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Director of Architecture jobs with H-1B visa sponsorship are available at architecture firms, real estate developers, and large tech or healthcare employers building in-house design teams. The role qualifies as a specialty occupation under H-1B rules, requiring at minimum a bachelor's degree in architecture or a closely related field. Your employer files the LCA and I-129 petition on your behalf.
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We will do this together — with customers, partners and colleagues. We will fight for others, not against: We will stand up for and champion everyone’s access to opportunities. The status quo is not good enough … we believe every individual and every community deserves access to financial opportunities. We are determined to support both individuals and communities in reaching a better financial future. We know that reaching this future depends on our actions today.
Like our Purpose Statement, Voya believes in being bold and committed to action. We are committed to a work environment where the differences that we are born with — and those we acquire throughout our lives — are understood, valued and intentionally pursued. We believe that our employees own our culture and have a responsibility to foster an environment where we all feel comfortable bringing our whole selves to work. Purposefully bringing our differences together to positively influence our culture, serve our clients and enrich our communities is essential to our vision.
Are you ready to join a company with a strong purpose and a winning culture? Start your Voyage – Apply Now
Get to Know the Opportunity
Voya is seeking an AI/Digital Architecture Director to help define and shape the future architecture of our customer-facing digital applications. This role will establish architectural direction for a complex modernization landscape, bring greater consistency across applications, enable reusable digital capabilities, strengthen integration with enterprise data and domain platforms, and advance the practical use of artificial intelligence.
This is a strategic, technically credible architecture role rather than a traditional engineering leadership position. The successful candidate will combine broad digital application architecture expertise with hands-on knowledge of agentic AI and the ability to translate emerging technologies into secure, scalable, and implementable architecture.
The Director will initially guide a small, blended team of architects and partner closely with digital, engineering, data, security, product, and business leaders. The role offers the opportunity to influence Voya's next generation of digital experiences while creating a pragmatic path forward from a large and complex legacy environment.
The Contributions You'll Make
- Define the target architecture and modernization roadmap for Voya's customer-facing digital application ecosystem.
- Establish architecture patterns and standards for modern digital experiences, including React applications, micro frontend architecture, backend-for-frontend services, APIs, and integration with enterprise domain services.
- Guide the creation of consistent, reusable digital capabilities that support multiple products and lines of business.
- Lead architectural approaches for incorporating agentic AI into customer experiences and the software development lifecycle.
- Apply practical experience with AI agents to the design of AI-native applications, conversational interfaces, intelligent workflows, and modern digital experiences.
- Partner with digital, product, engineering, data, platform, security, and business teams to translate strategic objectives into implementable architecture.
- Define secure integration patterns among digital applications, enterprise data platforms, shared services, APIs, and legacy systems.
- Ensure architecture decisions incorporate application security, authentication, authorization, privacy, resilience, and zero-trust principles from the outset.
- Evaluate emerging technologies, architecture patterns, and platform capabilities, recommending where they can generate measurable business or customer value.
- Provide strategic architecture oversight across modernization initiatives without becoming the day-to-day solution architect for every project.
- Guide and develop a small, blended team of employees and contractors while remaining personally engaged in architecture strategy, design, and execution.
- Communicate complex architecture concepts clearly to technical teams, business stakeholders, and senior leaders.
- Create a pragmatic transition path from the existing digital landscape to a modern, scalable, secure, and AI-enabled future state.
- Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
Minimum Knowledge & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience where permitted by the applicable Voya job profile.
- Ten or more years of progressively responsible experience in digital application architecture, enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or a related technology discipline.
- Demonstrated experience designing or leading the architecture of end-to-end, customer-facing digital applications.
- Strong knowledge of modern web application architecture, including React, micro frontends, backend-for-frontend services, APIs, and integration with core domain services.
- Practical experience using AI agents or agentic AI patterns to design or build AI-native software, conversational user interfaces, intelligent workflows, or related digital capabilities.
- Ability to connect architecture strategy to implementation patterns, technical standards, and modernization roadmaps.
- Experience integrating digital applications with enterprise data platforms, shared services, APIs, and complex legacy environments.
- Strong understanding of secure application architecture, including authentication, authorization, application security, privacy, and zero-trust principles.
- Demonstrated ability to influence across matrixed engineering, digital, data, security, product, and business teams.
- Experience guiding architects, senior technologists, or blended employee and contractor teams.
