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IT Programmer roles qualify as H-1B visa specialty occupations under the SOC 15-1251 and 15-1252 classifications, requiring at least a bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a directly related field. Employers file the LCA with DOL before petitioning USCIS, and the 85,000-slot annual cap means timing your job search around the April lottery window matters.
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The Analyst is responsible for independently designing, coding and support of complex computer applications which increase Customer Service, quality, market share and decrease cost of UC Health. Provides efficient and effective code development. Works with users to define information flow, reports and data requirements. Writes specifications, develops and documents operational procedures, tests software and coordinates software installations related to the Organization's Oracle ERP Fusion system.
System Definition:
- Effectively interacts with vendors and/or users to define and validate system requirements including hardware and software requirements
- Provides clear and complete functional application and/or technical specifications effectively interacts with vendors to evaluate, select products and integrate them into UC Health Systems
- Designs error free and comprehensive logical and/or physical databases, tables and interfaces
- Provides information and designs for testing applications and contingency plans
System Support:
- Design, develop, and maintain Oracle ERP Fusion interfaces.
- Create technical specifications for system enhancements and integration based on user requirements
- Monitor and support production systems, interfaces, batch jobs, and nightly processes.
- Troubleshoot application, database, and interface issues; provide timely problem resolution.
- Develop and execute unit testing to complete data validation and code verification.
- Ensure compliance with change management and IT governance processes.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, vendors, and end users
- Contribute to project planning, resource estimation, and status reporting.
System Development:
- Independently performs complete testing of software and validates system requirements are met, including data and code verification
- Independently develops and performs complex comprehensive test plans including data reasonability and code verification
- Independently develops complete systems documentation
- Provides complex error free program code/scripts and/or database/table/interface design or setup
- Provides documented solution alternatives to problems/issues
- Follow-up to ensure programs/databases/interfaces meets business needs
Support:
- Provides input to integration specifications
- Provides task level detail for project plans
- Coordinates effectively with team members, other teams' members, users and vendors
- Provides or assists with resource estimates
- Documents and facilitates issue resolution
- Raise issues to the appropriate level
- Provides accurate and timely individual status report
- Acts as a mentor to less experienced staff
- Provides consults to IT staff
- Ensures that change management procedures are followed
- Provides accurate and timely individual status reports and timesheets
- Monitors, updates and enters new incidents as required
Customer Relationships:
- Develops consensus within user community
- Encourages and displays actions that result in high client satisfaction
- Provides effective written and verbal communication to end users
- Provides consults to end users
Education: Bachelor's degree in Information Systems or Computer Science or an equivalent combination of education and experience required.
Experience: Two or more years' experience in programming or analysis in a PC, Client Server or mainframe environment required. At start of the employment, the employee will be required to become Oracle OIC certified within 6 months.
Required Skills and Knowledge:
- Strong skills in SQL coding
- API and Web Services (REST/SOAP)
- System testing, QA, and validation
- Performance tuning and troubleshooting
- Knowledge of Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC)
- BI Publisher knowledge
- Knowledge of HCM Extracts
- Production support and incident management
- Technical documentation
- Change management
Join our team to BE UC Health. Be Extraordinary. Be Supported. Be Hope. Apply Today!
About UC Health
UC Health is an integrated academic health system serving Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. In partnership with the University of Cincinnati, UC Health combines clinical expertise and compassion with research and teaching—a combination that provides patients with options for even the most complex situations. Members of UC Health include: UC Medical Center, West Chester Hospital, University of Cincinnati Physicians and UC Health Ambulatory Services (with more than 900 board-certified clinicians and surgeons), Lindner Center of HOPE and several specialized institutes including: UC Gardner Neuroscience Institute and the University of Cincinnati Cancer Center. Many UC Health locations have received national recognition for outstanding quality and patient satisfaction.
At UC Health, we're proud to have the best and brightest teams and clinicians collaborating toward our common purpose: to advance healing and reduce suffering.
