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Director of Solutions Engineering roles attract green card sponsorship from U.S. employers who need advanced-degree professionals to lead technical presales and customer-facing architecture teams long-term. Most sponsorships follow the EB-2 or EB-3 path, requiring PERM labor certification with DOL before USCIS reviews the I-140 petition. Priority-date backlogs vary by nationality, so starting early matters.
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Requisition ID
94667
Department
Tech Data AI Ventures
Job Function
Tech Data AI Ventures
Location
New York, New York, United States
Role Location Designation
Hybrid - 3 days per week
Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per week
Business Unit
Technology, Data, AI and Ventures (TDAV)
Within the Tech, Data, AI, Ventures (TDAV) organization, our work is guided by a shared vision: deploying the power of technology, data, AI and ventures to accelerate sustainable competitive advantage for New York Life's businesses. We build solutions that power how we serve policy owners, agents, advisors and employees while delivering measurable business outcomes.
Across technology, data, AI, cyber, product, digital experience, architecture and infrastructure, TDAV combines the scale and investment of an industry leader, access to leading-edge technologies and the opportunity to help shape how a world-class financial services company competes in the AI era — all backed by the stability and purpose of a mutual company built to last.
Role Overview
The Head of Integrated Solutions Engineering will lead the engineering strategy, delivery, and evolution of shared technology platforms supporting New York Life’s Insurance, Annuities, and Wealth businesses. This leader will be accountable for critical enterprise capabilities including Illustrations, Tax, Operational Data Management, Policy Generation, and Integration Services, ensuring these platforms are resilient, scalable, secure, and positioned to support continued business growth and innovation.
This role leads a large, multidisciplinary engineering organization and establishes technical direction across multiple product and platform domains. The Head of Integrated Solutions Engineering will guide the modernization of legacy platforms toward cloud-native, API-first, and event-driven architectures while balancing business delivery with long-term platform health and operational excellence.
The successful candidate will bring deep technical credibility developed through progressive software engineering, architecture, and engineering leadership experience. While this role is not expected to write production code, the leader will remain closely engaged in architectural reviews, emerging technology evaluation, complex engineering decisions, and the development of senior technical talent. This individual will partner with business, product, architecture, and technology leaders to translate strategic priorities into sustainable engineering solutions and measurable business outcomes.
What You'll Do
- Set the engineering and platform strategy for Integrated Solutions, defining multi-year technology roadmaps, engineering standards, reference architectures, and modernization priorities across shared capabilities supporting Insurance, Annuities, and Wealth.
- Lead and develop a high-performing engineering organization of employees and consultants, including engineering leaders, architects, engineers, and analysts; establish clear accountability, strengthen technical leadership, and foster a culture of engineering excellence, innovation, quality, and continuous learning.
- Modernize and evolve enterprise platforms through cloud-native architectures, microservices, APIs, event-driven integration, containerization, automation, AI-assisted engineering practices, and modern software delivery approaches while maintaining the stability of mission-critical capabilities.
- Drive architectural and engineering decisions across complex initiatives, partnering with Domain and Enterprise Architecture and other technology and business leaders to resolve dependencies, manage risk, improve connectivity across internal and third-party platforms, and ensure solutions support broader business objectives.
- Own engineering health and operational excellence across Integrated Solutions platforms by establishing measurable outcomes for reliability, resiliency, security, scalability, observability, deployment frequency, engineering productivity, incident management, and technical debt reduction.
What You'll Bring
Required Skills
- 15+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including experience designing and building enterprise-scale distributed systems, with demonstrated progression through software engineering, technical leadership, architecture, and engineering leadership roles.
- 10+ years of experience leading large engineering organizations responsible for building and operating mission-critical enterprise platforms, including demonstrated success developing engineering leaders, architects, and senior technical talent.
- Deep technical expertise in modern application and platform architecture, including cloud-native development, microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures, distributed systems, enterprise integration patterns, container platforms, and modern data integration strategies.
- Demonstrated experience modernizing complex legacy technology environments while maintaining operational stability and balancing near-term business priorities with long-term architecture, platform health, security, resiliency, scalability, and technical debt reduction.
- Experience establishing and advancing modern engineering practices, including CI/CD, DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code, automated testing, observability, Site Reliability Engineering practices, and AI-assisted software development and automation.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, systems analysis, business, or a related field, or equivalent experience, with exceptional communication and influencing skills and the ability to translate complex technical concepts for engineers, architects, business leaders, and executive stakeholders.
