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Commercial Technologies manages the enterprise's portfolio of commercial technologies to maximize the business value of the technologies and enhance the customer experience. This function creates strategies for the portfolio and innovative solutions based on relationships with business leaders, develops back-end solutions and capabilities, and improves the front-end experience.
Commercial Technologies Software Engineering develops design options, process improvements and back-end solutions for commercial technologies to maximize performance and suitability for business needs. This job family manages engineering projects and plans for commercial technologies and interfaces with product managers to develop objectives. This job family assesses product systems, identifies opportunities for process and system improvements, and develops solutions through application of engineering principles.
Responsibilities
Solution Ownership & Delivery
- Own end‑to‑end outcomes for assigned Pharmacy Applications across intake, build/configuration, integration, transition to run, and ongoing support
- Serve as the single accountable owner for pharmacy system delivery, stability, and outcomes, eliminating fragmented ownership across platforms and vendors
- Translate pharmacy, operations, and business goals into executable delivery and integration plans with clear scope, dependencies, success criteria, and risk awareness
- Ensure predictable delivery through disciplined planning, estimation, execution, and follow‑through in an integration‑heavy, operationally sensitive environment
- Establish and enforce solution‑level decision rights for Pharmacy Apps, reducing day‑to‑day escalation by driving decisions with clear options, tradeoffs, and recommended paths
- Serve as the technology owner for assigned pharmacy applications, establishing platform strategy, priorities, roadmap, operational objectives, and investment recommendations
- Own intake evaluation, prioritization, and sequencing of enhancement requests, operational improvements, technical debt remediation, regulatory requirements, and platform modernization initiatives
- Accountable for solution-level architecture decisions within assigned pharmacy platforms, including integration patterns, technical tradeoffs, lifecycle planning, scalability, resiliency, and maintainability in partnership with Enterprise Architecture
- Understand and actively manage the business impact of platform performance on patient onboarding, therapy fulfillment, case processing, reimbursement workflows, pharmacy operations, and client commitments
Strategy, Roadmap & Platform Evolution
- Develop and maintain multi-year application roadmaps that align business priorities, technical debt reduction, platform modernization, regulatory requirements, and operational risk management
- Balance feature delivery, run stability, remediation work, lifecycle management, and modernization investments across assigned pharmacy platforms
- Identify automation, simplification, and platform rationalization opportunities that improve scalability, reliability, cost efficiency, and business usability
- Provide clear investment recommendations and tradeoffs to business and technology leadership based on business value, operational risk, compliance needs, and platform health
Planning, Financial & Capacity Management
- Develop and manage delivery plans, schedules, and budgets for Pharmacy Applications and supporting middleware
- Translate systems and integration LOE (interfaces, data flows, environments, validation) into schedule and cost forecasts
- Maintain capacity plans across onshore and offshore teams, aligning priorities to skills in systems integration, SQL, API development, and operational support
- Own solution‑level resource management across Engineering, Integration, QA, PM, and external partners
- Understand and manage capital vs. expense treatment aligned to enterprise finance standards for pharmacy systems
- Protect Sonexus revenue and operations by understanding system availability, financial impact, and risk tied to pharmacy platform decisions
SDLC Governance, Delivery Discipline & Flow of Work
- Define and operate a consistent, well‑understood flow of work for Pharmacy Applications from intake through deployment, hypercare, and run
- Ensure adherence to enterprise SDLC gates, QA standards, structured change control, and operational readiness requirements
- Ensure platform observability requirements are incorporated into the SDLC flow of work (logging standards, monitoring instrumentation, alert hygiene, and post‑incident follow‑ups) to prevent recurring operational issues
- Maintain delivery hygiene through WBS, RAID logs, interface inventories, risk management, decision logs, and issue tracking
- Apply governance that is disciplined and right‑sized, avoiding over‑engineered processes while maintaining operational rigor
- Identify recurring delivery or runtime breakdowns within pharmacy systems and drive targeted process and integration improvements rooted in root‑cause analysis
- Adjust planning, governance, and communication practices based on delivery phase, operational risk, and observed system outcomes
- Define and maintain clear accountability boundaries between Product, Architecture, Engineering, Infrastructure, Service Operations, vendors, and business stakeholders to ensure effective execution within the Sonexus operating model
- Maintain application interface inventories, critical data flows, dependency mapping, and integration health across internal and external platforms
Build-to-Run Transition & Run Stability
