Senior Architect Ii, Full Stack - Digital Commerce

Description & Requirements
Who we are
lululemon is an innovative performance apparel company for yoga, running, training, and other athletic pursuits. Setting the bar in technical fabrics and functional design, we create transformational products and experiences that support people in moving, growing, connecting, and being well. We owe our success to our innovative product, emphasis on stores, commitment to our people, and the incredible connections we make in every community we're in. As a company, we focus on creating positive change to build a healthier, thriving future. In particular, that includes creating an equitable, inclusive and growth-focused environment for our people.
About This Team
The architecture group at lululemon is responsible for guiding the design and implementation of technical strategies that support every aspect of our rapidly scaling global business. You will work in a matrixed environment alongside peers in business, engineering, program, ux and strategy – among other disciplines – to collaboratively develop and deliver industry leading technology solutions aligned to business goals and objectives. In addition to your primary team, project, or portfolio you will be supported by a diverse Architecture Community of Practice, which provides learning and governance resources to all architects and will help you build a strong and robust practice of leadership grounded in technical proficiency, innovative thinking, and empathy. This role specifically is in the Digital team which supports North America Digital Commerce experiences.
A Day In The Life
As a Senior Architect you support delivery teams in the development of detailed solution roadmaps for a well-defined set of capabilities or logical group of systems, services or projects. You partner closely with engineers and project management to ensure that implementation meets design expectations. You are proactive in reaching out to architects and leaders in teams with which your technology integrates and you drive results through strong cross-functional collaboration. You serve as the organization’s subject matter expert for capabilities in your portfolio and work actively within the Architecture Community of Practice.

• Participate and present at architecture design reviews
• Proactively align with key stakeholders, seek organizational context and apply learnings to architecture solutions; be comfortable supporting and communicating with diverse technical and business teams
• Communicates trade-offs in different types of engineering and architecture processes and adjust your team’s process to meet the needs of the project and others on the team
• Evaluate, document, and escalate alterations to future state architectures
• In partnership with Business Analysts, Project Managers, Product Owners, Engineers and other Architects, you provide leadership in defining project requirements and success criteria along with guiding the design through out the development lifecycle
• Contribute to the growth and strength of the architecture community of practice by actively attending and presenting at community events

Technical Qualifications

• Experience using compute, networking, storage, and database components in one of the major cloud platforms: Amazon AWS (preferred)
• Relevant industry experience is preferred, with prior experience developing full stack solutions for retail or eCommerce businesses.
• Experience integrating web frontends with complex multi-tier applications
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field with equivalent experience
• Able to design for specific security threat models and able to describe basic and advanced security and compliance aspects of cloud platform primitives.
• Be able to describe the key services of a given cloud platform and be able to select appropriately for given use cases, e.g. compute, storage, analytics, etc
• Minimum 5 years experience with Javascript and NodeJS applications deployed to a cloud environment including experience with AWS Lambdas, Terraform and CI/CD pipelines
• Previous experience translating business requirements into high level and low-level designs for engineering teams.
• At least 5+ year experience as Technical Lead
• Minimum 5 years of real-world experience developing, deploying, scaling and maintaining software systems; a majority of this experience should come from working in a full stack environment consisting of web based front ends backed by cloud-based services.
• At least 3 years experience in developing technology roadmap and driving strategy discussions
• Well versed in system design for scale spanning multiple cross-functional applications

Experience With Each Of

• Agile team CI/CD DevOps and Delivery processes
• Building cloud-native apps and event-message-driven distributed systems
• Modern engineering practices including micro front end, microservices and headless architecture
• High volume transaction systems
• Spring Boot and/or Spring Cloud applications
• GraphQL, React and Next,js

Must Haves

• Integrates fun and joy as a way of being and working, aka doesn’t take themselves too seriously.
• Communicates with honesty and kindness, and creates the space for others to do the same.
• Acknowledges the presence of choice in every moment and takes personal responsibility for their life.
• Leads with courage, knowing the possibility of greatness is bigger than the fear of failure.
• Possesses an entrepreneurial spirit and continuously innovates to achieve great results.
• Fosters connection by putting people first and building trusting relationships.

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:  

• Savings and retirement plan matching
• Extensive catalog of development course offerings
• Fitness & yoga classes
• People networks, mentorship programs, and leadership series (to name a few)
• Parenthood top-up
• Generous employee discount
• Extended health and dental benefits, and mental health plans
• Paid time off

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.