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Assoc Director, IT Systems Engineering
Gilead Sciences INC · 🇺🇸 United States - North Carolina - Raleigh
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 159 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 75 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Gilead Sciences INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles9 certified filings for “Assoc Director, IT Architecture” (Computer and Information Systems Managers) in NC: $174k–$209k, median $209k. Most were filed at wage level IV (100%) — 4 lottery entries, ≈61% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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Sponsor Radar — Gilead Sciences INC
The US Department of Labor certified 159 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 75 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
At Gilead, we’re creating a healthier world for all people. For more than 35 years, we’ve tackled diseases such as HIV, viral hepatitis, COVID-19 and cancer – working relentlessly to develop therapies that help improve lives and to ensure access to these therapies across the globe. We continue to fight against the world’s biggest health challenges, and our mission requires collaboration, determination and a relentless drive to make a difference. Every member of Gilead’s team plays a critical role in the discovery and development of life-changing scientific innovations. Our employees are our greatest asset as we work to achieve our bold ambitions, and we’re looking for the next wave of passionate and ambitious people ready to make a direct impact. We believe every employee deserves a great leader. People Leaders are the cornerstone to the employee experience at Gilead and Kite. As a people leader now or in the future, you are the key driver in evolving our culture and creating an environment where every employee feels included, developed and empowered to fulfil their aspirations. Join Gilead and help create possible, together. Job Description Architecture & Platform Strategy • Define and evolve the target-state architecture for the self-serve data, AI, and agentic AI platform, aligned to enterprise strategy, data mesh principles, and regulatory requirements • Establish enterprise standards and reference architectures for data products, semantic layer services, AI/LLM gateways, agent orchestration, and API- and MCP-based data access • Architect the platform layers that let AI systems and agents find, trust, ask, and act on enterprise data — including data product interfaces, semantic context services, and governed write/action patterns • Define tiered certification and governance patterns that scale data product trust from registered assets to autonomous-grade, AI-ready products • Establish foundational patterns for retrieval, context enrichment, grounding, and tool exposure (RAG, semantic layer, MCP tool surfaces) to support agentic and real-time decisioning use cases Engineering & Infrastructure • Lead engineering of scalable, secure platform infrastructure on AWS (S3, Lake Formation, Glue, EKS, Bedrock, IAM, networking) and Databricks (Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, Delta Live Tables, Databricks SQL, MLflow, Mosaic AI) • Engineer the agentic AI platform stack: agent runtimes, orchestration, agent identity and access management, action/write contracts, evaluation harnesses, and observability • Implement platform engineering best practices: infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), CI/CD, automated testing, environment promotion, and GxP/Part 11-compliant change management • Drive operational excellence across reliability, cost management (FinOps for data and AI workloads), observability, and incident response, grounded in SRE and Well-Architected practices • Ensure security, data protection, and access governance patterns (fine-grained entitlements, row/column-level controls, audit lineage) meet regulated-industry requirements Delivery Leadership & Product Management • Contribute to the platform product roadmap: define outcomes, prioritize the backlog, and sequence capability delivery against enterprise AI adoption goals • Lead delivery across a team of vendor partners, holding the team to clear standards for quality, velocity, and operability • Drive build/buy/adopt decisions with rigor — vendor evaluation, kill criteria, and total-cost analysis — and integrate acquired capabilities into a coherent platform experience • Define and track platform health and adoption metrics (DORA, reliability SLOs, self-serve adoption, time-to-data-product) and report progress to senior leadership • Serve as a trusted advisor and te