Technical Product Owner

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This role offers location flexibility and is open to candidates across the United States.

Candidates based in the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) area will be hired in a hybrid capacity and are expected to work onsite at our Las Colinas office a minimum of two (2) days per week, with the remaining days worked remotely. Specific in ‑ office days may be designated based on team needs and business priorities.

Current Need:

The Technical Product Owner supports the delivery of productized interoperability capabilities by executing against an established product strategy and prioritized backlog. This role partners closely with the Technical Product Manager, engineering teams, and cross‑functional stakeholders to translate requirements into well‑defined user stories and ensure high‑quality, predictable delivery within Agile frameworks.

The Technical Product Owner independently owns a defined technical product or service area at the execution level, driving value sprint‑by‑sprint by ensuring the team builds the right technical solution, the right way, at the right time. This role requires strong product judgment, technical curiosity, execution discipline, and empathy for both internal platform consumers and downstream external users.

Key Responsibilities:

Backlog Ownership & Execution

• Own and maintain a prioritized technical backlog aligned to product goals, OKRs, and platform standards
  
• Translate product and technical requirements into clear, actionable user stories with well‑defined acceptance criteria
  
• Facilitate backlog refinement, estimation, sequencing, and scope trade‑off discussions with engineering
  
• Prioritize work across features, technical debt, and maintenance activities
  

Delivery & Quality

• Partner with engineering to remove blockers and ensure predictable, high‑quality delivery
  
• Own acceptance criteria and readiness gates for release
  
• Support go/no‑go recommendations for production based on technical readiness (observability, security, performance)
  
• Ensure non‑functional requirements are met, including SLO/SLA expectations
  

Technical & Operational Readiness

• Maintain a living catalog of functional and non‑functional requirements for the assigned product area
  
• Coordinate dependencies across agile teams, including API versions, schema changes, and infrastructure needs
  
• Ensure operational readiness, including monitoring, alerting, logging, runbooks, and release/rollback plans
  
• Own the defect backlog and support incident triage with engineering, SRE, and support teams
  
• Participate in post‑incident reviews and capture remediation actions into the backlog
  

Collaboration & Compliance

• Work closely with the Technical Product Manager to ensure backlog alignment with product roadmap and strategy
  
• Engage security and compliance partners to meet organizational standards
  
• Support adoption efforts by ensuring technical deliverables are usable, reliable, and well‑documented
  

Minimum Requirement:

• Degree or equivalent and typically requires 4+ years of relevant experience.
  

Critical Skills:

• 4+ years of experience as a Technical Product Owner or equivalent engineering role in healthcare or health IT
  
• Software or systems engineering background, or equivalent technical degree
  
• Experience working with EMR systems and provider‑facing healthcare technologies
  
• Working knowledge of interoperability standards such as FHIR and HL7
  
• Experience operating within Agile/Scrum delivery environments
  

Additional Skills:

• Familiarity with CMS interoperability requirements and healthcare data exchange concepts
  
• Experience supporting platform or shared‑services products
  
• Comfort balancing delivery commitments across technical debt, maintenance, and new capabilities
  
• Ability to travel up to 10%
  

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

$111,700 - $186,100

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