- Executive-level written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical decisions to nontechnical stakeholders.
Preferred Knowledge & Experience
- Experience modernizing digital platforms across multiple products, business units, or lines of business.
- Experience designing conversational customer experiences or other AI-enabled user interfaces.
- Experience incorporating AI tools and agents into the software development lifecycle.
- React Native or mobile application architecture experience.
- Depth in identity and access management, including modern authentication and authorization mechanisms.
- Experience in financial services, insurance, retirement, wealth management, e-commerce, or another regulated, customer-facing environment.
- Experience establishing reusable digital capabilities, design patterns, architecture governance, or platform standards.
- Experience balancing modernization objectives with the integration and progressive transformation of large legacy environments.
- Master's degree in a related field.
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Compensation Pay Disclosure:
Voya is committed to pay that’s fair and equitable, which means comparable pay for comparable roles and responsibilities.
The below annual base salary range reflects the expected hiring range(s) for this position in the location(s) listed. In addition to base salary, Voya offers incentive opportunities (i.e., annual cash incentives, sales incentives, and/or long-term incentives) based on the role to reward the achievement of annual performance objectives. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Voya Financial is willing to pay at the time of this posting.
Actual compensation offered may vary from the posted salary range based upon the candidate’s geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.
$149,820 - $198,370 USD
Be Well. Stay Well.
Voya provides the resources that can make a difference in your lives. To us, this means thriving physically, financially, socially and emotionally. Voya benefits are designed to help you do just that. That’s why we offer an array of plans, programs, tools and resources with one goal in mind: To help you and your family be well and stay well.
What We Offer
- Health, dental, vision and life insurance plans
- 401(k) Savings plan – with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%)
- Voya Retirement Plan – employer paid cash balance retirement plan (4%)
- Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
- Paid time off – including 20 days paid time off, nine paid company holidays and a flexible Diversity Celebration Day.
- Paid volunteer time — 40 hours per calendar year
Critical Skills
At Voya, we have identified the following critical skills which are key to success in our culture:
- Customer Focused: Passionate drive to delight our customers and offer unique solutions that deliver on their expectations.
- Critical Thinking: Thoughtful process of analyzing data and problem solving data to reach a well-reasoned solution.
- Team Mentality: Partnering effectively to drive our culture and execute on our common goals.
- Business Acumen: Appreciation and understanding of the financial services industry in order to make sound business decisions.
- Learning Agility: Openness to new ways of thinking and acquiring new skills to retain a competitive advantage.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Voya Financial is an equal-opportunity employer. Voya Financial provides equal opportunity to qualified individuals regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, veteran status, creed, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other status protected by state or local law.
Reasonable Accommodations
Voya is committed to the inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Voya will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please reference resources for applicants with disabilities.
Together we fight for everyone’s opportunity for a better financial future.
We will do this together — with customers, partners and colleagues. We will fight for others, not against: We will stand up for and champion everyone’s access to opportunities. The status quo is not good enough … we believe every individual and every community deserves access to financial opportunities. We are determined to support both individuals and communities in reaching a better financial future. We know that reaching this future depends on our actions today.
Like our Purpose Statement, Voya believes in being bold and committed to action. We are committed to a work environment where the differences that we are born with — and those we acquire throughout our lives — are understood, valued and intentionally pursued. We believe that our employees own our culture and have a responsibility to foster an environment where we all feel comfortable bringing our whole selves to work. Purposefully bringing our differences together to positively influence our culture, serve our clients and enrich our communities is essential to our vision.
Are you ready to join a company with a strong purpose and a winning culture? Start your Voyage – Apply Now
Get to Know the Opportunity
Voya is seeking an AI/Digital Architecture Director to help define and shape the future architecture of our customer-facing digital applications. This role will establish architectural direction for a complex modernization landscape, bring greater consistency across applications, enable reusable digital capabilities, strengthen integration with enterprise data and domain platforms, and advance the practical use of artificial intelligence.
This is a strategic, technically credible architecture role rather than a traditional engineering leadership position. The successful candidate will combine broad digital application architecture expertise with hands-on knowledge of agentic AI and the ability to translate emerging technologies into secure, scalable, and implementable architecture.
The Director will initially guide a small, blended team of architects and partner closely with digital, engineering, data, security, product, and business leaders. The role offers the opportunity to influence Voya's next generation of digital experiences while creating a pragmatic path forward from a large and complex legacy environment.
