Senior IT Architect - AI-Driven Cloud & Architecture Lead

Williams Companies; Tulsa (OK); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Medical/dental/vision coverage

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Parental leave

Tuition reimbursement

Life insurance

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Williams Companies seeks an IT Architect V in Tulsa to design enterprise IT architectures and drive roadmaps with business partners. You will translate complex requirements into scalable patterns, lead architecture initiatives, and ensure alignment with security, privacy, and governance standards across cloud-based AI services.

The role emphasizes collaboration with cybersecurity, data governance, and AI teams, mentoring developers and analysts, and delivering reusable architecture patterns

Qualifications

• 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

Responsibilities

• Provides technical governance with 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 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 between technical teams and stakeholders
• Partners with cybersecurity, identity and access management, and data governance teams to ensure AI architectures comply with security standards and regulatory requirements
• Defines reusable AI architecture patterns and reference implementations and drives adoption across product and project teams
• Contributes to AI education and enablement by mentoring developers, analysts, and business stakeholders
• Other duties as assigned

Skills

IT architecture

Leadership

Cloud platforms

AI architectures

Stakeholder management

Security governance

Problem solving

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT or related field

10+ years IT experience

Oil & gas industry experience (preferred)

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

Williams Companies seeks an IT Architect V in Tulsa to design enterprise IT architectures and drive roadmaps with business partners. You will translate complex requirements into scalable patterns, lead architecture initiatives, and ensure alignment with security, privacy, and governance standards across cloud-based AI services.

The role emphasizes collaboration with cybersecurity, data governance, and AI teams, mentoring developers and analysts, and delivering reusable architecture patterns