Actively participates in the creation of recommendations around innovative approaches to leverage new and existing hardware, software, and other technologies as necessary.
Identifies, researches, and designs supporting infrastructure that provides services to ULs staff and clients worldwide.
Represents UL at External events.
Influence software engineering this should extend across UL (including IT).
Develops business-focused requirements for the technical architecture, evaluates alternative technologies, and recommends appropriate solutions.
Determines optimal mix of key service levels in technical designs.
Defines key aspects of architecture and design (e.g. scalability, availability, manageability, security, performance).
Evaluates new technologies and determines how they could be used or applied in the delivery of software product Services.
Where necessary contributing to the technical strategy with the team and communicates cost effectiveness of migration or deployment.
Ensures a consistent and standardized environment for computing resources that will ensure cost effective application delivery for software products.
Responsible for designing solutions that meet business and quality of service (QoS) agreements including areas such as security, performance, reliability, availability, manageability, etc.
Advises business management on software product technology issues.
Participates in the Software Standards, Software Performance, and Capacity Management processes.
Mentors, directs and trains colleagues in software engineering best practices.
Engages all external service providers in the planning and provision of system resource requirements.
Support Software Engineering Architecture Activities.
Actively participates in the coordination of functions of software engineers.
Use significant professional experience and industry contacts to drive continuous improvement in Software Engineering.
Contribute to standards across UL.
Engage with compliance audits.
Expert in application security.
Understand new technical trends and share knowledge.
Contributes to Merger and Acquisition due diligence activities.
Solves unique and complex problems and standardizes process to ensure consistency and resiliency of solutions.
Read and follow the Underwriters Laboratories Code of Conduct and follow all physical and digital security practices.
Performs other duties as directed.

University degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
Detailed knowledge of industry trends and best-practices for computing infrastructure.
Operational knowledge of service-level metrics and tools used to measure these metrics.
Working knowledge of project lifecycle.

Lead Software Engineer

UL Solutions

Lead Software Engineer

UL Solutions