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We will do this together — with customers, partners and colleagues. We will fight for others, not against: We will stand up for and champion everyone’s access to opportunities. The status quo is not good enough … we believe every individual and every community deserves access to financial opportunities. We are determined to support both individuals and communities in reaching a better financial future. We know that reaching this future depends on our actions today.
Like our Purpose Statement, Voya believes in being bold and committed to action. We are committed to a work environment where the differences that we are born with — and those we acquire throughout our lives — are understood, valued and intentionally pursued. We believe that our employees own our culture and have a responsibility to foster an environment where we all feel comfortable bringing our whole selves to work. Purposefully bringing our differences together to positively influence our culture, serve our clients and enrich our communities is essential to our vision.
Are you ready to join a company with a strong purpose and a winning culture? Start your Voyage – Apply Now
Get to Know the Opportunity
Voya is seeking an AI/Digital Architecture Director to help define and shape the future architecture of our customer-facing digital applications. This role will establish architectural direction for a complex modernization landscape, bring greater consistency across applications, enable reusable digital capabilities, strengthen integration with enterprise data and domain platforms, and advance the practical use of artificial intelligence.
This is a strategic, technically credible architecture role rather than a traditional engineering leadership position. The successful candidate will combine broad digital application architecture expertise with hands-on knowledge of agentic AI and the ability to translate emerging technologies into secure, scalable, and implementable architecture.
The Director will initially guide a small, blended team of architects and partner closely with digital, engineering, data, security, product, and business leaders. The role offers the opportunity to influence Voya's next generation of digital experiences while creating a pragmatic path forward from a large and complex legacy environment.
The Contributions You'll Make
- Define the target architecture and modernization roadmap for Voya's customer-facing digital application ecosystem.
- Establish architecture patterns and standards for modern digital experiences, including React applications, micro frontend architecture, backend-for-frontend services, APIs, and integration with enterprise domain services.
- Guide the creation of consistent, reusable digital capabilities that support multiple products and lines of business.
- Lead architectural approaches for incorporating agentic AI into customer experiences and the software development lifecycle.
- Apply practical experience with AI agents to the design of AI-native applications, conversational interfaces, intelligent workflows, and modern digital experiences.
- Partner with digital, product, engineering, data, platform, security, and business teams to translate strategic objectives into implementable architecture.
- Define secure integration patterns among digital applications, enterprise data platforms, shared services, APIs, and legacy systems.
- Ensure architecture decisions incorporate application security, authentication, authorization, privacy, resilience, and zero-trust principles from the outset.
- Evaluate emerging technologies, architecture patterns, and platform capabilities, recommending where they can generate measurable business or customer value.
- Provide strategic architecture oversight across modernization initiatives without becoming the day-to-day solution architect for every project.
- Guide and develop a small, blended team of employees and contractors while remaining personally engaged in architecture strategy, design, and execution.
- Communicate complex architecture concepts clearly to technical teams, business stakeholders, and senior leaders.
- Create a pragmatic transition path from the existing digital landscape to a modern, scalable, secure, and AI-enabled future state.
- Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
Minimum Knowledge & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience where permitted by the applicable Voya job profile.
- Ten or more years of progressively responsible experience in digital application architecture, enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or a related technology discipline.
- Demonstrated experience designing or leading the architecture of end-to-end, customer-facing digital applications.
- Strong knowledge of modern web application architecture, including React, micro frontends, backend-for-frontend services, APIs, and integration with core domain services.
- Practical experience using AI agents or agentic AI patterns to design or build AI-native software, conversational user interfaces, intelligent workflows, or related digital capabilities.
- Ability to connect architecture strategy to implementation patterns, technical standards, and modernization roadmaps.
- Experience integrating digital applications with enterprise data platforms, shared services, APIs, and complex legacy environments.
- Strong understanding of secure application architecture, including authentication, authorization, application security, privacy, and zero-trust principles.
- Demonstrated ability to influence across matrixed engineering, digital, data, security, product, and business teams.
- Experience guiding architects, senior technologists, or blended employee and contractor teams.
- Executive-level written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical decisions to nontechnical stakeholders.
Preferred Knowledge & Experience
- Experience modernizing digital platforms across multiple products, business units, or lines of business.
