Enterprise 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!

As an Enterprise Architect, you will 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:

- 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

- Develops system data flows for large cross domain projects focusing on business processes, data flows, and integration standards

- 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:

- Hybrid work schedule: 4 days in-office and 1 day remote weekly

- On-call as needed to deal with critical incidents and outages

- Less than 20% travel required

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

- Demonstrates experience with application portfolio management and rationalization, supported by knowledge of application and interface design and modern architectural patterns such as SOA, APIs, microservices, and event-driven architectures

- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Applications particularly Visio and PowerPoint to build, modify, and present sophisticated technical architectural diagrams and presentations

- Knowledge of business ecosystems, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, SOA, APIs, microservices, event-driven IT, and predictive analytics

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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

- 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.

For more information, please visit Total Rewards | Williams Companies.

Education Requirements:

Bachelors (Required)

Skill Requirements:

Competency Requirements:

Action oriented (3 - Meets Expectations), Collaborates (3 - Expectations Were Consistently Met), Communicates effectively (3 - Expectations Were Consistently Met), Customer focus (3 - Expectations Were Consistently Met), Drives results (3 - Expectations Were Consistently Met), Ensures accountability (3 - Expectations Were Consistently Met), Instills trust (3 - Meets Expectations)