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[Remote] Data Engineer

Remote Full-time Now Hiring

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. McKesson is an impact-driven healthcare company focused on making quality care more accessible and affordable. The Data Engineer will design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines and platforms, lead ETL/ELT workflows, ensure data governance and reliability, and mentor junior engineers.

Responsibilities

  • Independently design, develop, and maintain scalable, high performance data pipelines and data platforms
  • Analyze business and technical requirements to design end to end data solutions, including data ingestion, transformation, data modeling, and data serving layers
  • Lead the design and implementation of complex ETL/ELT workflows, optimizing for performance, reliability, and cost efficiency
  • Implement advanced Delta Lake capabilities such as schema enforcement, schema evolution, and data versioning
  • Collaborate closely with Product, QA, and upstream system owners to finalize data contracts, define SLAs, and ensure reliable and timely data delivery
  • Debug complex data issues involving distributed processing, increasing data volumes, latency challenges, and upstream system changes
  • Enforce data governance, security, and compliance standards within Databricks, including access controls and cataloging solutions
  • Participate in design and code reviews, identify systemic issues, and propose improvements to data pipelines, orchestration, deployment, and observability
  • Mentor junior engineers and contribute to team knowledge sharing

Skills

  • Bachelor's degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field and five (5) years of experience in the job offered or related field
  • SQL to debug and fix application related issues
  • Java to build new and enhance existing application
  • Python to build new and enhance existing application
  • MySQL to write queries to investigate and fix data issues associated to application
  • Databricks to build and maintain scalable data pipelines for application data processing and analytics
  • Amazon S3 to manage application data storage, retrieval, and integration with data processing workflows
  • GitLab to version control application code and collaborate on development and deployment activities
  • API calls to integrate external services and troubleshoot application functionality and data flow
  • Katalon to automate application testing and validate functionality across different environments

Benefits

  • 100% telecommuting allowed from any location in the U.S.
  • An annual bonus may be offered.
  • Long-term incentive opportunities may be offered.

Company Overview

  • McKesson distributes medical supplies, information technology, and care management products and services. It was founded in 1833, and is headquartered in Irving, Texas, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://www.mckesson.com.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • McKesson has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 40 in 2026, 149 in 2025, 129 in 2024, 82 in 2023, 142 in 2022, 144 in 2021, 154 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.