Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Cardinal Health manages a portfolio of commercial technologies and develops solutions that enhance business value and customer experience. The Manager, Software Engineering, Salesforce owns the end-to-end delivery, operational stability, governance, financial management, and continuous improvement of Salesforce-based solutions including ConnectSource and Marketing Cloud. The role leads cross-functional and offshore teams, manages transitions to run, ensures quality and compliance, and develops delivery talent.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end outcomes for assigned solutions across intake, build, implementation, transition to run, and ongoing support, with a primary focus on Salesforce ConnectSource and Marketing Cloud
- Serve as the single accountable owner for Salesforce solution delivery, stability, and outcomes, eliminating fragmented ownership across onshore and offshore teams
- Translate product and business goals into executable delivery plans with clear scope, milestones, dependencies, and success criteria across Salesforce configuration, development, integration, and data components
- Ensure predictable delivery through disciplined planning, estimation, execution, and follow-through
- Establish and enforce solution-level decision rights for Salesforce implementations, reducing day-to-day escalation by driving decisions with clear options, tradeoffs, and recommended paths
- Develop and manage delivery plans, schedules, and budgets for assigned Salesforce solutions
- Translate Salesforce-specific LOE (configuration, custom code, integrations, testing) into schedule and cost forecasts
- Maintain onshore and offshore capacity plans, aligning priorities to Salesforce skill sets and avoiding role overlap or single-threading
- Own solution-level resource management across Engineering, BA, QA, PM, Salesforce administrators, developers, integration specialists, and partner teams
- Understand and manage capital vs. expense treatment aligned to enterprise finance standards for Salesforce initiatives
- Protect Sonexus revenue by understanding financial impact, margin implications, and revenue risk tied to Salesforce delivery decisions
- Define and operate a consistent, well-understood flow of work for Salesforce solutions from intake through delivery, release, hypercare, and run
- Ensure adherence to enterprise SDLC gates, QA standards, Salesforce release management practices, and structured change control
- Maintain delivery hygiene through WBS, RAID logs, risk management, decision logs, and issue tracking for Salesforce initiatives
- Apply governance that is disciplined and right-sized, avoiding over-engineered Salesforce processes used to compensate for weak delivery fundamentals
- Identify recurring Salesforce delivery and operational breakdowns and drive targeted process improvements rooted in root-cause analysis
- Adjust planning, governance, and communication practices based on delivery phase and observed Salesforce outcomes, reinforcing continuous improvement
- Ensure Salesforce build-to-run transitions are clearly defined, documented, and executed, including readiness criteria, deployment documentation, and knowledge transfer
- Be accountable for Salesforce solution stability post-release, including ConnectSource and Marketing Cloud operations
- Partner with support and run teams to triage, prioritize, and resolve Salesforce issues effectively
- Own intake and prioritization of Salesforce break/fix work, technical debt, and remediation initiatives
- Drive root-cause analysis to prevent recurring Salesforce issues and reduce rework
- Enforce consistent Salesforce requirements, configuration standards, and testing practices to strengthen end-to-end quality accountability
- Ensure QA, accessibility, security, and compliance requirements are met for Salesforce solutions, including required evidence, sign-offs, and remediation
- Maintain clean, validated, PHI-safe Salesforce demos, reports, journeys, and data views prior to internal or client-facing reviews
- Strengthen delivery confidence through evidence-based readiness rather than last-minute Salesforce escalation
- Lead and align Engineering, BA, QA, PM, Product, APS, Business stakeholders, and Salesforce platform teams
- Partner closely with offshore Salesforce development teams, providing clear priorities, decision ownership, and escalation paths
- Maintain clear ownership, accountability, and communication across onshore and offshore Salesforce teams
- Ensure consistent, aligned messaging across functions to reduce churn, rework, and conflicting direction
- Partner effectively with APS and Product leadership on Salesforce roadmap impacts, client risks, and solution evolution
- Demonstrate strong executive presence in internal and client-facing interactions, especially when representing Salesforce solutions
- Prepare and lead Salesforce-related meetings with clear pre-reads, agendas, risks, decisions, and recommended paths
- Communicate clearly in writing and verbally, maintaining appropriate internal vs. external voice when discussing Salesforce capabilities and constraints
- Influence and negotiate without authority by presenting Salesforce tradeoffs grounded in data, platform constraints, and delivery realities
- Coach and develop BAs, PMs, Salesforce Technical Leads, Developers, Engineers, and QAs to build sustainable delivery and leadership capability
- Hold Salesforce teams accountable for outcomes while fostering a culture of ownership and follow-through across locations
- Manages department operations and supervises professional employees, front line supervisors and/or business support staff
- Participates in the development of policies and procedures to achieve specific goals
- Ensures employees operate within guidelines
- Decisions have a short term impact on work processes, outcomes and customers
- Interacts with subordinates, peers, customers, and suppliers at various management levels; may interact with senior management
- Interactions normally involve resolution of issues related to operations and/or projects
- Gains consensus from various parties involved
Skills
- Experience leading cross-functional delivery teams (Engineering, QA, BA, PM)
- Strong understanding of Salesforce-based solutions and enterprise application environments
- Demonstrated capability in estimation, planning, SDLC governance, and delivery execution
- Demonstrated ability to manage delivery plans, budgets, and capacity across multiple initiatives
- Demonstrated use of structured delivery artifacts (e.g., WBS, LOE-based estimates, schedules, RAID logs, change control)
- 8-12 years of experience, preferred
- Bachelor's degree in related field, or equivalent work experience, preferred
- Experience operating in regulated environments (healthcare or adjacent industries preferred)
Benefits
- Bonus eligible
- Medical, dental and vision coverage
- Paid time off plan
- Health savings account (HSA)
- 401k savings plan
- Access to wages before pay day with myFlexPay
- Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
- Short- and long-term disability coverage
- Work-Life resources
- Paid parental leave
- Healthy lifestyle programs
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