IT Manager, Application Development

About the role

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."

About the role

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.

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, escalate 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.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.

Preferred

• Experience in a regulated or engineering-driven industry (e.g. nuclear, aerospace, energy, defense, life sciences, etc.).
• Experience with EDMS, EAM, PLM, or engineering application portfolios.
• Familiarity with ITIL-aligned service management practices and tooling.
• Experience with scripting and automation (PowerShell, Bash, Python) and infrastructure-as-code concepts.
• Exposure to cloud and hybrid hosting models, particularly Azure or government cloud environments.
• Experience managing software vendors, license agreements, and statements of work.
• Experience introducing AI-assisted tooling into enterprise application support or business workflows.

Job Functions

• Job Functions are physical actions and/or working conditions associated with the position.
• These functions may also constitute essential functions for the job which the employee must be able to fulfill, with or without accommodation.
• Information provided below is to help describe the job so that the applicant has a reasonable understanding of the job duties/expectations.

• Motor Abilities: Sitting for extended periods, bending/stooping, grasping/gripping, fine motor control (hands)
• Physical exertion and/or requirements: Minimal, with ability to safely lift up to 25 pounds.
• Repetitive work: Prolonged
• Special Senses: Visual and audio focused work
• Work Conditions: Stairs, typing/keyboard, standard and/or sitting working environment of >8 hours/day
• Travel required 0-10%

Additional information

TerraPower's technology is controlled for export by various agencies of the U.S. Government. TerraPower must evaluate applicants who are foreign nationals (other than asylees, refugees, or lawful permanent residents) in accordance with U.S. Government export control requirements.

To facilitate TerraPower's export control reviews, you will be asked as part of the application process to identify whether you are a U.S. Citizen or national, asylee, refugee, or lawful permanent resident of the United States. Government export authorization approval times vary.

Based on the business needs for a particular position, TerraPower may not consider a foreign national from a country if it is impracticable to obtain timely Government export approval.

Salary Range: $153,861-$205,149

*Any salary offered within the posted salary band is based on market data and commensurate with the selected individual's qualifications experience. This range is specific to Washington State.

Benefits

• Competitive Compensation
• Salary, eligible to participate in discretionary short-term incentive payments
• Comprehensive Medical and Wellness Benefits
• Medical
• Vision
• Dental
• Life and Disability
• Gender Affirmation Benefits
• Parental Leave
• 401k Plan
• Generous Paid Time Off (PTO)
• 21 days of annually accrued PTO
• Generous Holiday Schedule
• 10 paid holidays
• Relocation Assistance
• Professional and Educational Support Opportunities