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.

As an Enterprise Architect, you will work with domain experts to develop architectures for areas such as 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.

• Provide technical governance and facilitate 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, systems 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
• Develop system data flows for large cross-domain projects focusing on business processes, data flows, and integration standards
• Other duties as assigned

• Required:
  
  Bachelor’s degree in IT related field; a minimum ten (10) years of development and IT experience
• Preferred:
  Minimum of twelve (12) years of experience and prior oil/gas industry experience

• 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

• Strong analytical and data analysis capabilities, supported by excellent planning and organizational skills
• Proficient knowledge of architecture principles, frameworks, and standards, with experience designing and maintaining large-scale projects
• Broad working knowledge of IT domains, including infrastructure and operations, data centers, databases, networking, and security standards
• Effective leadership and consulting skills, with strong interpersonal capabilities (teamwork, facilitation, negotiation, stakeholder engagement, internal partner management)
• Awareness of existing, emerging, and new technologies, with proficiency in scripting concepts
• 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