UST Tittle: Lead II - Software Engineering

Who we are:

At UST, we help the world’s best organizations grow and succeed through transformation. Bringing together the right talent, tools, and ideas, we work with our client to co-create lasting change. Together, with over 26,000 employees in 25 countries, we build for boundless impact—touching billions of lives in the process. Visit us at .

You Are:

Sr. Development Manager Search

The Opportunity:

·       Own the delivery and evolution of Waters' enterprise Search platform, enabling intelligent and personalized search experiences across Waters.com and digital channels.

·       Lead the Search engineering squad, ensuring on-time and high-quality delivery of features and platform capabilities.

·       Define and drive a robust roadmap that aligns with customer needs, digital strategy, and data relevance.

·       Collaborate across engineering, product, and business teams to define technical direction and remove blockers related to data ingestion, indexing, ranking, and query performance.

·       Ensure continuous integration, delivery, monitoring, and observability practices are in place for high availability and reliability of the search infrastructure.

·       Stay current with evolving Search, AI/ML, and NLP technologies to guide platform modernization and relevancy innovation. Drive best engineering practices including domain-driven design, microservices, cloud-native architecture, and DevOps culture.

·       Leadership Technologies: Search Technologies (Apache Solr), Java/J2EE, Microservices, REST APIs, Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure), React (preferred), DevOps tools (CI/CD), Git, Atlassian suite, Monitoring/Observability tools

What you need:

·       10+ years in software engineering with 5+ years in technical leadership or management roles, ideally within enterprise Search Deep expertise in Search technologies such as Apache Solr and other modern search stacks.

·       Strong backend engineering background, including Java, J2EE, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and scalable microservices

·       Solid understanding of Search fundamentals: relevance tuning, NLP, faceting, ranking, synonyms, stemming, and query parsers.

·       Experience with data pipelines and real-time indexing Knowledge of web project lifecycle including front-end/back-end development.

·       Familiarity with front-end frameworks (e.g., React) and their integration with Search APIs.

·       Experience building platforms in Cloud environments (AWS preferred), with strong focus on security and performance.

Bonus points if:

·       Background in observability, logging, and monitoring for high-performance systems. Experience leading teams in agile/scrum environments with proven track record of managing cross-functional delivery. Strong communication, influencing, and stakeholder management skills.

·       Passion for building great user experiences through search and discovery innovations.

What we believe:

We’re proud to embrace the same values that have shaped UST since the beginning. Since day one, we’ve been building enduring relationships and a culture of integrity. And today, it's those same values that are inspiring us to encourage innovation from everyone, to champion diversity and inclusion and to place people at the center of everything we do. 

Humility:

We will listen, learn, be empathetic and help selflessly in our interactions with everyone.

Humanity:

Through business, we will better the lives of those less fortunate than ourselves.

Integrity:

We honor our commitments and act with responsibility in all our relationships.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

UST is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences, such as age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity and expression, religion or sexual orientation.

All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.

UST reserves the right to periodically redefine your roles and responsibilities based on the requirements of the organization and/or your performance.

• To support and promote the values of UST.

• Comply with all Company policies and procedures