Technical Product Owner
Irving, Texas, Alpharetta, Georgia, Columbus, OhioSuccess Profile
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- Conceptual
- Proactive
- Problem-Solver
- Strategic
- Technologically Savvy
- Visual Thinker
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The opportunity to work at McKesson means you get to join in our company purpose of Advancing Health Outcomes for All.
Culture
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Make a meaningful impact by using your problem-solving skills to push the boundaries of innovation in healthcare, while maintaining a healthy work-life balance.
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Join a supportive environment where you can advance your career and develop both personally and professionally.
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- Health Spending Accounts
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- 401(k) (U.S.)
- Pension (Canada)
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
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- Flexible Schedules
- Paid Time Off
- Wellness Program
- Education Reimbursement
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Responsibility
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.
This role offers location flexibility and is open to candidates across the United States.
Candidates based in the Dallas–Fort Worth (DFW) area will be hired in a hybrid capacity and are expected to work onsite at our Las Colinas office a minimum of two (2) days per week, with the remaining days worked remotely. Specific in‑office days may be designated based on team needs and business priorities.
Current Need:
The Technical Product Owner supports the delivery of productized interoperability capabilities by executing against an established product strategy and prioritized backlog. This role partners closely with the Technical Product Manager, engineering teams, and cross‑functional stakeholders to translate requirements into well‑defined user stories and ensure high‑quality, predictable delivery within Agile frameworks.
The Technical Product Owner independently owns a defined technical product or service area at the execution level, driving value sprint‑by‑sprint by ensuring the team builds the right technical solution, the right way, at the right time. This role requires strong product judgment, technical curiosity, execution discipline, and empathy for both internal platform consumers and downstream external users.
Key Responsibilities:
Backlog Ownership & Execution
Own and maintain a prioritized technical backlog aligned to product goals, OKRs, and platform standards
Translate product and technical requirements into clear, actionable user stories with well‑defined acceptance criteria
Facilitate backlog refinement, estimation, sequencing, and scope trade‑off discussions with engineering
Prioritize work across features, technical debt, and maintenance activities
Delivery & Quality
Partner with engineering to remove blockers and ensure predictable, high‑quality delivery
Own acceptance criteria and readiness gates for release
Support go/no‑go recommendations for production based on technical readiness (observability, security, performance)
Ensure non‑functional requirements are met, including SLO/SLA expectations
Technical & Operational Readiness
Maintain a living catalog of functional and non‑functional requirements for the assigned product area
Coordinate dependencies across agile teams, including API versions, schema changes, and infrastructure needs
Ensure operational readiness, including monitoring, alerting, logging, runbooks, and release/rollback plans
Own the defect backlog and support incident triage with engineering, SRE, and support teams
Participate in post‑incident reviews and capture remediation actions into the backlog
Collaboration & Compliance
Work closely with the Technical Product Manager to ensure backlog alignment with product roadmap and strategy
Engage security and compliance partners to meet organizational standards
Support adoption efforts by ensuring technical deliverables are usable, reliable, and well‑documented
Minimum Requirement:
Degree or equivalent and typically requires 4+ years of relevant experience.
Critical Skills:
4+ years of experience as a Technical Product Owner or equivalent engineering role in healthcare or health IT
Software or systems engineering background, or equivalent technical degree
Experience working with EMR systems and provider‑facing healthcare technologies
Working knowledge of interoperability standards such as FHIR and HL7
Experience operating within Agile/Scrum delivery environments
Additional Skills:
Familiarity with CMS interoperability requirements and healthcare data exchange concepts
Experience supporting platform or shared‑services products
Comfort balancing delivery commitments across technical debt, maintenance, and new capabilities
Ability to travel up to 10%
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. The pay range shown below is aligned with McKesson's pay philosophy, and pay will always be compliant with any applicable regulations. 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
$111,700 - $186,100McKesson has become aware of online recruiting-related scams in which individuals who are not affiliated with or authorized by McKesson are using McKesson’s (or affiliated entities, like CoverMyMeds or RxCrossroads) name in fraudulent emails, job postings or social media messages. In light of these scams, please bear the following in mind:
McKesson Talent Advisors will never solicit money or credit card information in connection with a McKesson job application.
McKesson Talent Advisors do not communicate with candidates via online chatrooms or using email accounts such as Gmail or Hotmail. Note that McKesson does rely on a virtual assistant (Gia) for certain recruiting-related communications with candidates.
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McKesson has become aware of online recruiting-related scams in which individuals who are not affiliated with or authorized by McKesson are using McKesson’s (or affiliated entities, like CoverMyMeds or RxCrossroads) name in fraudulent emails, job postings or social media messages. In light of these scams, please bear the following in mind:
- McKesson Talent Advisors will never solicit money or credit card information in connection with a McKesson job application.
- McKesson Talent Advisors do not communicate with candidates via online chatrooms or using email accounts such as Gmail or Hotmail. Note that McKesson does rely on a virtual assistant (Gia) for certain recruiting-related communications with candidates.
- McKesson job postings are posted on our career site: careers.mckesson.com.