Sr IAM Engineer - Okta

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. Senior Identity & Access Management (IAM) Engineer – OktaAbout The Job As a Senior IAM Engineer, you are a senior individual contributor operating in a complex, business critical environment, recognized for your depth of expertise in Identity and Access Management. You will own and evolve key IAM platforms, serve as a trusted technical resource across security and technology teams, and deliver solutions that directly enable secure access at scale. This role emphasizes hands-on technical ownership, advanced problem solving, and cross functional influence, without people management responsibility. You will work with significant autonomy, exercising judgment within broadly defined policies, and your decisions will have a material and lasting impact on business outcomes. What You Will Do

• Serve as a senior technical owner for IAM platforms, with primary accountability for design, configuration, integration, and ongoing optimization.
• Lead delivery of complex IAM initiatives, including authentication modernization, CIAM use cases, and secure application integrations.
• Act as a subject matter expert and advisor to engineering, security, and application teams on identity architecture, access controls, and best practices.
• Design and implement scalable authentication and authorization patterns, balancing security, usability, and operational efficiency.
• Troubleshoot and resolve high complexity IAM issues, applying creativity and independent judgment to develop durable solutions.
• Contribute to the evolution of IAM standards, patterns, and methods; influence platform roadmaps and technical direction.
• Partner across organizational boundaries and, when appropriate, serve as a technical lead or principal point of contact for IAM related initiatives.
• Support shared operational responsibilities in a clearly defined, sustainable oncall or escalation model.

What You Will Bring

• Education & Experience: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience and typically 7+ years relative experience.
• Core IAM Expertise: Deep hands-on experience with Okta Identity Engine including authentication flows, lifecycle management, and integrations.
• Technical Depth: Strong understanding of SSO, MFA, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, directory services, and identity lifecycle concepts.
• Scripting or automation experience (e.g., Terraform, Python, PowerShell) used to improve IAM operations and integrations.
• Problem Solving: Proven ability to resolve complex, nonroutine problems using independent judgment within broadly defined standards and policies.
• Autonomy & Impact: Demonstrated success operating with minimal direction, setting technical approaches, and delivering outcomes that are critical to organizational objectives.
• Collaboration: Ability to influence and partner across teams; experience representing IAM in cross functional initiatives or project leadership roles.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with CIAM implementations, customer facing authentication, or largescale identity integrations.
• Exposure to Ping, ForgeRock, or similar IAM platforms in addition to Okta.
• Cloud identity experience (AWS, Azure, GCP) and modern zerotrust security patterns.
• Relevant security or IAM certifications (e.g., Okta, CISSP, CIAM focused credentials).

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 €72,800 - €121,300 McKesson has become aware of online recruiting-related scams in which individuals who are not affiliated with or authorized by McKesson are using McKesson’s (or affiliated entities, like CoverMyMeds or RxCrossroads) name in fraudulent emails, job postings or social media messages. In light of these scams, please bear the following in mind: McKesson Talent Advisors will never solicit money or credit card information in connection with a McKesson job application. McKesson Talent Advisors do not communicate with candidates via online chatrooms or using email accounts such as Gmail or Hotmail. Note that McKesson does rely on a virtual assistant (Gia) for certain recruiting-related communications with candidates. McKesson job postings are posted on our career site: careers.mckesson.com.