Director, Digital Governance - McKesson

It’s More Than a Career, It’s a Mission.

Our people are the foundation of our success. By joining our growing team at Sarah Cannon Research Institute (SCRI), a subsidiary of McKesson , you will have the opportunity to become part of one of the largest community-based cancer programs to advance oncology treatments and improve outcomes for cancer patients across the globe. We look for mission-driven candidates who have a desire to advance the fight against cancer and make a difference in the lives of patients diagnosed with cancer every day.

Our Mission

People who live with cancer – those who work to prevent it, fight it, and survive it – are at the heart of every decision we make. Bringing the most innovative medical minds together with the most passionate caregivers in their communities, we are transforming care and personalizing treatment. Through clinical excellence and cutting-edge research, SCRI is redefining cancer care around the world.

The Director, Digital Governance is SCRI’s accountable owner for IT governance, including data, AI and agent governance, in a GxP clinical-research environment — designing and operating the lifecycle controls that govern AI and autonomous agents powering the Agent Factory, in alignment with Enterprise Governance standards. The role also owns SCRI’s data governance framework and operates IT SOPs as inspection-defensible controls, embedding governance directly into technology design, delivery, and operations.

This is a hands-on, build-and-run leadership role, directly accountable for design and execution and ensuring governance is actionable, automated where possible, and measurable — providing real-time visibility into AI accountability, data integrity, digital risk, and regulatory readiness through KPI-driven dashboards and inspection-ready controls.

Duties include but are not limited to:

IT Governance & Inspection Readiness

Operate IT SOPs as inspection-defensible controls through ownership, SOP-to-control traceability, change-impact governance, and effectiveness monitoring.

Author, maintain, and operationalize IT SOPs and controlled documents to GxP, 21 CFR Part 11/Annex 11, and ALCOA+ expectations; ensure SCRI is audit- and inspection-ready on a continuous basis.

AI & Agent Governance

Design, build, and operate SCRI’sAI and agent governance framework , aligned with Enterprise controls and suitable for a GxP clinical-research environment.

Define and operationalize lifecycle governancefor AI and agentic systems: intended-use definition, model and agent documentation (model cards), validation, monitoring of non-deterministic behavior, and retirement/archival.

Establish governance requirements including clinical-expertise review for GxP AI, participant-disclosure handling for AI used in clinical trials, and model-archival protocols.

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