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Location: Tulsa -TUL
Areas of Interest: Infrastructure; Digital Technology; Enterprise Data; Information Security; Information Services; Information Technology
Pay Transparency Salary Range: Not Available
Application Deadline: 09/02/2026
BOK Financial Corporation Group includes BOKF, NA; BOK Financial Securities, Inc. and BOK Financial Private Wealth, Inc. BOKF, NA operates TransFund and Cavanal Hill Investment Management, Inc. BOKF, NA operates banking divisions: Bank of Albuquerque; Bank of Oklahoma; Bank of Texas and BOK Financial®.
Bonus Type
Discretionary
Summary
We're building a culture at BOK Financial where amazing people can bring their best, be their best, and work for the best. You've come to the right place to grow your career.
You place great value on building meaningful relationships, leveraging technology to transform business outcomes, and creating clarity across complex enterprise initiatives. Bring your knowledge, skills, and abilities to us as a Director, Cloud Enablement & Transformation. You will be positioned to lead one of the organization's most important modernization efforts while shaping the future direction of cloud, platform, automation, and transformation services.
Job Description
The Director, Cloud Enablement & Transformation leads an expert team of highly skilled and diverse technology leaders, Cloud Architects, Engineers, Platform Specialists, and Transformation professionals responsible for establishing, advancing, and governing BOKF's cloud adoption strategy and modernization journey.
This position provides strategic oversight of enterprise cloud services, application modernization programs, cloud platform engineering, automation capabilities, production support, project execution, and transformation initiatives that enable the lines of business to meet corporate strategic objectives. The Director serves as the communications link and strategic liaison between business leadership, technology teams, enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, risk management, vendors, and executive stakeholders.
This role is accountable for developing technology plans, roadmaps, operating models, and investment recommendations that advance BOKF's long- and short-term strategic goals. The Director translates business needs into secure, resilient, scalable, and cost-effective cloud and platform capabilities that improve speed to market, operational efficiency, developer productivity, and enterprise resiliency.
Team Culture
Our mission is to empower our company, teammates, and customers through the delivery of resilient, secure, and customer-centric technology. We achieve this by leveraging our expertise in technology, modern engineering practices, cloud capabilities, automation, and a deep understanding of our business units.
How You'll Spend Your Time
Strategic Leadership & Business Alignment
- You will develop and implement enterprise cloud enablement and transformation plans that support strategic long- and short-term goals for BOKF and its lines of business.
- You will develop a thorough understanding of business strategies, operating processes, information needs, and administrative procedures to ensure cloud and modernization initiatives enable measurable business outcomes.
- You will serve as a trusted advisor and communications link between business leadership, technology leadership, and enterprise stakeholders regarding cloud strategy, modernization priorities, technology risks, and investment decisions.
- You will envision, produce, and advance strategic playbooks and multi-year roadmaps that encompass cloud platforms, application modernization, automation, observability, platform engineering, lifecycle management, and emerging technology enablement.
Cloud Transformation & Modernization
- You will orchestrate and deliver foundational cloud capabilities that accelerate enterprise digital transformation initiatives and enable modern, resilient, and scalable business technology solutions.
- You will establish modernization frameworks, migration patterns, reference architectures, and transformation playbooks that help applications move from legacy environments to cloud-enabled and cloud-native architectures.
- You will drive initiatives that reduce technical debt, improve operational efficiency, strengthen resiliency, and increase technology agility through automation and modernization.
Platform Engineering & Cloud Services
- You will lead an expert team responsible for designing, building, improving, operating, and advancing cloud platform services across AWS and other strategic cloud environments.
- You will establish enterprise standards for cloud architecture, automation, platform engineering, reliability engineering, observability, governance, and operational excellence.
- You will champion Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps, GitOps, self-service engineering capabilities, and shift-left practices that improve developer productivity and accelerate solution delivery.
How You'll Spend Your Time Continued
Operational Delivery & Governance
- You will direct the design, development, implementation, support, and operation of automated systems and cloud platforms to ensure delivery teams adhere to business requirements, company methodology for project management, enterprise architecture standards, security controls, and compliance expectations.
- You will establish KPIs and KRIs that measure platform health, cloud adoption, transformation progress, operational effectiveness, resiliency, customer experience, and value realization.