The Contributions You'll Make
- Define the target architecture and modernization roadmap for Voya's customer-facing digital application ecosystem.
- Establish architecture patterns and standards for modern digital experiences, including React applications, micro frontend architecture, backend-for-frontend services, APIs, and integration with enterprise domain services.
- Guide the creation of consistent, reusable digital capabilities that support multiple products and lines of business.
- Lead architectural approaches for incorporating agentic AI into customer experiences and the software development lifecycle.
- Apply practical experience with AI agents to the design of AI-native applications, conversational interfaces, intelligent workflows, and modern digital experiences.
- Partner with digital, product, engineering, data, platform, security, and business teams to translate strategic objectives into implementable architecture.
- Define secure integration patterns among digital applications, enterprise data platforms, shared services, APIs, and legacy systems.
- Ensure architecture decisions incorporate application security, authentication, authorization, privacy, resilience, and zero-trust principles from the outset.
- Evaluate emerging technologies, architecture patterns, and platform capabilities, recommending where they can generate measurable business or customer value.
- Provide strategic architecture oversight across modernization initiatives without becoming the day-to-day solution architect for every project.
- Guide and develop a small, blended team of employees and contractors while remaining personally engaged in architecture strategy, design, and execution.
- Communicate complex architecture concepts clearly to technical teams, business stakeholders, and senior leaders.
- Create a pragmatic transition path from the existing digital landscape to a modern, scalable, secure, and AI-enabled future state.
- Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
Minimum Knowledge & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience where permitted by the applicable Voya job profile.
- Ten or more years of progressively responsible experience in digital application architecture, enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or a related technology discipline.
- Demonstrated experience designing or leading the architecture of end-to-end, customer-facing digital applications.
- Strong knowledge of modern web application architecture, including React, micro frontends, backend-for-frontend services, APIs, and integration with core domain services.
- Practical experience using AI agents or agentic AI patterns to design or build AI-native software, conversational user interfaces, intelligent workflows, or related digital capabilities.
- Ability to connect architecture strategy to implementation patterns, technical standards, and modernization roadmaps.
- Experience integrating digital applications with enterprise data platforms, shared services, APIs, and complex legacy environments.
- Strong understanding of secure application architecture, including authentication, authorization, application security, privacy, and zero-trust principles.
- Demonstrated ability to influence across matrixed engineering, digital, data, security, product, and business teams.
- Experience guiding architects, senior technologists, or blended employee and contractor teams.
- Executive-level written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical decisions to nontechnical stakeholders.
Preferred Knowledge & Experience
- Experience modernizing digital platforms across multiple products, business units, or lines of business.
- Experience designing conversational customer experiences or other AI-enabled user interfaces.
- Experience incorporating AI tools and agents into the software development lifecycle.
- React Native or mobile application architecture experience.
- Depth in identity and access management, including modern authentication and authorization mechanisms.
- Experience in financial services, insurance, retirement, wealth management, e-commerce, or another regulated, customer-facing environment.
- Experience establishing reusable digital capabilities, design patterns, architecture governance, or platform standards.
- Experience balancing modernization objectives with the integration and progressive transformation of large legacy environments.
- Master's degree in a related field.
LI-ND1
Compensation Pay Disclosure:
Voya is committed to pay that’s fair and equitable, which means comparable pay for comparable roles and responsibilities.
The below annual base salary range reflects the expected hiring range(s) for this position in the location(s) listed. In addition to base salary, Voya offers incentive opportunities (i.e., annual cash incentives, sales incentives, and/or long-term incentives) based on the role to reward the achievement of annual performance objectives. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Voya Financial is willing to pay at the time of this posting.
Actual compensation offered may vary from the posted salary range based upon the candidate’s geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.
$149,820 - $198,370 USD
Be Well. Stay Well.
Voya provides the resources that can make a difference in your lives. To us, this means thriving physically, financially, socially and emotionally. Voya benefits are designed to help you do just that. That’s why we offer an array of plans, programs, tools and resources with one goal in mind: To help you and your family be well and stay well.
What We Offer
- Health, dental, vision and life insurance plans
- 401(k) Savings plan – with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%)
- Voya Retirement Plan – employer paid cash balance retirement plan (4%)
- Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
- Paid time off – including 20 days paid time off, nine paid company holidays and a flexible Diversity Celebration Day.
