Principal Engineer of Identity and Access Management

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.

McKesson is seeking a Principal Engineer of Identity and Access Management (as both visionary leader and hands-on builder), who is highly attuned to the technical realities of building and operating scalable, highly regulated IAM systems for services and data.  The IAM Principal Engineer may be asked to venture beyond comfortable approaches to pioneer new spaces and inspire/coach others as to what’s possible.  This individual should have strong technical judgment and influential skills to facilitate discussions for business-critical designs.  This individual should also be able to provide both architectural guidance and detailed technical direction while nurturing a continuous delivery culture.

As an IAM Principal you will:

• Serve as a technical leader with demanding, cross-functional projects.
• Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions.
• Fully and completely understand system inter-dependencies and limitations.
• Possess expert knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices.
• Apply cutting edge principles, theories, concepts, and technologies.
• Champion and develop innovative principles and ideas.
• Work on unusually complex and sensitive problems and provides state-of-the art solutions that are highly creative. 
• Use independent judgement to accomplish objectives.  Handle projects with a long-term focus.
• Exert technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience.
• Balance technical leadership and savvy with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about technology choices.

Qualifications:

Minimum Requirements:

• 10+ years of professional experience in an engineering, development, security, or related IT field.
• 5+ years of architecture, solution delivery, and/or DevSecOps experience.

Critical Skills:

• 8+ years in one of the following: cybersecurity/information security/software development/infrastructure
• 5+ years of experience in IAM services, security engineering, software development, DevOps, other IT, and/or technical risk management
• Strong knowledge/expertise in implementing Cloud identity solutions for various cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, GCP.
• Experience with compliance regulations/laws, security frameworks and standards (e.g., NIST, HIPAA, ISO, COBIT, OWASP, ITIL, FedRamp, GDPR, etc.).
• Ability to exercise and mentor others on engineering and architecture areas.

Additional Knowledge & Skills:

• Knowledge of the healthcare, distribution, or software industries is a plus.
• Experience with law enforcement, defense, or intelligence community a plus
• Ability to integrate various security and data protection technologies and controls into a cohesive architecture that sufficiently mitigates risk.
• Understands and has knowledge of risk areas including regulatory, operational, information, technology risk.
• Good knowledge of information, application, and infrastructure security control mechanisms
• Act as a trusted advisor and partner to ensure IT security program compliance.
• Ability to drive synergies and partnerships across business units at the enterprise level.

Education:

• 4-year degree (in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field), or equivalent experience

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. 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

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.

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