Senior Manager of Applications (GIS Delivery)

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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!

As the Manager of the GIS Delivery team, you will lead a team of analysts, providing high-level IT strategy and delivering technology solutions that drive business efficiency. Your technical oversight will guide the team's use of spatial data, aerial imagery, and mobile GIS solutions to support critical field and analytical operations. Ultimately, you are responsible for aligning the powerful capabilities of geospatial technology with overarching business goals, ensuring every solution delivers measurable value and supports organizational strategy. 

Your work will challenge you, and with our Core Values to guide you, you’ll quickly learn and grow with us.

Responsibilities/Expectations:

• Leads a hard-working team of business systems analysts and developers and coordinates workforce planning and career development activities for team members
• Builds strong relationships with business partners and external vendors
• Drives standardization of application platforms across all dedicated business areas, enables simplification, and finds opportunities to fully use existing system functionality
• Creates a strategic roadmap for the business areas that align with overall IT strategy for the company
• Maintains a solid understanding of industry and technology trends as they apply the aligned business areas
• Serves as a solution provider to business partners including evaluation and analysis of system changes and new systems; Provides project leadership and management of business initiatives following project lifecycle, testing and all applicable policies and procedures
• Prepares, monitors and manages capital and expense budgets
• Understands applications of spatial data types, including vector and raster formats; understands role and integration of aerial imagery in spatial analysis and decision-making, including its sources, formats, and limitations 
• Brings knowledge and understanding of architecture of mobile GIS solutions, including differences and use cases for online and offline capabilities in support field of operations and data collection 
• Possesses ability to align GIS capabilities with organizational strategy, ensuring that geospatial technologies support broader business goals, comply with industry standards, regulations and best practices and deliver value 
• Other duties as assigned

Education/Years of Experience:

• Required: Bachelor's degree and minimum of seven (7) years' experience in IT, including a minimum of two (2) years in a formal or informal leadership role
• Preferred: Bachelor's degree in an IT-related field

Other Requirements:

• Exemplary vendor management skills
• Strong knowledge of technology trends and ability to translate those trends into effective business applications
• Experience partnering with leaders across IT and business to deliver a technology roadmap
• Ability to organize and prioritize multiple projects and responsibilities
• Demonstrates outstanding organizational/interpersonal skills and safety as the utmost priority   
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Applications   
• Preferred: Knowledge in implementation or support of cloud/SaaS applications
• Preferred: Experience in the energy or utility industries
• Preferred: Understanding of current and future state strategies for automation technology

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