- Experience designing conversational customer experiences or other AI-enabled user interfaces.
- Experience incorporating AI tools and agents into the software development lifecycle.
- React Native or mobile application architecture experience.
- Depth in identity and access management, including modern authentication and authorization mechanisms.
- Experience in financial services, insurance, retirement, wealth management, e-commerce, or another regulated, customer-facing environment.
- Experience establishing reusable digital capabilities, design patterns, architecture governance, or platform standards.
- Experience balancing modernization objectives with the integration and progressive transformation of large legacy environments.
- Master's degree in a related field.
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Compensation Pay Disclosure:
Voya is committed to pay that’s fair and equitable, which means comparable pay for comparable roles and responsibilities.
The below annual base salary range reflects the expected hiring range(s) for this position in the location(s) listed. In addition to base salary, Voya offers incentive opportunities (i.e., annual cash incentives, sales incentives, and/or long-term incentives) based on the role to reward the achievement of annual performance objectives. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Voya Financial is willing to pay at the time of this posting.
Actual compensation offered may vary from the posted salary range based upon the candidate’s geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.
$149,820 - $198,370 USD
Be Well. Stay Well.
Voya provides the resources that can make a difference in your lives. To us, this means thriving physically, financially, socially and emotionally. Voya benefits are designed to help you do just that. That’s why we offer an array of plans, programs, tools and resources with one goal in mind: To help you and your family be well and stay well.
What We Offer
- Health, dental, vision and life insurance plans
- 401(k) Savings plan – with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%)
- Voya Retirement Plan – employer paid cash balance retirement plan (4%)
- Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
- Paid time off – including 20 days paid time off, nine paid company holidays and a flexible Diversity Celebration Day.
- Paid volunteer time — 40 hours per calendar year
Critical Skills
At Voya, we have identified the following critical skills which are key to success in our culture:
- Customer Focused: Passionate drive to delight our customers and offer unique solutions that deliver on their expectations.
- Critical Thinking: Thoughtful process of analyzing data and problem solving data to reach a well-reasoned solution.
- Team Mentality: Partnering effectively to drive our culture and execute on our common goals.
- Business Acumen: Appreciation and understanding of the financial services industry in order to make sound business decisions.
- Learning Agility: Openness to new ways of thinking and acquiring new skills to retain a competitive advantage.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Voya Financial is an equal-opportunity employer. Voya Financial provides equal opportunity to qualified individuals regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, veteran status, creed, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other status protected by state or local law.
Reasonable Accommodations
Voya is committed to the inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Voya will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please reference resources for applicants with disabilities.
Together we fight for everyone’s opportunity for a better financial future.
We will do this together — with customers, partners and colleagues. We will fight for others, not against: We will stand up for and champion everyone’s access to opportunities. The status quo is not good enough … we believe every individual and every community deserves access to financial opportunities. We are determined to support both individuals and communities in reaching a better financial future. We know that reaching this future depends on our actions today.
Like our Purpose Statement, Voya believes in being bold and committed to action. We are committed to a work environment where the differences that we are born with — and those we acquire throughout our lives — are understood, valued and intentionally pursued. We believe that our employees own our culture and have a responsibility to foster an environment where we all feel comfortable bringing our whole selves to work. Purposefully bringing our differences together to positively influence our culture, serve our clients and enrich our communities is essential to our vision.
Are you ready to join a company with a strong purpose and a winning culture? Start your Voyage – Apply Now
Get to Know the Opportunity
Voya is seeking an AI/Digital Architecture Director to help define and shape the future architecture of our customer-facing digital applications. This role will establish architectural direction for a complex modernization landscape, bring greater consistency across applications, enable reusable digital capabilities, strengthen integration with enterprise data and domain platforms, and advance the practical use of artificial intelligence.
This is a strategic, technically credible architecture role rather than a traditional engineering leadership position. The successful candidate will combine broad digital application architecture expertise with hands-on knowledge of agentic AI and the ability to translate emerging technologies into secure, scalable, and implementable architecture.
The Director will initially guide a small, blended team of architects and partner closely with digital, engineering, data, security, product, and business leaders. The role offers the opportunity to influence Voya's next generation of digital experiences while creating a pragmatic path forward from a large and complex legacy environment.
