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Engineering lead visa sponsorship jobs in Wisconsin are concentrated in Milwaukee, Madison, and Green Bay, where manufacturers like Rockwell Automation, Kohler, and Johnson Controls, plus the University of Wisconsin system's research spinoffs, regularly hire senior technical leaders. Roles span industrial automation, medical devices, and software engineering, with multi-year H-1B visa sponsorship the standard path for international candidates.
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We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time.
Position Summary
The Lead Director - Cloud and Platform Engineering is responsible for shaping and executing the multi-cloud platform engineering strategy for Health100 and PCW across Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Microsoft Azure. Drawing on a foundation of hands-on engineering experience, this leader sets the technical direction and multi-year roadmap for cloud platforms while building the organization, engineering practices, and operating model required to deliver at enterprise scale.
The role provides leadership across cloud architecture, platform engineering, automation, and production readiness, ensuring strategy translates into engineered capabilities that are scalable, resilient, secure, observable, and cost effective. This leader will navigate complex technical and business trade-offs, set engineering priorities, and drive modernization while maintaining accountability for execution and measurable outcomes.
Success requires strong partnerships across Platform Engineering, DevOps/Operations, Production SRE, Network, Cybersecurity, Identity, Data, Enterprise Architecture, and Application Engineering. The leader will develop technical talent, establish clear ownership and engineering standards, and influence senior technology leaders on cloud strategy, architecture, investment, and modernization priorities.
ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES
Strategy, Roadmaps & Portfolio Delivery
- Own the multi-cloud platform engineering strategy and roadmap for Health100 and PCW across GCP, AWS, and Azure.
- Translate business priorities, application demand, resiliency requirements, and enterprise standards into sequenced engineering initiatives, balancing near-term delivery with platform modernization, technical debt reduction, and capability development.
- Establish measurable outcomes and provide executive-level visibility into roadmap progress, platform adoption, reliability, delivery predictability, automation, cost efficiency, risks, trade-offs, and investment requirements.
Cloud Architecture, Engineering & Implementation
- Lead the architecture, engineering, implementation, and lifecycle management of enterprise cloud platforms across GCP, AWS, and Azure.
- Drive engineering of cloud foundations, networking, identity, security, Kubernetes, data services, shared services, and observability, using reusable reference architectures and engineering patterns to accelerate application onboarding.
- Ensure architecture incorporates availability, multi-region resiliency, disaster recovery, scalability, performance, maintainability, security, and cost requirements from the outset.
- Lead technical design and engineering reviews through production readiness, determining where cloud-native services or enterprise technologies such as Palo Alto Networks, F5, and Infoblox best meet business and technical requirements.
Engineering Execution & Delivery Management
- Convert architecture and roadmap priorities into executable delivery plans and drive delivery across internal engineering teams, cloud providers, and strategic partners, actively managing dependencies, blockers, and technical risk.
- Ensure engineering produces deployable infrastructure, tested automation, documentation, support models, and measurable service outcomes, not architecture artifacts alone.
- Establish repeatable release and environment-promotion practices and use delivery metrics to identify schedule, capacity, and quality risks requiring corrective action.
Infrastructure as Code, Automation & Platform Enablement
- Establish an automation-first engineering model using Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, policy as code, CI/CD, reusable modules, and automated validation.
- Develop self-service platform capabilities and reusable engineering patterns that reduce manual provisioning, improve consistency, and accelerate application delivery.
- Partner with DevOps/Operations to establish deployment workflows, configuration standards, change controls, environment promotion, and effective operational handoffs.
Production SRE Partnership & Service Reliability
- Partner with Production SRE throughout architecture and engineering, not only after deployment, to ensure platform services are designed for reliable production operation.
- Establish production-readiness standards encompassing SLOs and SLIs, observability, capacity and performance, recovery, disaster recovery, runbooks, ownership, escalation, and support requirements.
- Use incidents, reliability trends, and operational feedback to drive permanent corrective actions and roadmap improvements.
Cross-Functional Technical Leadership
- Partner across Network Engineering, Cybersecurity, Identity, Enterprise Architecture, Application Engineering, Data, DevOps/Operations, Production SRE, cloud providers, and strategic partners to deliver integrated platform capabilities.