Preferred Skills
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, along with Kubernetes, container platforms, API gateways, event-streaming technologies such as Kafka or Event Hubs, REST APIs, GraphQL, and modern data platforms.
- Experience applying Domain-Driven Design, event-driven architecture, enterprise integration patterns, and related architectural approaches within large-scale, complex technology environments.
- Experience applying AI/ML, Generative AI, intelligent automation, and emerging engineering technologies to improve software development productivity, engineering practices, or enterprise platform capabilities.
- Experience leading technology platforms or engineering organizations supporting insurance, annuities, wealth management, financial services, or similarly complex and highly integrated business domains.
Pay Transparency
Salary Range: $185,000-$264,500
Overtime eligible: Exempt
Discretionary bonus eligible: Yes
Sales bonus eligible: No
Actual base salary will be determined based on several factors but not limited to individual’s experience, skills, qualifications, and job location. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. In addition to base salary, employees may also be eligible to participate in an incentive program.
Company Overview
At New York Life, our 180-year legacy of purpose and integrity fuels our future. As we evolve into a more technology-, data-, and AI-enabled organization, we remain grounded in the values that drive lasting impact.
Our diverse business portfolio creates opportunities to make a difference across industries and communities—inviting bold thinking, collaborative problem-solving, and purpose-driven innovation. Here, you’ll find the rare balance of long-standing stability and forward momentum, supported by an inclusive team that honors tradition while embracing progress.
As a Fortune 100 mutual company, we offer a place to grow your skills, contribute to meaningful work, and deliver solutions that matter. Your ideas drive what’s next, and your growth powers it.
Our Benefits
We provide a full package of benefits for employees – and have unique offerings for a modern workforce, including leave programs, adoption assistance, and student loan repayment programs. Based on feedback from our employees, we continue to refine and add benefits to our offering, so that you can flourish both inside and outside of work.
Our Commitment to Inclusion
At New York Life, fostering an inclusive workplace is fundamental to who we are and how we serve our communities. We have a longstanding commitment to creating an environment where individuals can contribute their best and succeed together. This foundation is rooted in our core values of humanity and integrity, ensuring that every employee feels valued and supported. By embracing a broad range of perspectives and experiences, we achieve greater success and fulfill our promise of providing financial security and peace of mind to families across all communities.
Recognized as one of Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies, New York Life is committed to improving local communities through a culture of employee giving and volunteerism, supported by the Foundation. We're proud that due to our mutuality, we operate in the best interests of our policy owners.
Job Requisition ID: 94667
Job Description
Requisition ID
94667
Department
Tech Data AI Ventures
Job Function
Tech Data AI Ventures
Location
New York, New York, United States
Role Location Designation
Hybrid - 3 days per week
Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per week
Business Unit
Technology, Data, AI and Ventures (TDAV)
Within the Tech, Data, AI, Ventures (TDAV) organization, our work is guided by a shared vision: deploying the power of technology, data, AI and ventures to accelerate sustainable competitive advantage for New York Life's businesses. We build solutions that power how we serve policy owners, agents, advisors and employees while delivering measurable business outcomes.
Across technology, data, AI, cyber, product, digital experience, architecture and infrastructure, TDAV combines the scale and investment of an industry leader, access to leading-edge technologies and the opportunity to help shape how a world-class financial services company competes in the AI era — all backed by the stability and purpose of a mutual company built to last.
Role Overview
The Head of Integrated Solutions Engineering will lead the engineering strategy, delivery, and evolution of shared technology platforms supporting New York Life’s Insurance, Annuities, and Wealth businesses. This leader will be accountable for critical enterprise capabilities including Illustrations, Tax, Operational Data Management, Policy Generation, and Integration Services, ensuring these platforms are resilient, scalable, secure, and positioned to support continued business growth and innovation.
This role leads a large, multidisciplinary engineering organization and establishes technical direction across multiple product and platform domains. The Head of Integrated Solutions Engineering will guide the modernization of legacy platforms toward cloud-native, API-first, and event-driven architectures while balancing business delivery with long-term platform health and operational excellence.
The successful candidate will bring deep technical credibility developed through progressive software engineering, architecture, and engineering leadership experience. While this role is not expected to write production code, the leader will remain closely engaged in architectural reviews, emerging technology evaluation, complex engineering decisions, and the development of senior technical talent. This individual will partner with business, product, architecture, and technology leaders to translate strategic priorities into sustainable engineering solutions and measurable business outcomes.
