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Technical Team Lead roles qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship through PERM labor certification, which requires your employer to document that no qualified U.S. worker is available before filing an I-140 immigrant petition on your behalf. Engineering-heavy leadership positions typically clear the specialty occupation and advanced-degree thresholds that define EB-2 eligibility.
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We are seeking a Technical Team Lead to own the technical direction and delivery of our Client CI/CD platform. The platform enables customers to build, validate, and deploy CRIMS customizations to their dedicated SaaS-hosted environments.
You will combine hands-on engineering with technical leadership, guiding a small development team while collaborating with clients, product owners, security teams, and stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, and continuous improvement of CI/CD pipelines and platform capabilities.
- Define scalable, reliable, and secure automation for building and deploying client customizations.
- Develop infrastructure and deployment automation using Azure DevOps, Terraform and Ansible.
- Use LLM-based tools for automating reviewing proposed changes, identifying potential risks, and troubleshooting issues.
- Establish and maintain DevSecOps practices, including static and dynamic security testing, dependency and vulnerability scanning, CVE remediation workflows, penetration testing coordination, and secure release processes.
- Troubleshoot and resolve production issues involving pipelines, infrastructure, deployments, and customer environments.
- Lead technical estimation, prioritization, architecture decisions, and delivery planning.
- Work directly with clients and stakeholders to refine requirements and define practical solutions.
- Lead and mentor a small development team.
- Create and maintain clear technical documentation, architecture documentation, operational procedures, and support runbooks.
- Improve platform reliability, security, observability, performance, and developer experience.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum 5 years of experience leading or coordinating a software engineering or DevOps team.
- Minimum 5 years of experience working in a DevOps engineering or platform role.
- Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, TeamCity, CircleCI, or other major CI/CD systems.
- Practical experience with Terraform, Ansible, and Docker.
- At least 5 years of hands-on experience with Python, Java, and SQL.
- Proficiency using GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or other agentic development tools and harnesses to improve engineering efficiency.
- Understanding of secure DevSecOps principles, SDLC practices, vulnerability management, CVE workflows, penetration testing, and security scanning.
- Experience troubleshooting production systems and resolving complex technical issues.
- Experience with a major public cloud provider; Azure experience is preferred.
- Strong communication, documentation, analytical, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to translate client requirements into technical designs, estimates, and prioritized delivery plans.
Desirable Qualifications
- Familiarity with Liquibase and database change-management practices.
- Experience with .NET and C#.
- Experience building platforms for SaaS products or dedicated customer environments.
- Familiarity with cloud networking, identity and access management, monitoring, and secrets management.
- Experience implementing automated compliance, security gates, and release controls in CI/CD pipelines.
- Relevant Azure, DevOps, cloud, or security certifications.
Salary Range:
$120,000 - $217,500 Annual
The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.
Employees are eligible to participate in State Street’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match; insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages; paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities; access to our Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.
About State Street
Across the globe, institutional investors rely on us to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability. We keep our clients at the heart of everything we do, and smart, engaged employees are essential to our continued success.
We are committed to fostering an environment where every employee feels valued and empowered to reach their full potential. As an essential partner in our shared success, you’ll benefit from inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and vibrant employee networks that keep you connected to what matters most. Join us in shaping the future.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we consider all qualified applicants for all positions without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship, marital status, domestic partnership or civil union status, familial status, military and veteran status, and other characteristics protected by applicable law.
Job Application Disclosure:
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
About the Role
We are seeking a Technical Team Lead to own the technical direction and delivery of our Client CI/CD platform. The platform enables customers to build, validate, and deploy CRIMS customizations to their dedicated SaaS-hosted environments.
You will combine hands-on engineering with technical leadership, guiding a small development team while collaborating with clients, product owners, security teams, and stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, and continuous improvement of CI/CD pipelines and platform capabilities.
- Define scalable, reliable, and secure automation for building and deploying client customizations.
- Develop infrastructure and deployment automation using Azure DevOps, Terraform and Ansible.
- Use LLM-based tools for automating reviewing proposed changes, identifying potential risks, and troubleshooting issues.
- Establish and maintain DevSecOps practices, including static and dynamic security testing, dependency and vulnerability scanning, CVE remediation workflows, penetration testing coordination, and secure release processes.
- Troubleshoot and resolve production issues involving pipelines, infrastructure, deployments, and customer environments.
- Lead technical estimation, prioritization, architecture decisions, and delivery planning.
- Work directly with clients and stakeholders to refine requirements and define practical solutions.
- Lead and mentor a small development team.
- Create and maintain clear technical documentation, architecture documentation, operational procedures, and support runbooks.
- Improve platform reliability, security, observability, performance, and developer experience.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
- Minimum 5 years of experience leading or coordinating a software engineering or DevOps team.
- Minimum 5 years of experience working in a DevOps engineering or platform role.
- Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, TeamCity, CircleCI, or other major CI/CD systems.
- Practical experience with Terraform, Ansible, and Docker.
- At least 5 years of hands-on experience with Python, Java, and SQL.
- Proficiency using GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or other agentic development tools and harnesses to improve engineering efficiency.
- Understanding of secure DevSecOps principles, SDLC practices, vulnerability management, CVE workflows, penetration testing, and security scanning.
