Company Overview:

Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, Cardinal Health, Inc. (NYSE: CAH) is a global, integrated healthcare services and products company connecting patients, providers, payers, pharmacists and manufacturers for integrated care coordination and better patient management. Backed by nearly 100 years of experience, with more than 48,000 employees in nearly 60 countries, Cardinal Health ranks among the top 20 on the Fortune 500 , America's Most Innovative Companies #51,Fortune Sector Leaders : Health Care #5 with a $223 billion. of revenue in FY25

About Cardinal Health International India (CHII) :

This role is part of the Enterprise Technology Platform-The engineering arm of Security for Cardinal Health International India Pvt Ltd (CHII). Cardinal Health International India (CHII) is part of the Cardinal Heath Global Technology and Business Services ( GTBS) team. CHII leverages technology to offer scalable and healthcare solutions to enhance efficiency and improve quality of care across the value chain. Our vision is to build a world class capability center that is an intersection of tech-innovation and learning, empowering our people to build solutions which will solve healthcare's most complex challenges.

The Middleware & Integration function enables Cardinal Health's ability to operate as a connected, responsive, and customer-focused enterprise. Through Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) and modern integration platforms, this role helps ensure that critical business events and data flows are shared across the enterprise in near real time-enabling faster decisions, improved customer experiences, and resilient operations.

This role is accountable for designing, developing, administering, and continuously improving Kafka-based middleware capabilities. The role partners across application, architecture, data, and operations teams to ensure event streaming solutions are scalable, secure, data-safe, and aligned to Cardinal Health's broader technology and business strategy.

How This Role Delivers Value

By advancing modern middleware and Kafka capabilities, this role enables:

Near real-time order, inventory, shipment, and business-event visibility across enterprise platforms
Reliable and data-safe event streaming patterns that improve interoperability across systems
Scalable, secure, and resilient integration platforms that support enterprise growth and modernization
Proactive insights, automation, and monitoring that improve platform reliability and reduce operational effort

Outcomes are achieved through technical excellence, continuous learning, accountability, and strong enterprise partnerships, consistent with Cardinal Health's Leadership Journey ( Leads Self, Lead Others & Lead Business ) expectations

Key Accountabilities

Apply advanced knowledge of Kafka, event streaming, integration patterns, and platform administration to deliver enterprise-scale middleware outcomes
Participate in and support development of standards, policies, and procedures that improve middleware governance, reliability, and adoption
Recommend new practices, processes, metrics, automation, and models that strengthen Kafka platform performance and operational maturity
Work on or lead complex initiatives involving Kafka producers, consumers, connectors, ksqlDB, KStreams, APIs, and custom implementations
Enable event-driven architecture adoption across teams by guiding correct patterns, event modeling, data integrity, and best practices
Provide solutions and guidance that may set precedent for enterprise middleware standards and reusable event-driven patterns
Independently determine methods for completing new platform work while aligning with enterprise architecture, governance, and security expectations
Partner with leads and stakeholders to ensure teams understand technology changes, platform impacts, and adoption expectations
Act as a mentor and subject matter expert to developers, engineers, and less experienced colleagues working with Kafka and event-driven solutions

Platform & Operational Responsibilities

Develop and implement solutions using Kafka.
Administer and improve use of Kafka across the organization including Kafka Producers, Kafka Consumers, Kafka Connect, ksqlDB, KStreams, and custom implementations.
Work with multiple teams to ensure best use of Kafka and data-safe event streaming.
Understand and apply event-driven architecture patterns and Kafka best practices. Enable development teams to do the same.
Assist developers in choosing correct patterns, event modeling, and ensuring data integrity.
Continuous learning to be a Confluent/Kafka subject matter expert.
Work with Kafka API's (e.g. metadata, metrics, admin) to provide pro-active insights and automation.
Perform regular reviews of performance data to ensure efficiency and resiliency.
Contribute regularly to event-driven patterns, best practices, and guidance.
Review feature release and change logs for Kafka, and other related components to ensure best use of these systems across the organization.
Work with lead to ensure all teams are aware of technology changes and impact.
Establish and maintain platform practices that support SDLC discipline, enhancement prioritization, change management, incident reduction, and problem resolution
Acquire a deep understanding of source and sink connector technical details for a variety of platforms including SAP, SAP HANA, Sales Force, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, and others as required.

Required Knowledge & Experience

Strong understanding of SDLC, event-driven architecture, integration patterns, application design, and functional documentation
Hands-on experience with Kafka producers, consumers, connectors, ksqlDB, KStreams, and platform administration capabilities
Ability to translate business and technical requirements into reliable, scalable, and data-safe integration solutions
Working knowledge of infrastructure components, system interoperability, monitoring, metrics, automation, and operational resilience
Experience managing end-to-end integrations, transaction flows, source and sink connectors, and cross-platform dependencies
Exposure to platforms such as SAP, SAP HANA, Salesforce, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, and related enterprise systems preferred

Qualifications

12- 16 years of experience, preferred
Bachelor's degree in related field preferred, or equivalent work experience, preferred
Strong organizational and prioritization skills, with experience working in Agile delivery environments
Ability to enforce platform standards and governance while enabling innovation, speed, and effective adoption

What Is Expected at This Level

Apply advanced knowledge and technical judgment to manage a wide variety of complex middleware and integration initiatives
Contribute to policies, procedures, standards, and operating practices that advance enterprise goals
Recommend new practices, metrics, automation, and models that improve platform outcomes and operational efficiency
Work on or lead complex projects of large scope with significant and long-term impact
Provide solutions that may set precedent and strengthen enterprise middleware capability
Act as a mentor to less experienced colleagues and help build event-driven architecture capability across teams

What You Will Gain From This Role

This role provides an opportunity to work on enterprise-scale middleware and event-driven architecture capabilities that directly support business transformation, platform modernization, and improved customer outcomes.
- Gain deep exposure to enterprise Kafka, Confluent, event streaming, and modern integration platforms
- Build expertise in scalable, secure, and resilient architecture patterns used across critical business systems
- Influence enterprise technology standards, governance practices, and reusable integration patterns
- Partner with architecture, data, security, application, and business teams to solve complex enterprise problems
- Develop leadership capability through mentoring, cross-functional collaboration, and ownership of high-impact initiatives
- Expand career development opportunities through exposure to enterprise architecture, platform engineering, security, data governance, Agile delivery, and business-facing technology leadership
- Contribute to meaningful business outcomes by improving real-time visibility, operational resilience, automation, and customer experience

Deliver results in the Cardinal Health way-with accountability, collaboration, technical excellence, and customer focus.

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.

Senior Engineer - Event-Driven Architecture (EDA)