SR Business Intelligence Platform Engineer

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.

CoverMyMeds’ Technology team is looking for a Senior Business Intelligence Platform Engineer to join our Data Engineering organization. Our Data Engineering team is a highly technical group of results-driven engineers, analysts, and architects focused on providing our internal and external clients with high-quality, repeatable, and scalable data solutions. Together with our business units, the work we do ultimately helps get more people the medicine they need to live healthier lives.

What You'll Do 

As a senior technical member of the team, this role will lead our Tableau and Power BI platform solutions, contribute to overall BI platform strategy, and establish standards for architecture, governance, and release management. This is a hands-on role for a senior engineer who plans and executes work independently and collaborates across technical and business teams.

You will help shape how analytics teams develop, promote, and govern visualizations and tabular reporting within a secure, scalable, and compliant environment. The role partners closely with corporate platform owners, data engineering teams, and internal analytics developers to ensure both platforms operate efficiently and responsibly.

Position Description

• Own administration and configuration of the Tableau platform, including sites, projects, governance, performance tuning, licensing, and platform upgrades.

• Partner with Corporate Power BI platform administrators to align configurations, enforce governance, and enable self-service and embedded use cases.

• Design and implement Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions for BI configuration, access, and deployment using Terraform, GitHub Actions, or similar.

• Define and manage CI/CD pipelines for Power BI and Tableau assets, promoting consistent versioning, automated testing, and structured release management.

• Establish and enforce governance models—including RBAC alignment, data-access patterns, and naming and tagging standards—to ensure responsible use of BI assets.

• Collaborate with application development teams to support secure and performant embedded analytics patterns using Tableau and Power BI within custom applications.

• Partner with identity and security teams to align authentication and high-level authorization patterns through Okta and Azure AD, ensuring hybrid control between BI platforms and custom applications.

• Provide operational oversight and incident response, ensuring BI environments remain stable, responsive, and compliant with internal privacy and security standards.

• Develop and maintain documentation and playbooks that establish best practices for analytics development, promotion, and governance across environments.

• Proactively advise analytics and reporting teams on platform capabilities, design optimization, and responsible development practices.

Minimum Requirments

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related STEM field (or equivalent experience) and Minimum of 7 years of professional experience in software engineering

Skills You’ll Need

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.

• 7+ years of experience managing enterprise-scale BI platforms, including at least 5 years with Tableau and/or Power BI.

• Proven experience leading BI platform modernization or cloud migrations for complex organizations.

• Demonstrated ability to design, configure, and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD pipelines for BI assets.

• Strong understanding of RBAC, authentication, and authorization models integrating Okta and Azure AD with enterprise BI tools.

• Experience supporting embedded BI scenarios and optimizing performance for shared, multi-tenant, or customer-facing environments.

• Familiarity with privacy, security, and compliance standards (e.g., HIPAA, SOC 2) relevant to analytics and data visualization.

• Hands-on experience operating BI platforms in a matrixed environment, collaborating with centralized corporate platform owners.

• Excellent communication and documentation skills with a proactive, consultative approach to cross-team collaboration.

Preferred Skills

• Strong team player who builds positive professional relationships across business and technical teams.

• Demonstrated ability to simplify complex technical issues and lead others toward practical solutions.

• Passion for enabling analytics teams to build securely, efficiently, and at scale.

• Proven sense of ownership, accountability, and follow-through for task and project completion.

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

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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