- Ensure build‑to‑run transitions for Pharmacy Applications are clearly defined, documented, and executed, including environment readiness, access controls, and knowledge transfer
- Be accountable for operational outcomes, service performance, and remediation plans for assigned pharmacy platforms and related integration services
- Partner with business stakeholders and technical teams to define and maintain Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs) for pharmacy platforms and critical integration flows (e.g., availability, latency, error rates, throughput, processing success)
- Ensure monitoring, dashboards, and alerting are implemented to support defined SLIs/SLOs, including escalation paths and operational runbooks for timely response and recovery
- Partner with run support, infrastructure, and vendor teams to triage, prioritize, and resolve issues effectively
- Own intake and prioritization of break/fix work, technical debt, operational enhancements, and remediation initiatives
- Drive root‑cause analysis and preventative actions to reduce repeat incidents and operational risk
- Own application environment strategy including development, testing, validation, training, and production environments, ensuring availability, refresh processes, access controls, and release readiness
Quality, Compliance & Evidence-Based Readiness
- Enforce consistent requirements, integration validation, and testing practices to strengthen end‑to‑end quality accountability
- Ensure QA, security, networking, and compliance requirements are met, including required evidence, approvals, and remediation
- Maintain clean, validated, PHI‑safe operational outputs (data extracts, interfaces, reports) prior to internal or external use
- Strengthen delivery confidence through evidence‑based readiness rather than last‑minute escalation
- Define evidence‑based operational readiness for releases by validating SLI/SLO coverage (monitoring + alerting) for critical pharmacy workflows before promoting changes to production
- Ensure pharmacy application solutions satisfy applicable regulatory, audit, privacy, security, and data retention requirements while maintaining operational readiness and business continuity
Cross-Functional Leadership & Stakeholder Alignment
- Lead and align Engineering, Integration, QA, PM, Infrastructure, Security, Product, APS, and Business stakeholders
- Partner closely with offshore systems and integration teams, setting clear priorities, ownership boundaries, and escalation paths
- Maintain clear ownership, accountability, and communication across distributed teams and third‑party vendors
- Ensure consistent, aligned messaging across functions to reduce churn, rework, and operational confusion
- Partner effectively with APS, Product, and Pharmacy Operations leadership on platform impacts, regulatory risk, and solution evolution
- Lead relationships with application vendors, implementation partners, and managed service providers, including roadmap alignment, performance management, issue escalation, contract fulfillment, and delivery oversight
Stakeholder Leadership & Client Presence
- Demonstrate strong executive presence in internal and external discussions related to pharmacy platforms and integrations
- Prepare and lead system‑focused meetings with clear pre‑reads, architectural context, risks, decisions, and recommended paths
- Communicate clearly in writing and verbally, translating technical and operational realities into business‑appropriate language
- Influence and negotiate without authority by presenting system tradeoffs grounded in data, platform constraints, and operational risk
- Partner with business leaders to translate pharmacy operational needs into executable application priorities, delivery plans, and measurable platform outcomes
Leadership & People Development
- Lead a dedicated Pharmacy Applications team of approximately 3-5 team members, including a Technical Lead, Business Analyst, and engineers who may specialize in integration, application support, or platform delivery
- Set clear priorities, ownership expectations, performance goals, and development plans for assigned team members while fostering a culture of accountability and follow‑through
- Build team capability across requirements analysis, solution design, integration execution, operational support, documentation, and business‑facing communication
- Ensure team roles are aligned to the operating model so the team can support both delivery execution and run stability without fragmented ownership
QUALIFICATIONS
- 8-12 years of experience, preferred
- Bachelor’s degree in related field, or equivalent work experience, preferred
- Experience leading cross‑functional delivery teams (Engineering, Integration, QA, PM)
- Strong understanding of enterprise systems, middleware, APIs, SQL‑based data access, and hybrid cloud environments
- Demonstrated capability in estimation, planning, SDLC governance, and operational delivery execution
- Demonstrated ability to manage delivery plans, budgets, and capacity across multiple initiatives
- Experience operating in regulated or operationally critical environments
- Demonstrated use of structured delivery artifacts (e.g., WBS, interface inventories, LOE‑based estimates, RAID logs, change control)
- Experience directly managing a small technical team, including technical leads, business analysts, and engineers
- Experience owning application roadmaps, platform health, prioritization decisions, and vendor delivery outcomes
- Experience supporting pharmacy, healthcare, regulated, or operationally critical platforms preferred
COMPENSATION
- Anticipated salary range: $123,400 - $176,300
- Bonus eligible: Yes
Benefits: Cardinal Health offers a wide variety of benefits and programs to support health and well-being.
