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Project Consultant roles qualify for H-1B visa sponsorship when the position requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a specific field such as business, engineering, or information systems. Consulting firms, technology companies, and financial services firms all regularly file H-1B petitions for this occupation code.
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Last year our HCA Healthcare colleagues invested over 156,000 hours volunteering in our communities. As a Consulting Application Engineer with HCA Healthcare you can be a part of an organization that is devoted to giving back!
JOB SUMMARY AND QUALIFICATIONS
The Consulting Application Engineer / Technical Lead will architect, design, develop, maintain, and test software for the Concuity team, with primary responsibility for backend Java services and the calculation and business-rule logic that powers the application. This is a hands-on full stack engineering role with a strong backend concentration. The Consulting Application Engineer will partner closely with business stakeholders, product owners, onshore engineers, and offshore development teams to translate complex domain requirements into reliable, scalable, and maintainable application solutions in a dynamic Agile environment.
The Consulting Application Engineer must be able to rapidly acquire deep subject matter and domain expertise and use that knowledge to guide technical design and implementation decisions. This position requires advanced expertise in Java and SQL, strong experience with GCP and PostgreSQL architecture, and working knowledge of Oracle, EXTJS, React, and Angular. This role will serve as the team's primary application architect, establishing technical direction, facilitating design decisions, leading complex development work, mentoring engineers, and ensuring solutions meet business, performance, security, scalability, and supportability needs.
MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES
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Own the technical architecture and engineering direction for the application, with particular emphasis on backend Java services, calculation engines, business rules, APIs, data access, and integration patterns.
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Design, develop, test, and maintain full stack application capabilities using Java, EXTJS, React, Angular, SQL, and related technologies, while maintaining a primary concentration on backend development.
-
Lead the design and implementation of complex calculation logic, ensuring business rules are accurate, traceable, testable, performant, and maintainable.
-
Rapidly develop deep domain and application knowledge and become a trusted technical subject matter expert who can connect business requirements to system behavior and architecture.
-
Partner directly with business stakeholders and product owners to clarify requirements, challenge assumptions constructively, identify edge cases, and translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.
-
Architect solutions across GCP, PostgreSQL, Oracle, application services, and user-interface layers; establish appropriate patterns for scalability, reliability, observability, security, and maintainability.
-
Provide hands-on technical leadership throughout the software development lifecycle, including solution design, coding, code reviews, testing strategy, deployment planning, production support, and continuous improvement.
-
Lead and facilitate technical design sessions, decomposition of complex initiatives, estimation, sequencing, and resolution of cross-team dependencies.
-
Provide clear technical direction to onshore and offshore engineering teams; communicate requirements and architecture effectively, remove technical blockers, and ensure consistent engineering quality across locations.
-
Mentor developers and raise the technical capability of the team through coaching, design guidance, code reviews, reusable patterns, and engineering standards.
-
Analyze existing systems and calculation processes to identify opportunities for modernization, simplification, performance improvement, and reduction of technical debt.
-
Ensure application performance and scalability through effective SQL design, database tuning, service optimization, batch-process design, monitoring, and root-cause analysis.
-
Identify technical risks, architectural gaps, data-quality concerns, and product-quality issues early; develop practical mitigation strategies and drive issues through resolution.
-
Document application architecture, technical decisions, data flows, interfaces, calculation logic, operational procedures, and support activities for corporate systems architecture.
-
Provide advanced production support and technical troubleshooting for critical application issues, including collaboration across business, infrastructure, database, and engineering teams.
-
Continually evaluate relevant technologies and engineering practices and recommend changes that improve delivery speed, system reliability, maintainability, and business outcomes.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related fields - Preferred
Experience
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7 or more years of relevant software engineering experience, including substantial hands-on Java development - Required
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3 or more years of experience serving as a technical lead, solution architect, or lead engineer for complex enterprise applications
TRAVEL
The job may require travel from time-to-time, but not on a regular basis.
