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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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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as an IT Manager
Frame your degree for specialty occupation
USCIS requires IT Manager roles to meet the specialty occupation standard. Pull your O*NET profile and match your degree field directly to the job duties listed, so your petition clearly ties your credentials to the role's technical requirements.
Target employers with cap-exempt filing history
Universities, nonprofit research institutions, and government-affiliated organizations are cap-exempt, meaning they can file your H-1B petition outside the lottery window. IT Manager openings at these entities let you start without waiting for April registration.
Search LCA data on Migrate Mate to identify sponsors
Use Migrate Mate to filter IT Manager roles by employers with verified H-1B LCA filing history. This cuts out companies that list sponsorship as possible but have never actually filed, saving you weeks of dead-end applications.
Verify prevailing wage level before accepting an offer
Your employer's LCA must certify a wage at or above the DOL prevailing wage for IT Manager in your work location. Run the OFLC Wage Search yourself before negotiating so you know whether the offered salary clears the required Level I through IV threshold.
Clarify who pays filing fees before signing
USCIS prohibits employers from passing certain H-1B petition fees to the worker. Confirm in writing before you sign your offer letter which fees your employer covers, including any premium processing charge if you need a faster adjudication timeline.
Prepare for RFEs on management versus specialty occupation
USCIS often issues Requests for Evidence when IT Manager duties lean heavily toward general management rather than hands-on technical work. Your offer letter should specify the percentage of time spent on technical architecture, systems oversight, or engineering decisions.
H-1B Visa IT Manager: Frequently Asked Questions
Does an IT Manager role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, if the position requires at least a bachelor's degree in a specific technical field such as computer science, information systems, or computer engineering. USCIS scrutinizes IT Manager petitions more closely than pure engineering roles because management duties can be performed without a specialized degree. Your offer letter needs to show that the technical complexity of the role, not just supervisory responsibility, drives the degree requirement.
How do I find employers who will actually sponsor an H-1B for an IT Manager position?
Search Migrate Mate to filter IT Manager roles by companies with verified H-1B Labor Condition Application filing history. LCA records are public DOL data and show which employers have sponsored the specific job title before, not just which ones check a sponsorship box on a job posting. This is the most reliable way to identify genuine sponsors rather than employers who list sponsorship as possible without ever following through.
Can my employer file my H-1B petition outside the annual cap lottery?
Only if your employer qualifies as cap-exempt. Universities, nonprofit research organizations, and certain government research entities can file H-1B petitions year-round without entering the April lottery. Most private-sector IT Manager roles are cap-subject, meaning your petition must be selected in the lottery before USCIS will adjudicate it. If you already hold H-1B status with another employer, a transfer to a new sponsor does not require a new lottery slot.
What happens to my H-1B status if I change IT Manager roles between employers?
Your new employer must file an H-1B transfer petition with USCIS before or on your start date. Under portability rules established by AC21, you can begin working for the new employer once the transfer petition is filed and accepted, without waiting for approval, as long as your previous H-1B was approved and you've been in valid status. The 60-day grace period also applies if you separate from your sponsoring employer before a transfer is in place.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for an H-1B IT Manager petition?
Your employer's Labor Condition Application must certify that your offered wage meets or exceeds the DOL prevailing wage for IT Manager in the specific metropolitan area where you'll work. Prevailing wages are tiered from Level I through Level IV based on experience and responsibility. You can look up the applicable wage yourself using the OFLC Wage Search before your offer is finalized to confirm the salary your employer offers clears the required threshold for your role level and location.