- 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
Application window anticipated to close: 10/10/2026 *if interested in opportunity, please submit application as soon as possible.
The salary range listed is an estimate. Pay at Cardinal Health is determined by multiple factors including, but not limited to, a candidate’s geographical location, relevant education, experience and skills and an evaluation of internal pay equity.
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 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.
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INTRODUCTION
Commercial Technologies manages the enterprise's portfolio of commercial technologies to maximize the business value of the technologies and enhance the customer experience. This function creates strategies for the portfolio and innovative solutions based on relationships with business leaders, develops back-end solutions and capabilities, and improves the front-end experience.
Commercial Technologies Software Engineering develops design options, process improvements and back-end solutions for commercial technologies to maximize performance and suitability for business needs. This job family manages engineering projects and plans for commercial technologies and interfaces with product managers to develop objectives. This job family assesses product systems, identifies opportunities for process and system improvements, and develops solutions through application of engineering principles.
Responsibilities
Solution Ownership & Delivery
- Own end‑to‑end outcomes for assigned Pharmacy Applications across intake, build/configuration, integration, transition to run, and ongoing support
- Serve as the single accountable owner for pharmacy system delivery, stability, and outcomes, eliminating fragmented ownership across platforms and vendors
- Translate pharmacy, operations, and business goals into executable delivery and integration plans with clear scope, dependencies, success criteria, and risk awareness
- Ensure predictable delivery through disciplined planning, estimation, execution, and follow‑through in an integration‑heavy, operationally sensitive environment
- Establish and enforce solution‑level decision rights for Pharmacy Apps, reducing day‑to‑day escalation by driving decisions with clear options, tradeoffs, and recommended paths
- Serve as the technology owner for assigned pharmacy applications, establishing platform strategy, priorities, roadmap, operational objectives, and investment recommendations
- Own intake evaluation, prioritization, and sequencing of enhancement requests, operational improvements, technical debt remediation, regulatory requirements, and platform modernization initiatives
- Accountable for solution-level architecture decisions within assigned pharmacy platforms, including integration patterns, technical tradeoffs, lifecycle planning, scalability, resiliency, and maintainability in partnership with Enterprise Architecture
- Understand and actively manage the business impact of platform performance on patient onboarding, therapy fulfillment, case processing, reimbursement workflows, pharmacy operations, and client commitments
Strategy, Roadmap & Platform Evolution
- Develop and maintain multi-year application roadmaps that align business priorities, technical debt reduction, platform modernization, regulatory requirements, and operational risk management
- Balance feature delivery, run stability, remediation work, lifecycle management, and modernization investments across assigned pharmacy platforms
- Identify automation, simplification, and platform rationalization opportunities that improve scalability, reliability, cost efficiency, and business usability
- Provide clear investment recommendations and tradeoffs to business and technology leadership based on business value, operational risk, compliance needs, and platform health
Planning, Financial & Capacity Management
- Develop and manage delivery plans, schedules, and budgets for Pharmacy Applications and supporting middleware
- Translate systems and integration LOE (interfaces, data flows, environments, validation) into schedule and cost forecasts
- Maintain capacity plans across onshore and offshore teams, aligning priorities to skills in systems integration, SQL, API development, and operational support
- Own solution‑level resource management across Engineering, Integration, QA, PM, and external partners
- Understand and manage capital vs. expense treatment aligned to enterprise finance standards for pharmacy systems
- Protect Sonexus revenue and operations by understanding system availability, financial impact, and risk tied to pharmacy platform decisions
SDLC Governance, Delivery Discipline & Flow of Work
- Define and operate a consistent, well‑understood flow of work for Pharmacy Applications from intake through deployment, hypercare, and run
- Ensure adherence to enterprise SDLC gates, QA standards, structured change control, and operational readiness requirements
- Ensure platform observability requirements are incorporated into the SDLC flow of work (logging standards, monitoring instrumentation, alert hygiene, and post‑incident follow‑ups) to prevent recurring operational issues