BENEFITS
HCA Healthcare offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:
-
Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
-
Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
-
Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
-
Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
-
Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
-
Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts
Learn more about Employee Benefits
Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.
HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.
"There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it." - Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder
Be a part of an organization that invests in you! We are reviewing applications for our Consulting Application Engineer opening. Qualified candidates will be contacted for interviews. Submit your application and help us raise the bar in patient care!
We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
INTRODUCTION
Last year our HCA Healthcare colleagues invested over 156,000 hours volunteering in our communities. As a Consulting Application Engineer with HCA Healthcare you can be a part of an organization that is devoted to giving back!
JOB SUMMARY AND QUALIFICATIONS
The Consulting Application Engineer / Technical Lead will architect, design, develop, maintain, and test software for the Concuity team, with primary responsibility for backend Java services and the calculation and business-rule logic that powers the application. This is a hands-on full stack engineering role with a strong backend concentration. The Consulting Application Engineer will partner closely with business stakeholders, product owners, onshore engineers, and offshore development teams to translate complex domain requirements into reliable, scalable, and maintainable application solutions in a dynamic Agile environment.
The Consulting Application Engineer must be able to rapidly acquire deep subject matter and domain expertise and use that knowledge to guide technical design and implementation decisions. This position requires advanced expertise in Java and SQL, strong experience with GCP and PostgreSQL architecture, and working knowledge of Oracle, EXTJS, React, and Angular. This role will serve as the team's primary application architect, establishing technical direction, facilitating design decisions, leading complex development work, mentoring engineers, and ensuring solutions meet business, performance, security, scalability, and supportability needs.
MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES
-
Own the technical architecture and engineering direction for the application, with particular emphasis on backend Java services, calculation engines, business rules, APIs, data access, and integration patterns.
-
Design, develop, test, and maintain full stack application capabilities using Java, EXTJS, React, Angular, SQL, and related technologies, while maintaining a primary concentration on backend development.
-
Lead the design and implementation of complex calculation logic, ensuring business rules are accurate, traceable, testable, performant, and maintainable.
-
Rapidly develop deep domain and application knowledge and become a trusted technical subject matter expert who can connect business requirements to system behavior and architecture.
-
Partner directly with business stakeholders and product owners to clarify requirements, challenge assumptions constructively, identify edge cases, and translate business needs into scalable technical solutions.
-
Architect solutions across GCP, PostgreSQL, Oracle, application services, and user-interface layers; establish appropriate patterns for scalability, reliability, observability, security, and maintainability.
-
Provide hands-on technical leadership throughout the software development lifecycle, including solution design, coding, code reviews, testing strategy, deployment planning, production support, and continuous improvement.
-
Lead and facilitate technical design sessions, decomposition of complex initiatives, estimation, sequencing, and resolution of cross-team dependencies.
-
Provide clear technical direction to onshore and offshore engineering teams; communicate requirements and architecture effectively, remove technical blockers, and ensure consistent engineering quality across locations.
-
Mentor developers and raise the technical capability of the team through coaching, design guidance, code reviews, reusable patterns, and engineering standards.
-
Analyze existing systems and calculation processes to identify opportunities for modernization, simplification, performance improvement, and reduction of technical debt.
-
Ensure application performance and scalability through effective SQL design, database tuning, service optimization, batch-process design, monitoring, and root-cause analysis.
-
Identify technical risks, architectural gaps, data-quality concerns, and product-quality issues early; develop practical mitigation strategies and drive issues through resolution.
-
Document application architecture, technical decisions, data flows, interfaces, calculation logic, operational procedures, and support activities for corporate systems architecture.
-
Provide advanced production support and technical troubleshooting for critical application issues, including collaboration across business, infrastructure, database, and engineering teams.
-
Continually evaluate relevant technologies and engineering practices and recommend changes that improve delivery speed, system reliability, maintainability, and business outcomes.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related fields - Preferred
Experience
-
7 or more years of relevant software engineering experience, including substantial hands-on Java development - Required
-
3 or more years of experience serving as a technical lead, solution architect, or lead engineer for complex enterprise applications
TRAVEL
The job may require travel from time-to-time, but not on a regular basis.
