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The Solution Owner is accountable for end to end ownership of one or more Sonexus solutions, ensuring predictable delivery, operational stability, financial stewardship, and strong alignment with business and product partners. This role serves as the primary point of accountability for solution outcomes, reducing fragmented ownership, minimizing escalation driven delivery, improving consistency of execution, and ensuring build to run transitions and run stability are explicitly owned and measurable.
This role leads cross functional delivery teams responsible for building, implementing, and sustaining solutions on a customized Salesforce platform and hybrid technology stack. The Solution Owner ensures work is planned, governed, delivered, and transitioned to run in alignment with the Sonexus IT operating model and SDLC standards.

What Commercial Technologies Software Engineering contributes to Cardinal Health
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 endtoend outcomes for assigned solutions across intake, build, implementation, transition to run, and ongoing support
• Serve as the single accountable owner for solution delivery, stability, and outcomes, eliminating fragmented ownership across teams
• Translate product and business goals into executable delivery plans with clear scope, milestones, dependencies, and success criteria
• Ensure predictable delivery through disciplined planning, estimation, execution, and followthrough
• Establish and enforce solutionlevel decision rights, reducing daytoday escalation by driving decisions with clear options, tradeoffs, and recommended paths

Planning, Financial & Capacity Management

• Develop and manage delivery plans, schedules, and budgets for assigned solutions
• Translate LOE schedule cost to enable realistic forecasting and commitment management
• Maintain capacity plans across teams, aligning priorities to available skills and avoiding role overlap or singlethreading
• Own solutionlevel resource management across Engineering, BA, QA, PM, and partner teams
• Understand and manage capital vs. expense treatment aligned to enterprise finance standards
• Protect Sonexus revenue by understanding financial impact, margin implications, and revenue risk tied to delivery decisions

SDLC Governance, Delivery Discipline & Flow of Work

• Define and operate a consistent, wellunderstood flow of work for the solution from intake through delivery, release, hypercare, and run
• Ensure adherence to enterprise SDLC gates, QA standards, and structured change control
• Maintain delivery hygiene through WBS, RAID logs, risk management, decision logs, and issue tracking
• Apply governance that is disciplined and rightsized, avoiding overengineered processes used to compensate for weak delivery fundamentals
• Identify recurring delivery and operational breakdowns and drive targeted process improvements rooted in rootcause analysis
• Adjust planning, governance, and communication practices based on delivery phase and observed outcomes, reinforcing continuous improvement

BuildtoRun Transition & Run Stability

• Ensure buildtorun transitions are clearly defined, documented, and executed, including readiness criteria and knowledge transfer
• Be accountable for solution stability postrelease
• Partner with support and run teams to triage, prioritize, and resolve issues effectively
• Own intake and prioritization of break/fix work, technical debt, and remediation initiatives
• Drive rootcause analysis to prevent recurring issues and reduce rework

Quality, Compliance & EvidenceBased Readiness

• Enforce consistent requirements and testing practices to strengthen endtoend quality accountability
• Ensure QA, accessibility, security, and compliance requirements are met, including required evidence, signoffs, and remediation
• Maintain clean, validated, PHIsafe demos and deliverables prior to internal or clientfacing reviews
• Strengthen delivery confidence through evidencebased readiness rather than lastminute escalation

CrossFunctional Leadership & Stakeholder Alignment

• Lead and align Engineering, BA, QA, PM, Product, APS, and Business stakeholders
• Maintain clear ownership, accountability, and communication across teams
• Ensure consistent, aligned messaging across functions to reduce churn, rework, and conflicting direction
• Partner effectively with APS and Product leadership on roadmap impacts, client risks, and solution evolution

Stakeholder Leadership & Client Presence

• Demonstrate strong executive presence in internal and clientfacing interactions
• Prepare and lead meetings with clear prereads, agendas, risks, decisions, and recommended paths
• Communicate clearly in writing and verbally, maintaining appropriate internal vs. external voice
• Influence and negotiate without authority by presenting tradeoffs grounded in data and delivery realities

Leadership & People Development

• Coach and develop BAs, PMs, Technical Leads, Engineers, and QAs to build sustainable delivery and leadership capability
• Hold teams accountable for outcomes while fostering a culture of ownership and followthrough

Qualifications

• 8-12 years of experience, preferred
• Bachelor's degree in related field, or equivalent work experience, preferred
• Experience leading crossfunctional delivery teams (Engineering, QA, BA, PM)
• Strong understanding of Salesforcebased 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
• Experience operating in regulated environments (healthcare or adjacent industries preferred)
• Demonstrated use of structured delivery artifacts (e.g., WBS, LOE-based estimates, schedules, RAID logs, change control)

What is expected of you and others at this level

• 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

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: 10/09/2026 *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.

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.

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