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! Day in the Life (IT GIS Architect V – Williams) Platform integrity & compliance (daily): Validate enterprise GIS health and architectural compliance, especially SDE administration patterns, database integrity, and service performance. Identify unsafe changes before they become outages, enforce guardrails, and ensure the platform follows Esri‑supported workflows. Architecture, Data Integrity, & Governance (core): Steward SDE architecture and geodatabase integrity across Dev/Test/Prod. Enforce sound schema and integration patterns, diagnose root causes of performance and stability issues, and prevent ETL‑driven anti‑patterns that erode platform reliability and user trust. Lead and sustain the governance framework, championing it as the guardrails that keep delivery speed and operational stability in balance. Upgrades & modernization (continuous): Lead readiness and execution for major platform upgrades (Esri, databases, supporting components, and ancillary tools when applicable). Coordinate across teams to minimize disruption, maintain continuity, and translate upgrades into measurable reliability and capability gains. Enterprise Integrations (strategic): Drive an integration‑forward approach for geospatial data products, establishing durable applications that downstream teams can consume safely and repeatedly. AI & Automation Enablement (forward‑leaning): Position geospatial data to be machine‑readable and analytics‑ready, enabling automation and AI‑assisted workflows (e.g., repeatable pipelines, quality controls, and scalable delivery to analytics platforms). Cross‑enterprise Collaborations (relationships): Work across the aisle with various teams, including Pipeline Safety, Asset Integrity, Project Execution, Commercial, and IT to optimize geospatial processes and automations. Focus on inputs, outputs, quality controls, and supportability rather than prescribing business calculations. Teacher’s Mindset (how you scale): Build capability, not dependency, by mentoring teams, clarifying “why” behind architectural constraints, and raising the baseline technical fluency across Delivery, Support, and DBAs. Reduce risk by creating shared frameworks, not heroics. The result is a geospatial platform the business can trust for operational, regulatory, and strategic decision‑making. Your work will challenge you, and with our Core Values to guide you, you’ll quickly learn and grow with us. Responsibilities/Expectations: Provide technical governance with the facilitation of the creation/modification of technical standards, models, application tiers, and reference architectures. Lead technical consulting and collaborate with development teams to facilitate solution design and drive roadmap‑aligned architecture enhancements and improvements. Translate business requirements into repeatable design strategies, system qualities and patterns. Develop current and target state architecture blueprints with transition roadmaps and incremental architectural sequencing. Research, evaluate, and recommend technologies and standards aligned with current and future Williams strategies to maintain a competitive advantage. Serve 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. Benefits: 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 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 #J-18808-Ljbffr Williams Companies Inc