Technology Manager - Digital Commerce And Transactions

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 Global Digital Technology organization is seeking a talented team leader that will lead development team(s) working to deliver lululemon’s Digital Commerce services. In this role you will be responsible for ensuring the success of your teams shipping quality code and have fun doing it. By partnering closely with the product and program leaders you help manage project scope and ensure stakeholder expectations are managed and met. Your experience building production systems in cloud-native environments where “automation” and “Infrastructure as Code” are guiding principles that enable you to guide teams and partners toward best practices that allow progress to be made quickly and sustainably.
A Day In The Life

• Be a thought leader.
• Identify and remove roadblocks to success with your partnership with cross-functional peers.
• Support your team with empathetic coaching, skills development, and career path leadership.
• Identify staffing needs and hire in qualified talent to fit the technical needs so that business requirements can be delivered on with a stable and predictable timeline and have fun doing it.
• Lead the co-creation of the technical roadmap with technical, architectural, and business partners. Lead the co-creation of the application development roadmap with business and technical partners. Oversee the agile process and identify opportunities and coach to improve skills and process efficiency.
• Be a role model and lead awareness and training for your team in our IDEA program - Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Action.
• Implement and evangelize continuous delivery with a focus on speed, risks, and fast end user feedback so that business requests can be quickly delivered and measured against KPIs.
• Lead world-class agile engineering team to deliver multiple high performing resilient, monitorable, performant, and maintainable cloud native services.
• Lead organizational growth strategies building a strong leadership bench

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience working in an engineering environment utilizing cloud native technologies (AWS preferred)
• 3+ years of experience in a people management role
• Experience with Java Spring Boot, serverless, Apigee, EKS and reactive programming, a plus
• Experience working with modern headless architecture.
• Experience working with an Agile team, CI/CD DevOps and Delivery processes.
• 2+ years hands on experience providing operational production support for cloud-based applications.
• Experience developing solutions for retail or eCommerce businesses and other relevant domains is nice to have.

Must Haves

• 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.
• Possesses an entrepreneurial spirit and continuously innovates to achieve great results.
• Integrates fun and joy as a way of being and working, aka doesn’t take themselves too seriously.
• Acknowledges the presence of choice in every moment and takes personal responsibility for their life.
• 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:  

• Extended health and dental benefits, and mental health plans
• Savings and retirement plan matching
• Generous employee discount
• Fitness & yoga classes
• Parenthood top-up
• Paid time off
• 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.