- Maintain delivery hygiene through WBS, RAID logs, interface inventories, risk management, decision logs, and issue tracking
- Apply governance that is disciplined and right‑sized, avoiding over‑engineered processes while maintaining operational rigor
- Identify recurring delivery or runtime breakdowns within pharmacy systems and drive targeted process and integration improvements rooted in root‑cause analysis
- Adjust planning, governance, and communication practices based on delivery phase, operational risk, and observed system outcomes
- Define and maintain clear accountability boundaries between Product, Architecture, Engineering, Infrastructure, Service Operations, vendors, and business stakeholders to ensure effective execution within the Sonexus operating model
- Maintain application interface inventories, critical data flows, dependency mapping, and integration health across internal and external platforms
Build-to-Run Transition & Run Stability
- Ensure build‑to‑run transitions for Pharmacy Applications are clearly defined, documented, and executed, including environment readiness, access controls, and knowledge transfer
- Be accountable for operational outcomes, service performance, and remediation plans for assigned pharmacy platforms and related integration services
- Partner with business stakeholders and technical teams to define and maintain Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs) for pharmacy platforms and critical integration flows (e.g., availability, latency, error rates, throughput, processing success)
- Ensure monitoring, dashboards, and alerting are implemented to support defined SLIs/SLOs, including escalation paths and operational runbooks for timely response and recovery
- Partner with run support, infrastructure, and vendor teams to triage, prioritize, and resolve issues effectively
- Own intake and prioritization of break/fix work, technical debt, operational enhancements, and remediation initiatives
- Drive root‑cause analysis and preventative actions to reduce repeat incidents and operational risk
- Own application environment strategy including development, testing, validation, training, and production environments, ensuring availability, refresh processes, access controls, and release readiness
Quality, Compliance & Evidence-Based Readiness
- Enforce consistent requirements, integration validation, and testing practices to strengthen end‑to‑end quality accountability
- Ensure QA, security, networking, and compliance requirements are met, including required evidence, approvals, and remediation
- Maintain clean, validated, PHI‑safe operational outputs (data extracts, interfaces, reports) prior to internal or external use
- Strengthen delivery confidence through evidence‑based readiness rather than last‑minute escalation
- Define evidence‑based operational readiness for releases by validating SLI/SLO coverage (monitoring + alerting) for critical pharmacy workflows before promoting changes to production
- Ensure pharmacy application solutions satisfy applicable regulatory, audit, privacy, security, and data retention requirements while maintaining operational readiness and business continuity
Cross-Functional Leadership & Stakeholder Alignment
- Lead and align Engineering, Integration, QA, PM, Infrastructure, Security, Product, APS, and Business stakeholders
- Partner closely with offshore systems and integration teams, setting clear priorities, ownership boundaries, and escalation paths
- Maintain clear ownership, accountability, and communication across distributed teams and third‑party vendors
- Ensure consistent, aligned messaging across functions to reduce churn, rework, and operational confusion
- Partner effectively with APS, Product, and Pharmacy Operations leadership on platform impacts, regulatory risk, and solution evolution
- Lead relationships with application vendors, implementation partners, and managed service providers, including roadmap alignment, performance management, issue escalation, contract fulfillment, and delivery oversight
Stakeholder Leadership & Client Presence
- Demonstrate strong executive presence in internal and external discussions related to pharmacy platforms and integrations
- Prepare and lead system‑focused meetings with clear pre‑reads, architectural context, risks, decisions, and recommended paths
- Communicate clearly in writing and verbally, translating technical and operational realities into business‑appropriate language
- Influence and negotiate without authority by presenting system tradeoffs grounded in data, platform constraints, and operational risk
- Partner with business leaders to translate pharmacy operational needs into executable application priorities, delivery plans, and measurable platform outcomes
Leadership & People Development
- Lead a dedicated Pharmacy Applications team of approximately 3-5 team members, including a Technical Lead, Business Analyst, and engineers who may specialize in integration, application support, or platform delivery
- Set clear priorities, ownership expectations, performance goals, and development plans for assigned team members while fostering a culture of accountability and follow‑through
- Build team capability across requirements analysis, solution design, integration execution, operational support, documentation, and business‑facing communication
