IT Manager, Application Development

TerraPower LLC.; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

TerraPower LLC in Bellevue, WA seeks an IT Manager, Application Development to lead a team of engineers and analysts responsible for maintaining and optimizing our enterprise application portfolio, primarily COTS software on Windows with some Linux infrastructure. This hands-on leadership role bridges technology and business needs across engineering, operations, finance, and supply chain.

The IT Manager will drive upgrades, patching, and vendor relations, while ensuring change control, security,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, engineering, business, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 3–8 years of experience managing technology resources with direct accountability for work and development.
• Demonstrated experience supporting or implementing commercial off-the-shelf enterprise applications.
• Strong working knowledge of Windows Server environments including AD, IIS, SQL Server, and patching.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of up to eight systems engineers and analysts, providing coaching, performance management, and career development.
• Own hiring, onboarding, and bench-building to support business needs.
• Oversee the portfolio of COTS applications, ensuring availability, upgrades, licensing, and lifecycle planning.
• Deliver application implementations and enhancements from requirements through deployment and stabilization.

Skills

People management

Windows Server

Linux administration

COTS applications

Change management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Active Directory

SQL Server

IIS

Job description

TerraPower 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, TerraPower 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. TerraPower’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.

TerraPower 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. TerraPower 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.

IT Manager, Application Development

TerraPower 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.

Job Role Responsibility

Lead the team

• 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.

Own the application portfolio

• 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, Infrastructure, Information Security, and Data Management peers on server platforms, identity and access, backup and recovery, monitoring, and data integration.

Deliver projects

• Lead application implementations and enhancements from requirements through deployment and stabilization, working with internal stakeholders, implementation partners, and vendors.
• Manage software vendors and integrators: hold them to scope and schedule, elevate effectively, and know the contract.

Support the business.

• Build real working relationships with department leaders. Understand their processes well enough to tell the difference between what they asked for and what they need.
• Establish sensible service levels, intake processes, and prioritization mechanisms that reduce friction encouraging people to actually use them.
• Champion adoption, training, and documentation so that the value we paid for actually gets realized.

Operate in a regulated environment.

• Ensure application changes follow established change management, documentation, and quality requirements.
• Support compliance obligations related to records management, export-controlled information, cyber security controls, and audit readiness, in partnership with Information Security, Internal Audit, Legal and Quality.

What we're looking for

Required

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, engineering, business, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 3–8 years of experience managing technology resources including FTEs and contractors, with direct accountability for their work and development.
• Demonstrated experience supporting or implementing commercial off-the-shelf enterprise applications.
• Strong working knowledge of Windows Server environments and the supporting ecosystem: Active Directory, IIS, SQL Server, Windows patching and change control.
• Working familiarity with Linux administration concepts, ideally RHEL, sufficient to lead a team supporting Linux-hosted applications.
• Solid grasp of application support fundamentals: incident and change management, environment strategy (dev/test/prod), release testing, integrations, and authentication.