Senior Software Engineer Commercial Technologies

Cardinal Health is seeking a Senior Software Engineer and Technical Lead for its Commercial Technologies Software Engineering organization. The role provides technical leadership, solution architecture guidance, and hands-on development for enterprise applications, integrations, and cloud-native platforms while partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver secure, scalable, and reliable solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, development, implementation, and support of enterprise applications, APIs, integrations, and cloud-native solutions
• Own end-to-end technical solution delivery across multiple workstreams, ensuring scalability, security, reliability, and maintainability
• Define and drive technical architecture, engineering standards, design patterns, and development best practices across teams
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions and guide teams through implementation strategies
• Lead technical planning, estimation, and architecture reviews for all initiatives
• Drive design decisions that balance business objectives, technical debt, operational supportability, performance, cost, and risk
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to developers, engineers, and managed service partners
• Serve as the primary escalation point for complex technical challenges, production incidents, and architecture-related decisions
• Lead root cause analysis efforts and ensure preventive measures are implemented to improve system stability and reliability
• Review application designs, code, infrastructure components, and deployment strategies to ensure quality and compliance with organizational standards
• Drive adoption of modern engineering practices including DevSecOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automated testing, and observability
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Security, Risk, Compliance, and Platform Engineering teams to implement secure and compliant solutions
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend innovative solutions that improve business outcomes and developer productivity
• Design and implement integration solutions across internal and external platforms using APIs, event-driven architectures, and integration platforms
• Provide end-to-end technical oversight across application, integration, data, security, infrastructure, and operational domains
• Establish technical roadmaps and identify opportunities for modernization, automation, and continuous improvement
• Ensure applications meet operational excellence requirements including monitoring, alerting, HA/DR, performance, and supportability
• Influence technical strategy and engineering direction across multiple products and teams
• Lead technical discussions with business stakeholders, vendors, architects, and leadership teams
• Define project milestones, technical deliverables, dependencies, risks, and mitigation plans
• Foster a culture of engineering excellence, accountability, innovation, quality, and continuous learning

Requirements:

• Strong expertise in Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, Microservices Architecture, React and/or Angular
• Strong experience with Kubernetes (GKE preferred), Cloud-native application development, Container orchestration, Infrastructure as Code
• Experience implementing and supporting CI/CD Pipelines, GitHub Actions, Concourse, ArgoCD, Terraform
• Hands-on experience with API Management and Integration platforms such as Apigee & Other enterprise integration platforms
• Strong understanding of OAuth2, OpenID Connect, JWT, API Security, Authentication and Authorization models
• Experience with PostgreSQL, BigQuery, Relational and NoSQL databases, Data integration and analytics platforms
• Experience using OpenAPI / Swagger, API lifecycle management, Automated testing frameworks, Observability and monitoring tools
• Experience working within regulated environments such as healthcare, pharmacy, or financial services
• Understanding of HIPAA, SOC 2, HITRUST, Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC), Risk and compliance controls
• Experience leading cloud migration and modernization initiatives
• Experience building enterprise integration platforms and API ecosystems
• 8-12 years of experience, preferred
• Bachelor's degree in related field, or equivalent work experience, preferred
• Extensive experience with cloud platforms including Google Cloud Platform (preferred)