Job Description

Description & Requirements

Architect I (Cloud Retail Engineering)

Who we are?

lululemon is a yoga-inspired technical apparel company up to big things. The practice and philosophy of yoga informs our overall purpose to elevate the world through the power of practice. We are proud to be a growing global company with locations all around the world, from Vancouver to Shanghai, and places in between. We owe our success to our innovative product, our emphasis on our stores, our commitment to our people, and the incredible connections we get to make in every community we are in.

About this team

This role is on Retail Services and Devops team in the lululemon technology organization. This team is responsible for creating api\' s and backend integration following microservices architecture principles on AWS cloud infrastructure stack. This Solution Architect position is a highly technical role with accountability for architecture scoped to business-transformative projects on AWS infrastructure and is involved with projects from inception through implementation driving infrastructure solutions on AWS stack.

Our team is fast-paced and taking on exciting new initiatives to support a fast-growing business. We strive to adopt leading-edge technology and seek to improve on the solutions continuously. We are not afraid to try new things, have fun, and encourage each other to take on new challenges. We support each other in growing professionally and personally. We fail forward and learn from our mistakes, thus creating a better path ahead. We create space for team members to share feedback and ideas that can help us continually grow as an organization.

We operate following agile framework and leverage multiple product teams across our various functions. We encourage our teams to norm and figure out the best way to deliver critical business initiatives. We institute a culture of fun and lightheartedness to enjoy work each day. We are inclusive and know that we are stronger as a team than as an individual. We work in a cloud native environment where \xe2\x80\x9cautomation\xe2\x80\x9d and \xe2\x80\x9cInfrastructure as Code\xe2\x80\x9d are guiding principles and necessary for the development of high-quality and resilient software systems.

A day in the life:

As a cloud solution architect, you will interface with key stakeholders and apply your technical proficiency across different stages of the Project Life Cycle including Requirements Elicitation, Application Architecture definition, Design and Development and creating cloud centric architecture designs and solutions for building and maintaining cost-efficient, scalable, reliable, and secure cloud environments. The Architect partners with delivery teams to design, and build flexible, scalable, and resilient cloud infrastructure and services that can more easily adapt to ongoing and future business needs.

• Provides thought leadership across multiple teams to ensure that systems and services are designed, and operating to achieve optimal levels of performance, reliability, and sustainability on the cloud

• Leads the cloud architecture and strategy for solutions in a manner consistent with lululemon Technology\'s enterprise architecture, applying common frameworks and re-usable components

• Contributes to architectural design and make sure that best practices for multi-account strategies, cost management strategies, and cloud network connectivity are taken into consideration

• Demonstrates proficiency and experience with concepts and technologies used in software development, operations, security, cloud, microservices, containers, and scheduling platforms

• Provides architecture design and solutions for managing cloud security, including enforcement of security policies

• Supports in the implementation (development and configuration) of the cloud infrastructure

• Develops and maintains current and future-state architecture models related to cloud infrastructure and ensures all documentation is kept up to date

• Assist the estimation of dev and QA efforts ensuring proper understanding of implementation scope, as well as adherence to best practices and methodical delivery

• Work directly with Business Analysts to define and refine technical requirements for future work

• Participate in technology reviews and conduct as-built audit + documentation, and work with ops readiness teams to design system continuity and support.

• Stays abreast of industry best practices on cloud, technologies, architectures, trends, emerging technologies and develop Proof-Of-Concept projects to validate same

• Drive common vision, practices, and capabilities across teams

• Demonstrates ability to coach team members around best practices for delivering performant and scalable solutions

• Conduct research to aid in product development and tools selection

Qualifications:

• Completed Bachelor\'s degree or diploma (or equivalent experience) in Computer Science, Software Engineering or Software Architecture preferred; candidates with substantial and relevant industry experience are also eligible

• Experience building, architecting, designing, and implementing highly distributed and secure multi-region cloud-based systems with relevant experience in Security, Automation, Orchestration

• Good understanding of DevOps and/or SRE practices along with advance knowledge of CI/CD principles and best-practices

• Ability to learn, understand, and work quickly with new emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the Cloud/IT technology space which are security focused

• Experience with applying infrastructure to structured Enterprise Architecture practices, hybrid cloud deployments, and on-premises-to-cloud migration deployments and roadmaps; ability to author, evangelize and educate

• Experience working with AWS Cloud Infrastructure, Control Tower, Step Functions, Cloud Formation, SSM, Service Catalogs, Config, Code Pipeline for AWS

• Skilled with API usage, command line interface and SDKs for automating cloud operations

• Proficiency in software development in at least one of these languages - Java, Go or Python, Bash, or Shell scripting.

