Senior IT Strategy & Transformation Lead

Ul Solutions; Northbrook (IL); On-site; USD 172,000 - 229,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Wellness benefits

401K retirement plan

Job summary

UL Solutions is seeking an IT Director, IT Strategy & Transformation to drive enterprise technology strategy and modernize the IT function into a product- and platform-driven organization. You will partner with business and IT leaders to align technology investments with strategic priorities, including AI, cloud, data, and digital platforms.

Reporting to the CIO, you will lead through influence, govern standards, and advance capabilities across platforms while delivering measurable business

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a senior technology role, ideally with a large and complex organization. 15+ years of progressively responsible IT experience and leadership roles, including IT strategy, integration management and application development.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, engineering or a related field; an MS, MBA or related advanced degree is a plus.
• Strong understanding of architecture frameworks and their application in business strategy
• Experience successfully leading digital and/or organizational transformation initiatives that meet the objectives of excellence in a diverse global business environment.
• Strong business awareness, a sound understanding of key business processes (e.g., order to cash, purchase to pay) and the way they impact business performance.
• Deep knowledge of current and emerging technology trends.
• Must have demonstrated leadership ability, technical and business acumen, and industry knowledge.
• Strategic leader and builder of vision and bridges can energize the appropriate teams in the organization.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills, with the ability to engage and influence senior executives.
• The ability to communicate technology solutions including the technology policy, plans and roadmaps to nontechnical audiences at various hierarchical levels, ranging from board members to technical specialists.
• Ability to lead, mentor and develop the architecture team to achieve tactical and strategic goals.
• Excellent analytical skills, evaluative and problem-solving abilities
• A strategic thinker focused on continuous improvement.
• Financial/budget management, resource management
• Ability to work within a complex and often ambiguous environment.
• Ability to provide recommendations on complex issues and navigate conflict.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead a multi-year IT transformation roadmap to modernize capabilities, operating model, and delivery approach
• Transition IT toward product/service/platform-based delivery models and agile ways of working
• Drive organizational change, including roles, skills, governance, and culture
• Establish a clear linkage between strategy, execution, and value realization
• Define and enforce enterprise technology standards across platforms, tools, integrations, and security
• Partner with architecture teams to govern solution design and ensure alignment with target-state architecture
• Lead or influence adoption of TOGAF, TBM and domain-driven design principles
• Rationalize applications and technologies to reduce complexity and technical debt
• Identify, evaluate, and scale emerging technologies (e.g., AI, automation, advanced analytics)
• Establish innovation pipelines, pilots, and partnerships
• Balance experimentation with enterprise scalability and risk management
• Develop and execute strategies, such as cloud (public, private, hybrid), including migration, optimization, and cost governance
• Partner across IT to define platform strategies (e.g., data platforms, integration platforms, developer platforms) to enable reuse and speed
• Partner with engineering teams to embed DevSecOps and automation practices
• Integrate business architecture practices to map capabilities, value streams, and customer journeys
• Align technology investments to business capabilities and strategic priorities
• Facilitate capability-based planning and prioritization
• Ensure traceability from business strategy to technology execution and outcomes
• Design and evolve the IT operating model, including governance, funding, and service delivery structures
• Define KPIs, OKRs, and maturity models to measure transformation progress
• Partner to drive strategic portfolio management, including prioritization, sequencing, and funding of initiatives
• Establish governance forums to ensure alignment, transparency, and accountability
• Serve as a trusted advisor to business leaders on technology strategy and transformation
• Translate complex technology concepts into clear business outcomes
• Build alignment across business and IT leadership
• The ability to communicate technology solutions including the technology policy, plans and roadmaps to nontechnical audiences at various hierarchical levels, ranging from board members to technical specialists
• Ability to lead, mentor and develop the architecture team to achieve tactical and strategic goals
• Excellent analytical skills, evaluative and problem-solving abilities
• A strategic thinker focused on continuous improvement
• Financial/budget management, resource management
• Ability to work within a complex and often ambiguous environment
• Ability to provide recommendations on complex issues and navigate conflict

Skills

Data Transformation

Digital Transformation

IT Direction

Software Technology Strategy

Transformational Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Job description

UL Solutions is seeking an IT Director, IT Strategy & Transformation to drive enterprise technology strategy and modernize the IT function into a product- and platform-driven organization. You will partner with business and IT leaders to align technology investments with strategic priorities, including AI, cloud, data, and digital platforms.

Reporting to the CIO, you will lead through influence, govern standards, and advance capabilities across platforms while delivering measurable business