BENEFITS
HCA Healthcare offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:
-
Comprehensive benefits for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
-
Wellbeing support, including free counseling and referral services
-
Time away from work programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
-
Savings and retirement resources, including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
-
Education support through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
-
Additional benefits for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts
Learn more about Employee Benefits
Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.
HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World's Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.
"There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it." - Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
HCA Healthcare Co-Founder
Be a part of an organization that invests in you! We are reviewing applications for our Consulting Application Engineer opening. Qualified candidates will be contacted for interviews. Submit your application and help us raise the bar in patient care!
We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Project Consultant
Verify your SOC code before applying
Project Consultant roles map to multiple SOC codes depending on the industry. Pull the O*NET profile for your specific specialty to confirm the job zone and degree requirements match your credentials before targeting employers.
Check prevailing wage levels by metro area
Use the OFLC Wage Search to look up the Level I through Level IV wage for your target SOC code in each city. Employers must offer at least Level I, but most consulting firms file at Level II or III, which affects your negotiating position.
Target firms with active LCA filing history
Use Migrate Mate to filter Project Consultant roles by employers who have filed recent Labor Condition Applications. This confirms the employer has an active H-1B program and isn't experimenting with sponsorship for the first time with your application.
Request a cap-exempt employer path if possible
Consulting contracts placed at universities, nonprofits, or government research labs may qualify as cap-exempt H-1B placements. Ask your prospective employer whether the client site is a qualifying institution, which removes you from the annual lottery entirely.
Clarify the employer of record before signing
Project Consultants are frequently placed through staffing firms or consulting intermediaries. Confirm which legal entity will be your H-1B petitioner and sign the I-129, since misalignment between your offer letter employer and the petitioner is a common RFE trigger.
Document project-based work for specialty occupation evidence
USCIS scrutinizes consulting roles for specialty occupation status. Compile project scopes, client deliverables, and any internal job descriptions that specify the required degree field so your employer's attorney can build a strong I-129 petition.
H-1B Visa Project Consultant: Frequently Asked Questions
Do Project Consultant roles qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, if the role requires at least a bachelor's degree in a specific field directly related to the work. Generic consulting titles can face RFEs from USCIS if the job description is broad. Your employer's petition should tie specific project deliverables to a defined degree requirement, such as computer science for IT consulting or finance for financial advisory projects.
How do I find employers who actively sponsor H-1B visas for Project Consultant positions?
Browse Project Consultant listings on Migrate Mate, which surfaces roles from employers with verified H-1B Labor Condition Application filing history. This filters out companies that list consulting roles but have never filed an LCA, saving you from wasting applications on employers who won't sponsor. DOL LCA disclosure data is publicly available and updated quarterly.
Can a staffing or consulting firm sponsor my H-1B even if I work at a client site?
Yes. Third-party placement is common in consulting, but USCIS requires the petitioning employer to maintain a true employer-employee relationship, including the right to control your work and the ability to terminate employment. Your firm must also file an amended I-129 with USCIS if you move to a new client site in a different metropolitan statistical area.
What happens to my H-1B status if my consulting project ends before my visa expires?
You have a 60-day grace period after your employment ends to find a new H-1B sponsor, change status, or depart the U.S. Your employer should notify USCIS if the position is terminated, though the grace period runs automatically. Starting a transfer petition with a new employer before the project ends is the safest approach to maintaining continuous status.
Is the Project Consultant title subject to the H-1B cap and lottery?
Most private-sector consulting roles are cap-subject and require winning the annual H-1B lottery, which USCIS runs each March for the fiscal year beginning October 1. The exception is if your consulting contract places you at a qualifying cap-exempt institution such as a university or nonprofit research organization, in which case your employer can file outside the lottery at any time.