- Advise senior leaders on cloud architecture, engineering priorities, modernization, delivery sequencing, and technology investments, leading decisions where cloud-provider capabilities, enterprise controls, and application requirements create competing priorities.
- Serve as an escalation point for complex engineering and delivery issues spanning platforms, providers, or organizational boundaries.
Governance, Security & Financial Management
- Embed security, compliance, identity, network segmentation, data protection, and policy requirements into reusable engineering patterns and governance that enables delivery without bypassing enterprise controls.
- Partner with FinOps and business stakeholders on cloud consumption forecasting, cost transparency, unit economics, optimization, and capacity planning.
- Maintain lifecycle strategies addressing platform upgrades, deprecation, technical debt, and vendor dependencies.
Leadership & Capability Development
- Build and lead a cloud platform engineering organization focused on architecture quality, engineering rigor, clear accountability, and dependable delivery while developing technical leaders across cloud platforms and shared capabilities.
- Establish engineering standards, design patterns, playbooks, documentation, and review mechanisms that improve consistency and accountability.
- Develop workforce, sourcing, and strategic partner approaches aligned with the Health100 and PCW roadmaps.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 10+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, DevOps, SRE or related disciplines.
- 5+ years of technology leadership, engineering management, architecture leadership or equivalent large-scale technical leadership.
- 7+ years of deep engineering experience in at least one major public cloud platform, with working knowledge across GCP, AWS and Azure.
- 7+ years of experience with cloud foundations and landing zones, including networking, DNS, identity, security, Kubernetes, compute, storage, databases, shared services and observability.
- 5+ years of experience with Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD automation and reusable engineering patterns.
- 5+ years of experience partnering with dedicated DevOps/Operations and Production SRE teams to transition engineered services into reliable production operation.
- 5+ years of experience defining or applying SLOs, SLIs, production-readiness criteria, observability, capacity management, disaster recovery and operational support models.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience leading multi-cloud platform engineering or transformation programs across GCP, AWS and Azure.
- Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional delivery involving internal teams, cloud providers and strategic partners.
- Demonstrated experience defining strategy and roadmaps and delivering enterprise cloud capabilities against them.
- Experience supporting healthcare, regulated or other business-critical enterprise environments.
- Experience establishing internal developer platforms, paved-road services or self-service infrastructure capabilities.
- Advanced experience with Terraform, Kubernetes and service mesh technologies.
- Experience integrating cloud platforms with enterprise networks, data centers, security platforms and shared services.
- Experience supporting AI/ML, GPU, data-intensive or high-performance workloads.
- Experience with FinOps, cloud consumption forecasting and cost optimization.
- Relevant certifications such as Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Certified Kubernetes Administrator or HashiCorp Terraform Associate/Professional.
Education
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university, or equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience (High School Diploma/GED plus 4 years of related experience)
PAY RANGE
The typical pay range for this role is:
$144,200.00 - $288,400.00
This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above. This position also includes an award target in the company’s equity award program.
Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.
GREAT BENEFITS FOR GREAT PEOPLE
We take pride in offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.
This full-time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well-being of colleagues and their families. The benefits for this position include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, based on eligibility.
Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.
We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 11/18/2026
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.
INTRODUCTION
We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time.
Position Summary
The Lead Director - Cloud and Platform Engineering is responsible for shaping and executing the multi-cloud platform engineering strategy for Health100 and PCW across Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Microsoft Azure. Drawing on a foundation of hands-on engineering experience, this leader sets the technical direction and multi-year roadmap for cloud platforms while building the organization, engineering practices, and operating model required to deliver at enterprise scale.
The role provides leadership across cloud architecture, platform engineering, automation, and production readiness, ensuring strategy translates into engineered capabilities that are scalable, resilient, secure, observable, and cost effective. This leader will navigate complex technical and business trade-offs, set engineering priorities, and drive modernization while maintaining accountability for execution and measurable outcomes.
Success requires strong partnerships across Platform Engineering, DevOps/Operations, Production SRE, Network, Cybersecurity, Identity, Data, Enterprise Architecture, and Application Engineering. The leader will develop technical talent, establish clear ownership and engineering standards, and influence senior technology leaders on cloud strategy, architecture, investment, and modernization priorities.
ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES
Strategy, Roadmaps & Portfolio Delivery
- Own the multi-cloud platform engineering strategy and roadmap for Health100 and PCW across GCP, AWS, and Azure.
- Translate business priorities, application demand, resiliency requirements, and enterprise standards into sequenced engineering initiatives, balancing near-term delivery with platform modernization, technical debt reduction, and capability development.
- Establish measurable outcomes and provide executive-level visibility into roadmap progress, platform adoption, reliability, delivery predictability, automation, cost efficiency, risks, trade-offs, and investment requirements.
Cloud Architecture, Engineering & Implementation
- Lead the architecture, engineering, implementation, and lifecycle management of enterprise cloud platforms across GCP, AWS, and Azure.
- Drive engineering of cloud foundations, networking, identity, security, Kubernetes, data services, shared services, and observability, using reusable reference architectures and engineering patterns to accelerate application onboarding.
- Ensure architecture incorporates availability, multi-region resiliency, disaster recovery, scalability, performance, maintainability, security, and cost requirements from the outset.
- Lead technical design and engineering reviews through production readiness, determining where cloud-native services or enterprise technologies such as Palo Alto Networks, F5, and Infoblox best meet business and technical requirements.
Engineering Execution & Delivery Management
- Convert architecture and roadmap priorities into executable delivery plans and drive delivery across internal engineering teams, cloud providers, and strategic partners, actively managing dependencies, blockers, and technical risk.
- Ensure engineering produces deployable infrastructure, tested automation, documentation, support models, and measurable service outcomes, not architecture artifacts alone.
- Establish repeatable release and environment-promotion practices and use delivery metrics to identify schedule, capacity, and quality risks requiring corrective action.
Infrastructure as Code, Automation & Platform Enablement
- Establish an automation-first engineering model using Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, policy as code, CI/CD, reusable modules, and automated validation.
- Develop self-service platform capabilities and reusable engineering patterns that reduce manual provisioning, improve consistency, and accelerate application delivery.
- Partner with DevOps/Operations to establish deployment workflows, configuration standards, change controls, environment promotion, and effective operational handoffs.
Production SRE Partnership & Service Reliability
- Partner with Production SRE throughout architecture and engineering, not only after deployment, to ensure platform services are designed for reliable production operation.
- Establish production-readiness standards encompassing SLOs and SLIs, observability, capacity and performance, recovery, disaster recovery, runbooks, ownership, escalation, and support requirements.
- Use incidents, reliability trends, and operational feedback to drive permanent corrective actions and roadmap improvements.
Cross-Functional Technical Leadership
- Partner across Network Engineering, Cybersecurity, Identity, Enterprise Architecture, Application Engineering, Data, DevOps/Operations, Production SRE, cloud providers, and strategic partners to deliver integrated platform capabilities.
- Advise senior leaders on cloud architecture, engineering priorities, modernization, delivery sequencing, and technology investments, leading decisions where cloud-provider capabilities, enterprise controls, and application requirements create competing priorities.
- Serve as an escalation point for complex engineering and delivery issues spanning platforms, providers, or organizational boundaries.
Governance, Security & Financial Management
- Embed security, compliance, identity, network segmentation, data protection, and policy requirements into reusable engineering patterns and governance that enables delivery without bypassing enterprise controls.
- Partner with FinOps and business stakeholders on cloud consumption forecasting, cost transparency, unit economics, optimization, and capacity planning.
- Maintain lifecycle strategies addressing platform upgrades, deprecation, technical debt, and vendor dependencies.
Leadership & Capability Development
- Build and lead a cloud platform engineering organization focused on architecture quality, engineering rigor, clear accountability, and dependable delivery while developing technical leaders across cloud platforms and shared capabilities.
- Establish engineering standards, design patterns, playbooks, documentation, and review mechanisms that improve consistency and accountability.
- Develop workforce, sourcing, and strategic partner approaches aligned with the Health100 and PCW roadmaps.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 10+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, DevOps, SRE or related disciplines.
- 5+ years of technology leadership, engineering management, architecture leadership or equivalent large-scale technical leadership.
- 7+ years of deep engineering experience in at least one major public cloud platform, with working knowledge across GCP, AWS and Azure.
