Senior Architect I

Seattle, WA

Who we are?

lululemon is a yoga-inspired technical apparel company. 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 part of the technology leadership team accountable for the strategy and delivery of Retail Technology Operations.

Our team is fast-paced and taking on exciting new initiatives to support a fast-growing business. Global Technology Support & Operations focuses on all things technology within our business including hardware, software, and monitoring and alerting on systems. We love strategic, resourceful, and innovative people that excel at communication, IT (Information Technology) and operations.

A day in the life:

The Senior Architect, Retail Operations is responsible for the vision and overall design of hardware, tools, and processes that support our global ecosystem of Hardware delivery in Retail locations. They design and develop detailed architecture solutions and design artifacts (including, but not limited to logical, conceptual, and integration diagrams), for a strategically significant set of Retail Hardware technology components. This role is dedicated to lines of Ops Delivery and Capabilities that is supported by 10-15MM in annualize capital investment.

This role will need to work in a collaborative and supportive manner with many cross-functional teams, as well as develop, maintain, and evolve our processes and strategic design around driving efficiency in our Retail Technology Hardware stack through operations best practices. The discovery and work this role provides will span multiple quarters, and incorporates support multiple team’s engineering best practices as it pertains to Technology Operations excellence.

Main partners for this role are our Architecture Community of Practice members, Senior/Principal Architects in other areas/domains, Operations Product Leadership, and other members of engineering and architecture leadership.

This role will also have key inputs to areas that enable the above teams, inclusive of accuracy within technical documentation, aligning on key KB platforms such as ServiceNow and Confluence, as well as adhering to our Enterprise delivery platforms for delivery such as JIRA. They are also responsible for the key capabilities within Technology Operations in our capability platform LeanIX.

Provides high quality, reliable, scalable, and secure architecture solutions that meet SLAs for availability, resiliency and performance
Create and maintain the current state and future state of the responsible capabilities and related systems, analyze the gaps between the states and create a roadmap to achieve the future state.
Actively seeks knowledge and organizational context and promotes and applies repeatable patterns to architecture solutions
In partnership with Business Analysts, Project Managers, Product Owners, Engineers, and other Architects, plays an architecture leadership role in defining project requirements and success criteria, along with guiding the design throughout the development lifecycle
Product and presents solutions to project leadership with clear definitions of the benefits and tradeoffs of each proposal
Participates and presents at Architecture Design Reviews
Actively seeks knowledge and organization context and applies learnings to architecture solutions
Evaluates, documents, and escalates alterations to the future state architecture

Minimum Qualifications

BS/BA in technology-related discipline or relevant industry experience
5-10+ years in software engineering or technology solution design roles
Minimum 5 years of real-world experience developing, deploying, scaling and maintaining software systems.
Minimum 5 years of hardware technology deployment experience and supporting the hardware that powers global locations.
Experience in architecture and implementation knowledge of enterprise-scale logging monitoring, alerting, metrics, and observability
Retail Industry/Domain functional/processes knowledge
Advanced experience and knowledge of IT operations, including observability, monitoring/alerting, security, virtualization, identity, DR/BC, budgeting, and governance

Our “must haves”:

Demonstrated willingness to be flexible and adaptable to changing priorities
Proven work ethic with the utmost integrity
Desire to excel and succeed
Actively live and breathe the lululemon culture and lifestyle
Self-awareness, with a desire for constant self-improvement (goal –oriented)
Entrepreneurial spirit and an egoless nature
Self-motivated, passionate, empathetic, approachable
Outgoing, energetic, upbeat and fun!

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 $132,200-$173,500 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.