The Contributions You'll Make
- Define the target architecture and modernization roadmap for Voya's customer-facing digital application ecosystem.
- Establish architecture patterns and standards for modern digital experiences, including React applications, micro frontend architecture, backend-for-frontend services, APIs, and integration with enterprise domain services.
- Guide the creation of consistent, reusable digital capabilities that support multiple products and lines of business.
- Lead architectural approaches for incorporating agentic AI into customer experiences and the software development lifecycle.
- Apply practical experience with AI agents to the design of AI-native applications, conversational interfaces, intelligent workflows, and modern digital experiences.
- Partner with digital, product, engineering, data, platform, security, and business teams to translate strategic objectives into implementable architecture.
- Define secure integration patterns among digital applications, enterprise data platforms, shared services, APIs, and legacy systems.
- Ensure architecture decisions incorporate application security, authentication, authorization, privacy, resilience, and zero-trust principles from the outset.
- Evaluate emerging technologies, architecture patterns, and platform capabilities, recommending where they can generate measurable business or customer value.
- Provide strategic architecture oversight across modernization initiatives without becoming the day-to-day solution architect for every project.
- Guide and develop a small, blended team of employees and contractors while remaining personally engaged in architecture strategy, design, and execution.
- Communicate complex architecture concepts clearly to technical teams, business stakeholders, and senior leaders.
- Create a pragmatic transition path from the existing digital landscape to a modern, scalable, secure, and AI-enabled future state.
- Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
Minimum Knowledge & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience where permitted by the applicable Voya job profile.
- Ten or more years of progressively responsible experience in digital application architecture, enterprise architecture, solution architecture, or a related technology discipline.
- Demonstrated experience designing or leading the architecture of end-to-end, customer-facing digital applications.
- Strong knowledge of modern web application architecture, including React, micro frontends, backend-for-frontend services, APIs, and integration with core domain services.
- Practical experience using AI agents or agentic AI patterns to design or build AI-native software, conversational user interfaces, intelligent workflows, or related digital capabilities.
- Ability to connect architecture strategy to implementation patterns, technical standards, and modernization roadmaps.
- Experience integrating digital applications with enterprise data platforms, shared services, APIs, and complex legacy environments.
- Strong understanding of secure application architecture, including authentication, authorization, application security, privacy, and zero-trust principles.
- Demonstrated ability to influence across matrixed engineering, digital, data, security, product, and business teams.
- Experience guiding architects, senior technologists, or blended employee and contractor teams.
- Executive-level written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex technical decisions to nontechnical stakeholders.
Preferred Knowledge & Experience
- Experience modernizing digital platforms across multiple products, business units, or lines of business.
- Experience designing conversational customer experiences or other AI-enabled user interfaces.
- Experience incorporating AI tools and agents into the software development lifecycle.
- React Native or mobile application architecture experience.
- Depth in identity and access management, including modern authentication and authorization mechanisms.
- Experience in financial services, insurance, retirement, wealth management, e-commerce, or another regulated, customer-facing environment.
- Experience establishing reusable digital capabilities, design patterns, architecture governance, or platform standards.
- Experience balancing modernization objectives with the integration and progressive transformation of large legacy environments.
- Master's degree in a related field.
LI-ND1
Compensation Pay Disclosure:
Voya is committed to pay that’s fair and equitable, which means comparable pay for comparable roles and responsibilities.
The below annual base salary range reflects the expected hiring range(s) for this position in the location(s) listed. In addition to base salary, Voya offers incentive opportunities (i.e., annual cash incentives, sales incentives, and/or long-term incentives) based on the role to reward the achievement of annual performance objectives. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Voya Financial is willing to pay at the time of this posting.
Actual compensation offered may vary from the posted salary range based upon the candidate’s geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.
$149,820 - $198,370 USD
Be Well. Stay Well.
Voya provides the resources that can make a difference in your lives. To us, this means thriving physically, financially, socially and emotionally. Voya benefits are designed to help you do just that. That’s why we offer an array of plans, programs, tools and resources with one goal in mind: To help you and your family be well and stay well.
What We Offer
- Health, dental, vision and life insurance plans
- 401(k) Savings plan – with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%)
- Voya Retirement Plan – employer paid cash balance retirement plan (4%)
- Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
- Paid time off – including 20 days paid time off, nine paid company holidays and a flexible Diversity Celebration Day.