• 2 years\' experience with DevSecOps tools and processes to include, but not limited to Gitlab, JFrog Artifactory, SonarQube, Terraform, Jenkins, Hashicorp Vault, Kubernetes etc,

• Ability to guide engineers with proper tracing, metrics, logging, monitoring and alert requirements and design.

• Experience with observability products (such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, etc.)

• Design traffic routing, service discovery, secrets, and access control solutions

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• Must be capable of providing leadership for junior and senior software engineers alike, understands how to leverage and enhance their current skills

Must-haves:

• Strong understanding of basic programming concepts and data structure

• Passion for quality and relentless improvement

• Acknowledges the presence of choice in every moment and takes personal responsibility for their life

• Possesses an entrepreneurial spirit and continuously innovates to achieve great results

• Communicates with honesty and kindness, and creates the space for others to do the same

• Leads with courage, knowing the possibility of greatness is bigger than the fear of failure

• Fosters connection by putting people first and building trusting relationships

• Integrates fun and joy as a way of being and working, aka doesn\'t take themselves too seriously

Compensation and Benefits Package

For Washington Applicants: lululemon\'s compensation offerings are rooted in a pay-for-performance philosophy that recognizes exceptional individual and team performance. The typical hiring range for this position in Washington is from $107,400-$141,000 annually; the base pay offered is based on market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and internal equity. As part of our competitive Total Rewards offering, permanent employees in this position may be eligible for our competitive annual bonus offering, subject to program eligibility requirements.

At lululemon, investing in our people is a top priority. We believe that when life works, work works. In addition to our competitive Total Rewards offering, we also have personal and professional development offerings. Our offerings recognize our teams for their performance and support whole person development, including support for employees on how to grow their career:

Extended health and dental benefits, and mental health plans

Paid time off

Savings and retirement plan matching

Generous employee discount

Fitness & yoga classes

Parenthood top-up

Extensive catalog of development course offerings

People networks, mentorship programs, and leadership series (to name a few)

Note: Availability of the incentive programs, benefits, and perks may be subject to your location & employment type and may have certain eligibility requirements. The Company reserves the right to alter these incentive programs, benefits, and perks in whole or in part at any time without advance notice.

NOTE: Only those applicants under consideration will be contacted. Please accept our utmost appreciation for your interest. lululemon is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Employment decisions are based on merit and business needs, and not on race, color, creed, age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions or any other classification protected by federal, state, or provincial and local laws and ordinances. Reasonable accommodation is available for qualified individuals with disabilities, upon request. This Equal Employment Opportunity policy applies to all practices relating to recruitment and hiring, compensation, benefits, discipline, transfer, termination and all other terms and conditions of employment. While management is primarily responsible for seeing that lululemon equal employment opportunity policies are implemented, you share in the responsibility for assuring that, by your personal actions, the policies are effective.

Only those applicants under consideration will be contacted. Please accept our utmost appreciation for your interest. lululemon is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Employment decisions are based on merit and business needs, and not on race, color, creed, age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions or any other classification protected by federal, state or provincial and local laws and ordinances. Reasonable accommodation is available for qualified individuals with disabilities, upon request. This Equal Employment Opportunity policy applies to all practices relating to recruitment and hiring, compensation, benefits, discipline, transfer, termination and all other terms and conditions of employment. While management is primarily responsible for seeing that lululemon equal employment opportunity policies are implemented, you share in the responsibility for assuring that, by your personal actions, the policies are effective.

lululemon is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities. If you would like someone from our team to contact you for individualized support, email us at . In your email, please include the position title, the location of the position and the nature of your request.

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