- Ensure team roles are aligned to the operating model so the team can support both delivery execution and run stability without fragmented ownership
QUALIFICATIONS
- 8-12 years of experience, preferred
- Bachelor’s degree in related field, or equivalent work experience, preferred
- Experience leading cross‑functional delivery teams (Engineering, Integration, QA, PM)
- Strong understanding of enterprise systems, middleware, APIs, SQL‑based data access, and hybrid cloud environments
- Demonstrated capability in estimation, planning, SDLC governance, and operational delivery execution
- Demonstrated ability to manage delivery plans, budgets, and capacity across multiple initiatives
- Experience operating in regulated or operationally critical environments
- Demonstrated use of structured delivery artifacts (e.g., WBS, interface inventories, LOE‑based estimates, RAID logs, change control)
- Experience directly managing a small technical team, including technical leads, business analysts, and engineers
- Experience owning application roadmaps, platform health, prioritization decisions, and vendor delivery outcomes
- Experience supporting pharmacy, healthcare, regulated, or operationally critical platforms preferred
COMPENSATION
- Anticipated salary range: $123,400 - $176,300
- Bonus eligible: Yes
Benefits: Cardinal Health offers a wide variety of benefits and programs to support health and well-being.
- 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
Application window anticipated to close: 10/10/2026 *if interested in opportunity, please submit application as soon as possible.
The salary range listed is an estimate. Pay at Cardinal Health is determined by multiple factors including, but not limited to, a candidate’s geographical location, relevant education, experience and skills and an evaluation of internal pay equity.
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 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.
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Software Manager Job Roles in Ohio
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Search Software Manager Jobs in OhioSoftware Manager Jobs in Ohio: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies in Ohio sponsor visas for software managers?
Large Ohio employers with established immigration programs include Nationwide Insurance, JPMorgan Chase, Huntington Bancshares, Kroger Technology, and Battelle in Columbus; Progressive Insurance and Key Bank in Cleveland; and Procter and Gamble and Fifth Third Bank in Cincinnati. These organizations regularly file Labor Condition Applications for software management roles and have dedicated HR teams familiar with H-1B and employment-based green card processes.
What visa types realistically support software manager roles in Ohio?
Software manager is a specialty occupation requiring a directly related bachelor's degree, making it eligible for H-1B, E-3 visa (Australian nationals), H-1B1 visa (Chilean and Singaporean nationals), and EB-2 or EB-3 employment-based green cards. The H-1B is subject to an annual cap and selection process. Canadian and Mexican nationals should note that software manager does not fall under the USMCA TN visa profession list. F-1 OPT and STEM OPT can serve as a bridge while pursuing longer-term sponsorship.
Which Ohio cities have the most software manager visa sponsorship jobs?
Columbus leads the state due to its concentration of large financial services firms, insurance headquarters, and a growing tech corridor anchored by companies near Ohio State University. Cleveland offers opportunities through banking, healthcare IT, and manufacturing technology firms. Cincinnati's presence of consumer goods and financial companies also generates software manager openings. Dayton and Dublin are smaller but active markets, particularly for defense technology and insurance sector roles.
How to find software manager visa sponsorship jobs in Ohio?
Migrate Mate lists Ohio employers with verified visa sponsorship history for software manager roles, letting you search by city and company without sifting through postings from employers who don't sponsor. Focus your search on Columbus, Cleveland, and Cincinnati, where the largest engineering organizations are based. Filtering for companies with active H-1B or employment-based green card filing history significantly narrows your list to genuinely sponsorship-ready employers.
Are there any Ohio-specific factors that affect visa sponsorship for software managers?
Ohio's heavy presence of financial services, insurance, and healthcare IT firms means software manager roles often sit within regulated industries, which can slow internal hiring timelines but also signals stable, long-term employers willing to invest in multi-year visa processes including PERM labor certification. Ohio State University, Case Western Reserve, and the University of Cincinnati also create strong OPT-to-sponsorship pipelines, with many Columbus and Cleveland employers actively recruiting from these programs for management-track roles.
What is the prevailing wage for sponsored software manager jobs in Ohio?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.