Technology Manager I

About lululemon :

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 products, 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. As we continue to elevate our shopping experience, our India Tech Hub plays a key role in expanding our technology capabilities in Product Systems, Merchandising and Planning, Digital Presence, distribution and logistics, and corporate systems. Our team in India works as an extension of the global team on projects of strategic importance.

Manager I

About this team :

With the rapid growth of our technology department to over 1400 software engineers, Enterprise Engineering department strategizes, defines, and builds the global standards and practices that our software engineering teams use to deliver business needs / capabilities in an effective, repeatable, secure, and cost-effective manner.

Core Responsibilities :

• The direct manager aligns Engineering direction with Architecture and Program Management across all technology departments including Digital, Retail, Infrastructure, Product and Supply Chain. Roles below set standards, enroll communities and hold engineering team accountable. They also deliver software solutions and support to Enterprise problems such as Secure Codigng Pipelines and Enterprise Tooling.
• Responsible for the vision, strategy, roadmap of enterprise engineering through which bring scale, secure, reliable, consistent development of technology ensuring the future growth targets of lululemon commerce.
• Drive and prioritize buiding out the practices which speed up time to market in the long term but do not hinder the short term in partnership with business partners and stakeholders
• Enrolling and alignment of standards and practice with the 5+ departments, 30+ teams and 1400+ engineers (FTE, Contractor and Professional Services).
• Build a program to establish and adopt enterprise engineering for the teams that support $2.5B e-commerce orders and future scale.
• Lead and manage multiple cross-functional pods, including our Developer Experience (DevEx) pod, ensuring delivery against platform engineering standards, enablement goals, and developer productivity outcomes.
• Drive execution across these pods by mentoring engineering leads and aligning initiatives to platform engineerings strategic direction.
• Baseline our engineering maturity to inform current and future strategic decisions, and to measure success of initiatives.
• Enhance our ability to learn, avoid duplication and teach our developed standards as a practice.
• Create Engineering Communities of Practice under the Engineering Integrity Model (EIM) key pillars.
• Manage key vendors Splunk, GitHub and GitLab and Enterprise Tooling support.

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