Technical Delivery Lead

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.The Technical Delivery Lead, HCM Technology provides end-to-end technical delivery leadership across McKesson's HCM technology portfolio. This role is accountable for ensuring complex, cross-platform HCM initiatives are technically executable, well-integrated, production-ready, and delivered with strong engineering and operational discipline.The Technical Delivery Lead works horizontally across HCM platforms and partners closely with the HCM Architect, Solution Managers, Vendor Operations Lead, Portfolio/Program Management, enterprise technology teams, and strategic delivery partners.The role does not replace the delivery accountability of individual Solution Managers. Instead, it provides technical leadership where initiatives, dependencies, risks, or engineering challenges span technologies, solution domains, or organizational boundaries.Key Responsibilities
Technical Delivery Leadership
Lead technical execution of complex HCM initiatives spanning multiple platforms, integrations, vendors, and enterprise technology teams.Translate approved architecture and solution direction into executable technical delivery approaches.In partnership with HCM Architects and Portfolio Lead, identify and resolve technical dependencies across Workday, ADP Workforce Management, Payroll, Total Rewards, identity and access management, ServiceNow, integrations, and downstream enterprise applications.Establish clear technical workstreams, dependencies, sequencing, risks, and readiness criteria for major initiatives.Intervene where delivery requires coordination or decisions across multiple Solution Manager domains.Provide objective assessments of technical feasibility, complexity, risk, and delivery readiness.Standardize delivery KPIs across HCM portfolio. Centralize reporting of PI, and small projectsEngineering & Technical Delivery Excellence
Establish and drive consistent engineering and technical delivery practices across the HCM portfolio.Ensure appropriate standards for development, peer review, testing, migration, deployment, source/configuration management, and production validation.Partner with the HCM Architect to ensure architecture standards and patterns are effectively operationalized through delivery.Drive consistency in technical documentation and engineering controls across internal teams and strategic partners.Ensure technical delivery reviews for complex, high-risk, or cross-platform changes.Identify systemic engineering weaknesses and drive corrective action with the appropriate Solution Managers and delivery partners.Standardize intake mechanism for all HCM in alignment with Employee Enablement PortfolioStandardize Work item tracking and reporting across HCM portfolioIdentify opportunities to cross share resources across the various delivery teamsCross-Platform Integration & Dependency Management
Bring in the right SMEs to provide technical leadership for dependencies that span HCM products and enterprise services.Ensure upstream and downstream impacts are identified before implementation.Facilitate technical decisions when ownership crosses organizational boundaries.Production & Release Readiness
Establish common technical readiness expectations for major HCM releases (including appropriate testing, monitoring, deployment, rollback, recovery, support, and stabilization approaches are defined)Lead cross-platform technical readiness assessments for significant deployments.Facilitate technical go/no-go recommendations for high-risk or cross-platform deployments.Ensure operational support teams are appropriately prepared before introducing significant technology changes into production.Incident, Problem & Stability Leadership
Coordinate technical leadership for significant incidents that span platforms or where technical ownership is initially unclear.Coordinate cross-HCM technical teams during major incidents as needed.Ensure root-cause analyses identify underlying engineering, integration, or architecture issues rather than only the immediate symptom.Drive technical remediation when corrective actions span multiple platforms or Solution Manager domains.Technical Risk & Governance
Maintain visibility into significant technical risks across HCM.Escalate material technical risks with a clear assessment of impact, options, and recommended actions.Establish technical delivery h
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