IT Architect V

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)

You operate as the architectural owner of Williams’ enterprise geospatial platform. That means you are responsible for stability, compliance, data integrity, and future‑state direction, not just “keeping GIS running.”

• Platform integrity & compliance (daily): You start by validating enterprise GIS health and architectural compliance, especially SDE administration patterns, database integrity, and service performance. You identify unsafe changes before they become outages, enforce guardrails, and ensure the platform follows Esri‑supported workflows.
• Architecture, Data Integrity, & Governance (core): You steward SDE architecture and geodatabase integrity across Dev/Test/Prod. You 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. You also lead and sustain the governance framework, championing it as the guardrails that keep delivery speed and operational stability in balance.
• Upgrades & modernization (continuous): You lead readiness and execution for major platform upgrades (Esri, databases, supporting components, and ancillary tools when applicable). You coordinate across teams to minimize disruption, maintain continuity, and translate upgrades into measurable reliability and capability gains.
• Enterprise Integrations (strategic): You drive an integration‑forward approach for geospatial data products, establishing durable applications that downstream teams can consume safely and repeatedly (instead of fragile one‑off extracts).
• AI & Automation Enablement (forward‑leaning): You 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): You work across the aisle with various teams, including Pipeline Safety, Asset Integrity, Project Execution, Commercial, and IT to optimize geospatial processes and automations. You’ll focus on inputs, outputs, quality controls, and supportability rather than prescribing business calculations.
• Teacher’s Mindset (how you scale): You build capability, not dependency, by mentoring teams, clarifying “why” behind architectural constraints, and raising the baseline technical fluency across Delivery, Support, and DBAs. You 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:

• 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
• 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

, Responsible for creating the enterprise level strategy for a set of applications that are designed and built in order to provide conceptual integrity and consistency across the enterprise's systems. Provides oversight to junior architects who are responsible for defining the application tiers, frameworks, components types and interfaces. Creates the strategic roadmap of the standards and technologies to be used by the enterprise.