What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr Software Development Manager position at Williams Companies?
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Position Overview
The Senior Software Development Manager is responsible for shaping and executing IT strategy, delivery, and support for customer departments. This role involves partnering with various organizations to deliver technology solutions that enhance business processes efficiently and effectively. The manager will collaborate with leaders in Williams’ IT organization and aligned business areas to establish robust communication channels and relationships. They will drive change management and oversee IT strategies, programs, and projects. Additionally, the manager will provide leadership and direction to direct reports, including selecting, developing, and managing a team to innovate and enhance products and services. With strong business acumen, the manager will partner with the business to design and implement solutions that support organizational goals and improve efficiency. They will also control capital and expense budgets, ensuring budget goals are met.
Day In The Life
As the Sr Software Development Manager, you’ll lead a dynamic team of software developers and an additional manager’s team to support a vital, custom-built, external-facing commercial web application that underpins some of the most critical midstream infrastructure in the United States. Your daily activities will include collaborating with business partners to understand their challenges, gather requirements, design solutions, and ensure priorities are aligned. You’ll work closely with centralized IT support teams to maintain system reliability and drive successful project execution. Mentoring and developing team members will be a key part of your role, as well as forecasting and managing budgets exceeding four to five million dollars annually. You’ll also define and execute strategic initiatives for the team, fostering growth and innovation.
Responsibilities / Expectations :
- Leads a hard-working team of business systems analysts and developers and coordinates workforce planning and career development activities for team members.
- Builds strong relationships with business partners and external vendors.
- Drives standardization of application platforms across all dedicated business areas, enables simplification, and finds opportunities to fully use existing system functionality.
- Creates a strategic roadmap for the business areas that align with overall IT strategy for the company.
- Maintains a solid understanding of industry and technology trends as they apply to the aligned business areas.
- Serves as a solution provider to business partners including evaluation and analysis of system changes and new systems; Provides project leadership and management of business initiatives following project lifecycle, testing and all applicable policies and procedures.
- Prepares, monitors and manages capital and expense budgets.
- Other duties as assigned.
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About Houston (Williams Tower Location) :
Our Houston office is located in the Williams Tower, just steps from the Houston Galleria on Post Oak Boulevard, an area with more than 700 retailers, fine dining and hotels within two square miles. We offer free onsite-parking!
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Why Choose Williams?
We are committed to providing our employees with competitive compensation and benefits as part of your Total Rewards package to help protect your current and future physical, emotional, and financial health. We generally offer health benefit programs to our employees and their families that are competitive and flexible enough to meet your needs, and retirement benefits to allow you to invest now for financial security when you retire. With rich learning and development programming and a high internal mobility rate, you are not just applying to a job with Williams; you are embarking on an exciting career!
Williams has a long history of making a significant difference in the communities where we live and work, and we strive to cultivate an environment of employee inclusion, innovation and passion that values all voices and opinions. We help each other succeed and great things happen when people from a diverse set of backgrounds come together. Together, we make clean energy happen.
Eligibility and benefits are governed by the terms of the applicable plan or program document which can be amended or terminated at any time.
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