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Software Engineering Manager roles qualify as H-1B visa specialty occupations, requiring a bachelor's degree or higher in computer science, software engineering, or a related field. Employers file the H-1B petition on your behalf, covering the LCA and I-129. Most sponsoring companies are mid-size to large tech, finance, and enterprise software firms with established immigration programs.
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Regular or Temporary:
Regular
Language Fluency: English (Required)
Work Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)
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JOB DESCRIPTION SUMMARY
The Manager of Production Support leads teams responsible for ensuring the stability, resilience, and operational excellence of critical technology platforms supporting core lines of business. This role owns end-to-end production support operations while driving maturity toward engineering-first, site reliability–focused practices. The Director identifies and resolves complex technical, operational, risk, and organizational challenges, while building high-performing, accountable teams across onshore and offshore locations.
This position carries full people management responsibility, including hiring, coaching, performance management, and disciplinary actions, and serves as a key partner to Technology, Risk, and Business leadership.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Following is a summary of the essential functions for this job. Other duties may be performed, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below. Specific activities may change from time to time.
Production Support Leadership & Accountability
- Own end-to-end production support operations for multiple mission-critical applications supporting key lines of business, ensuring availability, stability, and performance meet defined SLAs and SLOs.
- Provide accountable, visible leadership for 24x7 operational support, including on-call models, escalation paths, and incident response effectiveness.
- Act as the senior escalation point for major incidents, ensuring swift recovery, accurate root cause analysis, and durable remediation.
Incident & Problem Management
- Lead cross-functional incident recovery efforts in partnership with Incident Management, engineering teams, infrastructure, and business stakeholders.
- Ensure timely root cause analysis (RCA), post-incident reviews, and corrective actions that prevent recurrence.
- Establish and mature a production knowledge base, documenting known issues, recovery procedures, and architectural insights.
Engineering-First & SRE Practices
- Drive adoption of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and lean engineering principles, including:
- Reduction of toil through automation
- Engineering-based reliability metrics (error budgets, SLIs/SLOs)
- Proactive resilience and failure prevention practices
- Champion automation of repetitive and manual operational tasks, including incident detection, response, validation, and recovery where feasible.
- Promote a culture of preventative engineering, partnering with development teams to improve system reliability upstream.
Monitoring, Observability & AI Enablement
- Implement and continuously improve real-time monitoring, alerting, and observability across applications and infrastructure.
- Measure and optimize the effectiveness of monitoring and alerting to eliminate noise and accelerate mean-time-to-detect and mean-time-to-recover.
- Leverage AI and advanced analytics to correlate telemetry data (logs, metrics, traces) and proactively identify emerging risks and root causes.
- Champion the safe and responsible use of AI within production operations by adhering to enterprise guardrails and protecting sensitive data and system integrity.
Operational Readiness & Change Enablement
- Oversee operational readiness across releases, disaster recovery and failover testing and certificate and dependency lifecycle management.
- Ensure production support is actively embedded in change planning, minimizing risk from releases and infrastructure changes.
People, Vendor & Financial Management
- Lead one or more Agile teams (Scrum, Kanban), including onshore and offshore engineers, fostering high performance and accountability.
- Manage workforce vendors and partners, setting expectations, reviewing performance, and ensuring delivery quality.
- Own budget and staffing plan aligned to application criticality, operational risk, and business growth objectives.
Risk Management & Governance
- Act as the first line of defense in production operations by proactively identifying and mitigating technology, operational, and resiliency risks.
- Partner effectively with second-line Risk, Audit, and Regulatory teams, ensuring findings are addressed and controls are continuously improved.
- Ensure compliance with internal policies, regulatory requirements, and external audit expectations.
- Own and drive remediation plans for risk, audit, and regulatory findings, ensuring timely, effective and sustainable resolution.
- Lead responses to audit and regulatory inquiries, including providing evidence, clarifying controls, and appropriately challenging findings based on documented compliance.
Strategy, Influence & Continuous Improvement
- Serve as a trusted advisor to senior Technology and Business leaders, communicating operational health, risk posture, and improvement roadmaps.
- Lead or contribute significantly to large-scale initiatives, platform transformations, or regulatory-driven efforts.
- Continuously assess organizational maturity and lead initiatives to improve reliability, efficiency, and talent capability.
MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES
- Full people management accountability, including:
- Hiring and succession planning
- Coaching and performance management
- Compensation input and talent development
- Disciplinary action and terminations as necessary
AGILE & OPERATING MODEL EXPECTATIONS
- Act as an Agile and DevOps champion, embedding production support within fast-moving delivery models.
- Balance “keep-the-lights-on” operational excellence with continuous engineering improvement.
- Drive measurable outcomes such as improved uptime, reduced incident volume, faster recovery, and improved customer experience.
