IT Manager, Application Development

Terra Power is a nuclear technology company based in Bellevue, Washington. At its core, the company is working to raise living standards globally through a more affordable, secure, and environmentally friendly form of nuclear energy along with innovations in medical isotopes to improve human health. In 2006, Terra Power originated with Bill Gates and a group of like-minded visionaries who evaluated the fundamental challenges to raising living standards around the world.

They recognized energy access was crucial to the health and economic well-being of communities and decided that the private sector needed to take action and create energy sources that would advance global energy deployment. Terra Power’s mission is to be a world leader in new nuclear technologies, while developing innovators and future leaders in the nuclear field. As a result, the company’s activities in the fields of nuclear energy and related sciences are yielding significant innovations in the safety and economics of nuclear power, hybrid energy and medical applications – all for significant human health benefits.

Terra Power is seeking to hire highly motivated and forward-thinking professionals who are interested in focusing on advanced nuclear reactor research and development and influencing change within the nuclear power landscape and bringing forward the critical production of medical isotopes. Terra Power is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

Terra Power is seeking an IT Manager to lead a team responsible for maintaining and optimizing our enterprise application portfolio, primarily commercial off-the-shelf software on Windows infrastructure with some Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This hands-on leadership role bridges technology and business, ensuring applications effectively support engineering, operations, finance, supply chain, and corporate functions. Responsibilities include implementation, integration, upgrade and patch management, vendor relations, performance, and aligning solutions to business needs.

The IT Manager will oversee up to eight systems engineers and analysts. Systems engineers focus on technical health; installation, configuration, upgrades, automation, and troubleshooting, while systems analysts translate business requirements, drive adoption, resolve functional issues, and serve as the bridge between users and technology.

• Manage, coach, and develop a team of up to eight systems engineers and systems analysts. Set clear expectations, give useful feedback often, and remove obstacles.
• Own hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career development for your team. Build a bench, not just a headcount.
• Balance workload across competing departmental priorities, project commitments, and production support demands, and provide stakeholders updates on delivery.
• Create the conditions for people to do good work: clear ownership, reasonable on-call rotations, documented runbooks, and enough slack in the schedule to think.

• Serve as the operational owner for a portfolio of COTS applications: availability, performance, patching, upgrades, licensing posture, and lifecycle planning.
• Maintain an application portfolio with the data elements required to manage their lifecycle for the enterprise.
• Plan and execute application upgrades and migrations with attention to testing, rollback, change control, and user communication.
• Partner with Architecture,…