IT Manager, Application Development

About TerraPower

TerraPower is a nuclear technology company based in Bellevue, Washington. The company works to raise living standards globally through more affordable, secure, and environmentally friendly nuclear energy and innovations in medical isotopes. Founded in 2006 by Bill Gates and a group of visionaries, TerraPower’s mission is to be a world leader in new nuclear technologies while developing innovators and future leaders in the nuclear field.

About the role

TerraPower is seeking an IT Manager, Application Development to lead a team responsible for maintaining and optimizing the 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

• Lead the team: manage, coach, and develop up to eight systems engineers and analysts; set clear expectations, provide frequent feedback, remove obstacles; own hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career development; build a bench, not just headcount; balance workload across departmental priorities, project commitments, and production support; provide stakeholder updates; create conditions for good work with clear ownership, reasonable on‑call rotations, documented runbooks, and schedule slack.
• Own the application portfolio: serve as operational owner for a portfolio of COTS applications (availability, performance, patching, upgrades, licensing, lifecycle planning); maintain portfolio data required for enterprise lifecycle management; plan and execute upgrades and migrations with testing, rollback, change control, and user communication; partner with Architecture, Infrastructure, Information Security, and Data Management 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, holding them to scope and schedule, escalating effectively, and overseeing contracts; build real working relationships with department leaders, understand their processes, and differentiate between requested and needed functionality; establish sensible service levels, intake processes, and prioritization mechanisms; champion adoption, training, and documentation to realize value.
• 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, cybersecurity controls, and audit readiness in partnership with Information Security, Internal Audit, Legal, and Quality.

Requirements

• 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 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).
• Preferred: experience with EDMS, EAM, PLM, or engineering application portfolios.
• Preferred: familiarity with ITIL‑aligned service management practices and tooling.
• Preferred: experience with scripting and automation (PowerShell, Bash, Python) and infrastructure‑as‑code concepts.
• Preferred: exposure to cloud and hybrid hosting models, particularly Azure or government cloud environments.
• Preferred: experience managing software vendors, license agreements, and statements of work.
• Preferred: experience introducing AI‑assisted tooling into enterprise application support or business workflows.

Physical Requirements

• Motor abilities: sitting for extended periods, bending/stooping, grasping/gripping, fine motor control (hands).
• Physical exertion: 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 or sitting environment of >8 hours/day.
• Travel required: 0–10 %.

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.
• 401(k) plan.
• Generous paid time off (21 days of annually accrued PTO).
• Generous holiday schedule (10 paid holidays).
• Relocation assistance.
• Professional and educational support opportunities.

Pay

Salary Range: $153,861 – $205,149 (specific to Washington State; actual salary based on market data and individual qualifications/experience).