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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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Does an IT Director role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, provided the position requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a specific technical field such as computer science, information systems, or engineering. USCIS evaluates the actual job duties, not just the title. If the role involves setting technical architecture, managing enterprise systems, or overseeing cybersecurity infrastructure, it typically satisfies the specialty occupation standard. Generic management duties with no technical degree requirement can lead to an RFE.
What happens to my H-1B if I'm promoted from IT Manager to IT Director at the same company?
A material change in job duties, title, or work location generally requires an amended H-1B petition filed with USCIS before the change takes effect. A promotion to IT Director that significantly expands your responsibilities or changes your SOC code qualifies as a material change. Your employer should file an amended I-129 with an updated LCA reflecting the new title, duties, and wage level to keep your status valid.
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Search IT Director roles on Migrate Mate, which surfaces employers with verified H-1B LCA filing histories for this specific title. DOL LCA disclosure data shows which companies have filed for IT leadership roles and at what wage levels, so you can focus your applications on employers with a documented track record rather than those who list sponsorship as a possibility.
Can an IT Director role be filed as cap-exempt to avoid the H-1B lottery?
Cap-exempt filing is available if your employer qualifies, not based on the role itself. Universities, nonprofit research organizations, and government research entities can sponsor H-1B petitions outside the annual cap. IT Director positions at qualifying institutions can be filed at any time of year with no lottery exposure. Commercial employers, including most tech companies and corporations, are subject to the cap and the annual registration process.
What documentation should I prepare to support an H-1B petition for an IT Director role?
Your employer will need an LCA certified by DOL before filing the I-129 with USCIS. On your end, gather your academic credentials, degree equivalency evaluations if your degree is from outside the U.S., and a detailed resume showing technical responsibilities rather than general management tasks. An organizational chart showing your reporting structure and a breakdown of the technical systems you'll oversee strengthens the specialty occupation argument, particularly if USCIS issues an RFE.