- Paid volunteer time — 40 hours per calendar year
Critical Skills
At Voya, we have identified the following critical skills which are key to success in our culture:
- Customer Focused: Passionate drive to delight our customers and offer unique solutions that deliver on their expectations.
- Critical Thinking: Thoughtful process of analyzing data and problem solving data to reach a well-reasoned solution.
- Team Mentality: Partnering effectively to drive our culture and execute on our common goals.
- Business Acumen: Appreciation and understanding of the financial services industry in order to make sound business decisions.
- Learning Agility: Openness to new ways of thinking and acquiring new skills to retain a competitive advantage.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Voya Financial is an equal-opportunity employer. Voya Financial provides equal opportunity to qualified individuals regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, veteran status, creed, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other status protected by state or local law.
Reasonable Accommodations
Voya is committed to the inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Voya will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please reference resources for applicants with disabilities.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship in Director of Architecture
Verify your architecture license transfers correctly
State licensure as an Architect (AIA or NCARB certification) strengthens your specialty occupation case but doesn't substitute for a qualifying degree. Confirm with your employer that your credential documentation supports the I-129 petition before USCIS reviews your file.
Use OFLC Wage Search before salary negotiations
Your employer must pay the prevailing wage for your SOC code and work location. Pull the current Level III or IV wage from OFLC Wage Search for the specific metro area before accepting an offer, so you're negotiating from verified DOL data, not estimates.
Target employers with active LCA filing history
Architecture firms that have filed LCAs before understand the timeline and cost. Search Migrate Mate to identify employers with verified H-1B sponsorship history in architecture and design roles, so you're not educating a first-time sponsor mid-offer.
Account for multi-site project work in your LCA
Directors of Architecture frequently oversee projects at multiple construction or client sites. Each worksite your employer lists on project assignments needs its own certified LCA. Raise this with HR early so your employer files supplemental LCAs before you begin on-site work.
Build a specialty occupation evidence file now
Collect your degree transcripts, professional licensure records, published project portfolios, and any peer recognition before you start interviewing. USCIS may issue an RFE asking you to demonstrate that the Director of Architecture role requires a specific architecture or design degree.
Plan your 6-year cap timeline around green card filing
H-1B status starts at three years and extends to a six-year maximum under standard rules. If your employer intends to sponsor your green card, PERM labor certification should begin well before year four to preserve AC21 portability and avoid a gap in authorization.
H-1B Visa Director of Architecture: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Director of Architecture role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes. The Director of Architecture role typically qualifies as a specialty occupation because it normally requires at minimum a bachelor's degree in architecture, structural engineering, or a closely related design field. USCIS will expect the employer's job description to reflect degree-level duties throughout, not just administrative oversight. Roles framed around project management or coordination without requiring a specific architecture degree may face scrutiny.
Which employers are most likely to sponsor H-1B visas for Director of Architecture jobs?
Large architecture and engineering firms, commercial real estate developers, and major tech or healthcare companies with in-house design teams are the most consistent H-1B sponsors for this role. Employers with prior LCA filing history in architecture are significantly easier to work with because they already have an immigration attorney relationship and an established process. Browse verified sponsors on Migrate Mate to find employers actively hiring at this level.
How does the prevailing wage requirement affect Director of Architecture hiring?
Your employer must pay the DOL prevailing wage for your specific SOC code, experience level, and work location. Director of Architecture roles typically map to a senior wage level, and the certified wage is locked into the LCA. If you negotiate a lower salary than the prevailing wage for your location, the LCA will not certify. Use OFLC Wage Search to look up the current rate for your target metro before the offer stage.
What happens to my H-1B status if I change employers or firms?
H-1B status is employer-specific, so moving to a new architecture firm requires the new employer to file a fresh I-129 petition with USCIS before or concurrent with your start date. Under H-1B portability rules, if you have a valid prior approval and the new petition is filed before your current status expires, you can begin work while the petition is pending. Each transition resets the LCA requirement for the new employer and worksite.
Does my employer need a separate LCA if I'm overseeing projects at multiple construction sites?
Yes. Each worksite where you perform H-1B duties beyond a short-term assignment needs its own certified LCA reflecting the prevailing wage for that location. Directors of Architecture who travel between project sites across different metro areas are particularly exposed to this requirement. Your employer's immigration counsel should audit your project schedule and file supplemental LCAs before you begin any extended on-site work.