- You will make recommendations for system enhancements, platform improvements, procedure improvements, and technology investments that strengthen the effectiveness of technology delivery.
Financial, Vendor & Resource Leadership
- You will prepare and manage annual operating and capital budgets, including resource planning, project financial analysis, cloud consumption governance, forecasting, optimization, and financial tracking.
- You will provide leadership for strategic vendor partnerships, cloud providers, managed service relationships, consulting engagements, contract negotiations, and service agreements.
- You will ensure technology investments are aligned with enterprise priorities and deliver measurable business, operational, risk, and resiliency outcomes.
Talent & Organizational Leadership
- You will direct leaders, architects, engineers, and transformation specialists by creating, delivering, and monitoring meaningful performance goals and clearly understood expectations.
- You will build organizational capability through recruiting, coaching, mentoring, training, succession planning, and internal mobility opportunities.
- You will establish a culture focused on accountability, innovation, collaboration, continuous learning, operational excellence, and responsible risk management.
Education Requirements
This level of knowledge is normally acquired through completion of a Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Business, Information Management, or a related field and at least 12 years of progressively responsible technology experience delivering enterprise-level IT solutions, leading highly skilled technical professionals, managing financial operations, administering service contracts, and driving organizational transformation.
- Significant experience leading enterprise infrastructure, cloud platforms, application modernization, platform engineering, DevOps, or digital transformation initiatives.
- Demonstrated success leading managers, architects, engineers, and technical professionals through large-scale technology change.
- Experience managing multi-million-dollar technology budgets, vendor relationships, cloud providers, managed service relationships, and contract negotiations.
- Experience operating in financial services or another highly regulated environment is preferred.
- Consideration is given to advanced technical certifications in cloud technologies, infrastructure architecture, cybersecurity, DevOps, automation, project management, and technology leadership.
Experience Requirements
Technical Skills & Knowledge
Cloud Platforms & Architecture
- Deep understanding of AWS services, architecture, landing zones, multi-account operating models, migration strategies, cloud governance, and operational best practices.
- Strong knowledge of Azure, hybrid cloud architectures, enterprise network integration, identity integration, and secure cloud connectivity patterns.
- Experience designing highly available, resilient, scalable, secure, and compliant cloud platforms for enterprise workloads.
DevOps, Automation & Platform Engineering
- Strong knowledge of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, Terraform, CloudFormation, automation frameworks, and modern software delivery practices.
- Experience establishing platform engineering capabilities, reusable service patterns, self-service capabilities, developer enablement models, and shift-left practices.
- Ability to guide engineering teams toward automation, standardization, continuous improvement, and measurable operational maturity.
Infrastructure, Operations & Resiliency
- Strong understanding of enterprise infrastructure technologies, including compute, storage, virtualization, operating systems, networking, data center services, business continuity, disaster recovery, and hybrid operations.
- Experience with observability platforms, monitoring solutions, operational analytics, Site Reliability Engineering principles, incident management, problem management, change management, and ITIL practices.
- Knowledge of proactive lifecycle management, platform currency, technical debt reduction, resiliency planning, and operational readiness practices.
Application Modernization & Engineering Enablement
- Knowledge of cloud-native architecture patterns, application migration strategies, modernization approaches, containerization, Kubernetes, OpenShift, microservices, API-driven integration, and modern application delivery methodologies.
- Ability to partner with application, architecture, cybersecurity, and business teams to establish migration and modernization priorities based on business value, technical risk, and operational impact.
Leadership, Business & Financial Acumen
- Advanced knowledge of technology-based information resource management systems and management information systems.
- Advanced management, project management, relationship management, and team-building skills.
- Advanced vendor management, service contract administration, and contract negotiation experience.
- Ability to negotiate compromise, build consensus, influence executive decision-making, and align diverse stakeholder groups around enterprise outcomes.
- Excellent interpersonal, oral, written, presentation, and executive communication skills.
- Strong financial management, budgeting, forecasting, resource planning, business case development, investment prioritization, and value realization capabilities.
- Good understanding of leading-edge technologies and how they are applied in a business environment.
