IT Architect V

Do something that means something at Williams. This isn’t just a job - it’s an opportunity to explore and discover your passion with coworkers who become friends and mentors who push you to be your best self in and out of the office. At Williams, we make clean energy happen. And you can too, so bring your energy to ours!

The IT Architect V is responsible for designing the structure of specific IT systems and supervising programs to ensure the architecture is properly implemented. This role will apply technical skills and work with internal/external business partners to create a vision and roadmap. This is a challenging position that will enable you to utilize your technical, problem solving, communication, and leadership skills. We appreciate a new perspective on solutions for our ever-evolving IT needs!

Your work will challenge you, and with our Core Values to guide you, you’ll quickly learn and grow with us.

Responsibilities/Expectations:

• Provides technical governance with the facilitation of the creation/modification of technical standards, models, application tiers, and reference architectures
• Leads technical consulting and collaborates with development teams to facilitate solution design and drive roadmap-aligned architecture enhancements and improvements
• Translates business requirements into repeatable design strategies, systems qualities and patterns
• Develops current and target state architecture blueprints with transition roadmaps and incremental architectural sequencing
• Researches, evaluates, and recommends technologies and standards aligned with current and future Williams strategies to maintain a competitive advantage
• Serves as a trusted advisor to IT and business leadership, focusing on technology enablement for business capabilities while fostering collaboration and alignment between technical teams and stakeholders
• Other duties as assigned
  
  

Education/Years of Experience:

• Required: Bachelor’s degree in IT related field; a minimum ten (10) years’ developing software systems and IT experience
• Preferred: Minimum of twelve (12) years’ experience and prior oil/gas industry experience
  
  

Shift/Work Hours/Travel Requirements:

• Less than 20% travel required, including the possibility for some international travel
  
  

Other Requirements:

• Exhibits strong analytical and data analysis capabilities, supported by excellent planning and organizational skills.
• Demonstrates proficient knowledge of architecture principles, frameworks, and standards, with experience designing and maintaining large-scale projects
• Possesses broad working knowledge of IT domains, including infrastructure and operations, data centers, databases, networking, and security standards.
• Demonstrates effective leadership and consulting skills, with strong interpersonal capabilities including teamwork, facilitation, negotiation, targeted communication, stakeholder engagement, and internal partner management
• Applies awareness of existing, emerging, and new technologies, with proficient knowledge of scripting concepts and how scripts operate
  
  

, Responsible for creating the enterprise level strategy for a set of applications that are designed and built in order to provide conceptual integrity and consistency across the enterprise's systems. Provides oversight to junior architects who are responsible for defining the application tiers, frameworks, components types and interfaces. Creates the strategic roadmap of the standards and technologies to be used by the enterprise.