What You'll Do
- Set the engineering and platform strategy for Integrated Solutions, defining multi-year technology roadmaps, engineering standards, reference architectures, and modernization priorities across shared capabilities supporting Insurance, Annuities, and Wealth.
- Lead and develop a high-performing engineering organization of employees and consultants, including engineering leaders, architects, engineers, and analysts; establish clear accountability, strengthen technical leadership, and foster a culture of engineering excellence, innovation, quality, and continuous learning.
- Modernize and evolve enterprise platforms through cloud-native architectures, microservices, APIs, event-driven integration, containerization, automation, AI-assisted engineering practices, and modern software delivery approaches while maintaining the stability of mission-critical capabilities.
- Drive architectural and engineering decisions across complex initiatives, partnering with Domain and Enterprise Architecture and other technology and business leaders to resolve dependencies, manage risk, improve connectivity across internal and third-party platforms, and ensure solutions support broader business objectives.
- Own engineering health and operational excellence across Integrated Solutions platforms by establishing measurable outcomes for reliability, resiliency, security, scalability, observability, deployment frequency, engineering productivity, incident management, and technical debt reduction.
What You'll Bring
Required Skills
- 15+ years of progressive software engineering experience, including experience designing and building enterprise-scale distributed systems, with demonstrated progression through software engineering, technical leadership, architecture, and engineering leadership roles.
- 10+ years of experience leading large engineering organizations responsible for building and operating mission-critical enterprise platforms, including demonstrated success developing engineering leaders, architects, and senior technical talent.
- Deep technical expertise in modern application and platform architecture, including cloud-native development, microservices, APIs, event-driven architectures, distributed systems, enterprise integration patterns, container platforms, and modern data integration strategies.
- Demonstrated experience modernizing complex legacy technology environments while maintaining operational stability and balancing near-term business priorities with long-term architecture, platform health, security, resiliency, scalability, and technical debt reduction.
- Experience establishing and advancing modern engineering practices, including CI/CD, DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code, automated testing, observability, Site Reliability Engineering practices, and AI-assisted software development and automation.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, systems analysis, business, or a related field, or equivalent experience, with exceptional communication and influencing skills and the ability to translate complex technical concepts for engineers, architects, business leaders, and executive stakeholders.
Preferred Skills
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, along with Kubernetes, container platforms, API gateways, event-streaming technologies such as Kafka or Event Hubs, REST APIs, GraphQL, and modern data platforms.
- Experience applying Domain-Driven Design, event-driven architecture, enterprise integration patterns, and related architectural approaches within large-scale, complex technology environments.
- Experience applying AI/ML, Generative AI, intelligent automation, and emerging engineering technologies to improve software development productivity, engineering practices, or enterprise platform capabilities.
- Experience leading technology platforms or engineering organizations supporting insurance, annuities, wealth management, financial services, or similarly complex and highly integrated business domains.
Pay Transparency
Salary Range: $185,000-$264,500
Overtime eligible: Exempt
Discretionary bonus eligible: Yes
Sales bonus eligible: No
Actual base salary will be determined based on several factors but not limited to individual’s experience, skills, qualifications, and job location. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. In addition to base salary, employees may also be eligible to participate in an incentive program.
Company Overview
At New York Life, our 180-year legacy of purpose and integrity fuels our future. As we evolve into a more technology-, data-, and AI-enabled organization, we remain grounded in the values that drive lasting impact.
Our diverse business portfolio creates opportunities to make a difference across industries and communities—inviting bold thinking, collaborative problem-solving, and purpose-driven innovation. Here, you’ll find the rare balance of long-standing stability and forward momentum, supported by an inclusive team that honors tradition while embracing progress.
As a Fortune 100 mutual company, we offer a place to grow your skills, contribute to meaningful work, and deliver solutions that matter. Your ideas drive what’s next, and your growth powers it.
Our Benefits
We provide a full package of benefits for employees – and have unique offerings for a modern workforce, including leave programs, adoption assistance, and student loan repayment programs. Based on feedback from our employees, we continue to refine and add benefits to our offering, so that you can flourish both inside and outside of work.