As the region's adult academic health system, we strive for innovation and provide world-class care for not only our community, but patients from all over the world. Join our team and you'll be able to develop your skills, grow your career, build relationships with your peers and patients, and help us be a source of hope for our friends and neighbors.
UC Health is an EEO employer.
IT Programmer Analyst, Full Time, First Shift
The Analyst is responsible for independently designing, coding and support of complex computer applications which increase Customer Service, quality, market share and decrease cost of UC Health. Provides efficient and effective code development. Works with users to define information flow, reports and data requirements. Writes specifications, develops and documents operational procedures, tests software and coordinates software installations related to the Organization's Oracle ERP Fusion system.
System Definition:
- Effectively interacts with vendors and/or users to define and validate system requirements including hardware and software requirements
- Provides clear and complete functional application and/or technical specifications effectively interacts with vendors to evaluate, select products and integrate them into UC Health Systems
- Designs error free and comprehensive logical and/or physical databases, tables and interfaces
- Provides information and designs for testing applications and contingency plans
System Support:
- Design, develop, and maintain Oracle ERP Fusion interfaces.
- Create technical specifications for system enhancements and integration based on user requirements
- Monitor and support production systems, interfaces, batch jobs, and nightly processes.
- Troubleshoot application, database, and interface issues; provide timely problem resolution.
- Develop and execute unit testing to complete data validation and code verification.
- Ensure compliance with change management and IT governance processes.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, vendors, and end users
- Contribute to project planning, resource estimation, and status reporting.
System Development:
- Independently performs complete testing of software and validates system requirements are met, including data and code verification
- Independently develops and performs complex comprehensive test plans including data reasonability and code verification
- Independently develops complete systems documentation
- Provides complex error free program code/scripts and/or database/table/interface design or setup
- Provides documented solution alternatives to problems/issues
- Follow-up to ensure programs/databases/interfaces meets business needs
Support:
- Provides input to integration specifications
- Provides task level detail for project plans
- Coordinates effectively with team members, other teams' members, users and vendors
- Provides or assists with resource estimates
- Documents and facilitates issue resolution
- Raise issues to the appropriate level
- Provides accurate and timely individual status report
- Acts as a mentor to less experienced staff
- Provides consults to IT staff
- Ensures that change management procedures are followed
- Provides accurate and timely individual status reports and timesheets
- Monitors, updates and enters new incidents as required
Customer Relationships:
- Develops consensus within user community
- Encourages and displays actions that result in high client satisfaction
- Provides effective written and verbal communication to end users
- Provides consults to end users
Education: Bachelor's degree in Information Systems or Computer Science or an equivalent combination of education and experience required.
Experience: Two or more years' experience in programming or analysis in a PC, Client Server or mainframe environment required. At start of the employment, the employee will be required to become Oracle OIC certified within 6 months.
Required Skills and Knowledge:
- Strong skills in SQL coding
- API and Web Services (REST/SOAP)
- System testing, QA, and validation
- Performance tuning and troubleshooting
- Knowledge of Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC)
- BI Publisher knowledge
- Knowledge of HCM Extracts
- Production support and incident management
- Technical documentation
- Change management
Join our team to BE UC Health. Be Extraordinary. Be Supported. Be Hope. Apply Today!
About UC Health
UC Health is an integrated academic health system serving Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. In partnership with the University of Cincinnati, UC Health combines clinical expertise and compassion with research and teaching—a combination that provides patients with options for even the most complex situations. Members of UC Health include: UC Medical Center, West Chester Hospital, University of Cincinnati Physicians and UC Health Ambulatory Services (with more than 900 board-certified clinicians and surgeons), Lindner Center of HOPE and several specialized institutes including: UC Gardner Neuroscience Institute and the University of Cincinnati Cancer Center. Many UC Health locations have received national recognition for outstanding quality and patient satisfaction.
