What Data Engineering contributes to Cardinal Health

The Data & Analytics Function oversees the analytics life-cycle in order to identify, analyze and present relevant insights that drive business decisions and anticipate opportunities to achieve a competitive advantage. This function manages analytic data platforms, the access, design and implementation of reporting/business intelligence solutions, and the application of advanced quantitative modeling.

Supervisor for a Data Platform team bridging Operations and Cloud Engineering serves as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) who ensures the stability, reliability, and scalability of internal data products. They act as the primary interface between development, engineering, and business stakeholders to manage incident response and drive operational excellence.
Qualifications

• 7-10 years of experience, preferred
• Bachelor’s degree in related field, or equivalent work experience, preferred

What is expected of you and others at this level

• Coordinates and supervises the daily activities of operations or business staff
• Administers and exercises policies and procedures
• Ensure employees operate within guidelines
• Decisions have a direct impact on work unit operations and customers
• Frequently interacts with subordinates, customers, and peer groups at various management levels
• Interactions normally involve information exchange and basic problem resolution
• Coordinates and supervises the daily activities of operations or business staff
• Administers and exercises policies and procedures
• Ensure employees operate within guidelines
• Decisions have a direct impact to work unit operations and customers
• Frequently interacts with subordinates, customers, and peer groups at various management levels
• Interactions normally involve information exchange and basic problem resolution
• Lead and manage L1/L2/L3 operations for the data platform, ensuring 24x7 monitoring and rapid first-level response.
• Oversee incident resolution, service restoration, and root cause analysis (RCA) for complex outages.
• Manage the rotation of on-call duties for system support across business and weekend hours if needed.

Key Professional & Technical Skills: Cloud Platforms: Proficiency in AWS, Azure, or GCP administration, including compute, networking (VPC, DNS, TCP/IP), and storage services.

Data Technologies:

Strong understanding of unified data platforms (e.g., Databricks, Snowflake) and big data frameworks like Hadoop, Spark, and Kafka.

Programming & Scripting:

Advanced skills in Python, Java, or Bash for automating routine operational tasks and building support utilities.

Database Management:

Deep expertise in SQL and managing relational (MySQL, PostgreSQL) or NoSQL systems.

DevOps & Automation: Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and monitoring/observability tools like Splunk or Airflow.

Candidates who are back-to-work, people with disabilities, without a college degree, and Veterans are encouraged to apply.

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