- Experience troubleshooting production systems and resolving complex technical issues.
- Experience with a major public cloud provider; Azure experience is preferred.
- Strong communication, documentation, analytical, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to translate client requirements into technical designs, estimates, and prioritized delivery plans.
Desirable Qualifications
- Familiarity with Liquibase and database change-management practices.
- Experience with .NET and C#.
- Experience building platforms for SaaS products or dedicated customer environments.
- Familiarity with cloud networking, identity and access management, monitoring, and secrets management.
- Experience implementing automated compliance, security gates, and release controls in CI/CD pipelines.
- Relevant Azure, DevOps, cloud, or security certifications.
Salary Range:
$120,000 - $217,500 Annual
The range quoted above applies to the role in the primary location specified. If the candidate would ultimately work outside of the primary location above, the applicable range could differ.
Employees are eligible to participate in State Street’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes: our retirement savings plan (401K) with company match; insurance coverage including basic life, medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, and other optional additional coverages; paid-time off including vacation, sick leave, short term disability, and family care responsibilities; access to our Employee Assistance Program; incentive compensation including eligibility for annual performance-based awards (excluding certain sales roles subject to sales incentive plans); and, eligibility for certain tax advantaged savings plans.
About State Street
Across the globe, institutional investors rely on us to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability. We keep our clients at the heart of everything we do, and smart, engaged employees are essential to our continued success.
We are committed to fostering an environment where every employee feels valued and empowered to reach their full potential. As an essential partner in our shared success, you’ll benefit from inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and vibrant employee networks that keep you connected to what matters most. Join us in shaping the future.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we consider all qualified applicants for all positions without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship, marital status, domestic partnership or civil union status, familial status, military and veteran status, and other characteristics protected by applicable law.
Job Application Disclosure:
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship in Technical Team Lead
Document your technical leadership scope precisely
PERM job descriptions must reflect what you actually do daily. Capture team size, technologies owned, architectural decisions made, and budget authority so the certified job description supports an EB-2 advanced-degree or specialized-skills classification without an RFE.
Target employers with active PERM filing history
Search OFLC disclosure data for companies that have filed PERM applications for software engineering or team lead job titles in the past two years. Prior filings signal an established sponsorship pipeline and HR teams already familiar with DOL recruitment requirements.
Use Migrate Mate to filter sponsoring employers by role
Migrate Mate surfaces Technical Team Lead positions at companies with verified green card sponsorship history, so you spend your search time on employers already willing to run PERM, not on roles where sponsorship is uncertain.
Clarify EB-2 versus EB-3 classification before accepting an offer
Ask your prospective employer which preference category they intend to file under. If your role requires a master's degree or you can document progressive technical leadership, EB-2 avoids the longer backlogs that affect EB-3 for certain countries of birth.
Prepare credential evaluations for non-U.S. degrees early
USCIS requires that foreign degrees be evaluated for U.S. equivalency before I-140 adjudication. A three-year bachelor's degree or a degree from a non-English-language institution often needs a NACES-member evaluation to satisfy the advanced-degree requirement for EB-2.
Understand the PERM recruitment window before your start date
DOL requires employers to complete a 30-day job-posting period and document failed recruitment before filing PERM. Coordinate with your employer so that recruitment testing starts well before your anticipated I-140 filing date, since the certified PERM application expires 180 days after approval.
Green Card Technical Team Lead: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Technical Team Lead role typically qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 sponsorship?
Most Technical Team Lead positions qualify for EB-2 when the role requires a master's degree or equivalent in a technical field, or when you can show progressively complex engineering leadership. Roles with a bachelor's degree requirement and no graduate credential requirement typically land in EB-3 skilled worker. The employer's PERM job description ultimately controls which category USCIS adjudicates, so the classification discussion should happen before the offer letter is signed.
How does the green card PERM process differ from H-1B sponsorship for this role?
H-1B visa is a temporary status tied to a specific employer with an annual lottery and a six-year cap. PERM green card sponsorship is a permanent immigrant visa process with no lottery, no six-year limit, and no cap at the EB-3 level for most countries of birth. The tradeoff is timeline: PERM labor certification, I-140 approval, and adjustment of status together typically take two to four years for candidates from low-backlog countries, compared to H-1B processing measured in months.
Which employers regularly sponsor Technical Team Leads for green cards?
Technology companies, defense contractors, financial services firms, and large healthcare IT organizations file the most PERM applications for team lead and engineering management titles. You can verify a company's filing history by searching OFLC disclosure data filtered by job title and employer name. Migrate Mate aggregates this data so you can identify active sponsors without downloading raw DOL files.
Can I switch employers after my I-140 is approved?
Yes. Once your I-140 has been approved for 180 days and your priority date is within six months of becoming current, AC21 portability lets you change to a similar-occupancy role without losing your priority date. Technical Team Lead positions port well to comparable engineering leadership roles, but you should confirm the new job's duties genuinely match the approved petition before resigning.
How do I find Technical Team Lead jobs that include green card sponsorship?
Standard job boards don't filter by green card sponsorship willingness, so most postings require follow-up calls to confirm PERM eligibility. Migrate Mate is built specifically to surface roles at employers with documented green card filing history, letting you filter by job title and visa type before you apply, which saves time and avoids offers that stall at the sponsorship conversation.