QUALIFICATIONS
Required Qualifications
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- A minimum of 5 years of professional software engineering experience, including team leadership or supervisory responsibilities.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Understanding of multiple approaches to production support and software engineering delivery.
- Full understanding of Agile methodology.
- Experience leading teams in an Agile organization, particularly those practicing Site Reliability Engineering.
- Experience using AI agents in day-to-day activities, particularly in regard to enabling software delivery and production support operations.
- Banking or financial services experience.
- Bachelor’s degree and twelve years of experience in software development, production support, including five years of management experience.
GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF AVAILABLE BENEFITS FOR ELIGIBLE EMPLOYEES OF TRUIST FINANCIAL CORPORATION:
All regular teammates (not temporary or contingent workers) working 20 hours or more per week are eligible for benefits, though eligibility for specific benefits may be determined by the division of Truist offering the position. Truist offers medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, accidental death and dismemberment, tax-preferred savings accounts, and a 401k plan to teammates. Teammates also receive no less than 10 days of vacation (prorated based on date of hire and by full-time or part-time status) during their first year of employment, along with 10 sick days (also prorated), and paid holidays. For more details on Truist’s generous benefit plans, please visit our Benefits site. Depending on the position and division, this job may also be eligible for Truist’s defined benefit pension plan, restricted stock units, and/or a deferred compensation plan. As you advance through the hiring process, you will also learn more about the specific benefits available for any non-temporary position for which you apply, based on full-time or part-time status, position, and division of work.
Truist is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, color, religion, citizenship or national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or other classification protected by law. Truist is a Drug Free Workplace.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Software Engineering Manager
Verify your degree meets specialty occupation
USCIS requires your degree field to directly relate to the role. A computer science or engineering degree maps cleanly to Software Engineering Manager. An unrelated degree needs documented coursework or progressive experience to bridge the gap.
Check LCA wage levels before accepting offers
Your employer's LCA must certify a wage at Level II or higher for a management role. Run the job title through OFLC Wage Search by location to confirm the certified wage matches what you've been offered before signing anything.
Target companies with active H-1B filing history
Use Migrate Mate to filter Software Engineering Manager roles by employers with verified LCA filing history, so you're applying to companies that have actively sponsored this specific job title, not just tech employers in general.
Negotiate cap-exempt employment as a backup path
If you miss the H-1B lottery, roles at universities, nonprofit research organizations, and government research entities are cap-exempt. Some engineering managers at these institutions can start immediately without waiting for the October 1 start date.
Request concurrent H-1B filing during employer transitions
Switching from an IC role to a management title at a new company requires a new H-1B petition. Filing portability under AC21 only applies after 180 days of approved status, so time your transition to avoid gaps in work authorization.
Align your O*NET occupation code with the LCA
Software Engineering Manager maps to a specific SOC code in O*NET that determines prevailing wage tier. Confirm your employer's LCA uses the correct code for your actual duties. A mismatch between the filed occupation and your offer letter scope can trigger an RFE.
H-1B Visa Software Engineering Manager: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Software Engineering Manager role qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
Yes. USCIS treats Software Engineering Manager as a specialty occupation because the role normally requires at least a bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a closely related field. The degree must correspond directly to the job duties. If your degree is in an unrelated field, your employer's attorney will need to document how your coursework or progressive technical experience supports the specialty occupation determination.
Which employers typically sponsor H-1B visas for Software Engineering Manager positions?
Mid-size and large tech companies, enterprise software firms, financial institutions with engineering teams, and cloud infrastructure providers are the most active sponsors for this title. Companies that already employ H-1B engineers frequently sponsor management promotions internally. Migrate Mate shows employers with verified LCA filing history for this specific role, which is a more reliable signal than general company reputation for sponsorship.
Can I get promoted from a senior engineer to a Software Engineering Manager role while on H-1B?
Yes, but your employer must file an amended H-1B petition with USCIS before or when the role change takes effect. A title change to a management function with different job duties and a new SOC code is a material change that requires amendment. You can continue working during the amendment, but your employer needs to file promptly to stay compliant.
What happens to my H-1B if my employer does a layoff while I'm in a Software Engineering Manager role?
You have a 60-day grace period after your last day of employment to find a new sponsor, change status, or depart the U.S. During this window, a new employer can file an H-1B transfer petition, allowing you to start working once USCIS receives the filing. Senior engineering manager roles can also qualify for O-1A consideration if you have documented team leadership, publications, or awards that meet extraordinary ability criteria.
How does the H-1B prevailing wage requirement affect Software Engineering Manager job offers?
Your employer must file an LCA certifying that your wage meets at least the prevailing wage for the Software Engineering Manager SOC code in your work location. Management roles typically fall at wage Level II or III in the DOL's four-tier system. You can verify the required wage for any metro area using the OFLC Wage Search before evaluating an offer, which helps you assess whether a company's compensation is compliant before accepting.