Senior Salesforce Platform Engineer

McKesson is an impact-driven, Fortune 10 company that touches virtually every aspect of healthcare. We are known for delivering insights, products, and services that make quality care more accessible and affordable. Here, we focus on the health, happiness, and well-being of you and those we serve – we care.

What you do at McKesson matters. We foster a culture where you can grow, make an impact, and are empowered to bring new ideas. 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.

Scale, optimize and govern a critical Salesforce environment by combining advanced administration, platform engineering, security, automation and operational excellence.

Role Purpose:

Own Salesforce platform health, administration, security, automation, release readiness, data quality and operational reliability. This role goes beyond traditional administration by applying engineering discipline, architecture awareness and automation to keep the platform secure, scalable and supportable.

What You Will Do:

• Administer and optimize Sales Cloud, Service Cloud and related capabilities across enterprise environments.

• Engineer secure access using permission sets, permission set groups, roles, sharing, identity controls and least-privilege practices.

• Build and govern Flow automation, approvals, validation, record types, layouts and platform configuration.

• Own platform health, limits, licenses, storage, data quality, audit findings, technical debt and operational improvement backlogs.

• Support integrations and data movement by validating mappings, access, jobs, error handling and operational controls.

• Lead sandbox strategy, release readiness, deployment coordination, change controls and production validation.

• Automate repeatable administration, monitoring, environment and quality activities using approved tools and APIs.

• Partner with architects and engineers on security, data, integration, performance and platform modernization decisions.

First Six-Month Priorities:

Baseline platform health, limits, access model, storage, automation, releases, incidents and operational risks. Create a prioritized reliability, security and technical debt improvement backlog with measurable controls. Strengthen access governance, permission design, auditability and repeatable user lifecycle processes. Improve release readiness, environment controls, testing evidence and post-deployment validation. Automate one or more high-effort platform operations and establish platform health reporting.

Required Qualifications:

• 7+ years in Salesforce administration, platform engineering, CRM operations or enterprise application support.

• Advanced expertise with Salesforce configuration, Flow, permissions, sharing, data quality, reports, dashboards and troubleshooting.

• Strong knowledge of platform security, identity/access concepts, least privilege, auditability and compliance-oriented operations.

• Experience with sandbox strategy, release management, source control, CI/CD concepts and production change controls.

• Experience supporting integrations, APIs, scheduled jobs, data loads and cross-system issue resolution.

• Ability to analyze logs, limits and dependencies, perform root-cause analysis and implement durable fixes.

• Ability to work independently and communicate platform risk, operational status and recommendations clearly.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Salesforce Administrator and Advanced Administrator credentials; Platform App Builder strongly valued.

• Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Sharing and Visibility, Identity or Data Architecture credentials.

• Experience with Apex/SOQL, Salesforce APIs, scripting or automation used for platform operations.

• Experience with DevOps tooling, monitoring, backup/recovery, data lifecycle and regulated enterprise controls.

 

 

At McKesson, we care about the well-being of the patients and communities we serve, and that starts with caring for our people. That’s why we have a Total Rewards package that includes comprehensive benefits to support physical, mental, and financial well-being. Our Total Rewards offerings serve the different needs of our diverse employee population and ensure they are the healthiest versions of themselves.

As part of Total Rewards, we are proud to offer a competitive compensation package at McKesson. 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. 

Our Base Pay Range for this position

€70,600 - €117,600

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