- 7+ years of experience with cloud foundations and landing zones, including networking, DNS, identity, security, Kubernetes, compute, storage, databases, shared services and observability.
- 5+ years of experience with Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD automation and reusable engineering patterns.
- 5+ years of experience partnering with dedicated DevOps/Operations and Production SRE teams to transition engineered services into reliable production operation.
- 5+ years of experience defining or applying SLOs, SLIs, production-readiness criteria, observability, capacity management, disaster recovery and operational support models.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Experience leading multi-cloud platform engineering or transformation programs across GCP, AWS and Azure.
- Proven ability to lead complex, cross-functional delivery involving internal teams, cloud providers and strategic partners.
- Demonstrated experience defining strategy and roadmaps and delivering enterprise cloud capabilities against them.
- Experience supporting healthcare, regulated or other business-critical enterprise environments.
- Experience establishing internal developer platforms, paved-road services or self-service infrastructure capabilities.
- Advanced experience with Terraform, Kubernetes and service mesh technologies.
- Experience integrating cloud platforms with enterprise networks, data centers, security platforms and shared services.
- Experience supporting AI/ML, GPU, data-intensive or high-performance workloads.
- Experience with FinOps, cloud consumption forecasting and cost optimization.
- Relevant certifications such as Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect, AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Certified Kubernetes Administrator or HashiCorp Terraform Associate/Professional.
Education
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university, or equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience (High School Diploma/GED plus 4 years of related experience)
PAY RANGE
The typical pay range for this role is:
$144,200.00 - $288,400.00
This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above. This position also includes an award target in the company’s equity award program.
Our people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.
GREAT BENEFITS FOR GREAT PEOPLE
We take pride in offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.
This full-time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well-being of colleagues and their families. The benefits for this position include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, based on eligibility.
Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.
We anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 11/18/2026
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.
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Which companies in Wisconsin sponsor visas for engineering leads?
Wisconsin's strongest engineering lead sponsors include Rockwell Automation and Rexnord in Milwaukee, Epic Systems and Exact Sciences in Madison, and Kohler Co. in Sheboygan. These companies file H-1B Labor Condition Applications regularly for senior engineering roles. Johnson Controls, GE Healthcare, and Oshkosh Corporation also have established sponsorship programs for engineering leaders with demonstrated technical and team management credentials.
What visa types realistically fit an engineering lead role in Wisconsin?
Engineering lead roles qualify as specialty occupations, so H-1B is the primary pathway, granting up to three years initially and extendable to six. The E-3 visa applies to Australian nationals and the H-1B1 visa to Chilean and Singaporean nationals, both requiring a Labor Condition Application. F-1 students may bridge on OPT or STEM OPT if their degree is STEM-designated. EB-2 or EB-3 green cards are available for longer-term sponsorship through PERM labor certification.
Which Wisconsin cities have the most engineering lead visa sponsorship jobs?
Milwaukee generates the highest volume of engineering lead sponsorship activity, driven by its manufacturing and automation sector. Madison is a close second, anchored by Epic Systems, university-affiliated tech companies, and life sciences employers. Green Bay and Oshkosh contribute through defense and heavy equipment manufacturers. Racine and Kenosha also see activity from industrial conglomerates with regional engineering headquarters.
How to find engineering lead visa sponsorship jobs in Wisconsin?
Migrate Mate lists Wisconsin engineering lead roles specifically filtered to employers with verified visa sponsorship history, so you can identify companies already familiar with H-1B or E-3 filings for senior engineering positions. Searching by city lets you compare Milwaukee's manufacturing base against Madison's tech and life sciences cluster, helping you target applications toward employers who have sponsored comparable roles before.
Are there state-specific factors that affect engineering lead sponsorship in Wisconsin?
Wisconsin's engineering market is heavily weighted toward manufacturing, automation, and medical devices, meaning most sponsoring employers are large industrial or healthcare corporations rather than startups. The University of Wisconsin-Madison pipeline produces strong local engineering talent, so international candidates benefit from emphasizing specialized expertise or leadership experience that complements rather than competes with domestic graduate pipelines. Wisconsin has no state-level visa program, so federal H-1B rules apply exclusively.
What is the prevailing wage for sponsored engineering lead jobs in Wisconsin?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.