BOK Financial Corporation Group is a stable and financially strong organization that provides excellent training and development to support building the long-term careers of employees. With passion, skill and partnership you can make an impact on the success of the bank, customers and your own career!
Apply today and take the first step towards your next career opportunity!
The companies in BOK Financial Corporation Group are equal opportunity employers. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for training, compensation, transfer, promotion and other aspects of employment for all qualified applicants and employees without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy status, sexual orientation, genetic information or veteran status.
Please contact recruiting_coordinators@bokf.com with any questions.
Req ID: 78443
Location: Tulsa -TUL
Areas of Interest: Infrastructure; Digital Technology; Enterprise Data; Information Security; Information Services; Information Technology
Pay Transparency Salary Range: Not Available
Application Deadline: 09/02/2026
BOK Financial Corporation Group includes BOKF, NA; BOK Financial Securities, Inc. and BOK Financial Private Wealth, Inc. BOKF, NA operates TransFund and Cavanal Hill Investment Management, Inc. BOKF, NA operates banking divisions: Bank of Albuquerque; Bank of Oklahoma; Bank of Texas and BOK Financial®.
Bonus Type
Discretionary
Summary
We're building a culture at BOK Financial where amazing people can bring their best, be their best, and work for the best. You've come to the right place to grow your career.
You place great value on building meaningful relationships, leveraging technology to transform business outcomes, and creating clarity across complex enterprise initiatives. Bring your knowledge, skills, and abilities to us as a Director, Cloud Enablement & Transformation. You will be positioned to lead one of the organization's most important modernization efforts while shaping the future direction of cloud, platform, automation, and transformation services.
Job Description
The Director, Cloud Enablement & Transformation leads an expert team of highly skilled and diverse technology leaders, Cloud Architects, Engineers, Platform Specialists, and Transformation professionals responsible for establishing, advancing, and governing BOKF's cloud adoption strategy and modernization journey.
This position provides strategic oversight of enterprise cloud services, application modernization programs, cloud platform engineering, automation capabilities, production support, project execution, and transformation initiatives that enable the lines of business to meet corporate strategic objectives. The Director serves as the communications link and strategic liaison between business leadership, technology teams, enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, risk management, vendors, and executive stakeholders.
This role is accountable for developing technology plans, roadmaps, operating models, and investment recommendations that advance BOKF's long- and short-term strategic goals. The Director translates business needs into secure, resilient, scalable, and cost-effective cloud and platform capabilities that improve speed to market, operational efficiency, developer productivity, and enterprise resiliency.
Team Culture
Our mission is to empower our company, teammates, and customers through the delivery of resilient, secure, and customer-centric technology. We achieve this by leveraging our expertise in technology, modern engineering practices, cloud capabilities, automation, and a deep understanding of our business units.
How You'll Spend Your Time
Strategic Leadership & Business Alignment
- You will develop and implement enterprise cloud enablement and transformation plans that support strategic long- and short-term goals for BOKF and its lines of business.
- You will develop a thorough understanding of business strategies, operating processes, information needs, and administrative procedures to ensure cloud and modernization initiatives enable measurable business outcomes.
- You will serve as a trusted advisor and communications link between business leadership, technology leadership, and enterprise stakeholders regarding cloud strategy, modernization priorities, technology risks, and investment decisions.
- You will envision, produce, and advance strategic playbooks and multi-year roadmaps that encompass cloud platforms, application modernization, automation, observability, platform engineering, lifecycle management, and emerging technology enablement.
Cloud Transformation & Modernization
- You will orchestrate and deliver foundational cloud capabilities that accelerate enterprise digital transformation initiatives and enable modern, resilient, and scalable business technology solutions.
- You will establish modernization frameworks, migration patterns, reference architectures, and transformation playbooks that help applications move from legacy environments to cloud-enabled and cloud-native architectures.
- You will drive initiatives that reduce technical debt, improve operational efficiency, strengthen resiliency, and increase technology agility through automation and modernization.
Platform Engineering & Cloud Services
- You will lead an expert team responsible for designing, building, improving, operating, and advancing cloud platform services across AWS and other strategic cloud environments.
- You will establish enterprise standards for cloud architecture, automation, platform engineering, reliability engineering, observability, governance, and operational excellence.
