What Application Development & Maintenance contributes to Cardinal Health

Information Technology oversees the effective development, delivery, and operation of computing and information services. This function anticipates, plans, and delivers Information Technology solutions and strategies that enable operations and drive business value.

Application Development & Maintenance performs configuration or coding to develop, enhance and sustain the organization's software systems in a cross-functional team environment through adherence to established design control processes and good engineering practices. This job family programs and configures end user applications, systems, databases and websites to achieve the organization's internal needs and externally-facing business needs. Application Development & Maintenance partners with business leaders, investigates user needs and conducts regular assessments, maintenance and enhancements of existing applications.

We are looking for a highly motivated Software Engineer to support the Vendavo and other SaaS applications under Revenue Management team. This position will work with the different business teams on Revenue Management to design, integrate and improve the SaaS solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Manage and Support of Vendavo and other in-built Java, .net based applications that are used for Pricing and Contract management.
• Enable Designing, Implementing, and Securing Microservices and APIs, using: Spring Boot, REST, Messaging, ORM, and Spring Security w/ OAuth 2, Hibernate.
• Provide leadership in planning/sequencing of end-to-end design workshops and support facilitation of workshops, leveraging knowledge of industry best practices
• Guide complex fit/gap analysis and design decisions and validate fit/gap analysis and design decisions completed by less experienced team members; ensure deviations from "out of the box" functionality have sufficient business justification and positive value proposition
• Identifying synergies and optimization areas within the business processes and the applications and manage the execution.
• Keeping up with emerging technologies and changes in business processes. 
• Maintain strategic relationships with all key stakeholders.
• Customer focused and deep understanding of business needs.
• Driving end-user satisfaction by using specific metrics.
• Provide leadership and direction to the teams during problem solving and crisis management.
• Must have the ability to influence our internal clients to leverage standard functionalities, and only opt for customization as a last resort.
• Identifying areas to optimize, automate and reduce manual workloads and following through on those optimizations
• Help in completing effort estimates, preparing proposals, and collaborating with functional partners to deliver solutions for value-add business functions.
• Provide support in preparing and conducting prioritization meetings (for enhancements and defects) with the functional partners.
• Ensure all critical processes are properly monitored and alerted; and automate recurrent incidents.
• Closely follows the strategic direction set by the segment and executes on priority goals.
• Closely work with infrastructure teams to ensure a reliable and stable operations.
• Accountable for IT Controls, SOX compliance, and Audit findings
• Responsible for the KPI's and BPM metrics that support current and future Pharma business units
• Collaborates with other process areas (SAP OTC, PTP, RTR, RNI, MDG, SCE, and non-SAP systems like Salesforce, eCommerce platforms, middleware applications ETL, DellBoomi etc) to ensure a cohesive solution without impacting other processes or systems.
• Monitors team's ticket queues be it ServiceNow/Jira and work thru tickets.

Qualifications

• 10+ years software development experience is preferred.
• Bachelor's degree in related field preferred or equivalent work experience.
• Experience building and deploying containerized application via Helm Charts on Kubernetes running within GCP/AWS Clouds
• Strong knowledge in standards / technologies that enable integration like Java, .Net, SQL, XML, WSDL, SOAP, REST APIs.
• Hands on experience with server side Java API frameworks such as Spring Boot or Spring MVC
• Hands on experience exposing and consuming REST APIs using common industry standards and conventions
• Experience with Agile methodology and DevOps Practices.
• Experience with CI / CD automation and deployment using tools such as Concourse / Jenkins, ArgoCD, Terraform, Kubernetes
• Experience with using Helm Charts for Kubernetes deployments.
• In Depth experiences with Gradle, Maven, Github.
• Native understanding and working experience with SAP and handling SAP IDOC integration capabilities and issues.
• Prior experience with Vendavo Application is a plus.
• Working knowledge with Integration applications like ETL, DataStage, DellBoomi, MFT and/or other any integration platforms is a must
• Experience in any one of the analytics platforms like GCP Big Query , HANA Studio, Alteryx, and/or other any analytics platforms is a must.
• Knowledge Stack to include one or more of IntelliJ, GitHub, SaaS, Docker, Gradle, Java, SQL, Oracle, Groovy.
• Native understanding of Pharmaceutical Business Pricing Processes like Contracts, Customer Attachments, GPOs/Buying Groups, Product Pricing.
• Must have the ability to troubleshoot complex interfaces involving multiple systems
• Experience in writing and/or updating Functional Specification Documents

What is expected of you and others at this level

• Applies comprehensive knowledge and a thorough understanding of concepts, principles, and technical capabilities to perform varied tasks and projects
• May contribute to the development of policies and procedures
• Works on complex projects of large scope
• Develops technical solutions to a wide range of difficult problems. Solutions are innovative and consistent with organization objectives
• Completes work independently receives general guidance on new projects
• Work reviewed for purpose of meeting objectives
• May act as a mentor to less experienced colleagues

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

Cardinal Health supports an inclusive workplace that values diversity of thought, experience and background. We celebrate the power of our differences to create better solutions for our customers by ensuring employees can be their authentic selves each day. Cardinal Health is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, pregnancy, veteran status, marital status, creed, status with regard to public assistance, genetic status or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.