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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.Technical Delivery Lead, HCM Technology The Technical Delivery Lead, HCM Technology provides end-to-end technical delivery leadership across McKesson’s HCM technology portfolio.

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. Instead, it provides technical leadership where initiatives, dependencies, risks, or engineering challenges span technologies, solution domains, or organizational boundaries.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.Provide objective assessments of technical feasibility, complexity, risk, and delivery readiness.Centralize reporting of PI, and small projects.Engineering & 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.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.Cross-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.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.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 health measures and provide transparent reporting on significant risks and dependencies.Support portfolio planning with assessments of technical complexity, sequencing, dependencies, and capacity requirements.Partner with the Vendor Operations Lead where vendor technical capability or engineering quality creates systemic risk.Escalate or recommend stopping technically unready high-risk deployments.Establish and enforce HCM technical delivery practices.Convene technical teams to resolve cross-platform delivery issues.Determine the appropriate technical execution approach within approved architecture.Escalate material business-priority, funding, or risk-acceptance decisions to HCM leadership.Strong knowledge of Workday and enterprise integration architectures, APIs, web services, IAM, security, middleware, and downstream enterprise integrations.Experience with payroll, workforce management, or other high-availability enterprise platforms strongly preferred.Demonstrated experience with engineering controls, release/change management, testing, production readiness, incident/problem management, and root-cause analysis.Experience leading technical delivery across internal teams, offshore/onshore resources, system integrators, and managed-service providers.Ability to influence architecture, application, engineering, security, business, and vendor stakeholders without relying on formal authority.Strong executive communication and technical decision-making capabilities.Improved predictability and quality of complex technical delivery.Fewer cross-platform failures and recurring technical incidents.Stronger production readiness and engineering controls.Faster resolution of cross-HCM technical dependencies.Reduced technical debt and unnecessary integration complexity.Reduced dependency on VP-level intervention for technical execution.Clear accountability for technical risks and remediation.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.

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📌 Technical Delivery Lead (Winnipeg)
🏢 MCD McKesson Canada Corporation / La Corporation McKesson Canada
📍 Winnipeg