- You will champion Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps, GitOps, self-service engineering capabilities, and shift-left practices that improve developer productivity and accelerate solution delivery.
How You'll Spend Your Time Continued
Operational Delivery & Governance
- You will direct the design, development, implementation, support, and operation of automated systems and cloud platforms to ensure delivery teams adhere to business requirements, company methodology for project management, enterprise architecture standards, security controls, and compliance expectations.
- You will establish KPIs and KRIs that measure platform health, cloud adoption, transformation progress, operational effectiveness, resiliency, customer experience, and value realization.
- You will make recommendations for system enhancements, platform improvements, procedure improvements, and technology investments that strengthen the effectiveness of technology delivery.
Financial, Vendor & Resource Leadership
- You will prepare and manage annual operating and capital budgets, including resource planning, project financial analysis, cloud consumption governance, forecasting, optimization, and financial tracking.
- You will provide leadership for strategic vendor partnerships, cloud providers, managed service relationships, consulting engagements, contract negotiations, and service agreements.
- You will ensure technology investments are aligned with enterprise priorities and deliver measurable business, operational, risk, and resiliency outcomes.
Talent & Organizational Leadership
- You will direct leaders, architects, engineers, and transformation specialists by creating, delivering, and monitoring meaningful performance goals and clearly understood expectations.
- You will build organizational capability through recruiting, coaching, mentoring, training, succession planning, and internal mobility opportunities.
- You will establish a culture focused on accountability, innovation, collaboration, continuous learning, operational excellence, and responsible risk management.
Education Requirements
This level of knowledge is normally acquired through completion of a Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Business, Information Management, or a related field and at least 12 years of progressively responsible technology experience delivering enterprise-level IT solutions, leading highly skilled technical professionals, managing financial operations, administering service contracts, and driving organizational transformation.
- Significant experience leading enterprise infrastructure, cloud platforms, application modernization, platform engineering, DevOps, or digital transformation initiatives.
- Demonstrated success leading managers, architects, engineers, and technical professionals through large-scale technology change.
- Experience managing multi-million-dollar technology budgets, vendor relationships, cloud providers, managed service relationships, and contract negotiations.
- Experience operating in financial services or another highly regulated environment is preferred.
- Consideration is given to advanced technical certifications in cloud technologies, infrastructure architecture, cybersecurity, DevOps, automation, project management, and technology leadership.
Experience Requirements
Technical Skills & Knowledge
Cloud Platforms & Architecture
- Deep understanding of AWS services, architecture, landing zones, multi-account operating models, migration strategies, cloud governance, and operational best practices.
- Strong knowledge of Azure, hybrid cloud architectures, enterprise network integration, identity integration, and secure cloud connectivity patterns.
- Experience designing highly available, resilient, scalable, secure, and compliant cloud platforms for enterprise workloads.
DevOps, Automation & Platform Engineering
- Strong knowledge of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, Terraform, CloudFormation, automation frameworks, and modern software delivery practices.
- Experience establishing platform engineering capabilities, reusable service patterns, self-service capabilities, developer enablement models, and shift-left practices.
- Ability to guide engineering teams toward automation, standardization, continuous improvement, and measurable operational maturity.
Infrastructure, Operations & Resiliency
- Strong understanding of enterprise infrastructure technologies, including compute, storage, virtualization, operating systems, networking, data center services, business continuity, disaster recovery, and hybrid operations.
- Experience with observability platforms, monitoring solutions, operational analytics, Site Reliability Engineering principles, incident management, problem management, change management, and ITIL practices.
- Knowledge of proactive lifecycle management, platform currency, technical debt reduction, resiliency planning, and operational readiness practices.
Application Modernization & Engineering Enablement
- Knowledge of cloud-native architecture patterns, application migration strategies, modernization approaches, containerization, Kubernetes, OpenShift, microservices, API-driven integration, and modern application delivery methodologies.
- Ability to partner with application, architecture, cybersecurity, and business teams to establish migration and modernization priorities based on business value, technical risk, and operational impact.
Leadership, Business & Financial Acumen
- Advanced knowledge of technology-based information resource management systems and management information systems.
- Advanced management, project management, relationship management, and team-building skills.
