IT Architect V

Williams is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, national origin, age, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis protected under applicable discrimination law.

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

About Tulsa:

Our corporate headquarters is located in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma, the 2nd largest city in Oklahoma and the 47th most populous in the U.S.

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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!

• Competitive compensation
• Annual incentive program
• Hybrid work model - one work from home day each week for most office-based roles
• Flexible work schedule for most field-based roles
• 401(k) with company matching contribution and a fixed annual company contribution
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits
• Generous company-paid life insurance and disability benefits
• A consumer-driven health plan option with the potential for a generous company contribution to a Health Savings Account
• Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Paid time off, including floating and company holidays
• Wellness Program with annual rewards
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Robust employee learning and development
• High internal mobility (we promote from within)
• Parental leave (we provide up to 6 weeks for each parent)
• Fertility coverage and adoption benefits
• Domestic partner benefits
• Educational reimbursement
• Non-profit donation matching contributions and time off to volunteer
• Employee resource groups
• Employee assistance programs
• Technology to make our work more productive and collaborative
• Regular employee engagement surveys and feedback processes

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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