource management across Engineering, Integration, QA, PM, and external partners
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Understand and