- Advanced vendor management, service contract administration, and contract negotiation experience.
- Ability to negotiate compromise, build consensus, influence executive decision-making, and align diverse stakeholder groups around enterprise outcomes.
- Excellent interpersonal, oral, written, presentation, and executive communication skills.
- Strong financial management, budgeting, forecasting, resource planning, business case development, investment prioritization, and value realization capabilities.
- Good understanding of leading-edge technologies and how they are applied in a business environment.
BOK Financial Corporation Group is a stable and financially strong organization that provides excellent training and development to support building the long-term careers of employees. With passion, skill and partnership you can make an impact on the success of the bank, customers and your own career!
Apply today and take the first step towards your next career opportunity!
The companies in BOK Financial Corporation Group are equal opportunity employers. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities for training, compensation, transfer, promotion and other aspects of employment for all qualified applicants and employees without regard to sex, race, color, religion, national origin, age, disability, pregnancy status, sexual orientation, genetic information or veteran status.
Please contact recruiting_coordinators@bokf.com with any questions.
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USCIS requires a direct relationship between your degree field and HR Director duties. A degree in human resources management or organizational development is the cleanest fit. Industrial psychology or business administration with an HR concentration can work, but expect your employer to document the connection explicitly.
Verify prevailing wage before negotiating
Use the OFLC Wage Search to look up the Level III or IV prevailing wage for HR Director under SOC code 11-3121 in your target city. Your employer's LCA must certify at least that wage, so knowing the floor before salary discussions prevents surprises during filing.
Target employers with dedicated HR leadership
Companies large enough to have a standalone HR Director position rather than a combined HR-operations role are more likely to have immigration infrastructure in place. Look for employers with in-house HR teams or established relationships with immigration counsel, since complex leadership roles draw closer USCIS scrutiny.
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Filter by HR Director roles on Migrate Mate to see which employers have active LCA filing history for this occupation. That history signals both sponsorship willingness and familiarity with the DOL wage certification process specific to senior HR positions.
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If the employer intends to sponsor you for permanent residence after the H-1B, HR Director is a category where PERM recruitment requirements can be complex. Ask during the offer stage whether the employer has run PERM for senior HR roles before, since the process requires demonstrating no qualified U.S. workers were available.
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H-1B Visa HR Director: Frequently Asked Questions
Does an HR Director role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, provided the employer requires at least a bachelor's degree in a specific field such as human resources, business administration, or organizational development for the position. USCIS looks at whether the degree requirement is standard across the industry for this role. Generic job postings that list a degree as preferred rather than required can create RFE risk, so the job description language matters significantly.
How does the DOL prevailing wage requirement affect HR Director sponsorship?
Before filing your H-1B petition, your employer must submit a Labor Condition Application certifying they'll pay you at least the DOL prevailing wage for HR Director in your work location. The relevant SOC code is 11-3121. Prevailing wages vary substantially by metro area and experience level. You can cross-reference the employer's intended offer against current DOL wage levels using the OFLC Wage Search.
Are large corporations or smaller companies more likely to sponsor H-1B visas for HR Directors?
Both sponsor, but for different reasons. Large corporations with global workforces often need HR Directors experienced with international employment law and already have immigration infrastructure. Mid-size companies in high-growth sectors can also be strong sponsors, particularly if they're scaling rapidly and need senior HR leadership. You can identify employers with verified H-1B LCA filing history for this role on Migrate Mate.
Can I switch HR Director jobs while on H-1B without losing my status?
Yes, H-1B portability under AC21 lets you change employers after your petition has been pending or approved for at least 180 days, as long as the new role is in the same or a similar occupational classification. For HR Directors, a move between comparable senior HR leadership roles typically qualifies. Your new employer must file a transfer petition before you start, and you can begin work as soon as USCIS receives it.
How does the H-1B cap lottery affect HR Director job seekers?
Most HR Director positions at for-profit companies are subject to the annual H-1B cap of 65,000 regular visas plus 20,000 for U.S. master's degree holders, with selection by lottery each April. Cap-exempt employers include universities, nonprofit research organizations, and government entities. If you're currently on OPT or another status, timing your job search to align with the USCIS registration window in March is critical.