About this opportunity
Ul Solutions lists this Director, IT Strategy & Transformation opportunity in northbrook, Illinois. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
The IT Director, IT Strategy & Transformation drives the definition and execution of enterprise technology strategy, with a strong focus on transforming the IT organization into a modern, business-aligned, product- and platform-driven function. This role ensures technology investments, standards, and architectures enable scalability, resilience, and measurable business value.
The Director partners with business and IT leadership to shape long-term strategy, establish enterprise technology standards, and advance capabilities across AI, data, cloud, and digital platforms—while embedding business architecture principles to tightly align technology with business outcomes.
Requires a deep understanding of both technology and business strategy, exceptional leadership skills and the ability to partner and foster a collaborative environment. This role, reporting to the CIO, will lead through influence.
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 industry frameworks such as 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
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.
Total Rewards:
We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. The estimated salary range for this position is $171,500- $228,600 and is based on multiple factors, including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, geographical location, as well as other factors. This position is eligible for annual bonus compensation with a target payout of 30% of the base salary and a 30% RSU grant. This position also provides health benefits such as medical, dental and vision; wellness benefits such as mental and financial health; and retirement savings (401K) commensurate with the standard rewards offered in each individual location or country. We also provide full-time employees with paid time off including vacation (20 days), holidays including 3 floating holidays (12 days) and sick time off (72 hours).
Required Skills
Data Transformation
Digital Transformation
IT Direction
Software Technology Strategy
Transformational Leadership
About Us
A global leader in applied safety science, UL Solutions (NYSE: ULS) transforms safety, security and sustainability challenges into opportunities for customers in more than 110 countries. UL Solutions delivers testing, inspection and certification services, together with software products and advisory offerings, that support our customers’ product innovation and business growth. The UL Mark serves as a recognized symbol of trust in our customers’ products and reflects an unwavering commitment to advancing our safety mission. We help our customers innovate, launch new products and services, navigate global markets and complex supply chains, and grow sustainably and responsibly into the future. Our science is your advantage.
About the Team
As we’re supporting some of the most innovative companies in the world, high-performing IT is vital. Deeply focused on technology innovation and practically applying new and emerging technologies to meet the evolving needs of our customers, we operate as strategic partners to the wider organization, developing and delivering best-in-class IT solutions. We also use our expertise day-to-day to offer our colleagues a seamless technology experience, providing them with the tools to help customers all over the world deliver safer, more sustainable solutions. Join our team and connect, support and empower colleagues across our global community.
Job Info
Job Identification 11005
Job Category Information Technology
Posting Date 09/25/2026, 02:19 PM
Job Shift Day
Locations 333 Pfingsten Road, Northbrook, IL, 60062, US 155 N. Wacker Dr., Chicago, IL, 60606, US
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Worksite address
northbrook, IL, 60065, US
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