At UC Health, we're proud to have the best and brightest teams and clinicians collaborating toward our common purpose: to advance healing and reduce suffering.
As the region's adult academic health system, we strive for innovation and provide world-class care for not only our community, but patients from all over the world. Join our team and you'll be able to develop your skills, grow your career, build relationships with your peers and patients, and help us be a source of hope for our friends and neighbors.
UC Health is an EEO employer.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship in IT Programmer
Verify your degree maps to the role
USCIS scrutinizes IT Programmer petitions when the applicant's degree is in a loosely related field like business or general IT. Pull your O*NET profile for SOC 15-1251 or 15-1252 to confirm the accepted degree fields before you apply anywhere.
Target employers with cap-exempt filing history
Universities, nonprofit research institutions, and government-affiliated entities are cap-exempt, meaning their H-1B filings aren't subject to the lottery. Search Migrate Mate to filter IT Programmer roles by employers who have filed LCAs under cap-exempt categories.
Check LCA wage levels before accepting an offer
Your employer must certify a prevailing wage at Level I through IV on the LCA. Use the OFLC Wage Search to look up the wage level for your specific programming role and metro area so you're not negotiating blind when the offer comes.
Ask about premium processing before your OPT expires
If you're transitioning from OPT, your cap-gap protection only extends status through September 30. Confirm whether the employer will file premium processing so USCIS adjudicates your I-129 before your OPT end date rather than during the cap-gap window.
Confirm the employer is E-Verify enrolled
IT Programmer roles at STEM-designated employers often lead to STEM OPT extensions, but that employer must be E-Verify enrolled. Verify enrollment before accepting an offer, since switching employers later restarts the extension clock and requires a new I-983 training plan.
Document project-based work carefully for specialty occupation RFEs
USCIS frequently issues Requests for Evidence on IT Programmer petitions when duties look generalized. Keep a record of specific languages, frameworks, and system architectures you've worked on so your employer's support letter cites concrete technical requirements tied to your degree field.
H-1B Visa IT Programmer: Frequently Asked Questions
Does an IT Programmer role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, provided the position requires at least a bachelor's degree in a directly related field such as computer science, software engineering, or information systems. Roles where any degree is accepted regardless of field, or where a degree isn't genuinely required to perform the work, are the ones USCIS challenges. The O*NET profile for the relevant SOC code is the starting point for building that degree-to-job connection.
How do I find IT Programmer employers who actively sponsor H-1B visas?
Migrate Mate surfaces employers with verified LCA filing history, so you can see which companies have filed for IT Programmer roles by occupation code rather than relying on job postings that may or may not lead to sponsorship. Filtering by LCA data is the fastest way to build a target list of employers who've already demonstrated willingness to sponsor.
What happens to my H-1B status if my IT Programmer role changes significantly after approval?
A material change in job duties, location, or wage level requires the employer to file an amended H-1B petition with USCIS before the change takes effect. Moving to a different worksite in a new metropolitan statistical area, for example, triggers both a new LCA and an amended I-129. Working under materially different conditions before USCIS approves the amendment puts your status at risk.
Can an IT Programmer work remotely for an H-1B employer from a different state?
Yes, but the employer must file a new LCA covering each worksite location where you work for more than 40 workdays in a calendar year. The LCA must reflect the prevailing wage for the actual work location, not the employer's headquarters. Short-term assignments under 40 workdays may fall under the short-term placement rule, but the employer should confirm this with USCIS guidance before proceeding.
What documentation strengthens an H-1B petition for an IT Programmer role?
The employer's support letter should describe specific programming languages, frameworks, and system architectures the role requires and explain why those duties demand a relevant bachelor's degree or higher. You should provide transcripts that show coursework directly applicable to the role. If your degree title doesn't match the job exactly, a credential evaluation from a NACES-member agency can help establish equivalency for USCIS adjudicators reviewing the petition.