IT Director

UL Solutions is seeking a seasoned IT leader to drive the adoption and development of technologies and processes roadmaps across the organization.

• Innovation: Own the applications and technology platforms, providing architecture, engineering, and development expertise to enable reliable and secure application development.
• Product Development and Delivery: Define and own the platform backlog, leading the execution of feature improvements from the product roadmap and user community feedback.
• Strategy and Standards: Collaborate with Enterprise architects, Platform engineering, Infrastructure, and Security teams to define comprehensive enterprise vision, strategy, and execution plans.
• Governance: Define the operating model through a center of enablement for governing and leading internal and external across the enterprise.
• Quality Assurance: Engage QA teams to define and implement automated test plans, developing validation methodology.
• SRE/Support Organization: Set up a platform support organization to lead product deployments and provide post-deployment support, finding opportunities for automation of deployments and configurations across multiple environments.
• Leadership: Manage the performance of direct reports by developing accountabilities, establishing performance objectives, providing career counseling, feedback, and guidance.

• University degree in Computer Science, IT, or Engineering or a related discipline, with 10+ years of experience in global IT leadership.
• Solid grasp of security considerations specific to applications and platforms, including data protection, encryption, and communication with executive leadership.
• Experience leading strategic partners and vendors.
• Strong business acumen, budget management, negotiation, and financial analysis skills.
• Very strong capabilities and experience working with senior executive leaders, adept at critical stakeholder management.
• Expert management abilities to guide direct reports and matrixed resources.