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!

Enterprise Architects work with domain experts to develop architectures for areas like Operations, SCADA/Measurement, Commercial, Finance, Corporate, Infrastructure, and Networking. These efforts aim to optimize business processes and drive transformation through system integration, data alignment, enterprise-wide technologies, IT governance, and thought leadership. You will analyze the IT application portfolio and data landscape to identify duplication, gaps, technical debt, risks, and opportunities for integration and new technologies. Your role will help translate business strategy into capabilities and future state architectures to achieve strategic outcomes.

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

Responsibilities/Expectations:

• Decomposes systems into smaller components and viewpoints, along with the enforced rules that enable consistent design across the enterprise
• Defines the application tiers, frameworks, components types and interfaces; specifies and provides ownership of reusable application components or reusable application code and supports the Enterprise Application Integration
• Defines the visual roadmap and performs design reviews
• Monitors emerging standards, sets standards and technologies to be used by the enterprise
• Crafts the architecture vision, conceptualizes and experiments with alternative architectural approaches; builds models, components and interface specification documents; validates the architecture against requirements and assumptions
• Translates business requirements into repeatable design strategies, systems qualities and patterns
• Solves problems with developers, addresses ongoing revisions/improvements of the architecture
• Analyzes competitors, products, strategies and product generation processes
• Surveys external emerging developments, new technologies, standards and methodologies
• Mentors, teaches, consults with other team members
• Monitors emerging technologies, industry trends, and standards, providing actionable recommendations and insights to support future enterprise strategies
• 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
• Hybrid work schedule: 4 days in-office and 1 day remote weekly
• On-call as needed to deal with critical incidents and outages
  
  

Other Requirements:

• Demonstrates excellent organizational/interpersonal skills and safety as the utmost priority
• Needs proficient knowledge of architecture principles design
• Needs knowledge of application/interface design
• Working knowledge of all areas of IT, especially data center functions (servers, DB, networks, security)
• Experience creating and maintaining large enterprise architectures
• Proficient knowledge of scripting and how scripts work
• 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
• Offers technical governance, mentoring, and facilitation of solution designs, emphasizing effective communication with non-technical business partners to bridge gaps and achieve shared goals
• Demonstrates expertise in enterprise architecture frameworks, agile methodologies, and IT disciplines, with a focus on planning, consulting, and project management for business-centric solutions
  
  

, 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.