Technology Director - Developer Excellence

Technology Director - Developer Excellence

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 Technology Foundations team is a key part of the overall Technology team s team creates a uniquely lululemon, truly differentiated and elevate experiences and the associated enterprise services to streamline technology delivery for our technologists. The Technology Foundations team is focused on strategy and outcomes related to technology platforms, shared services, and engineering experiences.

As the Director of Enterprise Engineering - Practices and Platforms, your role is pivotal in aligning the engineering direction across all technology departments, spanning Digital, Retail, Infrastructure, Product, and Supply Chain. Your focus is to craft and execute a visionary strategy and roadmap for engineering standards that ensure the secure, reliable, and consistent development of technology, provide engineering insights, and develop core developers platforms.

core responsibilities

Global Practices Program:

• Lead the Technology Practices, providing maturity guidelines and resources that empower teams throughout the enterprise.
• Strengthen the program that establishes and adopts engineering standards, ensuring scalability and future-proofing to accommodate business growth.
• Measure and improve engineering velocity, quality, and satisfaction.
• Build productivity dashboards across engineering teams.
• Establish industry standard metrics such as DORA and SPACE to capture the technical aspects of software development and the human and social factors that influence team performance
• Influence yearly financial investment decisions by shaping and enhancing these practices and standards

Strategic Developers’ Platform Ownership:

• Take ownership and operate strategic technical platforms, such as CICD and Observability, with the aim of accelerating organizational maturity and business value.
• Deliver and maintain core engineering tools, environments, and internal developer platforms (IDPs).
• Provide Seamless onboarding for new developers with a goal of being able to checkin code within 1 day.
• Reduction in build and deploy times by X%.
• Utilize these platforms to drive secure and reliable technology development, supporting the sustained growth of lululemon commerce.

Engineering Leadership:

• Influence and guide Principal Engineering leadership through technical thought leadership, strategic partnership, investment alignment, and community building.
• Demonstrate a strong leadership style that inspires, motivates, delegates, and coaches teams to achieve high performance and passion for their products and services.
• Proactively build trusting relationships across the organization, including functional partners and global teams.
• Foster a culture of inclusion, diversity, and equity in alignment with the organization’s IDEA commitment

Your leadership will be instrumental in driving technological excellence, fostering collaboration, and ensuring the sustained success and growth of lululemon's global engineering endeavors.

qualifications

• 10+ years of related work experience, with direct work experience across a variety of Engineering disciplines, including creating and managing community of practices in large technology organizations (1k+ people).
• 5+ years is a senior leadership position like Technology Director, or relevant management experience.
• Role model and champion modern ways-of-working such as Agile, Dev Ops and related practices, actively participate in an architecture community.
• Strong communication and “storytelling” skills – ability…