- Paid volunteer time — 40 hours per calendar year
Critical Skills
At Voya, we have identified the following critical skills which are key to success in our culture:
- Customer Focused: Passionate drive to delight our customers and offer unique solutions that deliver on their expectations.
- Critical Thinking: Thoughtful process of analyzing data and problem solving data to reach a well-reasoned solution.
- Team Mentality: Partnering effectively to drive our culture and execute on our common goals.
- Business Acumen: Appreciation and understanding of the financial services industry in order to make sound business decisions.
- Learning Agility: Openness to new ways of thinking and acquiring new skills to retain a competitive advantage.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Voya Financial is an equal-opportunity employer. Voya Financial provides equal opportunity to qualified individuals regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, veteran status, creed, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other status protected by state or local law.
Reasonable Accommodations
Voya is committed to the inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Voya will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please reference resources for applicants with disabilities.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Director of Architecture Jobs
Verify your degree meets specialty occupation standards
Architecture licensure matters, but USCIS cares most that your degree directly relates to the Director of Architecture role. A degree in a tangential field like construction management may trigger a Request for Evidence, so gather transcripts and course descriptions early.
Target firms with active LCA filing histories
Use the OFLC Wage Search to look up certified Labor Condition Applications under architecture and design occupations. Firms that file consistently for senior roles are far more likely to have in-house immigration counsel and established sponsorship workflows than those with no LCA history.
Align your portfolio to specialty occupation evidence
At the director level, USCIS wants proof the role requires at minimum a bachelor's in architecture. Your portfolio should demonstrate design authority and technical oversight, not just project management, so the employer's LCA job description maps cleanly to your credentials.
Search Migrate Mate for verified sponsoring employers
Filter Director of Architecture openings on Migrate Mate to see employers with confirmed H-1B and LCA sponsorship history. This saves you from applying to firms that list senior architecture roles but have never filed for a sponsored candidate.
Negotiate PERM into your offer conversation
Many architecture firms sponsor H-1B status but delay starting the PERM labor certification process. At the offer stage, ask directly whether the firm will initiate PERM within your first two years, since EB-2 and EB-3 priority date backlogs mean early filing significantly affects your green card timeline.
Prepare for prevailing wage scrutiny at the director level
DOL assigns prevailing wage tiers based on job duties and geography. Director-level architecture roles in major metro markets often land at Wage Level III or IV. Confirm that your offered compensation meets the certified LCA wage before signing, since underpayment is a compliance violation for the employer.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Director of Architecture role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes. USCIS treats architecture as a specialty occupation because the role requires at minimum a bachelor's degree in architecture or a directly related field. At the director level, the complexity of design oversight, code compliance, and project authority reinforces the specialty occupation argument. Employers with well-documented job descriptions rarely face challenges on this point.
Which visa types realistically cover Director of Architecture candidates?
H-1B is the primary path for most nationals. Australian citizens can use the E-3 visa, which has no lottery and renews every two years. Canadian and Mexican nationals may qualify under TN visa if the architecture profession fits the USMCA list. For candidates already in the U.S. on OPT, the employer files an H-1B petition before the OPT period expires.
How do I find employers who actively sponsor Director of Architecture roles?
Migrate Mate lists employers with verified sponsorship and LCA filing history specifically for architecture and design roles, so you can focus your applications on firms that have already committed to sponsoring senior candidates rather than those that list roles without any sponsorship track record.
Does a three-year architecture degree from outside the U.S. qualify for H-1B specialty occupation?
USCIS accepts foreign three-year bachelor's degrees if a credential evaluation confirms they are equivalent to a U.S. four-year bachelor's degree in architecture. Obtain a detailed evaluation from a recognized credential assessment organization before your employer files. Without it, the petition is vulnerable to a Request for Evidence on educational equivalency.
Can a Director of Architecture on H-1B pursue a green card while remaining employed?
Yes. H-1B status allows dual intent, meaning you can pursue an EB-2 or EB-3 green card through PERM labor certification without jeopardizing your nonimmigrant status. The employer files PERM with DOL, then an I-140 petition with USCIS. Starting early matters because per-country priority date backlogs can extend the overall timeline significantly for some nationalities.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Director of Architecture jobs?
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.