Our Commitment to Inclusion
At New York Life, fostering an inclusive workplace is fundamental to who we are and how we serve our communities. We have a longstanding commitment to creating an environment where individuals can contribute their best and succeed together. This foundation is rooted in our core values of humanity and integrity, ensuring that every employee feels valued and supported. By embracing a broad range of perspectives and experiences, we achieve greater success and fulfill our promise of providing financial security and peace of mind to families across all communities.
Recognized as one of Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies, New York Life is committed to improving local communities through a culture of employee giving and volunteerism, supported by the Foundation. We're proud that due to our mutuality, we operate in the best interests of our policy owners.
Job Requisition ID: 94667
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship in Director of Solutions Engineering
Document your engineering leadership scope thoroughly
PERM requires your employer to define the job's minimum requirements precisely. Gather evidence of your direct reports, budget authority, and cross-functional influence now so the attorney can draft a defensible job description that reflects your actual director-level duties.
Verify your degree meets EB-2 requirements early
EB-2 covers advanced-degree holders or candidates with a bachelor's plus five years of progressive experience. If your degree is from outside the U.S., get a credential evaluation before interviews so sponsoring employers can confirm your EB-2 eligibility without delays later.
Search for employers with active green card filing history
Target companies that have sponsored PERM cases for similar technical leadership roles, not just H-1B visa petitions. Migrate Mate lists employers with verified green card sponsorship history by role, so you can focus your outreach on companies already familiar with the EB-2 and EB-3 process.
Ask employers about their PERM recruitment timeline
PERM requires DOL-supervised recruitment before filing, which typically takes several months. During offer negotiation, ask whether the company runs PERM recruitment in-house or through outside counsel, and what their average time from offer to I-140 filing looks like.
Check prevailing wages for your metro using OFLC Wage Search
DOL sets the prevailing wage floor your employer must meet to file a PERM case. Look up the wage for your SOC code and metropolitan area on OFLC Wage Search before accepting an offer to confirm the salary qualifies at the level required for your role.
Understand AC21 portability before you accept a competing offer
Once your I-485 has been pending 180 days or more, AC21 lets you change employers if the new role is in the same or a similar occupation. For a Director of Solutions Engineering moving to a comparable leadership role, your priority date can also carry over to the new employer's I-140 once the original was approved.
Green Card Director of Solutions Engineering: Frequently Asked Questions
How is green card sponsorship different from H-1B sponsorship for a Director of Solutions Engineering?
H-1B sponsorship gives you temporary work authorization in two- or three-year increments and requires an LCA filed with DOL. Green card sponsorship through EB-2 or EB-3 leads to lawful permanent residence. It involves PERM labor certification, a prevailing wage determination, DOL-supervised recruitment, and then an I-140 petition filed with USCIS. The process takes longer but the outcome is permanent, not tied to employer continuity after I-485 approval.
What is the PERM process and what does the employer have to do?
PERM, or Program Electronic Review Management, is a DOL labor certification process your employer must complete before USCIS can approve an employment-based green card. The employer documents the job requirements, obtains a prevailing wage determination, runs a supervised recruitment campaign to show no qualified U.S. workers are available, and then files the ETA-9089 application with DOL. Only after certification does the employer file the I-140 petition with USCIS.
How do I find employers who actively sponsor green cards for director-level engineering roles?
Many companies sponsor H-1B visas but stop short of green card sponsorship for senior roles because of the cost and time commitment involved. Migrate Mate lists employers with verified green card sponsorship history by occupation, so you can filter your job search to companies that have already sponsored PERM cases for technical leadership roles rather than relying on job postings that rarely disclose sponsorship intent upfront.
Do EB-2 and EB-3 green cards have annual limits, and how do backlogs affect my timeline?
Both EB-2 and EB-3 have annual numerical limits and per-country limits set by law. Nationals of countries with high demand, particularly India and China, often face significant priority-date backlogs because more petitions are filed than visas are available each year. Your priority date is set when DOL accepts the PERM application, and you can only file the I-485 adjustment of status once that date becomes current in the monthly Visa Bulletin published by the State Department.
Can I change jobs while my green card case is pending?
AC21 job portability lets you change employers after your I-485 adjustment of status application has been pending for 180 days or more, provided the new role is in the same or a similar occupational classification. For a Director of Solutions Engineering moving to a comparable technical leadership position, the transition is generally supportable. Your priority date from an approved I-140 can also carry over to a new employer's I-140, protecting the time already accrued in the backlog queue.